Throughout various television adaptations of Arthur Connan Doyle’s legendary Sherlock Holmes, Watson's, Sherlocks’s close companion’s, general charectaristics have largely remained the same in all of the series that are considered for the purposes of this essey, on the flip side, all of them have taken some liberties with him and his backstory, personality, and other aspects of his person.
In Granada Television’s „Sherlock Holmes“ – a TV series where the action takes place in London of our past atound approximately the same era as the original works. This setting obviously has a significant effect on how people look and act in general. As a consequence of that Granada’s Watson is a fairly unremarkable looking man – not too tall or terribly …show more content…
CBS’ version of Watson, who in this series is a woman by the name of Joan Watson, is also not immune to said changes. Joan in the beginning of the series is a sober companinon to one consulting detective from England Sherlock Holmes, who has just recently exited a rehabilitation clinic with a drug problem now in remission. This Watson has never been in any military service, instead she is an exsurgeon with a sharp analytical mind and, compaired to other versions of herself, very little physical trainging. This Watson is of Chinese ancestry, she has long dark hair and a much more colourful wardrobe. Initially there is a lot of conflict between Watson and Holmes, because as per usual Sherlock is very much a know-it-all with issues on relating meaningfully to other people, and who can not accept anyone else’s help even if he needs it. By the third season she is an accomplished detective in her own right, consulting on her own with the New York City Police Department, a practicioner of a fighting style called singlestick (taught to her by Holmes), and the proud owner of a varied arsenal of combat and deduction. She, as other Watsons before her, has also writen of the cases of Sherlock Holmes, a big difference here being that CBS’ Sherlock does not know about it nor does he
In Granada Television’s „Sherlock Holmes“ – a TV series where the action takes place in London of our past atound approximately the same era as the original works. This setting obviously has a significant effect on how people look and act in general. As a consequence of that Granada’s Watson is a fairly unremarkable looking man – not too tall or terribly …show more content…
CBS’ version of Watson, who in this series is a woman by the name of Joan Watson, is also not immune to said changes. Joan in the beginning of the series is a sober companinon to one consulting detective from England Sherlock Holmes, who has just recently exited a rehabilitation clinic with a drug problem now in remission. This Watson has never been in any military service, instead she is an exsurgeon with a sharp analytical mind and, compaired to other versions of herself, very little physical trainging. This Watson is of Chinese ancestry, she has long dark hair and a much more colourful wardrobe. Initially there is a lot of conflict between Watson and Holmes, because as per usual Sherlock is very much a know-it-all with issues on relating meaningfully to other people, and who can not accept anyone else’s help even if he needs it. By the third season she is an accomplished detective in her own right, consulting on her own with the New York City Police Department, a practicioner of a fighting style called singlestick (taught to her by Holmes), and the proud owner of a varied arsenal of combat and deduction. She, as other Watsons before her, has also writen of the cases of Sherlock Holmes, a big difference here being that CBS’ Sherlock does not know about it nor does he