To be fair Granada made one major change by eliminating all Watson's marriages but it doesn't count*

[cimorene]

Last night I had a dream that finally the BBC were making a new complete Sherlock Holmes adaptation set in the Victorian era and attempting to be loyal to the text - the first such since Granada! - and with modern budget and filming techniques...

...and I was SO EXCITED, and then I started watching them and the one change they had made was that they inexplicably added an extra sidekick character in some of the episodes (like a quarter) named Jimmy Carr and played by British comedian Jimmy Carr and essentially doing his normal comedian stuff but just... as if he'd been there in the Victorian era.

I was sort of like "Huh. Weird, but... okay. It's kind of fun." Except then it got to one episode which in my dream was a canon Holmes story I remembered (it wasn't really one though) and in that one they had taken out Watson, who was usually there, and replaced him with Jimmy Carr, and I was just thinking, "I have to look this up after I watch this, because something must have happened, like maybe the Watson actor was suddenly unavailable," only then my alarm went off to give the cat his insulin and I woke up.

*Because it makes canon more like itself to have it be more gay really, let's be honest, so you barely notice

Comments

[daegaer]

This is the most beautiful fannish dream ever! I am right now, in real life, LOLing at the thought of Jimmy Carr in a Holmesverse. It's perfect :-D

[cimorene]

Basically you can just change his tie and add a hat most of the time, because he's always already got a waistcoat!

Also the episode that dream me thought was a canon Holmes story was a series of people who'd disappeared inside a gentlemen's club and it turned out to have a secret passage to an underground tomb and everybody was misinterpreting the clues to think there were venomous snakes, but actually it was just a murderous guy skulking around. In the meantime though, like six people had gotten stuck in the underground tomb (two of them women - my subconscious wasn't aware how difficult it was for them to get into clubs apparently) and they couldn't figure out how to get back into the club and were like "We're running out of water!!" and everybody was panicking including Jimmy Carr (who was like 'I can't help thinking you should've brought Dr. Watson on this one, boss. He's much more the dirty underground tombs and venomous snakes kind of guy')... except Holmes, of course, who was just like "FASCINATING" and running off to examine the tomb.