[ SECRET POST #4994 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #4994 ⌋

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

In regards to 2, just because someone is more non-traditional areas doesn't mean they are non-traditional in all places.

[(Anonymous)]

full disclosure, this is the first I'm hearing of this product and idk if OP's assessment is spot on but

it's not so much that Holmes is traditional/non-traditional, it's that he comes off as an aloof person in the original canon. so if there was anyone else besides his known brother in his life, my reading would be that he would be generally aloof about them as well. like, regardless of antyhing he'd be thoroughly hands-off, you-do-you, whatever I don't care I'm Sherlock Fucking Holmes about them. so if tradtional/non is not the correct way to state it, it's still...yeah, no, Holmes would not insist that a younger sibling do anything by a certain rote path, while he also might not necessarily say they have to do things by the non-traditional path. he'd probably have to say "what the fuck I have nothing to do with how you life your life" so if their parents wanted them to go to certain schools or follow a certain career, he would not interfere, but also not discourage if the sibling said they wanted to do something wild and wacky.

idk the more I'm hearing about this series, the more I feel like the author really doesn't understand Victorian authors nor Sherlock Holmes as a character at all. probably should have just written their own take on An Victorian Lady Detective without connecting it to the Holmes mythos.

[silverr]

I think I agree with this, although full disclosure that my most enduring perception of Holmes is due to his portrayal in the Granada series.

[(Anonymous)]

That's not a bad take, honestly. The Granada series came the closest to capturing the spirit of the ACD stories.

[silverr]

I felt that way as well. (Also, iirc they primarily stuck to the actual dialog of the ACD stories and novels.)

[(Anonymous)]

They did the research, which is an essential. Assumptions about Holmes and Victorian culture are death to adaptations

[(Anonymous)]

This is true, but there's no reason to think Holmes in particular would be traditional in this specific sense when canonically he hasn't shown a great deal of investment in traditional anything, much less gender roles.