is sherlock holmes now redundant?

[Do4600]

Wow, that show looks really awful. Explains why you would think Sherlock Holmes is redundant, because it's a pointless, hollow and pitiful attempt at showing the character.

 

[Do4600]

But now I can't talk about them for a completely different reason, and that reason is Sherlock. Now don't get me wrong. I love Sherlock. I think it's an amazingly well done interpretation of the characters, I think the actors are phenomenal, I think it's a great show.

So now it's the same as before, but with false hope attached. I try to have conversations about Holmes, I ask what people's favorite story was, or what their thoughts on the Dancing Men were, but whenever I try to have a conversation about Mycroft's appearance in The Greek Interpreter, all I ever get is "Oh man, I LOOOOOVVE Sherlock. Benedict Cumberbatch is so cute when he wrinkles his nose."

I once tried discussing the novels with someone whose exact words were "I've loved Holmes my whole life" only for them to say "Oh no, I never read any of the stories. I just watch Sherlock."

This also bothers the hell out of me, all the more so because the only filmed renditions I actually enjoy are the Granada made ones starring Jeremy Brett.

 

[Blood Brain Barrier]

You're probably right. Holmes real strength was having an incredible amount of knowledge on hand. Now we have computers for that.

That wasn't really his strength, although he was good at that too. His deductive capabilities and memory for details are things that no computer now or in the conceivable future could rival. That is to say, they were qualitatively strong, not merely based on their calculative power as computers are. That was in the Doyle books, i'm not sure about the TV shows and games.

 

[The Sanctifier]

Considering the fact that he does his crime solving without using any fancy hollywood computers and 'enhance that image!' nonsense, I'd have to say no. While a lot of modern crimes shows do have a bit of that whole deductive reasoning thing going on, there's still a lot of taking samples and photographs while all Sherlock usually uses is a toothbrush.

 

[Dr. Doomsduck]

Also... The new US programme Elementary is a discrace, a monstrosity and an embarrasment!

True, but Lucy Liu's fit.

OT: I can see where you're coming from, the modern Sherlock show probably doesn't have as much believability as something set in Victorian times when on-hand wit and intelligence was all they had.

Still entertaining, though.

I dunno, I always figures Lucy Liu was more of a Sherlock than a Watson...

 

[Zantos]

Sherlock Holmes will be relevant until someone decides to put Robo-Watson in live action. At that point, I feel I can say that the series has played itself out.

Spoiler

For those who were either too young or too old, yes this was a thing.

Oh man, that show was absolutely frakkin sweet! I still, after all these years, preface any form of 'hitting something to make it work' with the phrase "I think it's time we tried a little 19th century technology". I think they were trying to start a monorail or some sort of train, and he just hit it with his stick.