Jeremy Brett has my ♡

[null-doesnothing]

his expressions are so good man even my autistic ass knows what he's feeling

[kimgmac63]

[neuroqueerings]

One of the things I've come to love about Granada Sherlock is Angry Watson. Often his ire is aimed at a villain or Holmes. But sometimes it just comes out of nowhere.

In The Last Vampyre there's that couple whose daughter has flu, and it's like:

Mother: She's not going to die is she, doctor?

Watson: No *vexation inexplicably activated* But she will pass through a crisis and needs the greatest care *vexation increasing* She should sleep now *accusatory glare*

Father: This village is plagued.

Watson: Like many another at this time of the year with INFLUENZA!! *flounces out of room, vexation overflowing*

I mean, what kind of a bedside manner is that?!

He did make up for it by gently stroking the patient's forehead with those lovely, lovely hands later on, but I digress . . .

How many times must the director have said to Edward Hardwicke, 'Right, in this scene you are subduing an immense anger'?

[amypihcs]

He's FURIOUS at being apart from holmes for 5 minutes AND at people being superstitious!

He hates the case and would much rather being home!

[the-bitch-in-question]

[ghostbees]

The Problem of Thor Bridge

“Somewhere in the vaults of the bank of Cox & Co., at Charing Cross, there is a travel-worn and battered tin dispatch-box with my name, John H. Watson, M.D., Late Indian Army, painted upon the lid. It is crammed with papers, nearly all of which are records of cases to illustrate the curious problems which Mr. Sherlock Holmes had at various times to examine.”

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[granada-brett-crumbs]

He was immensely tickled by his own adventures, and laughed heartily as he recounted them. —The Solitary Cyclist

[andyoullhearitagain]

My favorite part about Sherlock Holmes getting really into beekeeping in retirement is he mentions bees exactly zero times before that. He just woke up one day in 1903 like

[beekeeperspicnic]

Absolutely yes, but I also love that in A Case of Identity, Holmes is like:

If we could fly out of that window hand in hand, hover over this great city, gently remove the roofs, and peep in at the queer things which are going on, the strange coincidences, the plannings, the cross-purposes, the wonderful chains of events, working through generations, and leading to the most outrè results, it would make all fiction with its conventionalities and foreseen conclusions most stale and unprofitable.”

So it's like as a young man he goes "Boy I wish there was a tiny society made of individuals with a shorter lifespan than my own which I could life the roof off of and observe." And then he just sits on that for a few decades before going "WAIT! BEES!!!!"

(Also he's holding Watson's hand in his omniscient flying person fantasy)

[countesspetofi]

I'd just like to note that in those days it was fairly common for two gentlemen or two ladies to walk arm in arm so they kept pace with each other and didn't miss miss any conversation. It would be even more important for two people flying.

[beekeeperspicnic]

(Gosh sorry this doodle is so cursed haha)

Sure, the connotations of two men holding hands has definitely shifted over the past century and is now more likely to be seen as having romantic implications (sadly, I think) than when this was written. What is a normal thing to do in a homosocial friendship has shifted.

...But I think that it does suggest that if Holmes is fantasising about whizzing around omnipotently and making brilliant deductions on a social scale, he wants Watson specifically there with him to be impressed?

(And of course if you want to read them as having romantic feelings for one another, flying above London hand in hand is pretty romantic in multiple senses of the word)

[onsuchsmallthingstheworldturns]

[granadabrettishholmes]

Sherlock Holmes & John Watson

So married.

[sherlockboylove]

Realistically I know that the reason for all the inconsistencies in the original Sherlock books is because ACD could not give less of a fuck about continuity or consistency but I think it’s a lot funnier if John Watson was just a liar. You go king say everything but the truth!!!

[onsuchsmallthingstheworldturns]

[herbirdglitter]

SPOILER ALERT:

Remember when he had his hand on this woman’s bare thigh and was completely unbothered by it? I don’t think we talk about that enough. like the vibe wasn’t that he was being in ungentlemanly, it was more that the “hand on woman’s naked thigh in Victorian era=nope” concept didn’t even occur to him. Like that didn’t enter his brain. That was just a woman in trouble and that was just a leg. The fairer sex really isn’t his department

this isnt to say I think if he were straight he would’ve taken advantage or something, I just think if he were attracted to women, it would’ve occurred to him to be more respectful in his hand placement, you feel me?

then of course he hits up an opera performance with this lady, Watson, and her sister and they hangout in the gardens together and I just really want to understand the dynamic more

[oceangems85]

My mind was also blown when I realize she was played by David Burke's wife in real life!

[i-dont-talk-for-days-on-end]

WHAT?!

[amypihcs]

I'M SORRY WHAT?!

So yesyesyes, they resemble the composition of Michelangelo's Pietà, but I'M SORRY DAVID BURKE'S WIFE?!

[ghostgirl666artist]

I drew more sketches of Sherlock and Watson. I’ve definitely become obsessed with them again.

Note; (English isn’t my first language. Sorry if there are any mistakes in the dialogue.)

[ghostgirl666artist]

Sherlock and Watson, small everyday adventures! #1 🔍 I’ll probably be posting little comics or illustrations of this duo for a while under this title.

[its-always-sunny-in-city17]

london's brightest

[perregrin-of-1885]

Long suffering indeed

[its-always-sunny-in-city17]

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