a list of things that arthur conan doyle did that totally mean that intent is worthless:
- made it july on one page and september like two pages later when it’s supposed to be like two nights later
- named everyone james and forgot that john’s name wasn’t james
- literally forgot when watson was married and when he wasn’t so that if you try to figure out how he could have done all that without getting divorced and remarried to the same woman or not been wrong about dates, watson has like five or six wives
- almost named john watson ormond sacker
- introduced moriarty literally just to kill holmes off and inexplicably suddenly he was the worst villain in all of london even though holmes had never encountered him, then later retconned in the valley of fear so jk watson had heard of him before the final problem after all those were just. lies.
- named four different female characters all violet
- seriously. james moriarty. and his brother. james moriarty.
this is why, when people say they want this show to be more like acd, i wonder if they’ve actually read acd or are just being faux-pretentious because
I find it quite heartening to remember how little Arthur Conan Doyle cared
The show is already so much like ACD. Large swathes of “Eh, fuck it, bored with this bit now. Back to what’s really important: semi-accidental gay subtext.”
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