[ SECRET POST #4994 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #4994 ⌋

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

"What's the use of the stories being plausible?"

... huh? I don't understand this question. The original stories and this series isn't fantasy, it's historical mysteries. There's some flexibility for incredible things happening, but it's still set in the real world, so of course there has some be some level of plausibility. That's why you don't read about Watson suddenly sprouting wings and flying away, or Holmes stumbling upon the Cloak of Invisibility.

[(Anonymous)]

The most anything has to do is be internally coherent. Strict historical realism is one way of being internally coherent, but it's basically just one style among many. You absolutely could have a Holmes + Watson iteration where Watson suddenly sprouts wings and flies away, just the same way we can have things set in the modern day that are still recognizably Holmes and Watson, even though they have a recognizably different setting and aesthetic approach.

And the original Holmes stories aren't historical mysteries - they were contemporary stories at the time they were written, and they're also pretty obviously wildly unrealistic for what life was actually like at the time they were written. Why should a modern writer in the present day strive to be more realistic than Doyle did?

Of course probably OP just like s that kind of thing

[(Anonymous)]

We're not disagreeing here. I'm merely pointing out that in the canonical genre, you wouldn't have the wings, etc. because it's not plausible for that universe.

[(Anonymous)]

Sure. I mean, you could do it, it just would immediately become a different universe and genre.

But Watson sprouting wings is a much more radical departure than what OP talks about