[ SECRET POST #2721 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2721 ⌋

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Comments

[cushlamochree]

Well, like I said, Holmes is a distinctive character, a very distinctive character. Even setting aside the specifics of his character, he's physically distinctive - tall, and wiry, and as you said angular (that's another very good word). There's something almost hawk-like about him. So just to start off with, there's not all that many actors who can pull off that combination of traits. And then you get into Holmes' actual character, the extreme intensity, the intelligence, the coldness and the warmth, the high humor, the robustness and energy and the lassitude... well, it's hardly any wonder that not many people can really carry it off, is there? He's not a very normal person at all. And most of us are normal people.

I do think my standards are more unreasonable and higher than most peoples', though, because most people seem to be much more able to enjoy adaptations than I am. I don't know, it just feels like adaptations only ever really scratch the surface, and just pick a few of Holmes' traits to really develop, and it just tends to leave me cold.

[dreemyweird]

Maybe it's that, true. I'm so very used to a ton of people trying to play a genius with an incredibly complex character that perhaps I forgot how difficult it actually must be.

>I do think my standards are more unreasonable and higher than most peoples', though, because most people seem to be much more able to enjoy adaptations than I am. I don't know, it just feels like adaptations only ever really scratch the surface, and just pick a few of Holmes' traits to really develop, and it just tends to leave me cold.

This seems to be my impression of SH adaptations, as well, but it doesn't prevent me from enjoying them at all? So I guess you do have a case of the high standards :D Not that it's a bad thing, mind. I've narrative quirks of my own (as you may remember from our conversation re:Homicide and in-universe consistency).