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The Sherlock Holmes series holds a very important place in my heart, due to its magnificent balance between tell and show.
The readers read the series for the juicy deduction part, which is shown.
And the other useless details, like ~character development~ is just told to us by Dr. John Watson in his diary entrees which really give gay vibes.
Seriously, the dude can't write two paragraphs without mentioning how good friends he is with Sherlock. And every book in the series, with exception to the first one, starts by John giving a monologue on how amazing Sherlock is, while listing all his hobbies and sharing all the fun they have everyday. The classic Englishmen etiquette they have doesn't help either.
And Jesus, every time John has to work away from Sherlock, he writes him letters which are filled with, "Sherlock, are you proud of me?"
Everytime Sherlock doesn't tell Watson his reasoning, he goes, "Oh, Sherlock, do you not trust me? Am I not worthy enough? Was the time we spent together all for naught?" And then Sherlock has to pet him till his mood gets better.
What this means is, while entire chapters are dedicated to Sherlock doing the detective work, the non detective work gets a few lines,
Example~
1. Sherlock being a good runner,
2. Sherlock being an acid smoker
I accidentally misspelled avid as acid and now I am not going to correct it.
3. Sherlock being an A class fencer
4. Sherlock likes to play violin
And finally, the hobby which intrests me the most,
5. He likes art.
Him being a runner and a swordsman do make sense, they are like failsaves.
The case is solved, the book has reached it's end, all the mysteries have been solved but the criminal decides to make a run for it, how annoying.
In such cases, John just tells us that Sherlock caught the criminal, or he disarmed the knife.
Just a way to end the book.
Him being a smoker, is something which I assume was common at the time, because boy, he smoked a lot.
Smoking allowed him to concentrate and do the voodoo astral projections stuff he did.
Same with him being a violinist, helped him focus.
But his art hobby is weird.
Some might think the above two are similar, but I think not.
Firstly, Sherlock would play violin for John at the start of every book(which gives even more gay vibes), probably to remind the readers that he was a violinist,
Plus, John would either tell us the name of the music piece he was playing, or atleast tell us the vibe of the tone, whether it was solemn or something.
But in case of art hobby, it was rarely mentioned.
Even when it was mentioned, it was usually in middle of case.
Both John and Sherlock would simultaneously get the idea to have a picnic at the Art Museum in midst of a murder case.
Even when they went to an Art Museum, John would never tell us what happens.
Almost every trip to the Art Museum is like,
"We went to the Art Museum. Sherlock has bad taste."
That's it. No explanation.
What paintings they say? No idea.
What was Sherlock's opinion? No idea.
I really wonder what went through Sir Arthur while this.
I might someday make a thread on why Sherlock Holmes series is so gay
The readers read the series for the juicy deduction part, which is shown.
And the other useless details, like ~character development~ is just told to us by Dr. John Watson in his diary entrees which really give gay vibes.
Seriously, the dude can't write two paragraphs without mentioning how good friends he is with Sherlock. And every book in the series, with exception to the first one, starts by John giving a monologue on how amazing Sherlock is, while listing all his hobbies and sharing all the fun they have everyday. The classic Englishmen etiquette they have doesn't help either.
And Jesus, every time John has to work away from Sherlock, he writes him letters which are filled with, "Sherlock, are you proud of me?"
Everytime Sherlock doesn't tell Watson his reasoning, he goes, "Oh, Sherlock, do you not trust me? Am I not worthy enough? Was the time we spent together all for naught?" And then Sherlock has to pet him till his mood gets better.
What this means is, while entire chapters are dedicated to Sherlock doing the detective work, the non detective work gets a few lines,
Example~
1. Sherlock being a good runner,
2. Sherlock being an acid smoker
3. Sherlock being an A class fencer
4. Sherlock likes to play violin
And finally, the hobby which intrests me the most,
5. He likes art.
Him being a runner and a swordsman do make sense, they are like failsaves.
The case is solved, the book has reached it's end, all the mysteries have been solved but the criminal decides to make a run for it, how annoying.
In such cases, John just tells us that Sherlock caught the criminal, or he disarmed the knife.
Just a way to end the book.
Him being a smoker, is something which I assume was common at the time, because boy, he smoked a lot.
Smoking allowed him to concentrate and do the voodoo astral projections stuff he did.
Same with him being a violinist, helped him focus.
But his art hobby is weird.
Some might think the above two are similar, but I think not.
Firstly, Sherlock would play violin for John at the start of every book(which gives even more gay vibes), probably to remind the readers that he was a violinist,
Plus, John would either tell us the name of the music piece he was playing, or atleast tell us the vibe of the tone, whether it was solemn or something.
But in case of art hobby, it was rarely mentioned.
Even when it was mentioned, it was usually in middle of case.
Both John and Sherlock would simultaneously get the idea to have a picnic at the Art Museum in midst of a murder case.
Even when they went to an Art Museum, John would never tell us what happens.
Almost every trip to the Art Museum is like,
"We went to the Art Museum. Sherlock has bad taste."
That's it. No explanation.
What paintings they say? No idea.
What was Sherlock's opinion? No idea.
I really wonder what went through Sir Arthur while this.
I might someday make a thread on why Sherlock Holmes series is so gay
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