The Science of Mad Music

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[ed_fortune]

Runaways is Marvel.

And also awesome.

[musedmoose]

Seconded on both counts. I mean, it had to be Marvel, else it couldn't have given us the phrase "What the Hulk?" *grin* Bloody shame it got canceled.

[ps238principal]

Ahh, drat it. I need to stop blogging at 2am. :)

By the way, I often don't correct my entries (or at least, I use a "strike") because I read somewhere that it's kind of a courtesy not to. If someone remembers the mistake and searches for it, and I've edited it, the rest of the post can't be found.

Or something like that. Could be an excuse to be lazy, but hey, who am I to change the rules?

modern day Holmes?

[anonymous]

I've known maney a Dr.(Who) but i've known only one true Sherlock Holmes. Jeremy Brett. i hear her had but a few true Holmes stories unmade befor his death.

so shall this modern day Holmes have a modern day drug habit? crack maybe to bring it up to date?

wow 5 degres of seperation

Holme's drug habit to
Robert Downy Jr.'s drug habit
Iron man's drug habit

Hmmmm? how about a functional be loved super-hero with a constnt dirty drug habit? like a football players! wate no thay get in shoottings and car axindents all the time. ok ult-Iron man's close but how about a spider-man that shoots up or a Thor that smokes the asgarden green. superman with hipper neverendings on pain killers. a bat-man on mood stableisers.?

Re: modern day Holmes?

[ps238principal]

Heh. I wonder if that's why we don't see many superheroes that rely on substances (like DC's "Hourman" or even Underdog) that much anymore.

I know a lot of writers used it as a kind of plot device to have a ticking clock on super powers, but I guess the idea of popping a pill and getting the power to fly is too close to certain metaphors these days.

Though I do want to say Speedy/Red Arrow/Arsenal/whatever he's called had a drug habit once. And then Cloak & Dagger were kind of spawned from drugs.

Re: modern day Holmes?

[burkeonthesly]

"Wait--your secret origin is drugs?!"

"I am not a ROLE MODEL!!!"

-Runaways

(given modern forensics and so on)

[codeguyj]

I haven't read the Sherlock Holmes stories since high school, but I remember them being pretty close to modern forensics in places. There was a scene where Holmes correctly identified on sight what brand of cigarette had produced the ash found at a crime scene. He could do that because he had memorized what the ash from every available brand of tobacco looked like. So if you take your standard TV CSI guy and say that he's memorized everything that they'd usually have to look up, you've got a good chunk of the Holmes style. You just need Watson to occasionally say, "How could you possibly know that, Holmes?"

I'm still skeptical. Flash Gordon moved to modern day seems like it should work, yet it routinely doesn't. Not everything can be updated and retain its spirit. We'll see.

Re: (given modern forensics and so on)

[ps238principal]

I suppose they could make Holmes' "super power" the fact that he speeds up a case being closed, which could work if the bad guy has a chance of escaping if the cops take too long.

But can he make the cops look like clods in the modern day? Or will it just be that he's "got it" before they can (legally) proceed (test results not back from the lab, warrants not issued yet) and he has to go and bend the rules to nab the baddie?

Which then raises all kinds of legal questions, but then they can just turn it over to a Law & Order spin-off. :)

Re: (given modern forensics and so on)

[burkeonthesly]

They might take the angle that Psych uses--that Holmes is able to notice and piece together the details that the police either overlook or don't connect.

Re: (given modern forensics and so on)

[codeguyj]

Personally I agree, but think that this would be best played out at a PI - private investigator - which I believe SH was one of the originals. He worked with the gov. but he wasn;t of the government. He took cases for people who did not trust (to be good or fair) the police, needed to be descreet, had tried regular channels and failed. etc

Sherlock Holmes in the 20th century

[1boringperson]

I remember watching a TV movie, probably in the mid-80s, about Sherlock Holmes being revived in the late 20th century. He'd been placed in suspended animation using what we'd now call steampunk tech for reasons I've forgotten. The only scene that still sticks with me is him driving a car down a country road on the left, wondering why an approaching car is honking at him so. Then he finally remember, "ah yes, America," and switches to the right side of the road.

Re: Sherlock Holmes in the 20th century

[ps238principal]

They revived him in the U.S.? Blimey!

I wonder how closely that was released to the movie, "Time After Time?"

Re: Sherlock Holmes in the 20th century

[spotweld]

The pilot for the Holmes show was on the same night as the promo for SeaQust DSV. (Differnt Networks)

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0108117/

Watson's service

[anonymous]

The original Dr. John H. Watson was an Afghanistan vet as well. He served as a surgeon with 66th Company of Foot and was wounded at Maiwand during the 2nd Anglo-Afghan War in 1880.

Re: Watson's service

[ps238principal]

Yep. I think they mentioned his service in the recent film as well. It looks like Watson may always be able to have contemporary service in the same place, at least for the foreseeable future.