They come up with a seemingly new drug called K-9, and what makes it special is that it comes in two parts. It is an illegal drug, but Tokugawa comes up with a cunning plan to sell it to the population. Narc is a ‘semi-synthetic narcotic made from black poppy opium, combining the addictiveness of morphine with the hallucinogenic properties of LSD. And nothing is more emblematic of that issue than Tokugawa Industry’s plans to distribute Narc to the population. We get a tremendous amount of detail about the advances in biomedicine and artificial food growth, but not on how the government is structured or changes in moral values.
And while it does a good job of updating the technology of the past, it fails miserably when it comes to the societal changes of the future. Policenauts takes this paradigm and transplants it into a futuristic, science fiction setting - an orbital space colony settlement. The bad guys are the usual suspects of buddy-cop films - the sleazy executive, the corrupt police chief - and the story even ends with a single bullet fired from a revolver. The protagonists - Jonathon Ingram and Ed Brown - look exactly like Riggs and Murtagh, right down to the ridiculous 80’s haircuts. The meat of the storyline is about a couple of cops trying to deal with a new super drug. Policenauts wears its inspirations in bright neon colours on both sleeves. Hideo Kojima’s Policenauts might have been a fun Lethal Weapon-esque jaunt if not for one critical factor - being set in space. While the series still feels like the Sherlock Holmes of old, the creators understood that the adaptation required radical changes to the social strata for it to make sense today.īut not all adaptations are created equal. Even more impressively, the social context of the series rings true terrorism, information manipulation, hacking and modern millitary experiments are all seamlessly integrated into the world of Sherlock. The technology of the present is infused into the series, with an opening scene demonstrating the ubiquity of texting.
It takes the essence of the characters of Sherlock and Watson, and transports them to modern day London, with all the implications of a modern setting.
Read at your own peril!īBC’s Sherlock (2010) is a lesson in how to do justice to a modern day adaptation. This article contains heavy SPOILERS for Policenauts.
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