Comments on: TV Series Review: Sherlock Series 2 http://www.greatdetectives.net/detectives/tv-series-review-sherlock-series-2/ The great ones are back in action. Mon, 20 May 2013 14:22:28 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Steve Waldee http://www.greatdetectives.net/detectives/tv-series-review-sherlock-series-2/comment-page-1/#comment-11582 Steve Waldee Mon, 11 Jun 2012 21:07:00 +0000 http://www.greatdetectives.net/detectives/?p=5980#comment-11582 Adam, you NAILED these shows in your incisive comments! I am glad to see that I’m not the only one who is at turns perturbed, appalled, or merely stupefied by these cheesy “post-modern recreations”. In the early sixties, my high school English teacher — who wrote embarrassing psychological pseudo self portrait novels that were a cross between Philip Roth and Salinger — told me to quit reading Doyle, whose Sherlock Holmes stories were ‘racist, pretentious, contrived claptrap’. Whereas the REAL Sherlock Holmes canon has stood the test of time; my teacher remains (maybe there IS a just God!) unpublished…

The UK of today must be a miserable place, where the “educated” public are ashamed of their past. We former rebellious colonists, thankfully, don’t have to feel that way.

Srw

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