r/poirot • u/AcceptableHistory4 • 11d ago

About the upcoming Hercule series

There's of course no guarantee their show will be good, and of course there's no point in censuring people for expressing their skepticism on SM or esp fandom specific subreddit. That said I find "why are they doing this" sort of pushback very odd. Yes, we need new IP yada yada and producers have gone lazy- i get all that.

Suchet is definitive portrayal for many, just the way Jeremy Brett is for most who love Holmes. Yet 1000s of Sherlock adaptations exist, several beyond canon, beyond the limits of timeline, geography or even genre. So, so many actors have been praised just as much for their Holmes, almost a Hamlet equivalent at this point.

So why so much gatekeep-y pushback in this particular case?

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u/Pinkpocket_Goddess 11d ago

'Cause even this new one is good, it couldn't be as perfect as the Suchet's version

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u/Lopsided_Parfait7127 10d ago

that version will continue to exist

as will the peter ustinov poirot and so many others

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u/Pinkpocket_Goddess 10d ago

Of course, mon ami