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⌈ Secret Post #2464 ⌋

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Comments

[fenm]

I liked him ok.

But I'm kind of annoyed that both Elementary and Sherlock have a thin Mycroft but feel the need to say he USED to be fat. Uh, why? I kinda feel like they should either have him be fat, or just have him be thin, without the "Oh, but he used to be fat" thing. Neither of the shows is close enough to canon that they need to make reference to what Mycroft looked like in canon.

[hwc]

Well, in the case of Elementary it was a clue that Mycroft was/is (I didn't actually really catch that, is he still sick or was he sick?) sick, so it's not like the mention is completely pointless.

[fenm]

Except the way it was done, it kind of felt like they had him be sick to explain his weight loss. I don't even recall his illness playing any part in his relationship with Sherlock or anything...

[fauxkaren]

His illness was why he wanted to reconnect with Sherlock.

[(Anonymous)]

I think you missed it, then. Mycroft being so ill and at risk of dying for want of a bone marrow donor (something that is best obtained from a sibling for the likeliest chance at a match) and STILL not contacting Sherlock was a huge epiphany for him. In neatly sums up the extent of their damaged relationship. It's a huge, huge deal, and it brought home to Mycroft how much he wanted for that to change.

So no, it wasn't just a throwaway mention to explain the weight loss.

[akacat]

I got the impression that he needs to wait X more months before he's declared to be in remission. Or that he's officially in remission, but it's one of those things where you can't quite ever say that you're "cured".

Anyway, either I missed it too, or they were being purposely vague. I'm just hoping they aren't setting it up for the tired old "I need my sibling to donate" storylines. That's just not something I'm interested in seeing with these characters.

[(Anonymous)]

I'm p. sure that Mycroft already got the transplant. He does mention that he "didn't even think of asking Sherlock" (IIRC on the phrasing), which implied (to me at least) that he had already gotten the transplant, from a stranger donor, and hadn't even realized he hadn't thought of Sherlock until after the fact.

[akacat]

He did already get a transplant, but if it didn't work his doctor might want to try again. Particularly if a better match has become available.

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[(Anonymous)]

I definitely think it would have been great for either of the modern adaptations to make Mycroft fat. However, I'm actually more interested in either adaptation stating unequivocally that Mycroft is the smarter brother, but just lazy. That's something (as well as the fatness) Ritchie's otherwise terrible movies got right, at least.

However, I also love that Elementary's Mycroft wasn't in the secret service (as far as we know). I know it's a well established ACD fanon thing that Mycroft actually worked for the government, but I love the idea in Elementary that he a restaurant empire owner and skilled chef, and that he set up that atmospheric dinner for Watson, because it emphasises that his character is sensually hedonistic in a way that is completely different to Sherlock. But at the same time we know that Sherlock is an addict, so Mycroft's indulgence actually is a point of similarity between the brothers. And I think if you don't bring that across in Mycroft you can't believe their sibling relationship, which is a balance Sherlock BBC's Mycroft, though otherwise a great character, doesn't quite achieve. That's also why Elementary got it right when they made Mycroft be thin because of an illness he couldn't control rather than deliberate dieting. Mycroft? Diet? Pffft.