BBC Sherlock--the CV (resumé) revealed!!

[trishkafibble]

Wow, am I really posting twice in one day? Incredible!! I got hit with a sudden brainstorm, though (inspired by the genius work of wellingtongoose, found in this post), and decided to try my hand at making a transcript of Dr. John Watson's resumé (or CV, as the Brits like to call it) as it appears in the episode The Blind Banker.

Update: Now available on A03 (

Comments

[love_bug_54]

This looks great! I'm impressed that you were able to duplicate it so well in MS Word because Word is SUCH a pain to do layout in.

Other than the already discussed date issues I wonder why it doesn't list his miliary service. That would certainly count for experience, especially since his interest is in emergency medicine. Of course, for what amounted to a 2-second flash on screen they probably felt if his name showed up and it looked enough like a resume that was what counted.

[trishkafibble]

Oh, you are so not kidding about Word! I'm almost thinking they typed up the original in Word, though, because things fit pretty darn well without a whole lot of tweaking. And bless them for using Times New Roman, so I didn't have to obsessively search out the correct font! =P

I'm wondering if maybe it's customary in some way (in England? among doctors??) for job applicants to have separate listings for their civilian and military qualifications.... Canonically speaking, there must have been another page that Dr. Sawyer was looking at, if we're to reconcile this already difficult document with the scene in which it appears.

[love_bug_54]

True, that. Yeah, there could be a second page although I should think with his military service being the most recent job experience that that would be listed first. But hey, it's only a TV show! lol (I just came off of a long period of unemployment and clearly still have resume-tweaking on my mind.)

That's a pretty small plot "issue" compared to the fact that he fell asleep on the job on his first day and didn't get bounced out on his ass! Yeah, he's cute, but c'mon! But then my daughter is blond, too, and she's flirted her way out of more than one ticket! And we all know John Watson has some powerful mojo when it comes to women -- at least until Sherlock gets involved. :-D

[love_bug_54]

One more thing... Compared to some of ACD's inconsistencies this is pretty minor. Just sayin'.

[anonymous]

The other thing is the dialogue in that scene...
Sarah says "It says you're a soldier" but it actually DOESN'T say that, does it?
I guess maybe he also wrote a cover letter or something???

[trishkafibble]

That is actually the most glaring inconsistency regarding this page, and my best guess is that they changed the dialogue at some point without changing the prop (or simply miscommunicated with the prop techs about what information they needed to have on the page).

Whatever the RL explanation is, in order to fit the CV into canon, knowing that John was indeed a soldier sometime after getting his medical degree (he himself--likely in ASiP--says he was an "Army doctor"), we must conclude that there was indeed a second page in front of Sarah that included that missing information. It certainly looks as though she's referring to the page in her hand when she says that line, but a true canon stickler would have to assume that she's referring to John's job application paperwork as a whole, I would think.