Chapter 275: Thumbs up to the screenwriter of "Elementary"
One afternoon in New York, in a lazy and quiet neighborhood, the first meeting between the hero and heroine of "Elementary" is taking place.

This "Sherlock Holmes" living in New York is a complete drug addict. In the plot setting, although he is originally from the UK, he quickly accepted the American way of lying down and letting things go after coming to the United States; he consumed his life in alcohol and drugs day after day, waiting for the end of his life.

Therefore, Sherlock's father had to hire a rehabilitation physician to help his son. The physician was a woman named "June Watson", a half-Chinese mixed-race.

You see, Dr. Watson here has changed his gender, name, and occupation; Dr. Watson in the original book was a military doctor who participated in the British invasion of Afghanistan in the 19th century. He was best at battlefield first aid, not psychotherapy and drug rehabilitation.

The TV drama plot has been changed so thoroughly that it greatly saves Lin You's writing.

"Another branch of Mycroft Holmes' descendants left British politics and traveled around the world, using their family's political resources to act as diplomatic brokers between countries, acting as intermediaries for various transactions that could not be discussed in public diplomatic occasions. When the world hegemony and power center shifted to the United States, this branch of descendants also shifted the focus of their careers to this 'chosen place'.

But no one expected that this move would bring great negative impact to some family members. The root of this negative impact can also be traced back to the famous detective Sherlock Holmes.

The abuse of tranquilizer drugs was a long history in the Holmes family; just as the Anglo-Saxon race poisoned much of the world with opium, which in fact eventually backfired on itself, so too did the Holmes family become victims of such drugs.

Especially those descendants who are bent on imitating their famous detective ancestors, after seeing Dr. Watson's record of Sherlock's use of opium and morphine, they also flocked to abuse drugs, as if they were following the trend. Especially when they came to the United States, the country with the highest number of sedative abuse in the world, the addicts were like diving into the abyss of the devil and could no longer extricate themselves. "

Lin You stopped writing and carefully examined the contents.

Since the setting of the story of "Elementary" was transferred to the United States, Lin You had to spend a lot of time and effort at the beginning of the rewrite to explain why "Sherlock" appeared in New York.

According to the setting of the TV series, this "Sherlock" previously worked as a detective in the UK. Later, he became addicted to drugs and moved to New York. On the one hand, he was forced to quit drugs, and on the other hand, he got rid of past psychological trauma.

If this setting is followed, there will inevitably be a serious conflict with the story of "Sherlock Holmes"; having two "Sherlocks" who are also engaged in detective work appear in London at the same time is absolutely not feasible and cannot be integrated into the big world.

Therefore, it was rewritten as a family that split from the British Sherlock Holmes family early on and made their living as international political brokers, which took into account the worldview logic of both TV series at the same time.

This rewrite actually conforms to the adaptation direction of "Elementary" itself.

In this TV series, there is a character that does not appear in the original novel: Morland Holmes. As the father of Sherlock Holmes, Morland actually represents the side of Mycroft Holmes in power in the original novel, but he does not have a purely official background, but is just a political broker.

At this time, the first article written by Lin You was taking effect, and Sherlock Holmes' first meeting with the "female Watson" was about to end; neither of them had a good impression of this meeting, and at the same time, they had a strong interest in the stranger in front of them. Lin You picked up the pen and continued writing: "When he learned that the therapist in front of him was called Watson, Mr. Sherlock Holmes's admiration for his predecessor immediately revived. He seemed to have restarted his passion for detective work, and he urgently hoped that this therapist could become his "Dr. Watson"; he completely ignored the fact that the other party was a woman and had no interest in the detective career for the time being."

At this point, the rewrite of "Elementary" is halfway done. The remaining half is almost entirely on the "two" characters of Irene Adler and Moriarty.

New golden words appeared one by one, and the smooth strokes showed Lin You's relaxed mood at the moment; it must be said that this TV series, which has undergone a large-scale American localization adaptation, is indeed very friendly to the work of the writers in terms of the plot.

"The Sherlock Holmes stories recorded by Dr. Watson have a profound influence. Even criminals a hundred years later are attracted by the stories and even quote the names of super criminals in the novels at the cost of exposing the nature of their organizations.

Who would have thought that an international criminal organization with operations across the Atlantic Ocean and a global network would name itself "Moriarty"? It is hard to tell whether this behavior is a worship of crime, a worship of the strong, or both.

When Sherlock Holmes in New York heard the news that "Moriarty" had become the unified title for the heads of criminal organizations and even his father had once used this title, he must have been inexplicably excited, and even filled with an unreasonable sense of fate and mission.

In fact, this sense of fate may have come earlier.

When a beautiful woman named Irene Adler appeared in his life, he might have thought it was just a beautiful coincidence; but when he discovered that the so-called "Irene Adler" was just a deliberately used pseudonym, and that the beauty was actually the new generation of criminal leader "Moriarty", he was already deeply trapped in his fate. "

Lin You waved his hand, and golden words flashed by; these paragraphs were the easiest to write in the rewriting task.

The writers of "Elementary" did a great job, and the writers wanted to give them a thumbs up. The writers turned "Moriarty" from a person's name into a unified code name for an organization, which was a stroke of genius and allowed the writers to reap the benefits without any effort.

Another Sherlock Holmes story that blends smoothly into the big world.

What is most worth looking forward to now is whether the two Sherlock Holmes living in the 21st century will meet each other. Based on the experience of the two stories of Constantine and Raiders of the Lost Ark, the result of the meeting of the two Sherlock Holmes may very well mean a new "unknown".

Of course, the distance between Britain and the United States, New York and London is not far; the Atlantic Ocean alone cannot stop the two Sherlocks from meeting.

Lin You suddenly began to dislike the fact that time was passing too slowly; there were still many years to go before the 21st century. For the first time, he hoped that this body could grow up quickly.

(End of this chapter)