http://www.ihearofsherlock.com/2014/02/heres-what-ideal-sherlock-holmes-looks.html
An interesting blog entry from 'ihearofsherlock'.  Creating an idealised image of Sherlock by combining pictures of most popular actors who played the role. The updated image is the more fitting one.  But, sadly,  less BC in both pics.

SherlocklivesinOH wrote:

holmes23 wrote:

If we could read in between lines, we would realise canon is not just about crimes and detection but about exploring the nuances of the relationships between the main characters.

For example, what do you all think of this paasage from The Norwood Builder?

At the time of which I speak, Holmes had been back for some months, and I at his request had sold my practice and returned to share the old quarters in Baker Street. A young doctor, named Verner, had purchased my small Kensington practice, and given with astonishingly little demur the highest price that I ventured to ask–an incident which only explained itself some years later, when I found that Verner was a distant relation of Holmes, and that it was my friend who had really found the money.

At the very least, this certainly speaks to how much Holmes wanted Watson back, and the buying of the practice makes me feel like he wants to "possess" Watson... wants Watson to "belong" to him. I don't mean in the CAM sense, certainly, more in a "committed relationship" way. It sounds a little bit like a proposal. Not that Holmes would even necessarily have said it that way to Watson, but he did ask Watson to, by giving up his practice, make a long-term commitment to be a partner to Holmes in some sense.

Holmes really wanted Watson back at any cost. But he never disclosed, at least for a few years, to Watson that it was he who actually found the money. Why the secrecy? Was he afraid to hurt Watson's pride?
Just imagin the scene which was never written, when Watson reported Holmes about how a man named Verner was ready to purchase his practice by paying the highest price he ventured to ask, and Holmes pretending that it's the first time he heard of Verner

At the time of which I speak, Holmes had been back for some months, and I at his request had sold my practice and returned to share the old quarters in Baker Street.

ACD could have stopped here. It'

Sherlock Holmes' artistic nature is always highlighted in canon

"All the afternoon he sat in the stalls wrapped in the most perfect happiness, gently waving his long, thin fingers in time to the music, while his gently smiling face and his languid, dreamy eyes were as unlike those of Holmes, the sleuth-hound, Holmes the relentless, keen-witted, ready-handed criminal agent, as it was possible to conceive. In his singular character the dual nature alternately asserted itself, and his extreme exactness and astuteness represented, as I have often thought, the reaction against the poetic and contemplative mood which occasionally predominated in him." - Read Headed League

And as for dancing, does this count?

"Now he was dancing and laughing and wringing my hand. Could this be my stern, self-contained friend? These were hidden fires, indeed!" 

The Johnlocker in me wonders, maybe he just learned so he could practice with John...and have an excuse to hold John in his arms.

In my head canon, it is the truth

Favorite Episodes

[13]The Sign of the Three -2
[14] His Last Vow +1

Eliminated

3. A Scandal in Belgravia
4. A Study in Pink
5. The Reichenbach Fall
6. The Great Game
7. The Empty Hearse
8. The Hounds of Baskerville
9. The Blind Banker
 

Be wrote:

Since I am struggling with grammar I do not dare to try one myself.

 Arthur Conan Doyle, The Empire 1902

They said that it had feet of clay
That its fall was sure and quick.
In the flames of yesterday
All the clay was burned to brick.

When they carved our epitaph
And marked us doomed beyond recall,
"We are", we anwered, with a laugh,
"The Empire that declines to fall".



 

Why I think of Sherlock Holmes and Watson here?
 

SolarSystem wrote:

Thanks so much, tonnaree, I'm feeling so much better already!

- John will have at least one very serious conversation with Mycroft - probably about Sherlock

"Mycroft, don't say another word, just go. He could snap you in two and right now, I'm slightly worried that he might."

"Don't speak, just leave."


True

I would love to see that scene 

Sherli Bakerst wrote:

Well, yeah!    John has lots of friends--well, people he knows and can hang out with...he's "normal," to all outward appearances, anyway.  But Sherlock only has one friend: John.  So the gap in his life caused by Sherlock's absence, while devastating at first, eventually dulled and can be filled in a way by being around other people he gets along with.  But Sherlock doesn't have other people he can hang out with, so he feels the absence of John more deeply.  That's why Sherlock shows emotion in the farewell scene but John doesn't.  Sherlock needs John but John doesn't need Sherlock to be happy.

There is a similar observation regarding their counterparts in canon.This makes Sherlock Holmes' character more poignant.

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