[ SECRET POST #2333 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2333 ⌋

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

Well, in fairness, I think a lot of the really awesome, brilliant elements of the canon are impossible to adapt, or at least really hard. It's really hard to adapt the tone, the atmosphere, Doyle's description of a specific time and place and the air of adventure he manages to convey. And on the other hand, the cheesy weak stuff is easy to adapt, but it's also familiar and accessible - "evil super-genius" is a lot easier to get than "anxiety about colonialism and the exotic manifesting itself in the metropole".

But I definitely agree that adaptations could do a lot better than they currently seem to be doing, and that there's a ton of scope for adaptations in the canon that no one seems to be interested in exercising at the moment, in favor of simply re-making the same 5 bits of the canon that everyone is familiar with over and over and over.

[fenm]

"evil super-genius" is a lot easier to get than "anxiety about colonialism and the exotic manifesting itself in the metropole".

Agreed, but there are plenty of other villains in Holmes canon that are pretty easy to understand/adapt to a 21st century setting... Charles Augustus Milverton (blackmailing asshole), Jethro Rucastle and Dr Roylott (violent sociopaths who went to extreme lengths to keep their [step-]daughter(s) from marrying so they could get their inheritance)...

[(Anonymous)]

Oh, yeah, I absolutely agree. I'm just saying there's great chunks of awesome stuff in the canon that would be difficult to adapt or unfamiliar (although creators totally should still make the effort to adapt it - but I get why someone wouldn't). There's still great chunks of awesome stuff they could easily adapt but don't.

But what can you do?

[fenm]

I'm just saying there's great chunks of awesome stuff in the canon that would be difficult to adapt

True... "The Yellow Face", for example.

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I can think of several ways they could do The Yellow Face that would be awesome. Though I suppose in today's overly-PC, SJW-infested world, it prolly won't ever be touched with a ten-foot-pole.

[fenm]

I can think of several ways they could do The Yellow Face that would be awesome.

Oh? I'm interested in hearing your ideas.

[(Anonymous)]

Granada never had any trouble, until Brett got ill and the company execs got stingy and greedy.