{"id":3451,"date":"2011-02-01T02:15:50","date_gmt":"2011-02-01T02:15:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/etbscreenwriting.com\/\/?p=3451"},"modified":"2011-02-01T02:15:50","modified_gmt":"2011-02-01T02:15:50","slug":"modern-day-sherlock-holmes-on-the-bbc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/etbscreenwriting.com\/modern-day-sherlock-holmes-on-the-bbc\/","title":{"rendered":"Modern Day Sherlock Holmes on the BBC"},"content":{"rendered":"
1. Have you seen BBC\u2019s Sherlock Holmes? Thus far it\u2019s a three-episode series set in contemporary London, and to podge a British term, it\u2019s brill. Smart, fast-paced, relying more on intellect and issues about character than on the stars\u2019 appearance, it won thumbs up from all four members of my family.<\/div>\n
What they do well, IMHO:<\/div>\n
a. Respectful blending of past with present: Watson is a recovering war vet, wounded from a tour as a physician in Afghanistan. He\u2019s a blogger! \u00a0Despite modernization, though, the essence of the series feels true to the original books.<\/div>\n
b. Technology is important in the sleuthing process, but not the focus. This is not a series about gadgets.<\/div>\n
c. There\u2019s a fascinating and believable relationship between Watson and Holmes in which each make the other bigger. Without Holmes, Watson would be limping in a half-existence, \u00a0devoid of the risk and stimulation which is his life\u2019s blood. Watson, on the other hand, both grounds Holmes and validates him.<\/div>\n
d. The writers have set up a central question about Sherlock, articulated by Lestrade in this quote: \u201cHe\u2019s a great man. if we\u2019re very lucky, one day he might be a good one.\u201d<\/div>\n
Will Sherlock cross from brilliance into psychopathy, perhaps out of sheer boredom? Will he learn to engage emotion and vulnerability along with his impressive intellect, particularly around the female sex? These are great questions to have a viewer asking within a few moments of beginning a series.<\/div>\n

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Here is Jan’s review of the new BBC re-envisioning of Sherlock Holmes in a modern day setting. \u00a0Looks interesting.<\/p>\n

1. Have you seen BBC\u2019s Sherlock Holmes? Thus far it\u2019s a three-episode series set in contemporary London, and to podge a British term, it\u2019s brill. Smart, fast-paced, relying more on intellect and issues about character than on the stars\u2019 appearance, it won thumbs up from all four members of my family.<\/p>\n

What they do well, IMHO:<\/p>\n

a. Respectful blending of past with present: Watson is a recovering war vet, wounded from a tour as a physician in Afghanistan. He\u2019s a blogger! \u00a0Despite modernization, though, the essence of the series feels true to the original books.<\/p>\n

b. Technology is important in the sleuthing process, but not the focus. This is not a series about gadgets.<\/p>\n

c. There\u2019s a fascinating and believable relationship between Watson and Holmes in which each make the other bigger. Without Holmes, Watson would be limping in a half-existence, \u00a0devoid of the risk and stimulation which is his life\u2019s blood. Watson, on the other hand, both grounds Holmes and validates him.<\/p>\n

d. The writers have set up a central question about Sherlock, articulated by Lestrade in this quote: \u201cHe\u2019s a great man. if we\u2019re very lucky, one day he might be a good one.\u201d<\/p>\n

Will Sherlock cross from brilliance into psychopathy, perhaps out of sheer boredom? Will he learn to engage emotion and vulnerability along with his impressive intellect, particularly around the female sex? These are great questions to have a viewer asking within a few moments of beginning a series.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Sherlock Holmes is indeed a Power of Reason character– Everything can be explained\/deduced rationally and logically. “It’s elementary, my dear Watson.” <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":11959,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"nf_dc_page":"","_uag_custom_page_level_css":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[44,58,49,45],"tags":[343,1009,25,26,96,97,27,28,30,31,32,33,710,711,34,35,36,37,38,39,40,1010,1011,975,41,42],"class_list":["post-3451","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nine-character-types-development-script-screenwriting-movie-film-tv-video-online-scripted-drama","category-power-of-reason","category-television-character-development-script-scriptwriting-tv-blog","category-video-clips-television-movies-series","tag-bbc","tag-benedict-cumberbatch","tag-character","tag-characters","tag-detective","tag-detectives","tag-emotional-toolbox","tag-etb","tag-film","tag-films","tag-laurie-hutzler","tag-movies","tag-mysteries","tag-mystery","tag-nine-character-types","tag-screenplay","tag-screenplays","tag-screenwriting","tag-script","tag-scripts","tag-scriptwriting","tag-sherlock","tag-sherlock-holmes","tag-thriller","tag-tv","tag-writing"],"acf":[],"uagb_featured_image_src":{"full":["https:\/\/etbscreenwriting.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/30710870_10211699141895539_4496568718662303744_n.jpg",960,720,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/etbscreenwriting.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/30710870_10211699141895539_4496568718662303744_n-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/etbscreenwriting.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/30710870_10211699141895539_4496568718662303744_n-300x225.jpg",300,225,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/etbscreenwriting.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/30710870_10211699141895539_4496568718662303744_n-768x576.jpg",768,576,true],"large":["https:\/\/etbscreenwriting.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/30710870_10211699141895539_4496568718662303744_n.jpg",960,720,false],"ttshowcase_normal":["https:\/\/etbscreenwriting.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/30710870_10211699141895539_4496568718662303744_n.jpg",125,94,false],"ttshowcase_small":["https:\/\/etbscreenwriting.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/30710870_10211699141895539_4496568718662303744_n.jpg",75,56,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/etbscreenwriting.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/30710870_10211699141895539_4496568718662303744_n.jpg",960,720,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/etbscreenwriting.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/30710870_10211699141895539_4496568718662303744_n.jpg",960,720,false],"Image Size 500x500":["https:\/\/etbscreenwriting.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/30710870_10211699141895539_4496568718662303744_n.jpg",500,375,false],"woocommerce_thumbnail":["https:\/\/etbscreenwriting.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/30710870_10211699141895539_4496568718662303744_n-300x400.jpg",300,400,true],"woocommerce_single":["https:\/\/etbscreenwriting.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/30710870_10211699141895539_4496568718662303744_n-600x450.jpg",600,450,true],"woocommerce_gallery_thumbnail":["https:\/\/etbscreenwriting.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/30710870_10211699141895539_4496568718662303744_n-100x100.jpg",100,100,true]},"uagb_author_info":{"display_name":"Laurie Hutzler","author_link":"https:\/\/etbscreenwriting.com\/author\/admin\/"},"uagb_comment_info":0,"uagb_excerpt":"Sherlock Holmes is indeed a Power of Reason character-- Everything can be explained\/deduced rationally and logically. \"It's elementary, my dear Watson.\"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/etbscreenwriting.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3451"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/etbscreenwriting.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/etbscreenwriting.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/etbscreenwriting.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/etbscreenwriting.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3451"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/etbscreenwriting.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3451\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/etbscreenwriting.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11959"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/etbscreenwriting.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3451"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/etbscreenwriting.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3451"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/etbscreenwriting.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3451"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}