stupidest remake yet...Miss Marple, the hot babe!
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Perhaps an episode will guest star Abraham Lincoln, Vampire Hunter. 
An alternate History starring alternate versions of real people is not a problem at all, but this "re-imagining" of Poe, as Temis says, is as ridiculous and inappropriate as the Sherlock Holmes and Miss Marple examples we've been discussing. And a spunky female character is no problem-- there have been feminist movements throughout History-- but they seem to be going a bit too far there. Basically, this is just another version of X-Files; and Mulder was more like Poe than this character description is.
At least they haven't brought Poe into the 21st Century.
An alternate History starring alternate versions of real people is not a problem at all, but this "re-imagining" of Poe, as Temis says, is as ridiculous and inappropriate as the Sherlock Holmes and Miss Marple examples we've been discussing. And a spunky female character is no problem-- there have been feminist movements throughout History-- but they seem to be going a bit too far there. Basically, this is just another version of X-Files; and Mulder was more like Poe than this character description is.At least they haven't brought Poe into the 21st Century.
Perhaps an episode will guest star Abraham Lincoln, Vampire Hunter.
At least they haven't brought Poe into the 21st Century.
We still hope to bring you to the 21st Century, though.
Okay I think I'm finally coalescing around a coherent point here.
Edgar Allan Poe, sexy young hotshot detective = uncool.
Why? Because the former isn't totally and entirely the "expected" Hollywood thing we're all sick of, and the latter is. (Miss Marple has the same problem - it's unimaginative and obvious - while I have no opinion on Sherlock Holmes, since I haven't seen it yet.)
Let's say instead, they make Poe an alcoholic, consumptive magic-weilding superhero like a 19th C Doctor Strange. That's not outside the possibilities of what Hollywood would think of, but it's not so clumsily obvious and stupid. I wouldn't object to that, so obviously the problem here is not that my standards are impossibly high.
Abe Lincoln, Vampire Hunter = cool.
Edgar Allan Poe, sexy young hotshot detective = uncool.
Why? Because the former isn't totally and entirely the "expected" Hollywood thing we're all sick of, and the latter is. (Miss Marple has the same problem - it's unimaginative and obvious - while I have no opinion on Sherlock Holmes, since I haven't seen it yet.)
Let's say instead, they make Poe an alcoholic, consumptive magic-weilding superhero like a 19th C Doctor Strange. That's not outside the possibilities of what Hollywood would think of, but it's not so clumsily obvious and stupid. I wouldn't object to that, so obviously the problem here is not that my standards are impossibly high.
^^ Exactly. Both Lincoln and Poe as occult adventurers make sense, because this is something that's likely to happen given the conceit of a universe where the supernatural exists. But the characters have to be consistent with what we know of them for it to work, not re-imagined to the point where-- again-- the core concept is lost.
Also, I've been living in the 31st for most of my life.
I understand that there's disagreement with some of what I say, and I certainly don't mind being teased about it, but that doesn't really make sense, since I'm the one trying to move things forward into the 21st Century.We still hope to bring you to the 21st Century, though.
Also, I've been living in the 31st for most of my life.
I just remembered that there was a show about the great grand niece of Sherlock Holmes solving mysteries in modern times. It was called The Adventures of Shirley Holmes.
[yt]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KXQmrL8sUkU[/yt]
[yt]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KXQmrL8sUkU[/yt]
There's gonna be a remake for that, soon. I just know it.
The phrase "Shirley, you can't be serious." springs to mind.
But, hey, it's a NEW character...
The re-make will have to be in the 22nd Century now, though. 
I think they've already done the 22nd century, too. I seem to remember a kids' cartoon within the past decade that involved a bionic Holmes. (Or maybe Watson was bionic? All I remember was it looked like crap and I changed the channel.)
Just in case it hasn't been pointed out, I think it is worthwhile to mention that "Abraham" is the first name of both Bram Stoker and Doctor Van Helsing, and while it may be a coincidence, I doubt it.
^^ True. They should call him Bram Lincoln, Vampire Hunter. 
I remember that, but I never bothered to watch it.
Okay, why won't Hollywood ever listen to me!
My ideas can't possibly crash and burn quicker than theirs do.