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Ghilz Perpetually Confused Since: Jan, 2001

Perpetually Confused

Feb 3rd 2019 at 12:18:30 PM •••

Removed the Sherlock entries

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In Sherlock:
- Holmes is played by Benedict Cumberbatch, who, while people's opinions on whether he is attractive or not tend to be very polarized, nevertheless receives plenty of fangirl attention and is called out by other characters for being very photogenic with his cheekbones and flipped collar.
- Moriarty goes from an elderly mathematics professor to Andrew Scott in a natty suit.
- Mycroft goes from obese and sedentary to tall, trim, Mark Gatiss in well-tailored suits.
- Mrs. Hudson is presented a woman who appears more middle aged than elderly and who apparently once was an exotic dancer.
- The short, portly, Englis Charles Milverton becomes a tall, slender Dane with (yet again) expensive tailoring.
- Even Lestrade, while not quite as far removed from his source (he's one of the few not a noticeable Sharp-Dressed Man) is played by Rupert Graves.

So I have a few issues with them. For one, Moriarty and Mrs Hudson are never given descriptions in the Holmes novels. So they literally cannot be example. And no, the Stand Magazine illustrations don't really count because Conan Doyle had nothing to do with those (And they are also noted as being the origin of the Holmes "Deerstalker Hat" that he's never wearing in stories.

Other of the people who are dressed aren't really given indication enough to say if they are less attractive. Holmes for example is never described as ugly so this falls big in YMMV.

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DaibhidC Since: Jan, 2001

Aug 23rd 2020 at 12:22:07 PM •••

I agree with your basic point, but Moriarty is one of the more thoroughly described characters in the books:

"He is extremely tall and thin, his forehead domes out in a white curve, and his two eyes are deeply sunken in this head. He is clean-shaven, pale, and ascetic-looking, retaining something of the professor in his features. His shoulders are rounded from much study, and his face protrudes forward, and is forever slowly oscillating from side to side in a curiously reptilian fashion. He peered at me with great curiosity in his puckered eyes." -"The Final Problem"

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