Jun. 30th, 2013

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Welcome back, everyone! Let's have some canon Sherlock Holmes discussion, shall we? What did you all think of The Devil's Foot? As always, I've written up a few of my own random thoughts and questions, which are behind the jump. Add your own in the comments!

Discussion about the Granada adaptation of The Devil's Foot is available in this week's Granada discussion post.

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Let's talk telly in the discussion post for Granada's TV adaptation of The Devil's Foot. 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 The Devil's Foot is available in this week's canon discussion post.

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Author: [livejournal.com profile] methylviolet10b
Rating: PG
Character(s): Sherlock Holmes, Dr. John Watson
Summary: Casework requires attention to details.
Warnings:  Some spoilers for DEVI, so if you haven't read that, you might not want to read this.
Word Count: 60, plus an extended-play version (125 words)
Author's Notes:  60 words of my own inspired by one of the canon stories.
Disclaimer: I don't own them.

DEVI – The Devil’s in the Details
It was not Dr. Agar’s learned arguments that convinced me to try the rest cure, but Watson’s silent ones. His features, as ever, were faithful servants, and I read the truth in them.

Watson found me an exhausting patient. But the events at Poldhu Bay – and one near-fatal experiment in particular – showed he was right to fear for my abilities.


Extended-play version (125 words):
It was not Dr. Agar’s voluble, learned arguments that finally convinced me to try the rest cure, but Watson’s silent ones. His features, as ever, were faithful servants, and I read the true gravity of the matter in them.

Even so, I did not submit without resistance, and Watson found me an exhausting patient over the interval that followed. But the events at Poldhu Bay – and one near-fatal experiment in particular – showed he was right to fear for my abilities.

Had I been myself, I would never have chosen such a volatile and uncontrolled method of testing my hypothesis about the powder. Nor would I have missed the utter fatigue, mental and physical, that led Watson to participate in my mad trial of the stuff.
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Canon Story: The Devil's Foot
Title: Consulting x 4
Author: [livejournal.com profile] spacemutineer
Rating: PG
Author's Note: I had to try my hand at a conjecture about the "dramatic introduction" between Holmes and Dr. Agar, and it expanded out to four 60s.


He took over my consulting room as if he owned it. I'd never laid eyes upon him prior.

"This is Doctor John Watson, is it not?" I asked regarding the shivering, barely conscious man he'd laid on my cot. He was too busy digging through my cabinet to turn his head and too busy talking to himself to answer me.

---
"Two drops magnesium distillate, three haline. Half grain ferric sulphate. Ferric... Ferric... Where in the blazes is your ferric sulphate? Doctor, where?"

For the first time, Sherlock Holmes looked at me. Or at least at my hands tending what was clearly our patient.

"Top shelf, green glass bottle."

Without a word, he returned to his work, and I to mine.

---
"You're preparing an antidote," I said, reading both his mixture of ingredients and his frenetic motion. "To what toxin was he exposed?"

He drew his cloudy concoction into one of my largest syringes. "Moon tree sap. Crystallized in the mountains of Guangxi. Never before seen on these shores."

I didn't ask how he knew. He was Sherlock Holmes, after all.

---
"I'm ready when you are, as is he." I pulled a contorted arm straight to expose a vein.

On injection, our patient's condition began improving immediately. Doctor Watson's breathing eased; his erratic heartbeat steadied.

"I think he'll pull through now. Sir!" I turned to find Holmes doubled over in pain.

"Excellent, Doctor," he wheezed at the floor. "Now for me."
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Canon Story: The Devil's Foot
Title: The Cornish Fox (The Return of The Ocelot Tales)
Author: thesmallhobbit
Rating: G

They tell me that Mr Holmes is very clever, but he didn’t seem too clever the afternoon I saw him.  His friend, Dr Watson, had dragged him from their cottage, and from his expression he had been half-gassed.  I have heard men tell their children not to play with matches, perhaps the same should have been said to Mr Holmes.
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Canon Story: The Devil's Foot
Title: Structural Support
Author: [livejournal.com profile] hisietari
Rating: G
Author's Notes: Agar (or agar agar) has a number of chemical benefits that make it act similarly to gelatine - it gives solidness to liquids, or in my ways of reading things into things, "structural support".
Doctor Minerva Smith has appeared in some of my stories before, first as a homeless girl found and returned to her parents, then as one of the first WOC physicians in Victorian London. After she has diagnosed and lost Mercy Moriarty, Dr Smith is the only high-ranking ex-Angel continuing her works of excellency.


The Smith Institute was a shelter for society’s weakest – the homeless, addicts, single mothers, and mentally ill. For discretion, its staff were related to as “Doctor Agar”. Doctor Smith herself had treated Holmes for many years.
“I cannot see any after effects. You were lucky. Next time you miss our Mercy, however, come to me instead of risking Watson’s life.”

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