Scott Meyer
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How to Diagnose a Plot Problem
🕑 Added 2025-05-05 07:00:03 +0000 UTCThe issue is that I think of Holmes as a crime fighter, not a war fighter, or a spy fighter. I’m sure there are stories where Holmes wheedles out spies. It’s just saying it’s not what he’s primarily known for. It’s like having a movie where James Bond hunts down tax cheats. Or a comic where Lt. Aldo Raine from Inglorious Basterds solves a murder. Or a novel where George Smiley exposes rigged carnival games.
I’m not saying I wouldn’t enjoy all of those stories. I very much would. I’m just saying they would seem weird.
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Scott Meyer
I assume you mean the actor, not the guy who was assaulted during the L.A. Riots.
Matt Thompson
I must assume that in this film, Reginald Denny plays The President.
Scott Meyer
There was an episode of Magnum where he went undercover as a grocery store cashier to try to catch a shoplifter. That is the kind of thing I'm whining about.
Angzarr
"This fall, Tom Selleck solves minor bookkeeping discrepancies and the occasional embezzlement in Magnum, CPA" Although, now that I think of it, I have vague recollection of a show with the premise "hardboiled noir CPA". Or maybe it was a sketch?
