It isn't the Coat, it's the Cumberbatch.

If you can find it, go ahead and buy the Coat. Get it tailored to fit you perfectly. It won't help.

Over the last week I saw Frankenstein three times. The sequence in which I viewed the two versions is particularly germane to this discussion.

I saw, in sequence, CumberCreature - CumberVictor - CumberCreature.

After I saw the two different versions in one evening I wrote to quarryquest something along the lines of, 'I need some new television. I've been watching too much Benedict when I spend an entire two hours thinking, "Oooooooooo, Sherlock is playing a much better Victor than Johnny Lee Miller. He's also doing it in a really great series of Coats!"'

So, upon this evening's viewing when I was able to revisit the first version I'd seen armed with knowledge of the second, I discovered that Victor is given only two Coats - one near the end of the first half and another near the end of the play.

When I was watching Benedict play Victor, I was experiencing these two Coats as a completely separate character on stage, I really was - no joke. I was watching Victor and the Coat do a number on the Creature emotionally. The Coat packs a mean punch until it's reduced to pointing its gun, completely unable to fire it to kill its own Creation.

Now, before this evening when I was forced to pay some attention to Miller's Victor out of sheer boredom (guys, I'm trying not to be harsh by not really addressing the issue, but this actor made some real non-choices when playing Victor) I would have just assumed that I noted the Coat because it was Benedict and I'm used to taking note of the Coat where he is concerned. Not so. No movement. No personality. Nothing.

It's got to be the same coat. It had to have been tailored to each of these two actors by the same person.

Conclusion: Cumberbatch knows how to work the Coat - any Coat.

It isn't the Coat, it's the Cumberbatch.

If you can find it, go ahead and buy the Coat. Get it tailored to fit you perfectly. It won't help.

Over the last week I saw Frankenstein three times. The sequence in which I viewed the two versions is particularly germane to this discussion.

I saw, in sequence, CumberCreature - CumberVictor - CumberCreature.

After I saw the two different versions in one evening I wrote to quarryquest something along the lines of, 'I need some new television. I've been watching too much Benedict when I spend an entire two hours thinking, "Oooooooooo, Sherlock is playing a much better Victor than Johnny Lee Miller. He's also doing it in a really great series of Coats!"'

So, upon this evening's viewing when I was able to revisit the first version I'd seen armed with knowledge of the second, I discovered that Victor is given only two Coats - one near the end of the first half and another near the end of the play.

When I was watching Benedict play Victor, I was experiencing these two Coats as a completely separate character on stage, I really was - no joke. I was watching Victor and the Coat do a number on the Creature emotionally. The Coat packs a mean punch until it's reduced to pointing its gun, completely unable to fire it to kill its own Creation.

Now, before this evening when I was forced to pay some attention to Miller's Victor out of sheer boredom (guys, I'm trying not to be harsh by not really addressing the issue, but this actor made some real non-choices when playing Victor) I would have just assumed that I noted the Coat because it was Benedict and I'm used to taking note of the Coat where he is concerned. Not so. No movement. No personality. Nothing.

It's got to be the same coat. It had to have been tailored to each of these two actors by the same person.

Conclusion: Cumberbatch knows how to work the Coat - any Coat.