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Sherlock Holmes stories are never mysteries solvable by the audience anyway.
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Aphrodite posted:Sherlock Holmes stories are never mysteries solvable by the audience anyway. Which I always hated. The Guy Ritchie movies were the first Holmes things I actually enjoyed, because the style was fun enough for me to not care about that. I know not everyone reads mysteries and tries to solve along, but as a kid that was 100% my reason for liking Poirot over Holmes. rydiafan has a new favorite as of 04:58 on Jan 9, 2023 |
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Jan 9, 2023 04:24
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While not a movie, the Great Ace Attorney games were neat about trying to turn Holmes-style mysteries into something actually solvable. There's also an entire case devoted solely to dunking on The Adventure of the Speckled Band.
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Jan 9, 2023 04:37
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And rightly so, that poo poo was the craziest rear end-pull Doyle ever did, including when he took up a real life cause to get a recently convicted man acquitted because he knew in his heart that the real culprit was bigfoot
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Jan 9, 2023 04:47
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Speckled Band was fine, Red Headed League was some bullshit.
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Gaius Marius posted:Speckled Band was fine, Red Headed League was some bullshit. Yeah I think I'm with you
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Jan 9, 2023 06:09
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What about the one where the guy turned into an ape because of drugs
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flavor.flv posted:And rightly so, that poo poo was the craziest rear end-pull Doyle ever did, including when he took up a real life cause to get a recently convicted man acquitted because he knew in his heart that the real culprit was bigfoot I need to know more
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Jan 9, 2023 06:57
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Seems pretty open and shut
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Gaius Marius posted:Speckled Band was fine, Red Headed League was some bullshit. Another case also has an entire gameplay mechanic devoted to calling the Red-Headed League's mystery out as some bullshit.
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Gaius Marius posted:Speckled Band was fine, Red Headed League was some bullshit. Made even more egregious by him reusing the exact same premise for The Three Garridebs (unusual feature of a person who rarely leaves their home/place of work used to lure them away from said place for nefarious purposes).
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He also believed in fairies. A photographer had some pics of them made, and he fell for it hook, line and sinker. Could NOT be talked out of it. The photographer guy even told him how he did it and Doyle would not budge.
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Stupid_Sexy_Flander posted:He also believed in fairies. A photographer had some pics of them made, and he fell for it hook, line and sinker. Could NOT be talked out of it. The photographer guy even told him how he did it and Doyle would not budge. Two young girls faked the infamous Cottingley Fairies photos in 1917 and Doyle completely fell for the hoax, becoming their biggest supporter
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Jan 9, 2023 10:07
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Doyle was close friends with Harry Houdini but they fell out when the latter started debunking spiritualist frauds. He became convinced Houdini could do real magic
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When jumping into this thread to read the new posts I forget we're talking about Arthur Conan Doyle and think everyone's talking about Doyle Wolfgang Von Frankenstein, who is God's perfect idiot and probably also believes in fairies and that Houdini could perform real magic.
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Was Doyle insane? “How did he escape those bonds?!” “I did it like this” “Impossible, must have been the devil’s pepper you conjured”
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bitterandtwisted posted:Doyle was close friends with Harry Houdini but they fell out when the latter started debunking spiritualist frauds. Lol that owns
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bitterandtwisted posted:Doyle was close friends with Harry Houdini but they fell out when the latter started debunking spiritualist frauds. Houdini also co-wrote a story with Lovecraft - probably the usual "famous non-writer suggests an idea that the writer then writes", but still, guy got around the 1920s fiction circuit.
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Houdini set up a staged seance using all the common tricks mediums used to fool people, then ran it through again with the lights on and the tablecloth off the table so that everybody could see the strings and levers, Penn and Teller style Doyle approached him afterwards and said "good job, I think they bought it. Now why didn't you tell me you could talk to ghosts I thought we were friends"
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oldpainless posted:More moriarty Moreiarty
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flavor.flv posted:Houdini set up a staged seance using all the common tricks mediums used to fool people, then ran it through again with the lights on and the tablecloth off the table so that everybody could see the strings and levers, Penn and Teller style I love it
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I legit never knew that ACD was a gullible idiot. You'd think a celebrated, successful, good writer would have better perception or critical thinking skills.
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No wonder he hated Sherlock Holmes so much.
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Rupert Buttermilk posted:I legit never knew that ACD was a gullible idiot. You'd think a celebrated, successful, good writer would have better perception or critical thinking skills. Why on earth would I think that
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Rupert Buttermilk posted:I legit never knew that ACD was a gullible idiot. You'd think a celebrated, successful, good writer would have better perception or critical thinking skills. Excellence in one area does not imply competency in general. One of the most important lessons one can learn in life.
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Milo and POTUS posted:Why on earth would I think that alright out with it, which celebrated, successful, good writer are you?
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Carthag Tuek posted:alright out with it, which celebrated, successful, good writer are you? Chuck Tingle
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Pounded in the Butt by Arthur Conan Doyle's Unshakable Belief in Spiritualism
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Fighting Trousers posted:Pounded in the Butt by Arthur Conan Doyle's Unshakable Belief in Spiritualism I'd read it
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Isn't there a tv series where Doyle and Houdini solve crimes
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Solved in the Mystery by my Closest Friend who lied to me on FX tuesdays
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Jedit posted:Houdini also co-wrote a story with Lovecraft - probably the usual "famous non-writer suggests an idea that the writer then writes", but still, guy got around the 1920s fiction circuit. Houdini made him add an "it was all a dream" ending because he didn't want to suggest that magic was actually real, which pissed Lovecraft off.
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Gaius Marius posted:Excellence in one area does not imply competency in general. One of the most important lessons one can learn in life. Yeah, I get this, but it's not like we're talking about being an awesome dancer but lovely chemist. Doyle wrote mysteries that involved cleverness, planning, forethought... It feels like there should be some sort of intellectual overlap with that. I mean, obviously there wasn't but it's weird to me that was the case. Anyway, Chuck Tingle forever.
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bunnyofdoom posted:Isn't there a tv series where Doyle and Houdini solve crimes houdini & doyle, ran for one season in 2016
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pre:INT. OFFICE NIGHT
DOYLE is in his office, talking on the
phone.
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This is a classic case of
demon fetal harvest
PAN LEFT
In the background is a poster showing
a muscular man in chains with the text
"I want to believe" superimposed.
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HOUDINI's office is spartan.
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Doyle...
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Gravitas Shortfall posted:Houdini made him add an "it was all a dream" ending because he didn't want to suggest that magic was actually real, which pissed Lovecraft off. When you say made, Houdini was in pretty good shape and lovecraft was a total nerd so
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Gravitas Shortfall posted:Houdini made him add an "it was all a dream" ending because he didn't want to suggest that magic was actually real, which pissed Lovecraft off. Biggie saying "it was all a dream" would piss him off for different reasons
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Gravitas Shortfall posted:Houdini made him add an "it was all a dream" ending because he didn't want to suggest that magic was actually real, which pissed Lovecraft off. I mean the ending was super lame because of it.
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The collab Lovecraft did with Robert E Howard was funnier. They passed the story around exquisite corpse style, and Lovecraft's part ended with the protagonist on an alien planet realizing that he had become one of the aliens and going gibberingly mad Then Robert's part started with him coming to his senses, realizing that he has superpowers now and being a weird alien is actually awesome, and going on swashbuckling space adventures We look back on Lovecraft's more problematic work as a product of his time, but it's important to know that his contemporaries were sick of his poo poo also
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flavor.flv posted:The collab Lovecraft did with Robert E Howard was funnier. They passed the story around exquisite corpse style, and Lovecraft's part ended with the protagonist on an alien planet realizing that he had become one of the aliens and going gibberingly mad Slightly off-topic perhaps, but I highly recommend playing Call of the Sea, in which the protagonist is consistently delighted to discover eldritch mysteries beyond the ken of man. I am turning into a fish person who can breathe underwater? This rules!
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