Hopes and Pleas

Well, the equinox was on the 20th and it's officially Spring now. I don't have any Spring Break from work, but maybe I'll try to schedule some vacation time this summer.

I binged all the Young Sherlock episodes, and most of my non-spoilery reactions were already posted to Bluesky. I enjoyed the strong women characters and how they worked in the Married Women's Property Act and institutions into the plot. I didn't mind the steampunky anachronisms, and the costumes were quite lovely too. Their Moriarty is charming and roguish, but I found out he's not even in the Andrew Lane books at all, so basically they just made up the entire plot; the Lane books featured 14 year old Sherlock, not this 19 year old at Oxford. As long as they're not following any book, can they please just write young Watson into it next season? Please let me have young John meeting Sherlock and having, I don't know, drama about his alcoholic brother. Make it a homoerotic love triangle even. Just stop the queerbaiting please and actually make the gayness text.

Or else Guy Ritchie can finally give us a third movie with Downey and Law.

Meanwhile I've been getting into old-time radio shows, such as the 1952 BBC series starring Carleton Hobbs and Norman Shelley. I still haven't finished the CBS Radio Mystery Theater shows from 1977-1982, starring Kevin McCarthy and Court Benson. It's going to take a while to get through all episodes of both.

I wish some TV show would try adapting all 60 stories again. Nobody's tried to since Granada failed. I think they're afraid of comparisons to Jeremy Brett, but it's been decades now. Remember that Granada's last few episodes were not faithful and were largely rewritten due to Brett's health problems. There's scope to redo those stories accurately. David Suchet's Poirot hasn't stopped people trying to do Agatha Christie adaptations lately. Please someone try, or at least do a new episodic TV show like the 1954 Ronald Howard series with a mix of canon stories and original plots. Something like that.