[ SECRET POST #2573 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2573 ⌋

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

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Comments

Re: Spoilers Sherlock S3E3

[dreemyweird]

...and, like, that's the only reason you hate it? (assuming you're AIRT). The fandom?.. Not that it isn't legitimate, mind you, but it does puzzle me a little. There is no real connection between the quality of any work and its fans.

Re: Spoilers Sherlock S3E3

[(Anonymous)]

1st AYRT (the anon above is not me

BBC Sherlock is fine, as far as silly pastiches go. But those are really not my thing, so. Plus, from about "A Scandal in Belgravia" on, 99% of the Canon references seems to be the writers going "IT'S BETTER THIS WAY!" and basically thumbing their noses/deliberately twisting the Canon into its opposite. It's a toss-up for me which fared worse at their hands, DEVI or SCAN. HOUN, well, nobody can ever do HOUN well, but the DEVI "reference" they threw in was basically an insult to ACD and the characters he wrote.

/my thoughts on yaoi Moffat.

Re: Spoilers Sherlock S3E3

[dreemyweird]

Ah, that makes sense. I agree (just not a deal breaker for me). Though I'm curious, have you not seen a single adaptation of HOUN that you liked? It must be the most adapted story in the Canon, and I've seen some excellent versions.

Re: Spoilers Sherlock S3E3

[(Anonymous)]

AYRT again

I really haven't seen an adaptation that does it justice; but HOUN was the first ACD I read, when I was ten, and terrified of dogs (that problem has since left me, thankfully). It is widely-known that no adaptation can ever get the Hound right; for me, no adaptation will ever fully animate the truly terrifying Hound that stayed in my head for months after reading the book.

Ah, memories. LOL.

Re: Spoilers Sherlock S3E3

[dreemyweird]

If you're referring to the story in general, then I just don't think that any adaptation ever got any Holmes story "right" (and overall it is my opinion that faithful adaptations are a very rare, albeit not non-existent, thing); but if you are talking about the creature itself, I have always felt the same. Not a single Hound has impressed me. Some of them are outright lolarious (hi there epileptic Charlie Chaplin-style 1983 version). My favourite part of the Soviet film, for one, is the drunk Watson and Sir Henry messing around, while the dog sequence, though very well made, inspired in me little emotion.

Have you actually seen any adaptations that, in your opinion, do justice to the Canon (or to any other literary work, to generalize)?

/is overly eager to talk about Holmes. Feel free to quit, anon, if my ruminations on the subject bore you.

Re: Spoilers Sherlock S3E3

[(Anonymous)]

AYRT

Nah, I don't mind chatting, as long as you don't mind lag time (multitasking, or trying to).

Best adaptation? Granada. All the Granada. Not 100% faithful, but at least the liberties they did take, were in characters IMO.

Re: Spoilers Sherlock S3E3

[(Anonymous)]

*in character

....aaaaand I just stumbled on the YT link for the full 3rd series of BBC Sherlock in one vid. Should I watch? Meh. Couldn't be bothered to start frothing at the mouth tonight.....OTOH mentally MST3King it might make it marginally more tolerable. On the third hand (What?) the GIFed recaps I've seen of it on Tumblr makes me think I would be very, very, sorry, for wasting 2:52:02 of my time.

TO CLICK OR NOT TO CLICK THAT IS THE QUESTION

Re: Spoilers Sherlock S3E3

[dreemyweird]

I see. I thought you'd say Granada, and I share this opinion to some extent (it is in my top five, at least), though just recently I've had an interesting discussion with intrigueing regarding the weaknesses of this particular version.

If you liked anything from s1 and s2, I'd say go for it? I found TEH silly and two major plot twists rubbed me all the wrong ways, but in general I feel it was a success rather than a failure. Nothing was as bad as ASiB, that much I can tell you.

Re: Spoilers Sherlock S3E3

[(Anonymous)]

AYRT (late I know sorry) I am thoroughly spoiled for the "plot" twists so that's not an issue. I know going in it's pretty much going to be 150% fanfiction, so maybe my low expectations will result in my enjoying it? IDK.

I am not one of the rabid Brettish Empire <--- (what the fandom calls itself who insists that the Granada adaptation is 100% canonical and totally and purely problem-free); I also admit the show has its weaknesses, but eh. At least the writers actually had a genuine love for the Canon, not a passive-aggressive "Anything ACD did I can do better!" attitude problem like Moffat and Gatiss do. Then they proceed to write the OPPOSITE (like, the diametric opposite) of what the Canon established. It just seems to me like they're thumbing their noses at it (and us) all, when they started out making noises like they looooooved ACD soooooooo much and they wanted to be sooooooo faithful to Canon etc. (Thompson doesn't even bother with the Canon at all, which is why I don't mind his episodes overly much, paradoxically enough.)

I've DLed the BBC Sherlock full S3 YT vid, and I'll likely watch it when I'm not paying too much attention/am otherwise occupied with something else, so I will be able to resist the urge to chuck heavy objects and growl in frustration at the television....

And now I should probably try and get some sleep. Thanks for the chat!

Re: Spoilers Sherlock S3E3

[dreemyweird]

Yeah, I just went to sleep, too :) Thank you!