Reading Sherlock Holmes

[honorh]

I picked up the second volume of the Complete Sherlock Holmes the other day. You can't get too picky about English-language reading material, so even though mystery isn't generally my genre, I decided to give it a shot.

And I'm really enjoying it. I finished The Hound of the Baskervilles today and started The Valley of Fear. Still remaining in

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[selenak]

In some Third Doctor episodes audio commentaries, you get a lot on the Holmes/Doctor parallels, and one story - The Silurians - even makes a dialogue reference. (More about that in a minute.) The Master as a character was created so that the Doctor "should have a Moriarty" (Barry Letts, producer at the time - he who died very recently and to whom Waters of Mars was dedicated), and Letts also said the relationship between the Doctor and the Brigadier was very Holmes/Watson.

Here I actually would have to beg to differ a bit because the Brig is the Doctor's boss during Three's UNIT time which changes the dynamics and makes for many an initial argument, but that's what he said. And there is that witty dialogue allusion, which turns expectations because it goes thusly in the Silurians:

Brig: *is frustrated that the Doctor hasn't discovered the mystery of the week yet*
Doctor: Well, you haven't been Sherlock Holmes either so far, have you?
Phonecall: interrupts.
Brig (after finishing phonecall): Come on then, Doctor Watson.
Doctor: *glares*

[evil_little_dog]

I REMEMBER that exchange. *snort* And yes, so very true about the Master (I remember being at a convention where that was discussed on a panel with John Nathan Turner and whomever he'd brought with him to Florida this time). In general, as I said below in my response, I'd see most of the companions could take the role of Watson, in one way or another.