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#791973 - 11/09/12 02:57 AM
Re: Sherlock Holmes Coming to TV Thursdays
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We adore all the versions of Holmes. We've seen all the different movie versions, TV versions, and we watched House and Monk. I think Sir Arthur would have loved how much his ideas took off - he was quite the fan of innovation and trying new things!
This new version is definitely different, which is good. It brings yet a fresh new audience in to learning about Holmes and then studying all the different versions. With all the teasing about Holmes and Watson being sexually together (which the BBC version plays off on to my great delight) this promotes it on a different level.
I love that Watson has a brain. Some versions (and "many" versions, really) tend to play Watson as completely brainless. But he is, after all, a doctor, and therefore more educated and trained than the vast majority of humans. He is only "slow" compared with Holmes' brilliance. So I like that here Watson is shown as having that acuity.
We of course need an "audience stand-in" - i.e. someone Holmes can explain his brilliant theories to. That's what Watson is there for. But I don't think Watson was ever meant to be a dullard in the least, which some TV versions seem to lean him towards.
Holmes was always "on the fringe". In Victorian times his actions seemed wild. In modern times we see him as "normal" - which is a shame. We have lost his wildness. I think this new show regains his wildness and reminds us of what his character probably looked like to his contemporary audiences.
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