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Originally Posted by Hitch
Y'know, at some point in time, I just stopped being able to read them. The entire "I'm leaving Kinsey in the 80's so that she doesn't have the net and computers worth a damn and smartphones" felt...forced to me, like "oh, it's too hard to write mysteries now that people can immediately call someone, even when trapped in a dumpster with a rabid pitbull" sort of thing.
I thought it was a shame, I kinda liked the series for a while there. My take on it is if Rex Stout and Gardner could bring their sleuths along in time, so too could Kinsey move forward in time. (I do confess that I don't feel the same way about Holmesian pastiches. There's simply something 19th-Century about Holmes & Watson and I've never enjoyed any of the attempts to bring them to this, or the last, century. And no, I wasn't wild about Cumberbund and the wee man,either.)
Hitch
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I thought the Cumberbund and the wee man Holmes update were fairly clever. I liked the fact that they took some of the core concepts and then went off in a rather different direction. I also enjoyed the two Downey movies as well, though they went off in a rather different direction and weren't very faithful to the original. Different strokes, as they say.