Sherlock

Today, I am going to speak about a TV series I really like. However, it's become quite popular so I guess some of you will have heard about it. 
It's BBC's Sherlock. 


However, I really like it. Just because it all started as  a hobby for the two of them and now everybody is watching it. I can almost feel the passion in every dialogue and each step that the characters take. I haven't read Sherlock Holmes yet, since there are LOTS of novels about Watson and Holmes, but I'm currently reading it, anyway. 


Apart from the whole series itself, I'd like to talk about the protagnoist which is Sherlock Holmes. I am sure everyone's heard this name before. It's a syononym for hero. Well, in fact, he epitomises this word. And now, he's transformed into a showing off, someone you'd hardly want to know because he is all rude and insulting and doesn't actually care about feelings. There are just a dangerous disadvantage to him. Of course, some of you would say, he's no friends, but this is not true. Watson is like his heart, kind of trying to, you know, show Sherlock that he's human even if he tries to divorce himself from feelings. In the end, he ends up being angry with himself because he is not able to be neutral and rational all the time. For instance, he sees something and he knows that he cannot trust his own senses that have always been his trustworthy threads, his theoretical concept. What I am trying to say is... Sherlock fights his own humanity. Isn't this just a thought-provoking impulse? I love this aspect of Sherlock so much! 




John: "There are lives at stake, Sherlock! Actual human lives! Just so I know, do you care about that at all?" 
Sherlock: "Would caring about them help to save them?" 

John: "No." 

Sherlock: "Then I'll continue not to make that mistake." 

That's a quotation of the episode " The great game" 

It is brilliant. Why is it brilliant? Because this is actually so true. If you care about a dead body lying on a wasteland, it won't make the person alive and if you have to find them quickly, it's no use caring about whether there are dead or not. Because it won't help them. It keeps you away from thinking properly. Every deduction leads to a result, but you can change the result as long as there is the progress itself, you see? So, theoretically spoken,  it does apply to our daily life as well. I've always tried not to care if someone died in the past, someone I do not know, because I find it pathetic. Crying about a person you didn't even know. Caring about a person you've never paid any attention to. All I can do is to stick to my memories, because they're still alive if I remember them. However, it is a mistake.  You have to die either way. But saving a life by not caring about the result but about the process of finding them is... pretty human, isn't it? 

Holmes: Do you ever wonder if there's something wrong with us?
Mycroft: All lives end. All hearts are broken. Caring is not an advantage, Sherlock.
Holmes: This is low tar.
Mycroft: Well. You barely knew her.

Caring is not an advantage... Not at all. So did I prefer not to make this mistake. Caring makes you vulnerable. Once they've found your weak spot, they are going to destroy you inch by inch. Would you want this? It might sound as though I do not care about other peoples feelings at all, but... it is not an advantage. Not an advantage unless there is a way to make them feel better, to show them that they are not alone with the suffer, but this is caring. I do not know. Maybe it's just me and there is something wrong with me, but I really decided to care less. I do love my friends and they know that. But this is just a cruel fact. A really cruel one. In the end, Sherlock did care about his friends and faked his own death in order to save them. This is real friendship, at least to me. 

So... this was about Sherlock then. 

I think I am going to bed soon. Hope you'll have a great evening.