Discussion Post: A Study in Scarlet
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sherlock60Welcome, readers! Let's talk about A Study in Scarlet, a legend in literature and culture in general. As always, I've written up a few of my random thoughts and questions, which are behind the cut. Please add your own in the comments!
- Holmes and Watson meet, and a storied partnership begins. It begins the instant they meet, in fact. Watson certainly needs a friend, a home, a place to belong after his long death-defying battle with injury and illness. He finds all of that in Baker Street and Sherlock Holmes. For his part, Holmes seems almost to have been waiting for him. A man who regards nearly everyone with mild to utter disdain takes to Watson immediately, agreeing to share rooms with him on the spot. Any thoughts on that? Holmes was in the flush of a great discovery at that moment -- do you think their meeting would have gone differently if his experiment had failed?
- The novels sometimes send us on long voyages away from the familiar climes of London to far-off places of desperation like the Country of the Saints. The middle section of STUD is blackly beautiful in a way, as harsh and unforgiving as the barren land it describes.
- What would have happened if Jefferson Hope hadn't been conveniently hours from death from an aortic aneurysm? Do you think he could have been deliberately trying to set it off (or hurry it) during that futile attempted jump through the window glass?
- There's no Granada version of A Study in Scarlet, depriving us of that imagining of the meeting of Holmes and Watson. There's no version of their last case together (His Last Bow), either. I prefer it that way -- there is no beginning and no end to their friendship. It is eternal, or better said, always 1895.
Join us next week for The Speckled Band in canon and Granada!
- Holmes and Watson meet, and a storied partnership begins. It begins the instant they meet, in fact. Watson certainly needs a friend, a home, a place to belong after his long death-defying battle with injury and illness. He finds all of that in Baker Street and Sherlock Holmes. For his part, Holmes seems almost to have been waiting for him. A man who regards nearly everyone with mild to utter disdain takes to Watson immediately, agreeing to share rooms with him on the spot. Any thoughts on that? Holmes was in the flush of a great discovery at that moment -- do you think their meeting would have gone differently if his experiment had failed?
- The novels sometimes send us on long voyages away from the familiar climes of London to far-off places of desperation like the Country of the Saints. The middle section of STUD is blackly beautiful in a way, as harsh and unforgiving as the barren land it describes.
- What would have happened if Jefferson Hope hadn't been conveniently hours from death from an aortic aneurysm? Do you think he could have been deliberately trying to set it off (or hurry it) during that futile attempted jump through the window glass?
- There's no Granada version of A Study in Scarlet, depriving us of that imagining of the meeting of Holmes and Watson. There's no version of their last case together (His Last Bow), either. I prefer it that way -- there is no beginning and no end to their friendship. It is eternal, or better said, always 1895.
Join us next week for The Speckled Band in canon and Granada!
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