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Aug. 26th, 2009 | 11:12 am




This year, Jeremy and Emily read the entire Holmes series and our house was Holmesed-out. I've only read Hound of the Baskervilles myself, but it's fairly well known that Doctor Watson gets a bad hand in a lot of on-screen portrayals and parodies, and more than a few people have a mental image of him as a fat old dodderer. Unfair!

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Mirabai Knight

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from: askeladden
date: Aug. 26th, 2009 02:23 pm (UTC)
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Yes! This! Agh, I hate Stupid!Watson so much!!

Real!Watson for life, y'all.

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whatwith

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from: whatwith
date: Aug. 26th, 2009 02:24 pm (UTC)
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I love you for doing a Sherlock Holmes comic! Oh man!

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James

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from: _corvex_
date: Aug. 26th, 2009 02:25 pm (UTC)
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Yes; that's always annoyed me. So he's not as smart as Sherlock Holmes, therefore he MUST be a complete buffoon. That's logic for you.
Great comic!

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Mirabai Knight

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from: askeladden
date: Aug. 26th, 2009 02:35 pm (UTC)
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Exactly. He's a little broader than crazy-thin Holmes, so he must be massively obese. (Never mind the whole "thin as a lath and brown as a nut" line in the first story!). He's a little shorter than crazy-tall Holmes, so he must be a squat little toad. He's a fair bit less clever than massively, massively clever Holmes, so he couldn't detect his own britches even if they were soaked in luminescent phosphorus. So unfair! Argh!

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Kristian Järventaus

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from: naitsirk
date: Aug. 26th, 2009 02:25 pm (UTC)
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oh watson i know exactly how you feel

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Calyx of the Heavens

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from: heavenscalyx
date: Aug. 26th, 2009 02:25 pm (UTC)
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And the new Holmes movie looks like it's carrying on the tradition, and completely trashing Holmes to boot!

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eregyrn

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from: eregyrn
date: Aug. 26th, 2009 03:04 pm (UTC)
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Does it? I thought the new movie looked vaguely like it was at least doing a thin, sexy, competent, kick-ass, snarky Watson (can't tell how bright he is) -- whatever else you can say about it. The Jude Law casting is at least a step in the right physical direction.

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A Wilderness of Monkeys

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from: anadamous
date: Aug. 26th, 2009 02:26 pm (UTC)
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Fyi you have to change your link from <a href="reversionto.blogspot.com"> to <a href="http://reversionto.blogspot.com">

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Hark! A Vagrant

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from: beatonna
date: Aug. 26th, 2009 02:27 pm (UTC)
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thanks!

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Not your everyday Viking angel

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from: shadowvalkyrie
date: Aug. 26th, 2009 02:26 pm (UTC)
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*loves*

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Keri

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from: keristars
date: Aug. 26th, 2009 04:17 pm (UTC)
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Can't it be both? :O

camouflage waistcoat!

Edited at 2009-08-26 04:18 pm (UTC)

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Claire

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from: sweet_fallacy
date: Aug. 26th, 2009 02:29 pm (UTC)
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Thank you! After many years of mistreatment, Watson deserves a little more recognition, love and respect.

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tea berry-blue

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from: zia_narratora
date: Aug. 26th, 2009 02:29 pm (UTC)
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Poor Watson. Maybe give the old one some jam.

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Andrea Christoph

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from: voyevoda
date: Aug. 26th, 2009 02:39 pm (UTC)
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He may be an intelligent lady-killer, but Holmes is still the only lady for him. >:D

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Sherry Vernet

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from: evilprodigy
date: Aug. 26th, 2009 02:40 pm (UTC)
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+1

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Sherry Vernet

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from: evilprodigy
date: Aug. 26th, 2009 02:40 pm (UTC)
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A part of me has been waiting all this time for you to do this comic and I never knew.

I like jam.

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Lauro-Chan

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from: golly_loli
date: Aug. 27th, 2009 06:50 pm (UTC)
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I!!!! LOVE!!!! THIS!!!! ICON!!!!
I want to elope with it, but I do not think it will have me. Frown.

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goathoofie

yees

from: goathoofie
date: Aug. 26th, 2009 02:41 pm (UTC)
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I'm glad attention is being brought to this fact. I had to go over with all my friends why the new movie's version of Watson wasn't wrong. Book Watson was awesome!

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breltard95

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from: breltard95
date: Aug. 26th, 2009 06:23 pm (UTC)
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The new film's Watson looks OK, it's the Holmes side of the equation they appear to have royally bungled.

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RH

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from: notaboyscout
date: Aug. 26th, 2009 02:42 pm (UTC)
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For a wonderful and horrific homage to both Holmes and HP Lovecraft, Neil Gaiman won a Hugo for A Study in Emerald:
http://www.neilgaiman.com/p/Cool_Stuff/Short_Stories

The version linked from that page is a neat PDF styled like a Victorian-era newspaper. There are many other fine things there as well. If you find yourself liking Neil's stories, you can also watch him read his most recent Newbury Award winning book, The Graveyard Book:
http://www.mousecircus.com/videotour.aspx

Which record his readings from the tour for the book, where he read a chapter per city.

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finkenstein

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from: finkenstein
date: Aug. 26th, 2009 03:36 pm (UTC)
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Oh! That story is DIVINE!

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Bill

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from: mycroftholmes
date: Aug. 26th, 2009 02:45 pm (UTC)
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Thank you for this!

I think the new movie should be called Sherlock Holmes: EXTREME! Holmes will solve cases while slamming cans of Mountain Dew. At least Watson is played by an English actor.

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Genie

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from: greek_amazon
date: Aug. 26th, 2009 02:49 pm (UTC)
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If I wasn't already threatening to damage myself with laughter at the comic, this comment has ensured I'll hurt myself.

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jeremy

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from: scarfboys
date: Aug. 26th, 2009 02:52 pm (UTC)
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Billy Wilder's The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes is often considered to be the best yet portrayal of Watson (played by Colin Blakely), as opposed to Nigel Bruce's comic relief Watson, but I found him to be pretty annoying. Rather than a fat bumbler he was an angry and bitter jerk, which is still not accurate.

I have hopes that Jude law will pull it off (hopes which I do not have for Robert Downey Jr.).

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Purple Hazel

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from: vivalana
date: Aug. 26th, 2009 07:46 pm (UTC)
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I'm partial to the Granada version(s), myself.

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Sir Frederick Chook

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from: fredchook
date: Aug. 26th, 2009 02:56 pm (UTC)
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My favourite Watson depiction is, I think, Edward Hardwicke's - dapper and capable enough to be Watson the soldier-adventurer, but also cheerful and funny enough to be Watson the friend and family man. David Burke did fine work but sometimes struck me as too overbearing, too harsh. Michael Williams' Watson was, sometimes, a little -too- good - overcompensating, perhaps.

Also, jam! Needless to say I like this comic very very much.

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Bird

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from: immoralilly
date: Aug. 26th, 2009 03:30 pm (UTC)
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yes yes yes yes. And Jeremy Brett is still the only Holmes for me.

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Robin Zimmermann

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from: packbat
date: Aug. 26th, 2009 02:56 pm (UTC)
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You'd think that people would consider who actually wrote the accounts of Sherlock Holmes' adventures...

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withoneb

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from: withoneb
date: Aug. 26th, 2009 03:12 pm (UTC)
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I love this! I can't see most movie/tv versions of Sherlock Holmes because of how they portrayed Watson and Holmes. I am one of those "fans" that will yell. "NO! He's an army trained doctor! He's not stupid!"

Edited at 2009-08-26 03:32 pm (UTC)

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Adriana

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from: little_teacup
date: Aug. 26th, 2009 03:17 pm (UTC)
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That's hilarious!!

Poor real Watson's never been given a fair chance....

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Thor

Hooray! Holmes & Watson!

from: mythicsagecat
date: Aug. 26th, 2009 03:18 pm (UTC)
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New Watson is very funny (JAM!), but original Watson doesn't get enough credit.

Speaking of not enough credit, how about a comic with Alfred Russel Wallace?

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Jacquelyn

Re: Hooray! Holmes & Watson!

from: antarcticlust
date: Aug. 26th, 2009 05:00 pm (UTC)
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Oooh! A Darwin/Wallace exchange would be FANTSTIC.

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lolsworth

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from: lolsworth
date: Aug. 26th, 2009 03:18 pm (UTC)
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We've got Jude Law to look forward to now...

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Patrick Alexander

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from: zpxlng
date: Aug. 26th, 2009 03:22 pm (UTC)
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What made you think of jam, Katie? Was it...

THIS??

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finkenstein

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from: finkenstein
date: Aug. 26th, 2009 03:34 pm (UTC)
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EXCELLENT.
I have to say though, from reading some of the old stories Watson is not a fat idiot like they have made him out to be on TV (he's certainly not anything like what I imagined him to be from those shows), but he is still kind of ...daft? I mean he repeatedly falls for shit and Holmes is like "duuude, that was a trap, DUH" it gets a little weird sometimes considering Watson is a Doctor and should be a little smarter than that.
Like come on Watson, if you can diagnose someone with a disease you can tell the guy in the lady costume is tricking you.
THEN again, maybe it is just a sign of how un advanced medical science was back in the day!

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Sam Shemitz

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from: violetclm
date: Aug. 26th, 2009 04:16 pm (UTC)
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"Like come on Watson, if you can diagnose someone with a disease you can tell the guy in the lady costume is tricking you."
Umm, Holmes couldn't either.

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Dylan Meconis

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from: quirkybird
date: Aug. 26th, 2009 03:39 pm (UTC)
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The Jeremy Brett Adventures of Sherlock Holmes series did a nice job with Watson, I thought. They made him into an intelligent man with a good emotional sense, a healthy dose of skepticism, and keen medical skill.

David Burke and Edward Hardwicke both portrayed a fellow that somebody Holmes would actually care to keep around.

Always, Jeremy Brett is so perfectly delicious in the role that I'm inclined to punch anybody else playing the role in the face. I like those specials, dare I say it, better than the actual original stories.

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RH

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from: notaboyscout
date: Aug. 26th, 2009 03:50 pm (UTC)
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After Jeremy Brett, seeing Tony Stark Downey cast in this role was just disheartening.

Brett breathed such wonderful life into Doyle's words. Sigh.

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