Many, perhaps you included, automatically dislike remakes of any movie, etc that they consider classic.

Personally, I never met a remake I didn't look forward to. Look forward to are the key words. many of them are quite bad. Still, in the same way that each new production of the works of Shakespeare is done with the intent and hope of being the best ever. I have never understood why new productions of Hamlet are different from a remake of Forbidden Planet or Casablanca. I can testify that some people get very testy when speaking of remakes like that.

The BBC production of a modern day Sherlock is more faithful to Arthur Conan Doyle than "House" or the American, "Elementary" and it could wind up being the best of the three.

I can't imagine that any fan of Sherlock would be offended by "The Hound of the Baskervilles" presented as a government weapons project gone awry, but I suspect that I am wrong.

Now sequels, that is a different conversation.