[ SECRET POST #5758 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #5758 ⌋

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

I...actually agree with you about most of this. I think Gatiss is a hack of the first order, but I do believe that he's a genuine Sherlock Holmes fanboy. I think the combination of his fanboy cred, when combined with him being rather up his own arse as a creator, created a very specific circumstance in which he arrogantly came to feel that he was eminently qualified to give the canon a facelift.

ACD Irene was a great character as a one-off in a short story, but if they'd held true to her character in the adaptation I don't think it would have worked with the narrative overall. The tweaks to per personality and demeanor totally worked for me. I loved the way she invited comparisons with Sherlock, while also contrasting him quite distinctly. Both of them were brilliant and antisocial, but his alleged sociopathy was ultimately more of an aspiration than a reality. His aloofness and harsh indifference was, at its root, a front for the fact that he was 221 neurosis in a trench coat. Hers, meanwhile, was genuine. She was more effective than he was, but from a few steps over the moral event horizon.

Still hate that she caught feelings and lost to him, though. I feel like they made her so vicious that they couldn't bear to have her best him. Whereas to me, her being so ruthless would've made her besting him hit so much harder and it would've been so interesting.