Tumblr's hard-on for hating on BBC Sherlock is always so embarrassing but this recent trending post of "too bad that 2010s tumblr fandom went for the horrible Sherlock when the Ritchie-verse deserved it more" is extra bad. Like, you do realize that those movies and that show weren't competing for fans, right? That the majority of Sherlock fans were also RDJ Holmes fans? Because of being overall Sherlock Holmes fans? (Elementary lacked most of that overlap because they changed a bit too much. Not because of Joan Watson (though it's a shame they didn't let her be a veteran) but because of their doth protest too much heteronorming of Sherlock Holmes. Some other issues as well but it really was a bit cringe to turn a character who had no interest in women (and even a blind spot in regards to them) into something of a womanizer just so no one would think he was gay and/or ace.)
Srsly, if you only saw Sherlock posts but no Ritchie-verse posts back in the day, that would be a skill issue on your part. My Sherlock friends never missed posting
EVERY SINGLE NOVEMBER!!
Sherlock fans = RDJ Holmes fans! (Heck even Elementary had overlap if not quite as much as the movies did.) Do you know how many "crossovers" there's been between the different Sherlock Holmes adaptations? Including
And this at least two levels removed being a movie adaptation of a book series inspired by Sherlock Holmes. Character of all time, baby!
Are we also going to pretend that Guy Ritchie is less problematic than Steven Moffat? Are we forgetting his role in Disney's Aladdin (2019)? The controversies?
The Sherlock that lives in tumblr's head is always going to be worse than any actual existing show or movie, bar none. It's a dead meme at this point to hate on BBC Sherlock, like writing Bangkok Cucumbersauce instead of Benedict Cumberbatch. Old and tired. You think it was embarrassing of you to like this show once? And you make up for it with this performative disgust? One of those things is certainly embarrassing.

























