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sherlock60It's canon discussion time, everybody! What did you think about Part I of The Valley of Fear? 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!
No Granada discussion this week. Our next episode is The Greek Interpreter, coming up December 23.
- I have to give my appreciation for Inspector Alec MacDonald, or as Holmes fondly calls him, Mr. Mac. MacDonald is capable, bright, and fully willing to defer to a man he sees as his detective mentor, although he may genially groan about it, as when Holmes keeps them all out in the cold night waiting for the fishing expedition into the moat for the clothes and barbell. I would love to see more of him.
- Does the deal with Holmes' pen pal informant make enough sense to you? It seemed pretty bizarre to me. The detective begins receiving tips in the post from a would-be snitch, who ends up getting not only paid, but also gets all of his demands of privacy. Holmes never tracks him, having promised he would not. Porlock could be anyone. His tips clearly must check out, but isn't it possible that this is an elaborate deception being committed to trick or trap Sherlock Holmes? Especially since the insights are coming from the circle of Professor James Moriarty.
- By now, Moriarty is the center of Holmes' interest in the crime world. Everyone around the detective has heard about his nefarious behavior - all of it still legal and untouchable, of course. Holmes has been in Moriarty's office multiple times on various false pretenses, including one incident that may well have been breaking and entering, but he's never found anything there beyond a painting that no normal professor should be able to afford. The painting could easily be a red herring anyway -- couldn't it be a gift from a wealthy admirer of Moriarty's astronomical work? Moriarty's extremely suspicious (and poorly hidden) high number of bank accounts are a giveaway, though. He's hiding a large amount of money, from one thing or another. Holmes obviously has his ideas, even if not everyone else is convinced.
- "Everything comes in circles—even Professor Moriarty." A fascinating theory, isn't it? "The old wheel turns, and the same spoke comes up." So if Moriarty is a spoke on the wheel that comes and goes round, doesn't that mean Holmes is too? Who else is a universal constant, coming and going through time? Did Jonathan Wild have a Holmes equivalent after him? What was he like? How often does the wheel turn through history and time? Does it always move in a matched way, or did these two spokes - the master criminal and the master detective - just happen to coincide here?
Comment away, and join us next week for the first half (chapters 8-epilogue) of The Valley of Fear!
No Granada discussion this week. Our next episode is The Greek Interpreter, coming up December 23.
- I have to give my appreciation for Inspector Alec MacDonald, or as Holmes fondly calls him, Mr. Mac. MacDonald is capable, bright, and fully willing to defer to a man he sees as his detective mentor, although he may genially groan about it, as when Holmes keeps them all out in the cold night waiting for the fishing expedition into the moat for the clothes and barbell. I would love to see more of him.
- Does the deal with Holmes' pen pal informant make enough sense to you? It seemed pretty bizarre to me. The detective begins receiving tips in the post from a would-be snitch, who ends up getting not only paid, but also gets all of his demands of privacy. Holmes never tracks him, having promised he would not. Porlock could be anyone. His tips clearly must check out, but isn't it possible that this is an elaborate deception being committed to trick or trap Sherlock Holmes? Especially since the insights are coming from the circle of Professor James Moriarty.
- By now, Moriarty is the center of Holmes' interest in the crime world. Everyone around the detective has heard about his nefarious behavior - all of it still legal and untouchable, of course. Holmes has been in Moriarty's office multiple times on various false pretenses, including one incident that may well have been breaking and entering, but he's never found anything there beyond a painting that no normal professor should be able to afford. The painting could easily be a red herring anyway -- couldn't it be a gift from a wealthy admirer of Moriarty's astronomical work? Moriarty's extremely suspicious (and poorly hidden) high number of bank accounts are a giveaway, though. He's hiding a large amount of money, from one thing or another. Holmes obviously has his ideas, even if not everyone else is convinced.
- "Everything comes in circles—even Professor Moriarty." A fascinating theory, isn't it? "The old wheel turns, and the same spoke comes up." So if Moriarty is a spoke on the wheel that comes and goes round, doesn't that mean Holmes is too? Who else is a universal constant, coming and going through time? Did Jonathan Wild have a Holmes equivalent after him? What was he like? How often does the wheel turn through history and time? Does it always move in a matched way, or did these two spokes - the master criminal and the master detective - just happen to coincide here?
Comment away, and join us next week for the first half (chapters 8-epilogue) of The Valley of Fear!
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