Watching a video on the BBC "Sherlock" and man has any show just squandered its potential like that, over and over, with such toxicity all around.
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Replying to @CovfefeAnon @hradzka
That's a great post, but I do think it's a little unfair. "Sherlock" was probably never going to be a particularly realistic look at detective work, deduction, or an outlier-intelligent person, but I don't know if that was its main problem as a show, or why it feels like a waste.
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(Although one of my friends likes to point out that the original "Sherlock Holmes" stories were intended to promote then-innovative techniques like fingerprints and chemical analysis.)
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So maybe lacking any grounding in reality helped the show to drift away from having any point at all...but I still think it could have been...something.
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I think that the fundamental problem with genius problem solving shows is that the writers aren't super-geniuses so it's very very difficult to come up with super-genius stuff for Sherlock to do that is both realistic and impressively clever. It ends up as ridiculous and stupid.
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For Sherlock's deductions to be astonishing have to make connections the audience couldn't but writers are closer to the audience in deductive ability and can't tell the difference between an impressive, difficult deduction and an impossible one If they could, they'd be Sherlock
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