linndechir

erm, erm, how can I make you forget that I'm supposed to write anything ... ah, yes:

Oh, right, that counts as even more teasing, no? O:-)

Maybe saying that it's old and slow was a bit harsh, and not really what I meant. Let me rephrase: in any story set in a time other than our own, at least part of our attention is focused on the pretty period costumes, omfg-Victorian-London, funny gadgets that we don't have anymore etc. So even if the story itself is thrilling and modern, we still feel that the setting is just so old-fashioned and not very modern - a feeling that Doyle's readers obviously didn't have. That's all I meant.
Anyway. I have to admit that I'm generally not a big fan of detective stories of any sort. It's just not my thing, so naturally I'm not much of a Holmes fan. It takes a lot to get me interested into stuff like that. ;)

I don't mind Laurie's American accent. I think it would have been a lot weirder to have an English doctor running around there, because inevitably there would have been jokes about his accent and his origins, people would have attributed House's crankiness to the general English crankiness, stuff like that. Pretty much what happened with Chase because he's Australian. I think they wouldn't want House to be English because they don't want people to focus on where he's from, and if you have an English actor/character in an American show, in an American setting, both the other characters and the audience will focus on where he's from. *shrug*