Can we talk about how Grand Admiral Thrawn is basically like Moffat Sherlock Holmes more than Doyle?
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Yeah, Holmes in the text is profoundly concerned with manners and unfailingly polite to his clients. He's got issues with people, but it's not cruel for its own sake.
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Replying to @loudpenitent @BootlegGirl
This started to become a thing with "House." There was a big excited push of "you think of Sherlock Holmes as this polite stuffy Victorian figure, but in the ACD stories he's a total bastard who only sees people as problems." It's not true.
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Just from a writing POV Maximum Shitbag Holmes is a poor choice because then you have nowhere to go with Mycroft, who is one of my favorite shitbag characters
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Replying to @arthur_affect @olivia_rodricks and
SHERLOCK makes Mycroft just Sherlock with a real job, which is boring and a waste
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And even Mycroft isn't *cruel*, he's just a cautionary tale to Sherlock of the dangers of becoming totally detached from humanity
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But Mycroft is a perfect character for the online age - spends 100% of his time behind a desk, starts a club for people who refuse to have conversations with other people
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Replying to @arthur_affect @olivia_rodricks and
Some regular bureaucrat who "is the British government" because everyone eventually refers everything to his desk is hilarious and a lot more compelling than the Deep State spycraft cliche of Gatiss Mycroft
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Replying to @arthur_affect @olivia_rodricks and
God, yes, just the one big-picture guy who's the only one with the attention span to cross-reference all this nonsense and spot the patterns
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It's a great cruel jab at the nature of bureaucracy too Everyone tidily following procedure and intelligently passing their responsibilities somewhere else down the chain until suddenly all the decisions are being made by this one random nerd in at the Islington satellite office
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Replying to @arthur_affect @AmeliaRoseWrite and
Like the sitcom gag of all the characters "delegating" their chores to someone else until all the work in the neighborhood is being done by this one 8-year-old for a total of $2.50
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