08-09-2015, 01:55 PM
(08-09-2015, 09:00 AM)Idle Miscreant Wrote: Blackadder goes on "date night".
Withnail builds a blanky fort and proposes.
Sherlock gets married.
Bernard Black opens a tea-shop with his kooky girlfriend.
The thing is, I can imagine these scenarios. But done in the original format, with British sensibility, they would all be horrifying, hilarious train wrecks. Withnail holed up in a blanky fort with a bottle, prepared to defend himself with extreme prejudice and soft furnishings...
None of these characters work in a plastic, saccharine, primary coloured world. Any attempt to make them over into that is doomed to failure. Possibly because the British, on the whole, are more prepared to deal with eccentric assholes, and don't feel the need to punish them relentlessly until they become conformist. Or children's TV presenters.