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sherlock60Canon talk time, everyone! What did you think of The Resident Patient? As always, I've written up a few of my own random thoughts and comments, which are behind the jump. Add your own in the comments!
Note: Granada discussion is available in the Granada discussion post. Thanks!
- The opening sequence of this story can be different, depending on the edition you read. From Wikipedia: Most American editions of the Sherlock Holmes stories contain a bastardized edition of the text in which the first few pages of this episode and "The Adventure of the Cardboard Box" are almost identical; both contain the same, rather impressive example of Holmes's deductive powers. The reason for this stems from the original American publication of The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes in which the story of "The Cardboard Box" was eliminated; but its opening scene was retained and transferred to "The Resident Patient". Even today, this change continues to be propagated and editions of the stories which contain the original, correct text of "Resident Patient" are comparatively few.
- How did Blessington decide upon and find Dr. Trevelyan for his odd investment scheme in the first place? He knows Trevelyan going in and starts right in with his proposal. Strange.
- Does Holmes' theory that the visits by the old man and his "son" were failed runs at Blessington hold water? They had the page under their thumbs - couldn't they have just asked him about what Blessington's habits were? It seems more likely to me that the visits were reconnaissance, done when they knew he would not be there in order to scout the scene for his trial.
- The story the fake son tells Trevelyan about the sickness of his father is patently false on its face. "If I were to see my father in one of those dreadful seizures..." If. If I were to see him. Has he never seen his father have a seizure before? Let's give him the benefit of the doubt and say he did and was traumatized by it in the past. How does he keep it from happening while he's around his father now? And why does he seem so convinced that the old man will have a seizure during Trevelyan's consultation, hence his needing to stay outside? Oh, yeah, that's right. It's all in the plan.
Comment away, and join us next week for The Noble Bachelor, and its Granada adaptation, The Eligible Bachelor!
Note: Granada discussion is available in the Granada discussion post. Thanks!
- The opening sequence of this story can be different, depending on the edition you read. From Wikipedia: Most American editions of the Sherlock Holmes stories contain a bastardized edition of the text in which the first few pages of this episode and "The Adventure of the Cardboard Box" are almost identical; both contain the same, rather impressive example of Holmes's deductive powers. The reason for this stems from the original American publication of The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes in which the story of "The Cardboard Box" was eliminated; but its opening scene was retained and transferred to "The Resident Patient". Even today, this change continues to be propagated and editions of the stories which contain the original, correct text of "Resident Patient" are comparatively few.
- How did Blessington decide upon and find Dr. Trevelyan for his odd investment scheme in the first place? He knows Trevelyan going in and starts right in with his proposal. Strange.
- Does Holmes' theory that the visits by the old man and his "son" were failed runs at Blessington hold water? They had the page under their thumbs - couldn't they have just asked him about what Blessington's habits were? It seems more likely to me that the visits were reconnaissance, done when they knew he would not be there in order to scout the scene for his trial.
- The story the fake son tells Trevelyan about the sickness of his father is patently false on its face. "If I were to see my father in one of those dreadful seizures..." If. If I were to see him. Has he never seen his father have a seizure before? Let's give him the benefit of the doubt and say he did and was traumatized by it in the past. How does he keep it from happening while he's around his father now? And why does he seem so convinced that the old man will have a seizure during Trevelyan's consultation, hence his needing to stay outside? Oh, yeah, that's right. It's all in the plan.
Comment away, and join us next week for The Noble Bachelor, and its Granada adaptation, The Eligible Bachelor!
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