Still on the Quest

A good thought. And it will have just aired, too!

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I second this idea!

(I've also got a bunch of screencaps from various cartoons shows that had "sherlocky" episodes: The Little Koala, The Real Ghostbusters, Animaniacs, Babar, Batman: The Brave and Bold -- if you want them)

Do you know what age demograph the audience will be, and what degree of fannishnss? If adults, and not already Playing The Game, a good opener might be "what we read when we were twelve" and the seguing into the different incarnations Holmes and Watson have taken on.

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I'd love to have screencaps of that sort, even if I just show them in a quick sequence -- I'm pretty sure the audience will be mostly retirees, and mystery fans of some degree, but beyond that I have no idea. I'm actually going to be there for the first session.

If you don't mind sending them along, I've got the same username at gmail.

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Um . . . I think there might be too many to send you. I'm trying to post as many as I can at my LJ so that you can pick out which you want.

http://only-po.livejournal.com/tag/screencaps

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dreamflower

No advice, but oh, that sounds like a fun talk! Good luck with it--I wish I could hear it!

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I think I have far too much material, and at the same time I don't feel like much of an expert!

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swamp-adder.livejournal.com

Sounds like fun!

I've got a short list of gen recs (http://swamp-adder.livejournal.com/49588.html#cutid7), though I wouldn't be surprised if you're already familiar with most or all of them.

Also here is a vid I love: http://di-br.livejournal.com/124373.html

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Oooh, I love your list of recs. And I'll watch the vid as soon as I'm at a computer that won't crash.

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Sorry, another thought:

what about the many faces of WATSON? There was Nigel Bruce, of course, playing comic foil to Holmes up through the '50s. Movies from the '60s and '70s (Murder By Decree, Study in Terror, Sherlock Holmes in New York, They Might Be Giants) didn't seem to know what to do with Watson; either he was a bland background or he was an imitation of Bruce.

I think Granada single-handedly gave Watson his dignity and intelligence back. Better yet, later episodes with Edward showed that Watson knew how to keep Holmes in line. The BBC radio show continued this characterization . . . and then we had a sad lapse again for a good 10 years or so until those horrible Hallmark movies with Matt Frewer as Holmes. (I dunno; those movies did well by Watson but they didn't know how to keep Watson "real" without making Holmes a jerkwad.)

And I think a bit of that seeped into modern depictions of Holmes. Watson is the Every Man, even a BAMF some of the time. But it's like writers/producers don't know what to do with HOLMES this time around. Every modern characterization of him, without fail, from Dr. House to "Elementary" is egotistical, rude, substance-abusing, and lacking the ability to interact with society. And while that's part of Canon-Holmes, that's NOT the whole Holmes, not by a long shot.

. . . sorry. Got a little ranty there. *steps off soapbox*

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Oh, my, may I quote you? That's brilliant!

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oh, by all means! :D

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Discuss them as tropes - their friendship as a trope or the brilliant, but socially odd, detective-with-writing sidekick trope.

TV Tropes (tvtropes.org) might be useful here.

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OOh, that is a thought. Although introducing poor innocents to tvtropes is probably a bit unethical. ;D

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Well, yes. I meant for you, as a reference (I was also thinking that Poirot and Nero Wolfe are both examples of the trope that Doyle started). Don't want to scare the innocents, after all.

Then again, you plan to tell them that fanfic exists, and if they look for it, they will discover Rule 34, even if you don't tell them.

Edited Date: 2012-09-19 02:33 am (UTC)

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I may even warn them about Rule 34...

;D

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Who do you expect to be your audience?

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Retirees, probably. Adults anyway.

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