Imagine importing word-for-word the original Mycroft's spiel abt how he hates solving crime bc it means talking to people and taking sides
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Imagine the Diogenes Club as one of those gamer pubs with a strict rule on no non-game-related conversations
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Or else have the Diogenes Club be an online "place" (Diogenes Chat) w purely anon handles
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Mycroft was a great "NPC" character, a dude who's a very useful but unreliable resource bc he's an amoral and lazy douche
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He fits so neatly into that "hacker sidekick" stereotype - almost too neatly, he's like the pre-computer origin of that stereotype
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The part where the amoral hacker literally "is the British government" is a great satirical twist I wish they could've pulled off
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Ha I like the "Diogenes Chan" idea, that he's a wannabe anarchist online while also secretly running the deep state
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And seeing no contradiction bc his whole character is being cut off from reality and the concept that actions have consequences
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Mycroft's blithe obliviousness to human consequences was a nasty satire of Victorian bureaucracy and would be 100x more relevant today
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I'm imagining 21st-century Mycroft working from home on a secured laptop ordering drone strikes between WoW raids
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Mycroft as established as not giving a shit in The Adventure of the Greek Interpreter is a great general framing device
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"Hey Sherlock I figured out my neighbor is in deep with some kind of international conspiracy, can you deal with this for me please"
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"I already figured out who probably did the crime but I can't be arsed to go gather evidence or confront the guy or anything so meh"
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