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Fun Fact: in one month, all Sherlock Holmes stories hit the public domain and the Conan Doyle Estate can’t do shit! I say this for absolutely no reason but also congrats in advance to the happy couple.
Well, yes. But the judgments in Les Klinger’s legal case in 2013 made it clear that the characters were already in the public domain and the Conan Doyle Estate were just trying it on.
I’d rather have a thousand “OHMIGOD WE WERE RIGHT!!!” theory confirmed moments where due to good storytelling and foreshadowing the audience was able to figure out parts of the future plot than just one more stupid twist that makes no narrative sense to avoid being “predictable”.
If people knowing anything about your plot spoils the show entirely maybe it’s just no good lmao.
It’s not worth ruining your narrative themes and character integrity just so everyone is shocked. Sometimes twists that have been guessed …. Are better.
‘…And we considered Tchaikovsky—’ ‘Oh, you couldn’t go wrong with Tchaikovsky—’ ‘We could — and we did. It was catastrophe.’ ‘Why?’ ‘You don’t know? Because Tchaikovsky — how shall put it? Women, not his glass of tea.’
THEPRIVATELIFEOFSHERLOCKHOLMES(1970) dir. Billy Wilder
Different anon: I don't even think Mofftiss were necessarily high on their own farts, I think TFP and a lot of S4 were actual genuine malice on their parts towards the fandom for...liking the thing they made so much, I guess. It just made such a *mockery* of so many important things. The Redbeard retcon is one I'm deeply bitter about as a dog person who identifies with Sherlock; their desire to act like "magic madwoman in an attic" is a groundbreaking concept that Eyre didn't already do WAY BETTER AND LESS SEXIST; the "ha ha John was going to cheat with the GIRL Holmes"; the "you identify with these men and their story? haha who you are doesn't matter". Never mind the nonsensical writing choices, even. It just seems so outright *nasty* and calculated to be cruel when one knows how aware of the fandom they were. I can't give them enough competence credit to believe they could pull off any of the S4 Wasn't Real type theories, but god, thank god for the fandom pretty much discarding the series.
Anyway, the show ended with TAB in my heart, and we'll always have Apple Tree Hill or whatever that other show was called...
Ah, yes, EXACTLY, I think you’ve kind of summed up my feelings on the matter… I still remain… 10%?… hopeful that they really did fuck up the season on purpose because it’s meant to be fake, but yeah, it’s REALLY hard for me to not see it as anything other than pettiness towards a fandom that “guessed” the plot to TAB,, so in retaliation made S4 SO wacky, thinking that it’s BAD writing if people can figure out where it’s going (hint: it’s NOT) so instead just eff it all up for the sake of a Shyamalan Twist. I agree with you with how cruel and nasty it feels looking at it that way.
LOL Yeah, TAB was sort of the end for me as well… I love TAB and my blog wouldn’t be where it is today without TAB, so I have a soft spot in my heart for it. AND LOL APPLE TREE HILL wow what a time that was oof.
Thanks for sharing your thoughts, Nonny <3
I’m so glad I’m not alone in the Malicious Mofftiss Meta.
When I think about how bad S4 was, I’m sort of glad they didn’t make a S5. Just think of all the damage they could do. 😳
