From: "Sally Manton" smanton@hotmail.com but he really isn't *that* logical and reasonable, poor dear.
Though there is the little matter of senseless violins...
Regards Joanne (well, I couldn't wait for Dana mention it...)
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Joanne said:
Though there is the little matter of senseless violins...
(well, I couldn't wait for Dana mention it...)
Why, thank you! But in this case, my sole contribution was chortling.
Actually, I think the difference is that Watson catalogues large areas that Holmes knows absolutely nothing about, whereas between Avon and Blake they're convinced that Avon knows everything (f'rex Blake's cheery confidence in Avon's ability to master brain surgery).
Dana
--- Dana wrote:
Actually, I think the difference is that Watson catalogues large areas that Holmes knows absolutely nothing about, whereas between Avon and Blake they're convinced that Avon knows everything (f'rex Blake's cheery confidence in Avon's ability to master brain surgery).
Who said Avon would do it ? Either Blake would insist on doing it himself in the way he keeps barging Jenna out of the way and piloting the ship himself or he'd delegate it to Vila.
Actually, I think the Holmes/ Watson analogy breaks down given that it is not, at any point, recorded that Holmes snogged Moriarty or flung Watson off the Reichenbach Falls.
Stephen.
Tentatively I approached the strange contraption in the middle of the room. It was made of wood and steel and a piece of cheese was placed delicately in the centre. "Be careful Watson" counselled Holmes urgently, "It's a trap".
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Actually, I think the Holmes/ Watson analogy breaks down given that it is not, at any point, recorded that Holmes snogged Moriarty or flung Watson off the Reichenbach Falls.
Stephen
Aside from the fact that it was Moriarty who went over the Falls, remember that little bit in Orbit.... Would that make Vila the Watson character?
Sandra Kisner sjk3@cornell.edu
Stephen said:
Actually, I think the Holmes/ Watson analogy breaks down given that it is not, at any point, recorded that Holmes snogged Moriarty or flung Watson off the Reichenbach Falls.
It all depends on which Websites you read, doesn't it?
Jacqui asked:
Would Moriarty be Travis then? And Servalan Irene Adler
(or whatever her name was - the one with the compromising picture)?
In that Holmes "never spoke of the softer passions save with a gibe and a sneer" [ObB7: that's sneer not sleer] and Irene Adler was "the woman," I'd vote for Anna = Irene Adler.
Betty said:
I don't think their personalities are all that similar. For one thing, Holmes has a strong sense of social justice, and Avon, well, doesn't. In fact, he's just the sort of person Holmes would be trying to put behind bars...
But actually Holmes didn't always insist on apprehending sympathetic criminals, and he didn't object to blackmail victims shooting blackmailers in cold blood, and he let someone he caught cheating on exams go off to become a policeman, of all things, in the colonies. I would say that both of them have a sense of honor, and a lack of interest in conventions, including conventional morality.
Holmes, poor guy, really only functions properly in his own time and place. Take him out of Victorian London and stick him on the Liberator, and his encyclopedic knowledge of tobacco ashes has just become useless.
Unless you needed to track Colonel Quute by his cigar ashes?
Dana
Dana Shilling wrote:
It all depends on which Websites you read, doesn't it?
*I* wasn't going to say it. :)
But actually Holmes didn't always insist on apprehending sympathetic criminals,
Well, he would have let Blake go, there's no doubt in my mind... I don't think Avon's sympathetic enough. :)
I would say that both of them have a sense of honor, and a lack of interest in conventions, including conventional morality.
I'll go along with that, though, more or less. Add a strong sense of individuality, too.
Holmes, poor guy, really only functions properly in his own time and place. Take him out of Victorian London and stick him on the Liberator, and his encyclopedic knowledge of tobacco ashes has just become useless.
Unless you needed to track Colonel Quute by his cigar ashes?
Genetically engineered tobacco that didn't even exist until well into the Second Calendar. :)
Dana wrote:
I would say that both of them have a sense of honor, and a lack of interest in conventions, including conventional morality.
I am now trying to think what is distinctive about the morality of Redemption, Nexus, Eclecticon etc.
I said:
I would say that both of them have a sense of honor, and a lack of interest in conventions, including conventional morality.
Harriet said:
I am now trying to think what is distinctive about the morality of Redemption, Nexus, Eclecticon etc.
In which case "The Totally Imaginary Cheeseboard" rebuts the "lack of interest in conventions"
Dana
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