Review of A Study in Scarlet by Sir Arthur
Conan Doyle while mentioning A Study in Pink by Stephen Moffat
This story is
the one that introduced the public to Doyle’s most infamous characters,
Sherlock Holmes and Dr. John Watson. The
story would be familiar to a modern TV viewer if said person were to frequent
the BBC series. BBC’s Sherlock took an
interesting approach to a classic. The
outcome to “who done it” was the same, but reached in a very different manner
in the show versus the book. Both of the
results are equally brilliant, but the book does a special kind of logic to it
that the show changes. In the recent
show, the writers are trying to give Watson a chance to shine. If he finds out something about a case, it is
in looking into the people’s lives while Sherlock would rather think about the
logic behind the situation. The Sherlock
in the books is a bit older and more experienced when it comes to thinking of
people as part of the whole opposed to something to just be read for anything
interesting or even mundane and then thrown about. The show brings the viewer into Sherlock’s
world and makes him into a different breed of eccentric opposed to the books.
Spoiler: the
cabbie’s the killer in both stories. He
even has the victim take one pill and he take the other with one being deadly
and the other not having an effect. He
is also an older man that has had everything of importance taken from him and
is waiting to die from an aneurism.
