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⌈ Secret Post #2482 ⌋

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Comments

Why are Sherlock Holmes fans so insane?

[(Anonymous)]

No, I don't mean BBC Sherlock fans. They are paragons of reason compared to fans of the original ACD stories. Was there anything in particular to cause such insanity among Sherlock Holmes fans, like, a long time ago or something?

(btw, when I say insane, I don't mean it in a bad way ;))

Re: Why are Sherlock Holmes fans so insane?

[kaijinscendre]

Maybe because it was the first story of that kind of get big? The whole mystery schtick.

Re: Why are Sherlock Holmes fans so insane?

[dreemyweird]

I don't think there is any noticeable difference. A major part of any fan community of anything "big" is necessarily insane.

Re: Why are Sherlock Holmes fans so insane?

[(Anonymous)]

I kind of got the impression that OP is more talking about "extremely devoted and intense" rather than just "crazy" - more about things like the intense research that people do, and all the little Sherlockian fun that people have with things like speculating about where 221b Baker Street was really located, and things like that, and have been doing for like a century.

That was my impression any way.

Re: Why are Sherlock Holmes fans so insane?

[dreemyweird]

Yeah, I think you may be right. In this case, IA with all the replies above and the one below. The fact that it's one of the oldest fandoms and the way the stories are written pretty much sum it up.

Re: Why are Sherlock Holmes fans so insane?

[(Anonymous)]

I think a lot of it has to do with the way that Doyle wrote the world of Sherlock Holmes. You have an interesting character in Sherlock Holmes, and you have Holmes and Watson's lifestyle which is essentially grown-up adventure where they seem to do nothing but solve cool mysteries, and the world never changes around them, really. And then you have the atmosphere - the way that Doyle wrote London, dripping with intrigue and danger and mystery, with the hansom cabs rolling down rain-soaked streets, or the thick fog pressing against window-panes - and you have the details, the way that Doyle would include little bits and pieces of references to real life, or fragmentary references to other adventures, that makes it seem like the stories really are just little segments of a larger whole.

So you combine all those things together, and you have a world that people want to spend time in, that they're attracted to, and plenty of room for them to imagine things about it, plenty of things to obsess over. There's just a lot of ways to think about it and get caught up in it, and a lot of reasons to want to do so, I guess. It's lovely.

Re: Why are Sherlock Holmes fans so insane?

[intrigueing]

See the anon comment above regarding Doyle's imagination-fodder writing style + three years of everyone getting extremely indignant about Doyle killing off Holmes far too early for people to have had their fill of him and becoming aware of how much they missed him + new stories were published from 1887 all the way to 1924, with long gaps of waiting in between batches causing periodic revivals of excitement + constant stream of adaptations and derivative works throughout the 20th century + endlessly replicable formula + WHAT THE HELL IS WITH THIS BRAIN-WARPING TIMELINE ANYWAY, LETS GET EXPERTS TO TRY TO FIGURE IT OUT FOR SHITS AND GIGGLES.

Re: Why are Sherlock Holmes fans so insane?

[hlagol]

Your comment made me think of this book, which I thought was pretty interesting:

http://articles.washingtonpost.com/2012-02-09/entertainment/35445879_1_sherlock-holmes-baker-street-irregulars-humanity

just a drive by link.