The world turned toward morning

“Not everything is deducible”- I am still so, so happy this sentiment was in that trailer? I feel like I’m making a mountain out of a molehill here, but we only have molehills to work with right now, so I think I’m entitled. But no, I am just so glad, because the thing is, Sherlock Holmes in his original canonical incarnation DID have flaws. He was not the smartest man in the world. He was not even the smartest man in London; Mycroft would, canon says, take that role. He loses cases, he makes mistakes, and sometimes it’s even because he deduces things wrong.

And I just hate it when adaptations refuse to acknowledge it. (I was so excited when Sherlock acknowledged it, then so annoyed when it was only acknowledged as a joke- ‘Harry is short for Harriet’ and that’s… it? Really? Even this is more than that already, because it’s a fairly large thing about an on-screen character.) And I like what this can do for their relationship, too. Joan Watson is going to know immediately that she is not one hundred percent an open book to be read at his leisure, and she’s going to know immediately that he isn’t flawless, and I think that is so important to the Holmes-Watson relationship, and especially to this one. That Watson not gain a flawless impression of Holmes as incapable of mistakes.

I don’t know, I’m rambling. I have a lot of Feelings about adaptations’ tendencies to deify Holmes. It’s… frustrating. It detracts from what I genuinely love about the character. And it makes it so much harder to appreciate and enjoy any Watson-Holmes dynamic, because it makes them so unequal.

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sophistory:

a-cumberbatch-of-cookies:

marmosette:

London, that great cesspool into which all the loungers and idlers of the Empire are irresistibly drained.

[…] try to imagine fandom’s reaction if the next big Holmes adaptation to come along had Holmes and Watson as British, yeah - young black British men, living case to case on a council estate in a dodgy area of London. How fandom would react if Sherlock Holmes didn’t employ street kids and homeless people like trained animals to do his bidding, but instead was part of that invisible underclass; if instead of having his eccentricities tolerated~ by Scotland Yard on account of being the Great White Genius, Sherlock Holmes, BME, school dropout, and sometime addict, was regarded by the police as practically a criminal already, one more thug, one more junkie, one more dealer in the making. If he had to choose between buying the week’s groceries or palming a twenty to a bored constable for the chance to spend five minutes on a crime scene, in the hope that whoever’s under enough pressure to deal with crime rates in the neighbourhood will pay him enough for a perp to feed himself and Watson for a month or two. If the greatest threat to his safety were police brutality, or the prospect of being done for a snitch; if his arch enemy weren’t Moriarty, but the systemic poverty and inequality that has him helping out his oppressors just to get by, and that makes the other side of the law look more tempting to someone with his skills every day.

I would watch the hell out of that. I’d even write for it. What do you do with Mycroft being part of the “Establishment” then? Mycroft works at the local youth center? Mycroft as a pastor, deeply disapproving of his brother’s failure to reject street culture and conform? Hell, Mycroft IS the police? Token affirmative-action face of colour, should have made DI ages ago but is still a PC even though half the force secretly ask his help? And because they resent Mycroft, they resent Sherlock even more, fueling the rivalry? Lestrade can stay a DI, with the authority to choose to work with either Holmes but not enough authority to force everyone else to do so.

I’m curious to see how Mrs Hudson and Moriarty would work in this. 

Holy fuck this would be truly awesome. Mrs Hudson could be a nice woman who occasionally makes the boys a meal or offers up a warm bed during severe weather. And Moriarty, fuck. He could be like a well-to-do man who previously was in Sherlock’s situation. He somehow moved on from that kind of life, and sees a lot of himself in Sherlock actually, but hates for that reminder. Wants to take Sherlock down, put him back in his place.

Shit, this would be bloody brilliant.

aaaaalllll stuff I want to cram into the ‘#221b baker towers’ tag proper. DAMN YOU TUMBLR.

I want a girl with uninterrupted prosperity
Who uses a machete to cut through red tape
With fingernails that shine like justice
And a voice that is dark like tinted glass

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