Blog Post #2 Sherlock

The first episode of Sherlock was very interesting to me. It brought the elements of the old sherlock Holmes novels written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle while keeping a modern truth.  The characters introduced where well developed, the scenery of London captured suspense, and the camera angels providing multiple view points.  Going off the chart in the book a few signifiers and signified elements would be the handgun shown in the first sense of Mr. Watson’s night drawer signifying he had experienced with weaponry.  Another would be the music, in sense of suspense or thrill the music tempo would change drastically.  The Syntagmtic analysis of the episode correlated with one another, each scene had some element that brought the show together in the end.  It was an opener episode to introduce characters and relationships, while starting a series of events to be solved.  One synecdoche used in the episode was Watson’s cane, which he used because he had a limp. Although it all in his mind the cane represented the crutch between what Watson was actually craving and the reality of his dull life.  Until he meets Sherlock and discovers that he enjoys the thrill of adventure and mystery, the “war” so to speak.  One metaphor I found interesting was the relationship between sherlock and his room. It was very messy and full of clutter, but it was like organized clutter.  Just like how Sherlocks mind must work, full of thoughts everywhere but someone like him knows how everything works. A few icons listed in the episode was mobile phones and taxis. Also Sherlock uses nicotine patches which refers to smoking and in the books the old Sherlock Holmes smokes out of a pipe.  And the reference of the two pills to that of The Matrix where there was the red pill and the blue pill.