Happy Birthday Sherlock Holmes

[puppetmaker]

Yes, today is the birthday of this world-renowned fictional character.

My love of all things Holmes goes back to High School when I checked out the complete Sherlock Holmes and read it cover to cover. I loved it. I sought out some of the pastiches of Holmes along with his son’s work but none really satisfied me the way that the original did.

I saw tv movies and films about Holmes but none really felt right for me until Mystery presented the Jeremy Brett and I fell in love all over again. I taped those and watched them over and over until the video tape was beyond hope. Peter, knowing how much I loved the series, got it for me for my birthday this year. I re-watched several episodes and it still worked for me.

This year we have the Movie which many people have strong feelings about. Mine are mostly positive. And if it revives Holmes in the mind of the general population, all the better.

I recently pulled out my complete Sherlock Holmes and sat down to reread the Study in Scarlet and it holds up. I have a feeling I will be rereading the whole book over the next couple of months.

I am grateful that Conan Doyle created the Great Detective and I forgive him for killing that character out of frustration.

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[tiggerallyn.livejournal.com]

One of the things I'm most looking forward to at Farpoint is seeing Matt Frewer; at times I think I'm one of four or five people who liked his Sherlock Holmes from a series of television films he did for a Canadian network back around the turn of the millennium.