A question about "A Scandal in Bohemia"

[fs_playground]

While rereading the first short story of "The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes," I couldn't help but wonder why Irene Adler and Godfrey Norton had to marry before noon and why they had to flee the country in such a way after their marriage. Was it their fear of the King who might use more drastic measures to silence Irene? What were those "

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[holmesfreak1412]

Lol. You remind me of the first time I have read that story. I mean, Adler seems to be so strong a character and the King too gentle for them to go into such drastic flight. i have been curious and came to the same conclusion actually. but since bigamy is almost a unexplored (but common) offense in my country, I don't think I have ever though of it odd.

xd. If you haven't invented Apah, there wouldn't be the Cure. And my life would have been easier.

[fs_playground]

I don't know, the King didn't seem gentle to me, just dumb and paranoid, which is a dangerous combination in such a powerful figure. If he had really married her, it would have explained his anxiety, her marriage problems, her fleeing the country with her husband, and her letter to Holmes in which she also reassures the King that she loves and is loved by a man better than him and that he has wronged her terribly (marrying her in secret and then abandoning her for a better match?). Also, we don't know whether she really threatened him. He could have lied to Holmes while he was simply anxious about her photo which she, wise as she was, kept to protect herself because he could try to silence her as she had become a threat.

Oh well, it made my life more difficult as well. Maybe I should simply learn to resist plunnies and retire from the fanfic world after finishing my multi-chapters. I'll have a lot of time to think about it until then. XD

[holmesfreak1412]

I'm overstating. (Gentle is practically what I call everyone who's so hopelessly dumb) But yes, bigamy does make more sense. And I agree about what you said. Somehow, I never see Irene as a blackmailer (except at the Guy Ritchie movie where she almost seems like the countess Poirot loved more than Irene Adler)

Somehow, with you saying that, I suddenly am not looking forward to the end of your fics. I'll miss the romantic procrastination of yours so much.

[fs_playground]

I also wonder about the thing why the marriage did to happen before noon. It must have something to do with the British law at that time. Maybe they would have had to wait for another day to marry, which they couldn't because they already bought the tickets to leave the Continent?

Lol, romantic procrastination... Calling it that makes it sound really nice.

[holmesfreak1412]

Lol. Can't say i know anything about legitimation of matrimonial ceremonies. i only can wonder about the rushed nuptials though and how does Godfrey Norton actually look like (like Seiya? Moriarty?)

[fs_playground]

Oh, the only similarity would be dark and remarkably handsome? Lol, aquiline doesn't match. But then again, it was a modern adaptation, and Yaten doesn't look like Watson either although I do think the cast was supposed to be like that from what I inferred from the BSSM episode. There was this female actress who could have been Irene Adler, then there was Seiya lying alone on a bench while Yaten and Taiki were standing together. And since I doubt Yaten was supposed to be Holmes, it must have been Taiki.

That, or they were filming a completely different episode. XD

[holmesfreak1412]

What do you mean by "happy Shinichi-Shiho plunnies"? (I always have that impression you are always angsty of sorts.)

[fs_playground]

Oh, I do get happy plunnies once in a while although I do get about three angsty plunnies with one happy plunny and often end up turning the angsty ones into fics. XD

[holmesfreak1412]

How disproportionate. Balance your fics then by posting at least one.

[fs_playground]

Lol, yes, I'll write that one happy plunny while writing the next chapter for GaT. XD