I'm not that worried about bringing Sherlock Holmes into the modern period in terms of technology; Holmes was always a modern man - maybe even a little ahead of his time. So if he uses emails in place of telegrams; and instead of hansom cabs and trains he takes... uh, cabs and trains - well, he's still Holmes :-)
The part I'm stuck on is what's his contribution to detecting going to be? When ACD wrote him, forensics was in its infancy, so Holmes was doing something few others were doing or could do. Now his methods and skills have gone far in advance of what was available in ACD's time. And we have many more consultants of all types working routinely with the police - profilers and whatnot.
So how will Holmes be original? What can he contribute that doesn't already exist in modern policing, when they can access information and experts instantly and globally via the internet? What can one man add that is unique, true to Sherlock Holmes, and doesn't just make the police look incompetent? That's my concern about the new adaptation.
Modern Sherlock
The part I'm stuck on is what's his contribution to detecting going to be? When ACD wrote him, forensics was in its infancy, so Holmes was doing something few others were doing or could do. Now his methods and skills have gone far in advance of what was available in ACD's time. And we have many more consultants of all types working routinely with the police - profilers and whatnot.
So how will Holmes be original? What can he contribute that doesn't already exist in modern policing, when they can access information and experts instantly and globally via the internet? What can one man add that is unique, true to Sherlock Holmes, and doesn't just make the police look incompetent? That's my concern about the new adaptation.