Northern Holmes

Hi Arcadia, I've watched it three times now. I felt it only fair given the drubbing I've given it on my blog. I normally quite like the references to ACD stories, but for some reason they started to annoy me. I think there were just too many of them, picked from all across Sir Arthur's work. To get super nerdy, if the story is set in 1895 how does Holmes know about "the dog one", The Hound of the Baskervilles written in 1901. Maybe that was just another device to let you know we were in the mind palace. This mind palace let's you get away with all sorts. Another of my gripes I suppose. It's kind off "that doesn't make sense" / "well that's mind palaces for you." I like your point about Victorian Sherlock, being how he sees himself. My thought was that it end up being a poor impersonation of Jeremy Brett's Holmes. I think I'll give it another watch. Cheers Mel

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Hi All, I am a Holmes fan and author who has written a number of Sherlock Holmes stories which I think have a pretty original twist. In my stories Holmes lives in Baker Street, however it's the Baker Street in Middlesbrough. My Holmes is a working class lad brought up in present-day Teesside, the result being a kind of nature versus nurcher study. How much of him is the skills endowed upon him by mother nature, and how much of him is taken from the community around him? The first six of my stories were published in November last year and have had excellent feedback from all quarters. It would be very interesting to know what those of you on here think. Hopefully some of you will like the concept, however I suspect some purists may not. The Kindle preview on Amazon covers most of the first story, A Scandal in Boro. Search Amazon for "Melvyn Small" or use the link on my website www.melsmall.com. Here's looking forward to some feedback, bad or, hopefully, good. Kind Regards Mel

I watched Mr Holmes when it was at the cinema and again over Christmas. I really liked it and loved the reverence Sir Ian McKellen put into his performance. I could watch it over and over again.

This is my first post on this forum and it appears I may be swimming against the tide a little. I've loved the Sherlock series to date, but didn't like the Abominable Bride, or indeed Benedict Cumberbatch's portrayal of Holmes in the Victorian era. Maybe this was a device to separate Sherlock in mind palace and Sherlock in the real world, but it wasn't for me and I struggled to empathise with him as a character. I also though the whole story was far more complicated than it needed to be and contained far too many unsubtle nods to Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's canon. To me this distracted from the story, and I think there was a better way to plant Cumberbatch and Freeman into Jeremy Brett's Victorian London. I've elaborated on this in my blog, please feel free to right my wrong. http://www.melsmall.com/fiction/blog/abominable-bride-10Jan16 Mel