The BBC’s got a great new iteration of Sherlock Holmes in the form of an hour-and-a-half TV show. That’s 90 minutes WITHOUT commercials. Basically they’re making Sherlock movies, and they’re good. The creators are definitely fans of the famous detective—in three episodes they’ve drawn heavily on the original canon. It’s worth watching, and you can find it on Netflix.
One of my favorite bits of Sherlockian lore is Holmes’ infamous ignorance. He refuses to learn facts about life that he deems useless. Dr Watson discovers that Holmes doesn’t even know that the Earth revolves around the Sun, and when enlightened, doesn't much care. “How can that information help me to solve crimes?” He demands of Watson. To him, it’s info not worth knowing. He determines to forget it.
In Kung Fu Panda 2, Po (Jack Black’s Panda character) finds himself in need of some information he’d previously thought of as irrelevant: where he came from.
