CBS's Watson has cast someone as Sherlock Holmes for season 2. So we'll get a post-Reichenbach story I guess. I really did not understand why their season finale ended so weird with respect to Moriarty and the younger doctors. I'm not sure I'll continue with the show.
Meanwhile, I found this interesting list of queer Holmes books posted on BlueSky. I'll have to see if I can find any of these books in print. (I want to avoid ordering from Amazon.) I have of course already read Rohase Piercy's My Dearest Holmes and Larry Townsend's gay porn Sexual Adventures. I didn't really review Townsend's book, but I mentioned it here.
I do really wish a Holmes adaptation would finally have him and Watson be in love. Why do we have to keep putting up with queerbaiting, and Holmes in love with Irene Adler?
Meanwhile, one of the new Star Treks apparently claimed that Spock's ancestor was Arthur Conan Doyle. Some people are excited, while some people wanted to think that Spock's ancestor was Sherlock Holmes, and are sad now that he's fictional in Star Trek's canon. But wasn't he already a fictional character when Data played him on the holodeck in Next Generation? Really, all this started because Nicholas Meyer, a noted writer of Holmes pastiches, also wrote and directed Star Trek movies. In the 6th movie, The Undiscovered Country, Meyer had Spock quote Holmes's "eliminate the impossible" maxim and claim that the phrase belongs to his ancestor. He didn't actually specifiy whether he meant ACD or Holmes, but most fans wanted it to be Holmes. I don't care either way. Whoever the human ancestor is, they must be related to Spock through Amanda Grayson, his mother from Earth.
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