Days are forgotten, young Sherlock!

 After about fifty years of Sherlock Holmes, I just love it when he still tickles me.

Because Sherlock Holmes isn't my comfort food, he's what he's always been, wild spirit of curiosity and intellect running wild, not content to be constrained by a sixty story box. And, man, is he running wild this month. He's even different Sherlocks, but still my Sherlock Holmes.

We have entered the multiverse phase of our entertainment icons. Doctor Who and James Bond did it the old fashioned way, each incarnation dutifully taking turns. Spiderman got a whole movie to show us how it work if we just got them all at once. And this week felt a little like that, as we recorded next week's Watsonian Weekly podcast and spoke of the Sherlock & Co. podcast, Young Sherlock on Amazon, and CBS's Watson. All so different, yet all showing us sides of Sherlock Holmes. (Including Morris Chestnut giving us a Watson who plainly learned Holmes's tricks and pulling them off splendidly.)

Guy Ritchie's Young Sherlock on Amazon is getting my main focus this week as I cruise through it. It's a fast-moving thing, as a young Holmes would truly be. It's giving us origins for Lestrade, the Baker Street Irregulars, James Moriarty, and a dozen other things, all behind a real James-Bond-movie corker of opening credits to an abbreviated version of Kasabian's "Days Are Forgotten" from decades past. (And yes, I've gotten very into the full tune after listening to it time and time again as the show started.

I just love the lyrics to "Days Are Forgotten," as "Hey son, I'm looking forward. You're leaning backwards. Of this I'm sure," applies both to the plot of the show itself and an accidental side-comment on Sherlockiana's tendency to stick with the past. The full lyrics, which conjure old ghosts and disappearing history, fit the show well, and the energy behind it is pure Sherlock. Sherlock Holmes was never a cozy man, and the Xena-like cries in the tune just seem to fit Sherlock's mental electricity to me.

There's a lot of running in Young Sherlock. There are a lot of big action pieces. And there's a big, big international plot that might remind one of a previous Guy Ritchie outing in its scale. Like Batman, some folks aren't content to just let Sherlock Holmes stop local crime -- he has to save the world a lot, too. But this is Sherlock Holmes at big-screen level, big scenes full of people, lots of travel, big moments that hearken back to not just the original Conan Doyle, but so many other things we love to see about Sherlock Holmes.

I could go on. But I'll call out one thing and then call it a night, and that's this:

Best Sherlock's Mom Ever. I do hope she makes it through the series intact.

Back to watching!