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awanderingbard) wrote2012-03-29 10:20 am
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For those familiar with Agatha Christie
Opinion time!
If you were updating Poirot and Hastings to fit into the Sherlock 'verse (which I am attempting, somewhat unsuccessfully to do), would you expect them to call each other Poirot and Hastings or Hercule and Arthur?
Also, The Moustache: required or not? I mean, it's sort of essential to Poirot as a character, but it's also very, very not in fashion at the moment. I can have him sport it as a sort of eccentricity (which is a Poirot thing to do), but I don't know if it works.
Thoughts, questions, concerns?
If you were updating Poirot and Hastings to fit into the Sherlock 'verse (which I am attempting, somewhat unsuccessfully to do), would you expect them to call each other Poirot and Hastings or Hercule and Arthur?
Also, The Moustache: required or not? I mean, it's sort of essential to Poirot as a character, but it's also very, very not in fashion at the moment. I can have him sport it as a sort of eccentricity (which is a Poirot thing to do), but I don't know if it works.
Thoughts, questions, concerns?
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Also, I think the mustache is paramount and can totally pass as an eccentricity.
Also? SQUEE!! Modern crossover FTW!
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The Moustache is paramount,agreed. I just wasn't sure if I could get away with it, but hopefully if I lampshade it enough, it will work.
Now if I could only write the damn thing. I've figured out Hastings' and Poirot's modern backstories, but John and Hastings won't shut up and I can't get Poirot and Sherlock to work with each other. Which I suppose is in character, but not helpful to my word fairy.
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(seriously, all the best)
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At the moment, it's more like "John and Hastings Bitch about their Respective Geniuses and Discuss the Fact that They are Essentially the Same Character". I mean, I know Christie was going for a Watson for her hero, but it's a bit silly how similar this two guys are. Which is probably why they won't shut up.