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The thing about the BBC SHERLOCK is that it has done what Sir Arthur Conan Doyle did with Sherlock Holmes...successfully tell gripping, contemporary and wildly popular adventure tales featuring the world's greatest detective. Moffat and Gatiss have done something amazing with this series. They've taken Holmes from the dusty realm of historical fiction, shaken off the perceived baggage that comes with that, removed the nostalgia, and proved that it is the character that endures. In essence they've taken Sherlock Holmes back to his roots.

Conan Doyle, at least with his Sherlock Holmes stories, was one of the most successful writers of his day. He really was the late Victorian equivalent of Stephen King and one of the most highly paid writers at the turn of the century. The Sherlock Holmes stories were a success on their original publication not because of any idealized notion of the past, but because he was a cutting edge contemporary character living and working in a vaguely idealized (at least to the working classes) world that the readers inhabited. Contemporary readers could relate to Watson and were pleased by the notion that a somewhat eccentric genius was in their midst, ever ahead of the police force, and looking out for them as a sort of last court of appeal. In short, what we tend to forget as modern readers is that Sherlock Holmes wasn't always a piece of the past, befogged by nostalgia for a world we never knew, a cliche or archetype...instead he was a vibrant and fascinating contemporary, which, thanks to Moffat and Gatiss, he is again. I think Conan Doyle would be more impressed with the BBC SHERLOCK than any other single iteration of the character that has appeared since William Gillette last trod the stage.  The BBC SHERLOCK is a return to form, not a reimagining or reinvention. This is the real deal.