{"id":205,"date":"2012-01-30T23:30:41","date_gmt":"2012-01-31T04:30:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.nd.edu\/yankswatchingtelly\/?p=205"},"modified":"2012-01-30T23:30:41","modified_gmt":"2012-01-31T04:30:41","slug":"sherlock-vs-house","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/yankswatchingtelly\/?p=205","title":{"rendered":"Sherlock Vs. House"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I am a longtime watcher of another modernized Sherlock Holmes television series, although this one is American and is more Holmes in spirit than in actual execution. The medical drama <em>House<\/em> plays off the personalities of both Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson in the characters House and Dr. Wilson respectively although they are solving medical mysteries instead of criminal ones. I entered <em>Sherlock<\/em> having watched literally over one hundred episodes of the other TV show, and so it was impossible for me to not measure every move <em>Sherlock<\/em> made against <em>House<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Considering that all I can really measure between the two is the dynamic between two men and that in <em>Sherlock<\/em> they are just meeting for the first time whereas on <em>House<\/em> they have been in a relationship of sorts for years, it is probably easier to contrast the two rather than compare them. That said, I was surprised at how tonally similar these two shows were, even in the musical score and opening credits. If I go back to the pilot of <em>House<\/em>, which I admit I haven&#8217;t seen in years, this is how the creators originally presented the relationship:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"House - pilot - deleted scene #2\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/vm_q2KKOOJY?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>What&#8217;s missing from that clip is the witty banter that House and Wilson are so well known for. But it does cut into the deeper heart of their relationship, which is Wilson as House&#8217;s moral compass and the only one he will truly listen to. That element is not really included in the first episode of <em>Sherlock<\/em> because Holmes and Watson are new to one another, although in the very last scene when Watson begins to calls Holmes on his psychological issues you can begin to see it forming.<\/p>\n<p><em>Sherlock<\/em> is also a lot more modern than <em>House<\/em>. The text messages appearing in the air beside the phone carrier, the textual explanations of what Holmes is seeing as he sees it, and the mental map of the cab driving are all things you don&#8217;t see that often on television. <em>House<\/em> sort of employs something like that with graphic journeys into the body to show what is wrong with someone, but nothing to the level of <em>Sherlock<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>There is finally the obvious difference in that House has a team of young and frankly good looking associates to bounce ideas off of, which is not Holmes at all. This seems to me an American idea&#8211;having the sex appeal and the romantic intrigue among supporting characters to keep an audience&#8217;s interest with side stories if they lose the interest in the Sherlock Holmes plotlines. Sherlock does seem concerned with being a very &#8220;British&#8221; show, as it is constantly identifying itself with London and making a lot of itself clearly referential to the original Sherlock Holmes.<\/p>\n<p>Lastly, what I found truly astonishing about <em>Sherlock<\/em> was how the episode was essentially the length of a movie but still felt episodic. It blows my mind that there are more Harry Potter movies than episodes of this show. How does releasing this kind of show go? How could you really get addicted to something that only has six installments? That might be a very American mentality, but I can&#8217;t imagine how something with only six episodes over two seasons (or series) could inspire a massive following. The excitement level would seem more like a movie than a show to me, even though this watches like a show.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am a longtime watcher of another modernized Sherlock Holmes television series, although this one is American and is more Holmes in spirit than in actual execution. 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