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First post of the new year
I am, as I have noted before, generally opposed to remakes. I'm not fond of most musicians doing it (Johnny Cash being the major exception). I'm likewise not fond of it being done in movies (and I include the ongoing state of taking a TV show and turning it into a movie).
So, naturally, when I heard that the BBC had a program called Sherlock, which modernizes the Sherlock Holmes' stories, I was a bit skeptical. Of course, I heard this right as a friend loaded up the first episode, so I didn't have a whole lot of time to express my outrage. (I have, in the past, seen a few other attempts at modernizing Sherlock Holmes, including one terrible attempt wherein Holmes is cryogenically frozen, only to be thawed and restored in the late 1980s.)
I have to say, I actually liked it, though. There are only three episodes in the first season, in what I presume in the BBC equivalent of a mid-season replacement for some other, much less popular show, and the first "A Study In Pink", does an excellent job of introducing the updated characters of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. John Watson. (It is interesting to note, that in this modern version, Dr. Watson was still wounded in Afghanistan.) There are some necessary changes though. Sherlock has a web-site. He seems to prefer communicating with e-mail and texts. And instead of a "seven percent solution of cocaine" (which would surely get him arrested), he uses nicotine patches to stimulate his thinking, referring to one puzzle as a "three patch problem".
I am definitely going to have to get this on DVD.
So, naturally, when I heard that the BBC had a program called Sherlock, which modernizes the Sherlock Holmes' stories, I was a bit skeptical. Of course, I heard this right as a friend loaded up the first episode, so I didn't have a whole lot of time to express my outrage. (I have, in the past, seen a few other attempts at modernizing Sherlock Holmes, including one terrible attempt wherein Holmes is cryogenically frozen, only to be thawed and restored in the late 1980s.)
I have to say, I actually liked it, though. There are only three episodes in the first season, in what I presume in the BBC equivalent of a mid-season replacement for some other, much less popular show, and the first "A Study In Pink", does an excellent job of introducing the updated characters of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. John Watson. (It is interesting to note, that in this modern version, Dr. Watson was still wounded in Afghanistan.) There are some necessary changes though. Sherlock has a web-site. He seems to prefer communicating with e-mail and texts. And instead of a "seven percent solution of cocaine" (which would surely get him arrested), he uses nicotine patches to stimulate his thinking, referring to one puzzle as a "three patch problem".
I am definitely going to have to get this on DVD.
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