Quote Originally Posted by McClef View Post
It can be indeed hard to recognise the plots as being Conan-Doyle at all.

A name is used and made something entirely different (Baskerville is not a hall but a top secret testing establishment for example) and the massacre of the plot continues with the hound being some drug induced hallucination. Cringeworthy stuff IMHO and I wonder how many Holmesians would be that enthusiastic.

Perhaps I am just too big a fan of period dramas being kept in the period in which they were set.
I confess - while not one of those who remembers every intimate detail of the canon (for which reason I have not allied myself with the new group of Holmes-lovers here at XMarks) I do like things left the way they were by original authors.

As a child and teen, I read the original Holmes canon many times, as much for the geographical and historical settings as for the characters, so I get a bit huffy when those are abandoned in the name of originality. In the mind of this former teacher of English in general and literature in particular, if one wishes to be original, then one should be able to write a new script without kidnapping unwilling characters. To do otherwise seems to me a lack of creative ability.

My tuppence!