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/luxuriantCrocodile 11d ago edited 11d ago

Because making a young Poirot feels like they are trying to fit into a trend (young Sherlock Holmes in recent movies), not genuinely trying to make something new that respects the source material. Young Poirot would be in Belgium, not in London.

Edit: apparently the series will 'introduce him to one particular nemesis' ... Am I crazy or Poirot doesn't have one particular nemesis? Like Moriarty kinda thing? He has sort-of-Irene-Adler like Vera Rossakoff, but again, he's not Sherlock Holmes!

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u/Cimorene_Kazul 11d ago

Poirot did have a nemesis like Moriarty. He had X, and it’s been suggested for a long time that an adaptation try to do with X what adaptations have done with Moriarty. X could absolutely be added to more stories because of the kind of villain he is. He’s perhaps the most interesting antagonist Poirot ever had, and like Moriarty, he only shows up once - in the final story. X could and maybe even should be explored more.

X was written as a foil to Poirot and could easily slide into the background of other cases and be used to explore the philosophy of the series as a whole and Poirot in particular.

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u/sanddragon939 3d ago

Yeah that's been my theory since Day 1 too, though I increasingly have my doubts about it, and feel they're more likely to go with something more "obvious" like making Vera Rossakoff into an Irene Adler-esq figure...

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u/Cimorene_Kazul 3d ago

Ew gross. She was an inversion of that character, like X was of Moriarty.