FICTION ADAPTATION: SHERLOCK (2010)

Re-watching this quite wonderful show I couldn't help but notice all the different brilliant ways the writers have found to show faith to the source material in a modern set Holmes story. As I was watching the series for a second time it gave me a chance to recognise the things they did in other areas specifically the way they are faithful to the original. A good example I recognised from Sherlock was the way they harked back to the famous Reichenbach falls incident in the original stories, they cleverly had Sherlock (the Reichenbach hero) fall to his supposed death from the top of a building. Also to mention the Hound of the Baskervilles episode where the hound doesn't exist instead it is experimental gas that corrupts the mind.

Use of the word HOUND in the episode

 This is the best way the writers could have done it, as they are showing fans hints of the source material whilst also introducing the character to a new audience who may not know the original stories. The thing about this series is that it came about in part due to the fact that the writers realised that John Watson in Conan Doyle's original stories had recently returned from a war in Afghanistan, which is a great parallel used in the modern equivalent and a great way to hark back to the source again.

The creators of this show obviously feel a need to look back as well as forward as they are constantly referencing the stories of Conan Doyle in the show. So much so that the upcoming Sherlock Christmas episode will be set in the Victorian era of the original Holmes using the same actors as the modern.