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queerlyobscure in bakerstreaders

the adventure of the musgrave ritual - discussion post

Feb 16, 2011 17:49

Ack, I am a bad person and very sorry for the lateness (please don't tell on me? I'll make it short so as not to keep you too long). This week, we have another chapter from Holmes' freshman notebook, some hastily cobbled together history, and a butler.

( But with me there is a limit, and when I find a man who keeps his cigars in the coal-scuttle, his tobacco in the toe end of a Persian slipper, and his unanswered correspondence transfixed by a jack-knife into the very centre of his wooden mantelpiece, then I begin to give myself virtuous airs. )

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c0ntrarywise February 16 2011, 08:34:46 UTC

I really have to say that this was my favourite story to date. The battle axe, Holmes' story time to get out of cleaning, and the fact the butler did it. I loved every minute.

1. Holmes is kinda painted as being far from perfect from the start, I think, what with his "I'm annoying" list (if I can remember that long ago D:).

2. His snark is certainly coming along nicely. And he's more competent than the last story.

3. Yes :D Now all he needs to do is time travel(?) to the 22nd century and battle clone!Moriarty who had his DNA extracted from the longdead!Moriarty who was frozen in ice...

4. Did this start the cliche or did it exist already? I assume it has to be a classism thing, with lowly butlers being jealous of their employers and etc (rather than being awesomely sarcastic Bat-wound-dressers).

alexcat February 16 2011, 12:27:27 UTC

1. Maybe Doyle had a bad week when he wrote it? I kinda like sacrastic Watson. Makes him a little less Holmes' 'servant' for lack of a better word. I enjoyed the now famous description of our dear Holmes.

2. This Holmes is certainly a better detective but still, he doesn't get it quite right to begin with either. I kinda liked the way one of the 'popular' kids needed his help to solve a mystery!

3. Well, yeah... it reminds me of the stories of someone dying in a chimney when trying to come down the chimney like Santa. Not really all that believable either.

4. Well, there was NEVER any question that he did it but more a question of what exactly did he do? I kinda like it... I also wonder fi this is the origin of the cliche.

All in all a rather fun story. I do tend to see RDJ shooting at the wall in my mind's eye when I read it though.