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Originally Posted by robwbright
Yep. The problem I have is with one friend who is a Sherlock book purist (he's a teacher). He won't watch any of the movies.
I've tried to explain to him that they've both honored the original stories AND modified them a bit so that even fans of the books will have something different to look forward to, but I haven't been successful thus far.
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I was hesitant too since I liked the books (don't think I could 'love' them enough to not see any adaptation though, Doyle's kind of hacky). Literally the only problem I had with the first two seasons is they kept him clean as a whistle while in the books he is clearly a dope fiend, they addressed it in the third season. So very good.
The first fifteen minutes of the first episode are gold, try to get him on the hook for fifteen minutes, that shouldn't be too hard of a sell, you can turn it off no harm no foul. It also helps that it's not a movie, BBC does quality shit nowadays.