[ SECRET POST #2885 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2885 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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[Avengers]


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03.
[Terminator: Genisys]


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[Red Dwarf]


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[Gracepoint/Broadchurch]


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[Doctor Who]


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07.
[All The President's Men]


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08.
[The Great Mouse Detective]


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[Supernatural]


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[Transformers: Prime]












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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

"I chalk that up to sloppy writing and some rampant classicism of the era on ACD's part, he got notoriously lazy as the stories went on."

Are you referring just to the Holmes stories or to all of ACD's work? I can't speak for all of his work as I haven't read it all, but I know that he got to the point where he detested Holmes and Holmes stories, so if you just mean lazy writing in Sherlock Holmes, "lazy" might be the wrong word. Apathetic, maybe? Irritated and just writing to finish and not actually caring about the product?

I mean, the whole reason for Reichenbach is ACD's way of saying, "I'M GOING TO END THIS!" and then he had to make him come back because of fans and publishing pressure, so I can imagine him just kind of stabbing the paper while he wrote or angrily mumbling to himself and like half the draft is insults, lol.

[(Anonymous)]

He was INCREDIBLY sick of Holmes after a while. Some of the later stuff reads like the text version of Robert Pattinson's commentary track on Twilight.

[(Anonymous)]

I suppose it depends on your point of view. Even disliking your creation and being sick of the stories, well, phoning it in seems lazy to me. Write the stories or don't, but why write them and not put in the effort? He recycled plots too, which is hard to interpret as anything but lazy.

[(Anonymous)]

"but why write them and not put in the effort?"

Because artistic integrity don't pay the bills? Sherlock Holmes was basically ACD's job, and he doesn't seem to have been at all romantic about his writing. Might have had something to do with watching his father drink himself to death over his failed painting career while his mother tried to keep the family from starving.

[(Anonymous)]

ACD was one of the highest paid authors of his time, partly because he raised his prices for more Holmes stories after he got tired of writing them, and publishers agreed to his fees. So it's not like it was down to a choice between writing more Sherlock Holmes vs. starving in the gutter at that point in his career.

Besides, if you rely on something to pay your bills, that's a stronger argument for trying to do a good job. Phoning it in when you need the money badly is dumb.