Sherlock Holmes group

[Colette]

I love the classics and BBC's Sherlock because they are both amazing in their own ways, but I'm tired of the Conan Doyle purists hating on people without the attention span to read the books first.

[Charles]

Well, I do advocate reading the Doyle Holmes, though I'd hardly call myself a purist and would bridle at being called such for advocating a wider curiosity. The important point it seems to me is that, however interesting the BBC series may be on its own, a reading of the original Holmes will show that the connection between them is spurious. They are independent creations. What I dislike is the new Holmes's attempt to ride the coat-tails of the old and at the same time seeming to denigrate the old one as being out of date, inferior. I recently read an inventive and illuminating commentary on the two-part BBC Holmes derived from the original Final Problem/Empty House pair which made clear first the subtleties of the BBC Holmes which could satisfy a critic otherwise bored by what falsely appears to be a mere thriller, and secondly how little the two Holmeses have to do with each other.

[Anna]

I really wish Sherlock Holmes was real... The world would be a much better place.

[Feliks]

Charles wrote: "What I dislike is the new Holmes's attempt to ride the coat-tails of the old and at the same time seeming to denigrate the old one as being out of date, inferior...."

Very egregious, as well as laughable (those punks haven't got the competency to sneer or mock at the older counterpart).