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Sherlock Holmes was born in 1854, how did he magically appear in the 21st century?

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Last year I watched the first episode of the "Elementary" on CBS and also watched the episode when Holmes went back to England. There is no explanation of how he magically appeared in the 21st century. I've spent over a year periodically doing google searches for an answer and am getting really frustrated. What the hell is going on? How the hell did Holmes magically get from the 1800s to 2012? 2012 is the year the show first appeared on CBS's schedule.

CBS and the TV series owe us an answer.

I have come up with some possible scenarios:

1) He used a time machine.
2) He was drugged and slept for over 100 years.
3) He is the real Sherlock Holmes great-great-great-great grandson.

Sherlock Holmes was born January 6, 1854! There is no natural way he could be in our century. I refuse to watch another episode until I get an answer. At least Science Fiction shows explain how things are possible, having a show like this with no explanation at all is unforgivable in my opinion.

Does anyone have the inside scoop as to how Sherlock Homes ended up in 2012, he sure doesn't look 158 years old to me!

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That's why it's a "mystery" series, ma'am. nt - tinear 20:06:43 11/30/13 (0)
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These are different people with the same name - tunenut 10:45:35 11/22/13 (1)
Obviously, a person born in the 1850s is not alive today. However, this new series is about a person born recently with the same name. This is, after all, a very common name.
- Ditto with Lucy Liu's character, Watson, who is looking after him. Very common name, a simple coincidence^ - Road Warrior 12:17:03 11/22/13 (0)
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RE: Sherlock Holmes was born in 1854, how did he magically appear in the 21st century? - user510 10:26:34 11/22/13 (0)
What cracks me up is that the rest of the cast in these episodes continue to fail to ask those same questions. Evidently there never was an author to the name of Doyle. Instead Johnny Lee Miller is the original Holmes and Lucy Liu the original Watson. Not fictional characters at all. They're real and carrying out their deductive lives weekly on CBS.

That's a lot of disbelief to suspend. But I find myself watching. Perhaps it is the Watson character that warms me up a little. Without Lucy's Watson, the series would fall flat immediately.

-Steve
He used one of these silly... - musetap 15:23:52 11/21/13 (2)
Which, interestingly enough, looked like this once he got here:

"Once this was all Black Plasma and Imagination" - Michael McClure
- Hey, just like in Time After Time... Nt - geoffkait 10:32:54 11/22/13 (0)
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- Great comparison - Teresa 18:00:15 11/21/13 (0)
  The time machine from black and white to color. Just as Holmes went from horse and buggy to automobile in his 100+ year absence.
  
  Thanks for the photos!
Masterpiece Theater's "Sherlock" is an excellent update . . . - Billy Wonka 13:49:24 11/21/13 (0)
of the classic cases. Season Three will begin in January right after Downton Abbey.
Unfortunately, there is some doubt cast on Cumberbatch's (Sherlock) true sexual inclination. I find this unnecessary and a sleazy way of making the series "hip" and with the times. Other than that, this Sherlock is rather surly and smarter than a Cray computer. The first six episodes are on Netflix and well worth the watch.

Edits: 11/21/13
Yeah. And exactly when did Watson become a gender bender? - free.ranger 13:35:13 11/21/13 (1)
And change race? The mystery's afoot! I think it's all a quantum thing.
- Actually that one makes sense to me, as the original Watson would be long dead and - Teresa 17:57:11 11/21/13 (0)
  the new Watson just has the same last name and likely is not related. So Dr. Joan Watson being female and a difference race is not a problem to me.
  
  Maybe the immortal Sherlock Holmes is a vampire and prefers assistants with the last name Watson?
Simple answer really. "He's fictional." Fictional characters don't age! ;-) -nt - Raiderman 10:44:05 11/21/13 (1)
- Fictional characters don't age! - How about the ones in Star Trek? - Teresa 18:13:20 11/21/13 (0)
  And Star Trek even has a history book which the show(s) can only violate by creating alternate realities.
  
  So are you saying we are now in an alternate reality where Sherlock Holmes was not born until the later 1900's instead of 1854?
  
  Officially Sherlock Holmes didn't have a long life as he died May 4th, 1891. So perhaps someone made a clone with his DNA?
  
  True anything can happen in fiction, but it must remain true to the original in my opinion or at least give a reason for violating the historical story line of the fictional character.
Good one! As a side note - you should stay away from Sponge Bob, too. - Enophile 09:06:14 11/21/13 (0)
A synthetic kitchen sponge who talks, has arms and legs, wears clothing, lives under the sea, works as a fry cook, and lives in a pineapple!

A outrage!

No freakin' way!

I once saw Richard III set in WWII - what, did Richard magically teleport forward almost 500 years?

Impossible.
The same way the Capulet's and Montague's appeared in 1990s L.A. in Baz Lurhmann's - Road Warrior 07:15:27 11/21/13 (0)
Romeo and Juliet.

I tried Elementary. I quit watching it for reasons other than you cite.
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