https://supergee.dreamwidth.org/ Arthur D. Hlavaty - Dreamwidth Studios Thu, 05 Jan 2017 11:44:02 GMT LiveJournal / Dreamwidth Studios supergee personal https://v2.dreamwidth.org/109189/156313 https://supergee.dreamwidth.org/ 100 75 https://supergee.dreamwidth.org/1846938.html Thu, 05 Jan 2017 11:44:02 GMT https://supergee.dreamwidth.org/1846938.html The Conan Doyle estate is infamous for trying to control all presentations of the Great Detective, and I always figured that they were too strict but someone had to do that or we’d have TV shows bringing Holmes into the present and making Watson into a woman. Anyway, the new show has decided that Holmes must be an action figure because audiences won’t identify with an intellectual crime solver (you know, like POC or queers). Someone at the Grauniad complained, and there is a <a href="http://www.tor.com/2017/01/04/mark-gatiss-response-sherlock-bond-critic/">defense</a> of the new approach, complete with alleged poetry, noting that Doyle himself stooped to that sort of thing.<br /><br />Thanx to <a href="http://www.tor.com/">Tor.com</a>.<br /><br /><img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=supergee&ditemid=1846938" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/> comments https://supergee.dreamwidth.org/1846938.html sherlock public 2