Is it really not obvious?

**Kane Knight** · 03-04-2008, 08:50 PM

I mean, people worthing on both House and Monk "revealed" in various interviews that the characters were based on Sherlock Holmes as though it wasn't completely obvious. I mean, Monk's a bit more obvious than House, but it's not like the Gregory House character isn't pretty obvious in and of itself.

I dunno. It just doesn't strike me as the big reveal it seems to be made out to be. So I mean, did anyone actually have to be told? Or is it just that I grew up with a father who watched all the old Sherlock Holmes movies/TV shows/Serials?

03-04-2008, 08:50 PM	#1
Kane Knight Ron Paul 4 EVA Posts: 152,467	Is it really not obvious? I mean, people worthing on both House and Monk "revealed" in various interviews that the characters were based on Sherlock Holmes as though it wasn't completely obvious. I mean, Monk's a bit more obvious than House, but it's not like the Gregory House character isn't pretty obvious in and of itself. I dunno. It just doesn't strike me as the big reveal it seems to be made out to be. So I mean, did anyone actually have to be told? Or is it just that I grew up with a father who watched all the old Sherlock Holmes movies/TV shows/Serials? �There are two novels that can change a bookish fourteen-year old�s life: The Lord of the Rings and Atlas Shrugged. One is a childish fantasy that often engenders a lifelong obsession with its unbelievable heroes, leading to an emotionally stunted, socially crippled adulthood, unable to deal with the real world. The other, of course, involves orcs.� --John Rogers