[ SECRET POST #5242 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #5242 ⌋

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


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Notes:

Secrets Left to Post: 01 pages, 09 secrets from Secret Submission Post #750.
Secrets Not Posted: [ 0 - broken links ], [ 0 - not!secrets ], [ 0 - not!fandom ], [ 0 - too big ], [ 0 - repeat ].
Current Secret Submissions Post: here.
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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

AYRT

Right? I don’t know that I’d ever really articulated to myself quite this way, but I read the secret and went “you’re right and you should say it...and hey, this actually sounds like exactly why I didn’t like/wouldn’t watch this or that adaptation...huh.”

Related opinion: I will be so very glad when “Holmes needs a keeper” stops being part of the popular perception of the character and their dynamic.

[philstar22]

It is so different from how I react to at least the Suchet version of Poirot which is such a great adaption that I've started seeing those actors when I read the books. Other adaptions not so much, but that adaption gets that detective just right. They clearly cared about the works they were adapting. Why can't someone do something similar with Sherlock and actually care enough to understand the character and get it right?

And yes, enough with Holmes needing a keeper. That's not what Watson does.

[(Anonymous)]

I would be delighted if someone managed to pull that off with Holmes. Suchet’s Poirot is a great example of an adaptation done right - so well that most people who’ve seen it do associate it with the books, how can you not?? But no one’s managed to get Holmes quite right yet. Some have been closer than others, and I’ve enjoyed aspects of some of the adaptations I’ve seen, but I haven’t yet found that definitive one (for me) that hits just right and makes you just think, “YES.” Though I do blame at least part of it on the tendency to, well, adapt the characters instead of staying faithful to the original. Certainly most of the recent attempts have been as much about putting a writer/story runner’s own spin on Holmes and Watson than recreating ACD’s version.

Thank you! Honestly, it’s getting to the point where I’m wishing I still had that cheap anthology copy of the SH stories I had to leave behind in a move because I was starting to question if I was the one remembering things wrong. (Then again, public domain - I may be able to find a copy somewhere for quick reference!) But Watson is Holmes’ companion, not his minder.

[(Anonymous)]

I assume you've seen Jeremy Brett's Holmes and his take didn’t do it for you, so I shall ask instead if you've seen the Russian adaptation.