I’d watch it.
[…] 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.
See, there are a million ways to tell Sherlock Holmes stories. And my god I would watch the shit out of this. It’d be amazing. It would be the BBC 3 Drama of Dreams that would later get promoted to BBC One in a fit of glory and everyone would be praising it and Steven Moffat would literally explode.
WHY IS SOMEONE NOT WRITING AND PITCHING THIS RIGHT NOW?
I’m just gonna leave this here…
From The Times article, 19 May 2012
After his mechanical digger phase, he met Vertue at the Edinburgh Television Festival in 1996. They are happily married with two sons, Joshua, 12, and Louis, 10, though Moffat says he only had children because he was told to, and dreaded the idea of pregnancy “completely”.
“Your wife turns into a boat, and shortly after that, you never sleep again and you clean shit off someone. It doesn’t seem like a very appealing prospect. Obviously, the moment I saw my child, that was different, but up until that point, I was thinking, ‘how long before she gets back to normal size? Will this damage anything?’” He’s laughing, but I fear his feminist credentials are in jeopardy again.
Those women, with their inconsiderate weight gain to sustain a fetus.
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Do you remember the days when I loved Steven Moffat? They were such happy days. I had a interview ban back then though, because he has always, always been a dick. But back then he was just the heir-apparent dicktator of British television so it was easy to avoid and ignore him and once a year he’d write a decent episode of Doctor Who and I’d be full of love.
I don’t think Moffat’s dickishness has increased since then, he’s always had his personal brand of misogyny where women must be wives and mothers and their line in the sand is where those things manifest. Women are Women and Men are Characters. Its a common flaw, probably the most common flaw in writing women that they must deal with Womens Problems, marriage and motherhood and rape and prostitution and embarrassment scenarios off the cover of Heat or the inside pages of Seventeen. I think we just see it more now.
Moffat’s big problem now is twitter, and getting into arguments with normal people who are more tech-savvy them him and letting his crazy shine like a diamond. Back when he’d get interviewed once a year before his Doctor Who episode and inevitably said something awful, he now does it all the time, and the things are discussed everywhere, on gossip sites and tumblr and twitter and now, in a speech lauding him at the Baftas, his two main men declared him as a non-misogynist, probably as a damage control-type joke. Yet, I bet a lot of people are googling ‘steven moffat misogyny’ tonight. And I shall LAUGH.
Not as much as I did when I found out Cumberbatch didn’t win the Bafta though.
Epic X-files/Sherlock trailer!
SHUT UP.
THAT’S IT TURN THE INTERNET OFF.
YOU CAN ALL GO HOME NOW AS THERE IS NOTHING MORE TO BE DONE HERE.
Oh my god. Cease everything. THIS IS PERFECT.
So I only normally would only watch half because mashup trailers always hit me in the embarrassment but all the way through I just kept saying WAS IT BEES? IS IT BEES? OH GOD ITS THE BEES, THE COCKBLOCKING BEES. This was really well done though.
The first XF movie has made me believe that bees RUIN EVERYTHING.
Hey remember when David Duchovney was really attractive? I know right. He owned the 90s. They don’t make them like that anymore.
Past < Future
1. her best album and 2. namie stop being so gorgeous you’re ruining my life.
I apologise for reblogging all these hilarious oldmemes, I just had a spate of the regrets and was going through my faves for VGIL-fodder.
This is amazing though.
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>my face when Americans call chips “french fries”
>my face when Americans call crisps “chips”
>my face when Americans call lifts “elevators”
>my face when Americans call chocolate globbernaughts “candy bars”
>my face when Americans call merry fizzlebombs “fireworks”
>my face when Americans call wunderbahboxes a “computer”
>my face when Americans call meat water “gravy”
>my face when Americans call electro-rope “power cables”
>my face when Americans call beef wellington ensemble with lettuce a “burger”
>my face when Americans call whimsy flimsy mark and scribblies “pens”
>my face when Americans call twisting plankhandles “doorknobs”
>my face when Americans call breaddystack a “sandwich”
>my face when Americans call their hoghity toghity tippy typers “keyboards”
>my face when Americans call nutty-gum and fruit spleggings “PB&J”
>my face when Americans call an upsy stairsy an “escalator”
>my face when Americans call a knittedy wittedy sheepity sleepity a “sweater”
>my face when Americans call a rickity-pop a “gear shift”
>my face when Americans call a choco chip bucky wicky a “cookie”
>my face when Americans call peepee friction pleasure “sex”
>my face when Americans call a pip pip gollywock a “screwdriver”
>my face when Americans call a rooty tooty point-n-shooty a “gun”
>my face when Americans call ceiling-bright a “lightbulb”
>my face when Americans call blimpy bounce bounce a “ball”
>my face when Americans call a slippery dippery long reppy a “snake”
>my face when Americans call cobble-stone-clippity-clops “roads”
