It all started with Chris Redmond saying hi to Monica Schmidt on
Twitter.
A few weeks ago, this led to me, Curtis Armstrong, Ashley Polasek, Jennifer
Liang, Beth Gallego and Brad Keefauver all crashing their friendly exchange and
crowdsourcing a new Sherlockian show called Route
221b, or The Mad, Mad,
Mad, Mad Game is Afoot, where Sherlockian road trips would be recorded for
like-minded viewers.
Brad noted that this wasn’t the first time it had been done.
In fact, he was part of acohort that traveled to Sherlock Hill in Oklahoma. But just letting one group wasn’t
enough. We decided to turn it into an Amazing
Race style event with
different teams competing against each other.
Imagine it: Canon traditionalists vs. BBC fandom vs. Elementary fans vs. pastiche lovers vs.
Brettheads vs. Robert Downey Jr. fans vs. you name it!
They could crisscross the country: The Great Alkali Plains, the
Pennsylvania mining district, a New Jersey opera house, Moriarty, New Mexico,
Watson, Oklahoma.
And there could be challenges at each stop: unbending steel pokers,
deciphering Dancing Men codes, Baritsu matches, digging a tunnel into a bank
vault, a boat chase with dart guns!
But in the end, everyone is a winner. Because the different
teams will learn that even though they came from different backgrounds and starting
points in their interest in The Great Detective, and they are all part of the
Sherlockian family, just like the random group of us that had fun with the idea. The eight of us that were bantering back and forth are all
from different backgrounds and have our own specific interests within
Sherlockiana. But that doesn’t mean we can’t all bask in the comradery of
our hobby. No matter what your specific niche is in this family, we are
all here because of our interest in Sherlock Holmes and Doctor Watson, two men
of note who never lived and so can never die.
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