tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2956288600403860320.post436013499748139614..comments2023-12-26T12:18:55.616+00:00Comments on Doyleockian: Trading on the name....?Alistair Duncanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16199962410016780822noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2956288600403860320.post-45995069272969985952014-08-20T11:34:16.786+01:002014-08-20T11:34:16.786+01:00Your blog is always thought-provoking, but this pa...Your blog is always thought-provoking, but this particular post raises particularly pertinent to Sherlock Holmes, his depiction and the Canon in today's media.James C. O'Learyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13866010043246236340noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2956288600403860320.post-57885240467151956732014-08-20T08:10:01.902+01:002014-08-20T08:10:01.902+01:00BTW did you mean that my blog in general raises is...BTW did you mean that my blog in general raises issues or just this post?Alistair Duncanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16199962410016780822noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2956288600403860320.post-4361447757363729932014-08-20T08:04:50.930+01:002014-08-20T08:04:50.930+01:00You're welcome to submit a guest post as a fol...You're welcome to submit a guest post as a follow up if you wish.:-)Alistair Duncanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16199962410016780822noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2956288600403860320.post-67303223520331134602014-08-20T00:14:21.233+01:002014-08-20T00:14:21.233+01:00Now I have to say that I haven't seen a movie ...Now I have to say that I haven't seen a movie or TV show that is SHINO (Sherlock Holmes In Name Only), but there are plenty of cinematic treatments that I haven't seen. I've read too many pastiches that traded on the Holmes name while having little or no Sherlockian content. That's why I rarely read pastiche these days.<br /><br />But your question elicited a different, though somewhat related, train of thought--when a cinematic treatment of Holmes and Watson ceases to be Sherlockian. I'm, of course thinking of BBC "Sherlock" and how with series three, it has in effect stopped being a modern day update of the Canon, but its own entity. It started as a clever retelling of "A Study in Scarlet" and has morphed into "Moonlighting", where the mystery is secondary to the story of Sherlock and John's relationship. One need only look at the very creative fanfic and fanart to see that Doyle's Canon is a distant thought, if thought of at all--the increasingly irrelevant inspiration for a show that pays "homage" not only to the original river, but the tributary movies and pastiches and even waterways unrelated to Holmes: Mary's identity as a CIA assassin who shots Sherlock in the chest to save his life is lifted directly from William Boyd's James Bond pastiche "Solo". Sorry, did I say "lifted"? Paid tribute to.<br /><br />It is a ling way from the Brett-love of the 80s and 90s. Doyle and the Canon were very much apart of that love.<br /><br />So a mouse Sherlock? No problem if the source material is honored and respected. I think Disney's "The Great Mouse Detective" is well done. A female Sherlock? I think the world's ready, with the same caveat as above. Ditto for an openly gay Holmes. Laura Miller addressed the issue of an evolving Sherlock Holmes in the May 2014 Harper's, "A Study in Sherlock; How the Character Escaped his Creator". Too bad it's behind a paywall. Interesting article. Your blog, too, raises a lot of issues; too many to be listed in one comment post.James C. O'Learyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13866010043246236340noreply@blogger.com