The Dancing Men
Jul. 23rd, 2018 10:56 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
sarahthecoatThis week for @astudyincanon book club, I listened to the audio book of DANC, and watched the Granada episode. I think the #1 takeaway has to be SO MARRIED! From Watson’s checkbook locked up in Holmes’ desk and the “mind reading” trick at the beginning to the easy partnership throughout, and the parallels between them and the Cubitts, it’s abundantly clear. The Granada episode underscores it even more with the lovely facial expressions both of them show each other throughout. I LOVE the sassy eyebrows as Watson prepares to show Hilton Cubitt in, having observed him out the window and “deduced” him to Holmes.
Hilton and Elsie met and very quickly became engaged, even though one or perhaps both never expected to marry, not unlike Holmes and Watson, who met and moved in together and quickly formed a partnership. Elsie, like Holmes, tried to give Hilton a chance to back out at the beginning, but Hilton, like Watson, trusts. Hilton Cubitt appears to come from one of those old families that has a large estate, but not much money to go with it. I have to wonder if this is also a parallel to the Holmes family.
Slaney’s “I have a right to her” smacks of Carruthers in SOLI, and we all know in what contempt Holmes and Watson hold men who think they own women. As in CROO, the insensible wife is a suspect in the husband’s death until Holmes reveals the presence of a third person.
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Jul 23rd, 2018
Hilton and Elsie met and very quickly became engaged, even though one or perhaps both never expected to marry, not unlike Holmes and Watson, who met and moved in together and quickly formed a partnership. Elsie, like Holmes, tried to give Hilton a chance to back out at the beginning, but Hilton, like Watson, trusts. Hilton Cubitt appears to come from one of those old families that has a large estate, but not much money to go with it. I have to wonder if this is also a parallel to the Holmes family.
Slaney’s “I have a right to her” smacks of Carruthers in SOLI, and we all know in what contempt Holmes and Watson hold men who think they own women. As in CROO, the insensible wife is a suspect in the husband’s death until Holmes reveals the presence of a third person.
acd danc danc acd astudyincanon consulting husbands holmes & watson acd soli acd croo
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Jul 23rd, 2018
