I would like it if someday Moffat & Gatiss went into why they decided to turn a friendly but distant relationship into an outright sibling war. Aside from the "Maybe he's Moriarty" moment they were going for.
I think it would be wise for them to keep their mouths shut given how everything each of them says gets torn apart by fans with agendas at present (see current post in my DW for details) but fwiw I think they got the idea of antagonism in general from The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes and the specific form of antagonism from what happens if you update ACD's line (Greek Interpreter, I think) about Mycroft "being, in effect, the British Government" and bring that into the 21st century through the consciousness of two left-leaning BBC writers. (Gatiss was born and brought up in a mining village in Co. Durham and lived through the miners' strike,there, for God's sake, and Moffat is Scottish with all that entails in political unease with Westminster's priorities).
The British Government - and being the power behind the British Government - has a word association now which includes extraordinary rendition, fake WMDs, going into Iraq on a lie, being too cosy with the Murdochs, covering up Mau-Mau atrocities, authorising (possibly) the Kelly assassination, Porton Down, attacks on the disabled, clause twenty-eight, bankers bonuses....it comes with a whole heap of word association shit. Death for death, Mycroft clearly has more blood on his hands as the british government than Moriarty has as the Napoleon of crime, in both his 19th century and 21st century incarnations - I think it's a lot harder to see that as justified blood at the time Sherlock's coming out.
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Date: 2012-05-20 07:19 am (UTC)I think it would be wise for them to keep their mouths shut given how everything each of them says gets torn apart by fans with agendas at present (see current post in my DW for details) but fwiw I think they got the idea of antagonism in general from The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes and the specific form of antagonism from what happens if you update ACD's line (Greek Interpreter, I think) about Mycroft "being, in effect, the British Government" and bring that into the 21st century through the consciousness of two left-leaning BBC writers. (Gatiss was born and brought up in a mining village in Co. Durham and lived through the miners' strike,there, for God's sake, and Moffat is Scottish with all that entails in political unease with Westminster's priorities).
The British Government - and being the power behind the British Government - has a word association now which includes extraordinary rendition, fake WMDs, going into Iraq on a lie, being too cosy with the Murdochs, covering up Mau-Mau atrocities, authorising (possibly) the Kelly assassination, Porton Down, attacks on the disabled, clause twenty-eight, bankers bonuses....it comes with a whole heap of word association shit. Death for death, Mycroft clearly has more blood on his hands as the british government than Moriarty has as the Napoleon of crime, in both his 19th century and 21st century incarnations - I think it's a lot harder to see that as justified blood at the time Sherlock's coming out.