BBC Sherlock Fan Forum - Serving Sherlockians since February 2012 » Johnlock: The Official Debate

besleybean · May 16, 2017 6:19 pm

Just as well BBC Sherlock is my favourite representation.

Schmiezi · May 16, 2017 6:24 pm

besleybean wrote:
Just as well BBC Sherlock is my favourite representation.

You really hate not having the last word, don't you? ;-)

besleybean · May 16, 2017 6:25 pm

I just answer other peoples posts...thought that's what the board was all about!

SusiGo · May 16, 2017 6:27 pm

besleybean wrote:
Just as well BBC Sherlock is my favourite representation.

I really do not understand this answer in relation to my post.

besleybean · May 16, 2017 7:04 pm

Because obviously they did want a strong representation of Mary.
Their choice and their right.

Schmiezi · May 16, 2017 7:18 pm

besleybean wrote:
Because obviously they did want a strong representation of Mary.
Their choice and their right.

Why are you always stressing that it's their right to do so? Of course it is their right. It's their show. As well as it is for example my right to dislike the non conclusive way they wrote her from charming sweet nurse to egoistic smart-alec.

I do have that right, don't I?

besleybean · May 16, 2017 8:16 pm

Of course.
I'm not the one questioning peoples posts!

Schmiezi · May 17, 2017 2:59 am

SusiGo wrote:
Of one thing I am very, very sure - that there have been very few Sherlock Holmes scholars and fans over the last 130 years who wished for more representation of Mrs Mary Watson. I cannot remember a single one, tbh.

Is there a source about how Strand readers reacted to her introduction and later to her disappearing?

SusiGo · May 17, 2017 7:15 am

Maybe there is but I am not enough of a Holmes scholar to know about it. What I know is that there is and has been an extensive discussion about the "six wives" of Watson. ACD has been very inconsistent in his writing of Watson's marriage and the character of wife which to me proves that they were not very important to him. He used every trick to have married Watson still spend time with Holmes. Make of that what you will.

Schmiezi · May 17, 2017 7:37 am

Well, you could say that by giving Mary an inconsistent character Mofftiss stayed true to canon. ;-)

SusiGo · May 17, 2017 7:45 am

Oh, this is a very good point! So in the end she is Canon after all.

besleybean · May 17, 2017 4:03 pm

She certainly appears in mine!

Schmiezi · May 17, 2017 5:04 pm

besleybean wrote:
She certainly appears in mine!

You are having your own canon? Isn't that like the opposite of "canon"? Or did I get the word wrong?

besleybean · May 17, 2017 5:06 pm

No, I was unclear.
I meant she's in my copy of the Canon.

Schmiezi · May 17, 2017 5:15 pm

Ah thanks. But I think you'very got Susi's and my comments wrong. We meant (half jokingly) that BBC Mary is as inconsistent as canon Mary and therefore, somehow, BBC Mary fits canon even though she is that smart-alec sweet super heroine good wife mingle-mangle.

besleybean · May 17, 2017 5:15 pm

I'm happy with both.

Schmiezi · May 17, 2017 5:35 pm

Let's continue this over at the Mary thread. One moment please...

SusiGo · May 18, 2017 10:32 am

A lovely anecdote about Basil Rathbone and Nigel Bruce:

http://johntheantivirus.tumblr.com/post/160798729428/rathbone-and-bruce-aiming-for-johnlock-back-in-the

nakahara · May 18, 2017 2:13 pm

SusiGo wrote:
A lovely anecdote about Basil Rathbone and Nigel Bruce:

http://johntheantivirus.tumblr.com/post/160798729428/rathbone-and-bruce-aiming-for-johnlock-back-in-the

LOL!

ewige · May 18, 2017 4:11 pm

SusiGo wrote:
A lovely anecdote about Basil Rathbone and Nigel Bruce:

http://johntheantivirus.tumblr.com/post/160798729428/rathbone-and-bruce-aiming-for-johnlock-back-in-the

A lovely story, well-told!