Blog Post #2 Sherlock Analysis

        What does where you live say about the Characters' from Sherlock.

         In the first episode of the BBC Sherlock, A Study in Pink, we are introduced to our leads Dr. Watson and Sherlock Holmes. A great deal is revealed about the nature of these two men by the scenes showing off their respective apartments, before Watson accepts Holmes' offer to be flat mates of 221B Baker St.
      The first time we see Watson, and the first scenes of the series, he is in his apartment. The scene shows Watson awaken from a night dreams related to his service in the military. We see that Watson's apartment is small, containing what appears to be a single room with a bed, a chair and desk table and dark, the only illumination being the desk table lamp. These sparse living conditions are a reflection of Watson's personality. He is a man who has returned from war injured, as shown by the crutch leaning against the desk, His life was the battlefield and now home he creates a space that is drab and uncomfortable reflecting his position in life. His only positions, beyond his crutch, is a laptop, a mean of communication and exploring the outside world and a handgun. Both items are found within drawers of the desk table. These further signify his character arc in the episode, finding his new war. His laptop represents he doesn't want to give up on the outside world and his gun represents danger, which is partially why he retrieves after reading Holmes's text about the case becoming dangerous. The room and items within it are a mirror for Watson's character and when he leaves it after grabbing his gun, it signifies his acceptance of the call to adventure alongside Sherlock.
      Sherlock's Baker-street flat, like everything about, is loud and expressive about the character of the man who lives there. Sherlock's apartment is a complete contrast from that of Dr. Watson's, crowded and filled to brim with artifacts of the cases he follows. They left strewn about in an organized chaos in representation of the way Holmes' mind works, leaping from train of thought to another by following a unseen logic and process of deduction. This peculiar and particular way of operating is an extension of Sherlock's mental where he requires certain conditions to think through a problem and can go from still to moving at the drop of a hat. His skull, which he used to converse with to help himself think is highly prominent on Watson's first visit but on the second it has conveniently disappeared just as Holmes' found  a new, and more socially acceptable, 'skull' to bounce his thoughts off of. Also noticed upon Watson's second visit to Baker Street is that though still cluttered it is noticeably moved as to open more space, just as Holmes's is opening himself to working with Doctor Watson. Both character homes reflect whom they are and evolve along with the characters through the first episode's narrative.