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Feb. 3rd, 2023 06:35 pmDo you know how tired I am of ~radical~ Sherlock Holmes adaptations which basically have absolutely nothing to do with Sherlock Holmes? The answer is really fucking tired. It's been this succession of things that try to do something ~different~ with canonical characters - things largely about OCs, modern day things, Sherlock Gnomes (yes I have watched it. No I don't know why I did), that shit 'comedy' (which I still frequently get this ridiculous urge to put myself through watching though I know full well it's awful), that really depressing sounding thing about elderly Holmes which I refused to ever watch, etc etc etc. Not to mention the endless bloody Holmes and Lovecraft mashup stories and other ~way out~ stuff that gets published. Now they're on about some show which "picks up shortly after the death of Sherlock Holmes at the hands of Moriarty. In the aftermath, “Dr. John Watson resumes his medical career as the head of a clinic dedicated to treating rare genetic disorders, only to uncover a startling secret that puts him in the crosshairs of Moriarty once again". I DON'T CARE
But asking for anything in which Moriarty and Moran get to be the main characters and protagonists and be close is apparently unreasonable.
Also it's not like things with ~bad guys~ as protagonists and even as protagonists who literally get away with doing terrible things don't exist. A couple of years ago I put myself through watching The Shadow Line which sounded interesting but was honestly a horrible horrible and weirdly oppressive show (I'm not sure what I mean by that even now but a lot of it felt horribly oppressive in a 'being suffocated by its relentless horribleness' way. Also the opening scene in the car where a guy had been murdered was seriously claustrophobic) which killed off something like 14 of the main characters (sometimes, it must be said, in ways that were more ridiculous than anything in Midsomer Murders. With one of them I was literally cackling at how stupid and unrealistic the murder was) and yes that includes the 'good guys' (and a young child). The only main characters to survive were the absolute worst people in it, awful people who weren't engaging at all they were just horrible people who did unpleasant things and had absolutely no morals. But again apparently it's ridiculous to want or expect anyone to create anything with Moriarty and Moran as the main characters. Why?
But asking for anything in which Moriarty and Moran get to be the main characters and protagonists and be close is apparently unreasonable.
Also it's not like things with ~bad guys~ as protagonists and even as protagonists who literally get away with doing terrible things don't exist. A couple of years ago I put myself through watching The Shadow Line which sounded interesting but was honestly a horrible horrible and weirdly oppressive show (I'm not sure what I mean by that even now but a lot of it felt horribly oppressive in a 'being suffocated by its relentless horribleness' way. Also the opening scene in the car where a guy had been murdered was seriously claustrophobic) which killed off something like 14 of the main characters (sometimes, it must be said, in ways that were more ridiculous than anything in Midsomer Murders. With one of them I was literally cackling at how stupid and unrealistic the murder was) and yes that includes the 'good guys' (and a young child). The only main characters to survive were the absolute worst people in it, awful people who weren't engaging at all they were just horrible people who did unpleasant things and had absolutely no morals. But again apparently it's ridiculous to want or expect anyone to create anything with Moriarty and Moran as the main characters. Why?
