Not so Sherlock

Well, whaddya know. The 4th season for Sherlock has been out for a while and I had not as much as a whiff of it.
Already on the second episode of the three very long episodes that each season encompasses and I cannot help thinking that this is probably going to be the last Sherlock season I'll be watching.
One has only to dip in my archives with some well suited key search words to find out what I really think of Sherlock Holmes in media.
As far as I'm concerned the only pivotal Sherlock Holmes that can never be topped, as hard as anyone might try is the one called 'Adventures of Sherlock Holmes' of 'Granada television' wherein the astute detective was portrayed by the genius that was 'Jeremy Brett', and that my darlings is a series and acting and everything that it encapsulated unmatched.

Then why on earth am I watching the new bastardised version of this century, gadget savvy, social media friendly Sherlock? Well, because it's Sherlock and I like watching anything detective plus this started off as a rather promising series, intelligently casting a 200 year old character into a new world setting and the adaptation came off as flawless.
Alas, it has now fallen a victim to its own greatness. Unable to top its own superb start ..
it has begun to deteriorate into a sort of caricature of itself.

This phenomenon began 3rd season onwards when Sherlock Holmes turned into Sherlock man, a sort of super hero of detective world with his side stooge Watson.
The world, entire universe began to center around him; he turned into the most important man ever come in existence with his every move being tracked more closely than the prime minister.
And Watson, what about dear Dr. Watson who was not only a friend but an esteemed colleague of Holmes, well, he is a glorified nothing. Just a sidekick of sorts, a sort of comic relief who is a little more than his babysitter.
Not just that, there are characters oddly added blown into needless importance that makes you want to cringe.
Sherlock wasn't a man known to such strange emotions, bereaving the loss of ones lost and claiming himself a protector of his loved ones.

This one is a bit askew.
As far as modernisation goes it's all good but the spirit is now lost and so is this viewer.