Canon Discussion Post: Abbey Grange

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Welcome back, everyone! spacemutineer here, back after two weeks to transplant myself in a new city. I can't thank the incredible methylviolet10b enough. She's a saint, and deserves statues in her honor. All I have to offer is my deepest thanks for helping when I needed it. Now, let's see if I can follow her outstanding act. It's time for some canon Sherlock Holmes discussion! What did you all think of Abbey Grange? As always, I've written up a few of my own random thoughts and questions, which are behind the jump. Please add your own in the comments!

Discussion about the Granada adaptation of Abbey Grange is available in this week's Granada discussion post.

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Granada Discussion Post: Abbey Grange

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Let's talk telly in the discussion post for Granada's TV adaptation of Abbey Grange. If you haven't seen this episode yet, you can find it at YouTube, Netflix, Amazon Video, and DVD. Follow me behind the jump for my random thoughts and impressions. Please add your own in the comments!

Canon discussion for Abbey Grange is available in this week's canon discussion post.

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Catch-up: Cardboard Box, Engineer's Thumb, Crooked Man, Wisteria Lodge

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I'm still trying to catch up after my own lesser hiatus of the spring, so here are five more snippets:

Canon Story: The Cardboard Box
Title: The Bodies in Question
Author: Mary Sutherland
Rating: R (for non-specific gruesomeness)

Watson claims to avoid sensationalism; it is more accurate to say he is anxious to avoid offending the sensibilities of the middle classes. Browner's murders were the third case of mine involving severed body parts; it was the first in which the missing appendages were such as could be recorded within a tale destined to be read in drawing rooms.

Canon Story: The Engineer's Thumb
Title: The Sunk Cost Fallacy
Author: Mary Sutherland
Rating: PG

I thought of my fifty-guinea fee, of my wearisome journey, and of the unpleasant night which seemed to be before me. Was it all to go for nothing? Why should I slink away without having carried out my commission, and without the payment which was my due?

Mr Hatherley was asked to carry out a secret task by a man he found repulsive and offered a suspiciously munificent sum for this work. Yet he still took the commission and refused to heed any warning. What quirk of the mind allows a man to solve complex calculations concerning hydraulics and yet be incapable of observing the wider problem?

Canon Story: The Crooked Man
Title: A Nathan Come to Judgement
Author: Mary Sutherland
Rating: PG-13 (sexual themes)

The crooked man was not Henry Wood, of course, but James Barclay. But was there also a crooked woman? Major Murphy himself admitted to the Colonel's capacity for "violence and vindictiveness". And what may a wife not learn of her husband's character in thirty years of marriage? For Nancy Barclay, was her husband's true sin that of being found out?

Note: the title refers to 2 Samuel 12.

Canon Story: Wisteria Lodge
Title: The Effects of Civilization
Author: Mary Sutherland
Rating: R (racism)

The mulatto was a savage and his appearance and practices grotesque, yet the real horror in this case was Don Murillo. The Tiger of San Pedro was notorious throughout Latin America for his cruelty, but my later investigations confirmed that he was of pure Spanish descent. The white race may be civilized, yet they are not thereby necessarily made good.

Canon Story: Wisteria Lodge
Title: A Queer Business
Author: Mary Sutherland
Rating: PG-13 (sexual themes)

Fortunately, Baynes' astuteness did not put together a few trifling facts about John Scott Eccles. This 'sociable bachelor' described how a 'good-looking' young man had 'taken a fancy' to him immediately. Nor was Eccles alarmed when Garcia came to his room by night. Had Garcia's attempt at a fraudulent alibi failed, blackmail would doubtless have been used to obtain one.

The Adventure of the Abbey Grange: "I trust your judgment."

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Author: methylviolet10b
Rating: PG
Character(s): Sherlock Holmes, Doctor John Watson
Summary: Holmes reacts to Watson's words.
Warnings: Mild spoilers for ABBE.
Word Count: 60, plus an extended-play version (100 words). The title is a quote from the story.
Author's Notes: 60 words of my own inspired by one of the canon stories.
Disclaimer: I don't own them.

ABBE – "I trust your judgment."
Four little words, and an apt summation of a cornerstone of our relationship. My Watson does trust my judgment, and so I wake him before dawn; pull him off trains at the last moment; fill his ears with my conjectures; count on his support without explaining myself.

He trusts my judgment. It is a priceless gift, and a heavy responsibility.

Extended-play version (100 words):
Four little words, a simple phrase, but as apt a summation of one of the cornerstones of our relationship as could ever be expressed in language. My Watson does trust my judgment, and so I wake him at the crack of dawn; pull him off of a homeward train at the last moment; fill his ears with my conjectures; count on his support even when I fail to explain myself. He extends this trust unhesitatingly, even when circumstances – and in some cases, past actions – logically argue otherwise.

He trusts my judgment. It is a priceless gift, and a heavy responsibility.

MISS: Running || ABBE: I Her Legacy

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Canon Story: The Missing Three-Quarter
Title: Running
Author: hisietari
Rating: G
Author's Notes: Based on an amusing story that happened to a friend of mine.

Despite their campus case closed, Watson noticed that for some months after their adventure Holmes kept reading the sports news with interest. Upon one such occasion, at which the detective uttered a chuckle, Watson asked for reasons.
“Rugby, dear friend. It appears that while Cambridge has its three-quarter back, Oxford is now troubling them with an excellent runner named Moriarty.”


Canon Story: The Abbey Grange
Title: I Her Legacy
Author: hisietari
Rating: G
Author's Notes: I had a very hard time keeping myself from writing "the feet of a Weeping Angel".

“Look at me, Watson.”
The long-suffering doctor heard several alarums ring through his head. It was also a long-suffering head, given the amount of brandies it had taken them the night before to come to terms with Abbey Grange’s mysteries.
“Look at me, and observe how the voice of reason and science falls to the tear-stained feet of an Angel.”

The Abbey Grange: Mouselet Goes on a Journey

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Canon Story: The Abbey Grange
Title: Mouselet Goes on a Journey (The Return of The Ocelot Tales)
Author: thesmallhobbit
Rating: G
Ocelot's Note: Don't expect too much this week, the mouselet remains as biased as ever!

It’s a good job Mr Holmes didn’t notice me in his overcoat pocket.  He had been summoned by Inspector Hopkins and I could not resist the opportunity of seeing my hero once again.  We made several train journeys and Mr Holmes solved the case, but seemed to think it better that my dear inspector didn’t know what had actually happened