Personally, I'm not a big fan of the show or the book or the guy, but my sister is, and one day we ran into something that I thought should not be ignored at all. It's on YouTube, if you're wanting of a hint of what I'm going to be talking about. God, I'm so out of it…
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"Hey, Arthur. What're you reading over there?"
"A Study in Scarlet."
"…English literature, I'm assuming."
"What else do you think I would be reading, Rizal?"
"…" He scratched his nose. "…German."
"German literature? Hah! I must prefer my own literature achievements."
"I noticed." Rizal looked at the cover. "Sherlock Holmes?"
"One of my favorites." He grinned. "The man that millions talk of for eons, both back then and for generations to come. They have museums for this man! They have discussions! They have book clubs! Movies! TV shows! THE MAN IS A GENIUS FOR WHICH MERE MORTALS CAN NEVER MATCH!"
"…so that would mean that people like us could be better?"
"Why must you be so cruel to him?"
"Don't get me wrong, the books are good enough to have their following-"
"Why, a following? That's what you call me and the millions of fans around the world?"
"…would you rather I call you a cult?"
"Bah! How dare you disrespect the men and women that worship this book as the highest tip in literature!"
…cult… "Arthur Conan Doyle…well, that explains the human name that you chose if you like the book so much."
"The name of the two most important men in English history! Why wouldn't the embodiment of one of the greatest kingdoms in history not adopt the two names?"
"Um…so I'm guessing 'William' was too obvious a choice?"
"Hah! Arthur, dude, you reading those books again? Don't you try reading some of my literature?"
"Why the hell would I read the crap that your writers put on this planet?"
"Hey, first of all, I didn't say you have to read her books, and secondly, we are all now underneath the belief that she was Canadian!"
"That she was what?"
"Exactly!"
"Um…Alfred…? We never agreed on tha-"
"HEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEY that's just great! And besides, I think I can make Sherlock a hell lot more epic than whatever your guys can do!"
"Seriously? Is that what you're going to be telling me? He's my territory, after all!"
"Exactly! I'm going to be making it awesome!"
"Says who, Alfred?"
"Says the world. Wait for me in a few years, and then let's figure out whose winning after that~"
/= [And then the Robert Downey Jr. Movie comes out] =/
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"Huh."
"Charice?"
"That was an interesting film…lots of gears and machines and stuff."
Rizal turned his head at the people that were around them. They had to go and get a midnight screening, so there were almost hundreds of people gushing about the movie that they had just seen. About two of them were writing in notepads, almost as if they were movie critics. Apparently Alfred went through with the notion of making a movie about Sherlock. And apparently, that wasn't bad.
"So any thoughts about the film, Rizal?"
"…eh. Kinda meh. Unless the Sherlock novels were about steampunk machines that spread around poison."
"I didn't think Sherlock knew martial arts."
"I…don't think he did. Never read the novels." Rizal looked up. "The characters weren't that bad."
"They're believable." Charice nodded. "…shipping fodder is there, though."
"Is that what you call it now…?"
"Yeah. I mean, Sherlock and John? They're, like, the original homosexual couple."
"But…John is engaged…to a woman…"
"That's how it all starts~"
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"So, Arthur…what do you think about the movie?"
"Alfred…why were there so many machines in it?"
"Hey, I read some of those books, and they were just boring! It needed more ACTION, more ENTERTAINMENT! So I decided to do that as well~"
"The movie was completely horrible! I can't believe you would do that to such a great man!"
"And yet you hesitated when you said that second sentence. Care to explain that?"
"…hm…no."
"What, you hiccupped or something?"
"Yeah, totally!"
"Soooo…you have to admit. I did really well on the Sherlock theme, didn't I?"
"…no, you did not. I can do it a hundred times better than that wasted effort. And I'll do all the stories as well!"
"Please! You don't even have a budget as close as Hollywood does! What makes you think you can do better?"
"Oh, just watch me."
/= [Then the series Sherlock comes out on BBC] =/
"…huh…"
"Yeah, would you look at that? That is how you do a Sherlock series!"
"But…it's still boring."
"It's supposed to be a mind-thinking show, not an action flick like the rest of your bloody shows!"
"But…there was only one explosion…there was just talking…"
"Woooooow, that looks so cool, da ze! I want to show it on my TV stations, if that's all right!"
"Of course, of course~" He grinned at Alfred. "See? There is a lot more people out there who want to show this off than the show that you and your horrid movie!"
"People like shows over movies, and besides, I'm going to make a Sherlock TV show as well!"
"Oh, is that so?"
"Yeah, and I'm going to go ahead and fix all of the mistakes that you and your writers did! First of all, I'm going to finally put Sherlock and Watson in that damn relationship you've been teasing about!"
"Wait, what?"
"Yeah, those two are finally going to be dating! Really, you have to just let the fans have what they want! Then again, the two guys being together is totally icky so we had to change Watson a bit-"
"You made Watson a chick?"
"Hey, it's the only thing that makes episodes sell!"
"Why the bloody hell would you do that to such a timeless character?"
"Heeeey, I finished the trailer, da ze!"
"Good, finally some good news for the Sherlock series- god dammit, what is with this romantic music?!"
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It shouldn't be a coincidence that all of this started when that Robert Downey Jr. movie came out. His portrayal as the detective had been hailed as the best actor for Sherlock at that time, with his chemistry with John making them the best duo at the time. Suddenly, BBC comes out of nowhere and says that they're doing their own take of the book with the series Sherlock, which is basically an hour and a half movie per episode. It became so awesome that when Series 2 (Season 2 in American terms) came out, ABC decided to make their own Sherlock series known as Elementary, where Lucy Lu was Watson. The only reason that I could think for that is to finally get some Sherlock-Watson sexual tension released. It's kind of like reading a Germany – Fem!Italy fic, same concept, which is why I hadn't flipped over a table.
On other news, go onto YouTube and search up the Korean commercials for the Sherlock series. Each one has romantic music attached to it. The one I really like is the one with Luther Vandross's song. I really like his music, what do you want me to say?