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Originally Posted by JBird
Now all we need is Mark Twain: Werewolf Private Eye :P
Honestly, Raven felt more in league (no pun intended) with the Robert Downey, Jr Sherlock Holmes films than LXG and Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter; on a lesser budget, obviously. If anything, the Raven felt more like a really well-made TV movie; and I mean that in a good way. Had this leaned more toward supernatural shenanigans, it would have lost it's appeal, in my mind.
I just realized something: the Raven is kind of like Sleepy Hollow, minus the supernatural elements.
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Hey, I would watch that and I am not even a fan of Twain.
Indeed, good point about the most recent revival of Holmes that took a gleeful delight in reversing a few, key bits of the literary Sherlock. Not least of which was his OCD view of his own personal hygiene.
I do think the rise of Steam Punk as a genre has managed to breathe new life into many of the figures of both history and fiction of the times. I have long suspected that Tesla was a displaced Time Lord with a few decidedly cool issues tucked away in his TARDIS.
Another factor is fairly simple to explain. It is easier to work off of existing characters with some license than trying to formulate some new entry into the world of fiction. Even as I enjoy Defiance, for example, I can not ignore the elements of such classic television as Gunsmoke, that it incorporates.