sherlock the abominable bride movie version vs tv version

Sherlock the abominable bride movie version vs tv version series#

Mary refers to 'England' thinking about Mycroft Holmes. This is a reference of The Adventure of the Final Problem where Holmes told to Watson : « it is stupidity rather than courage to refuse to recognise danger when it is close upon you. » ( 24)ġ0. Holmes talks to Inspector Lestrade about Fear and Danger. The Sherlock Holmes' message received by Watson : « Come at once if convenient - if inconvenient come all the same. » is a reference to the same message in The Adventure of the Creeping Man ( 5).ĩ. This is a reference to A Scandal in Bohemia where Holmes called Watson: « I am lost without my Boswell. » ( 123)Ĩ. Sherlock Holmes refers to Watson as Boswell. In The Hound of the Baskervilles, Sherlock Holmes told to Watson that « There are seventy-five perfumes, which it is very necessary that the criminal expert should be able to distinguish from each other, and cases have more than once within my own experience depended upon their prompt recognition. » ( 3767)ħ.

In his living-room, Sherlock Holmes discovers the identity of the veiled women (Mary Watson) by the smell of her perfume.

Sherlock the abominable bride movie version vs tv version series#

At their first meeting in the hospital, Holmes to Watson: « You have been in Afghanistan, I perceive. » This deduction was made in A Study in Scarlet ( 94).Ĥ. The newsvendor talking to Watson about The Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle is holding an issue of The Strand Magazine where most of the Sherlock Holmes stories were published for the first time.ĥ. When Holmes and Watson arrive in Baker Street, the travelling scene is the same than in the Granada TV series with Jeremy Brett and the music is the quite the same. The introduction speech by Watson in the episode is taken directly from A Study in Scarlet : « The campaign brought honours and promotion to many, but for me it had nothing but misfortune and disaster. » ( 8) and « Under such circumstances I naturally gravitated to London, that great cesspool into which all the loungers and idlers of the Empire are irresistibly drained. » ( 17)ģ. The Abominable Bride is a reference to an Untold Stories called: « The Case of Ricoletti of the Club-Foot and his Abominable Wife » quoted by Sherlock Holmes in The Adventure of the Musgrave Ritual ( MUSG, 21)}}). The season also ended on a cliffhanger, which posed the question of whether The Abominable Bride would be a straight continuation or, like most holiday specials, a standalone segment that exists outside the show's canon.1.

After two fantastic seasons, Sherlock jumped the shark in its third season by pandering to Sherlock and Cumberbatch fans, and large chunks of the season played out like fan fiction. Along with a fanbase for the show, a Cumberbatch cult quickly developed. Benedict Cumberbatch's casting had played a huge role in sating Holmes devotees, and in this writer's eyes only Jeremy Brett, the aforementioned Rathbone and Peter Cushing have him topped when it comes to screen Sherlocks. Sherlock pleased the fans without pandering to them, but then the show became a victim of its own success, and that of its leading man. Of course, transferring Holmes to a contemporary setting was nothing new - most of the great Basil Rathbone Holmes films took place in a then contemporary WWII setting. They were quickly silenced by the quality of the resulting show, which managed to feel unique while at the same time being thoroughly respectful of the source material. When it was first announced that BBC was set to reboot Arthur Conan Doyle's most famous creation in contemporary times, the expected cries of 'blasphemy' rang out from the Holmes community.