All the Alfred ones are awesome beyond my pale powers of feedbacking. I could hear B:TAS's Alfred voice saying his lines.
5. Immediately after the resolution of the Norbury case, Holmes told Watson that he, Holmes, would be eternally obliged if Watson were to whisper "Norbury" to Holmes when Watson suspected Holmes of overreaching. In actual practice, Holmes found it highly annoying.
I'm reading Shadows over Baker Street right now, and thus I enjoyed these even more than I'd normally have. Which is still a lot. The first four read as indisputable canon, and the fifth one is even better. *g*
The "Noble Bachelor" one actually *was* canon! *g* I will happily lay claim to the others, though.
I've often suspected Alfred to secretly enjoy many of the things he claims to reluctantly suffer. Once you accept that as a premise, the ideas come very easily.
Welcome! I believe JMS had toyed with actually showing some such thing, but never got around to it. (He definitely wanted to do something like it with Ny'rath, the giant praying mantis-ish crimelord. Apparently the animatronic didn't work quite as well as he'd hoped, so Ny'rath was retired, but I heard JMS mention at a couple of cons that if he ever introduced a new character like that, he'd be sure the guy had Ny'rath's head on his desk. Ny'rath, fortunately, found new employment in an episode of BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER.)
5. Immediately after the resolution of the Norbury case, Holmes told Watson that he, Holmes, would be eternally obliged if Watson were to whisper "Norbury" to Holmes when Watson suspected Holmes of overreaching. In actual practice, Holmes found it highly annoying.
I giggled for two minutes straight after reading this. Because Watson would *absolutely* take him up on that, and the notion of Holmes getting increasingly twitchy every time he did pleases me greatly. (I love Holmes, really, but I have such a soft spot for Watson occasionally getting the better of him.)
4. Holmes let James Ryder go, rather than bring him in for stealing the Blue Carbuncle, in the hope that he'd turn over a new leaf. And after all, it was Christmas.
I remember reading a quote by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle- I can't find it now, but it was something along the lines that in Holmes, he had created a character driven entirely by his mind, without a heart, and I wonder at how little he seemed to know his own creation.
I remember reading a quote by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle- I can't find it now, but it was something along the lines that in Holmes, he had created a character driven entirely by his mind, without a heart, and I wonder at how little he seemed to know his own creation.
Agreed. Holmes had a tremendous heart but was unfamiliar with its workings, and thus was unprepared when it crept up on him. Holmes's careful emotionlessness and devotion to reason strikes me, in part, as a coping mechanism: his emotions plague him so, in his depressed state, that he tries to reject them at all other times. It doesn't always work, especially when Watson is involved.
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5. Immediately after the resolution of the Norbury case, Holmes told Watson that he, Holmes, would be eternally obliged if Watson were to whisper "Norbury" to Holmes when Watson suspected Holmes of overreaching. In actual practice, Holmes found it highly annoying.
I'm reading Shadows over Baker Street right now, and thus I enjoyed these even more than I'd normally have. Which is still a lot. The first four read as indisputable canon, and the fifth one is even better. *g*
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I've often suspected Alfred to secretly enjoy many of the things he claims to reluctantly suffer. Once you accept that as a premise, the ideas come very easily.
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(I suspect that the event described in #5 led to Bruce getting a Batarang upside the head. Probably the part Alfred enjoyed most.)
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Oh. My. Nice. Thanks!
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5. Immediately after the resolution of the Norbury case, Holmes told Watson that he, Holmes, would be eternally obliged if Watson were to whisper "Norbury" to Holmes when Watson suspected Holmes of overreaching. In actual practice, Holmes found it highly annoying.
I giggled for two minutes straight after reading this. Because Watson would *absolutely* take him up on that, and the notion of Holmes getting increasingly twitchy every time he did pleases me greatly. (I love Holmes, really, but I have such a soft spot for Watson occasionally getting the better of him.)
4. Holmes let James Ryder go, rather than bring him in for stealing the Blue Carbuncle, in the hope that he'd turn over a new leaf. And after all, it was Christmas.
I remember reading a quote by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle- I can't find it now, but it was something along the lines that in Holmes, he had created a character driven entirely by his mind, without a heart, and I wonder at how little he seemed to know his own creation.
He felt he was ( ... )
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Agreed. Holmes had a tremendous heart but was unfamiliar with its workings, and thus was unprepared when it crept up on him. Holmes's careful emotionlessness and devotion to reason strikes me, in part, as a coping mechanism: his emotions plague him so, in his depressed state, that he tries to reject them at all other times. It doesn't always work, especially when Watson is involved.
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