Sherlocks of the 21st Century

This was written for school, in a hurry and without planning anything at all before. It's very short and doesn't contain even half of the points of view I'd like to talk about but it's already too long so I had to leave it be. I only publish it because my printer had run out of ink and I couldn't print it out and e-mail is just dull.


Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes was created in late 1800s and has continued his life even after Doyle’s own ended, like many fictional heroes do. The popular culture has re-found Sherlock Holmes quite recently; BBC made it into a modern day TV-show, Warner Bros produced two movies and now CBS is jumping on the bandwagon with an American version of Holmes. Why? In the time of rip-offs new ideas in popular culture could be announced dead anyway – or could they? No, obviously not, but it seems to be done thing today to use old ideas rather than new ones, it being another story.
 

It’s not a bad nor good thing that these versions are made as it’s all about the version itself. Sherlock Holmes is a good start: it’s well-known and written but its golden age was that long ago that people don’t remember it as a mainstream thing nowadays. The characters and ideas are good material for making different translations and it’s not a surprise that these adaptions have become quite popular. Thinking about the modern versions of the 2010’s Holmes, BBC got it done first. Their approach is quite fresh yet it mostly  follows the ideas of original works, updating the content but not getting lost in translation, at least not very far. The whole modern day idea has upset some of the fans of the original books and Granada’s old series that was more loyal to them, though, and many people think they’ve taken the interpretation too far. 

Therefore, I wonder what kind of reception the CBS version will get as it seems to take interpretation to the next level, move Holmes from London and may alter – at least – John Watson’s character quite crucially. I’m waiting curiously to see Elementary, the CBS’s contribution to the Holmes family, mostly because I’m honestly curious about how they’ll do it and what they will add and leave out.