I can’t argue with this Sherlock Holmes is ‘a man out of his time’ regardless of what time he’s in. Cumberbatch muses that this is likely because he’s ‘tried to implant the Victorian in the modern’ all along. It’s worth noting that the period version is remarkably close to Conan Doyle’s rendering in ‘A Study in Scarlet’, which is less a statement of value than a recognition that Sherlock‘s contemporary vision really hasn’t altered the characters much: Cumberbatch and Freeman’s portrayals slide easily into the 19th century without much friction at all. We begin by establishing a timeline for the Victorian Holmes and Watson with a parallel of their first meeting in the programme’s first episode, ‘A Study in Pink’. The episode is layered in its setting, though, and critics are certainly correct in their claim that the best that the episode has to offer viewers lies in its immersive Victorian atmosphere, not its plot. I was neither impressed at the intended cleverness, nor upset at the showrunners for electing to make the episode part of the larger continuity. Suffice to say that for many, the Victorian setting, which places the characters in their original Doylean milieu, was the most anticipated element of the supposedly ‘one-off’ special, and many felt that the jump to the 21 st century mid-way through betrayed the charm and appeal of the episode’s 19th-century first act.
I won’t rehash these arguments, but if you’re interested, I Hear of Sherlock Everywhere offers a digest of several, running the gamut. The choice to integrate the special into the larger arc of the programme is one that has put the cat among the pigeons in the Sherlock Holmes fandom, with opinions ranging from delight, to acceptance, to frothing rage. It should be no surprise to regular viewers of Sherlock, and, indeed, of the Stephen Moffat-helmed Doctor Who, that the structure of the episode disappoints through its self-aware, self-referential cleverness. There were dreams within drug-induced dreams, the future bleeding into the past via intentional anachronisms, and, memorably, the Victorian Watson inside the modern Sherlock’s head realising he was in a story and prompting his Victorian Sherlock to jump off the Reichenbach Falls in order to wake up in the present. True to form, of course, the plot and pacing were not quite that straightforward.
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This juxtaposition of the past and present is a fitting microcosm of the whole episode, in which the Sherlock of the regular series imagines himself and his companions solving a 19th-century cold case in order to discover how Moriarty survived his apparent suicide in the series two finale. The camera tracks away from his face, and out over the open view of 21st-century Baker Street. In the final moments of the much-anticipated holiday special of BBC’s Sherlock, ‘The Abominable Bride’, a 19th-century Sherlock Holmes, clad in his dressing gown and smoking his pipe, gazes out his window and states, ‘I’ve always known I was a man out of his time’. Her PhD is on the evolution of Sherlock Holmes across screen adaptations. Polasek is an Honorary Fellow of the Center for Adaptations at De Montfort University, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, and an Instructor of English at Tri-County Technical College. Sherlock: The Abominable Bride Film Online Sa Prevodom Bluray #1080px, #720px, #BrRip, #DvdRip.Dr.
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