I am not that impressed with the BBC series, Sherlock. I like my classic series, such as Dickens novels, Sherlock Holmes and even Shakespeare plays to be set in their original context, warts and all. What I particularly enjoy about Sherlock Holmes when set in late Victorian and Edwardian London are the cosy coal fires and the atmospheric foggy streets, and in these more carbon-aware days there was obviously a connection between the two! Sherlock has neither of these, set as it is in modern day London. The best Holmes, in my opinion, was played by the late Jeremy Brett in the 1980s and early '90s, which is now being re-run on ITV3. He had the right looks and mannerisms, slightly cruel, asexual, ascetic, rather camp, melancholic, took drugs and played the violin something awful! I would imagine that Arthur Conan Doyle would approve of Jeremy Brett playing his detective if television had been around then. The final episode of the latest series saw Holmes jumping off a tall building after an encounter with his arch-enemy Moriarty, instead of the Reichenbach Falls which is the scene of the original apparent death scene in The Final Problem. And why call him Sherlock? Dr Watson never called him that! In the manner of former public schoolboys, they always called each other by their surname. Sherlock or Holmes? It has to be Holmes.
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