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   "Agamemnon"  wrote in message   
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   >Basically this sounds like Sherlock Holmes but with a lizard woman taking   
   >the lead role.   
      
   That seems to be how Moffat presented it during The Great Detective   
   mini-episode, but I think that the parallels to Xena would be much stronger   
   ... not only just with the implied lesbian relationship / potential   
   relationship with her companion, but also with the implied sins in her past   
   that she feels the need to atone for.   
      
   >Moffat is already doing Sherlock Holmes.   
      
   Moffat is doing a twenty first century version of Sherlock Holmes.  I think   
   that Victorian period pieces have always been the BBC's strongest point,   
   both visually and dramatically, from a production stand-point.   
      
   >He could easily just write the opening episodes if he wanted to and the   
   >series arc and get other   
   >people to write and produce it just like RTD did.   
      
   Ideally, Moffat would always write the season openers (his strong point),   
   and leave it to some-one else to follow through on the series arc and   
   finales (his weak point).  I do not think that it necessarily matters, one   
   way or the other, whether Moffat were involved, as these two characters are   
   strong enough to justify and carry their own series regardless of who was   
   writing it.   
      
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