reading the ACD canon and hitting the point where Holmes retires ALONE to Sussex and doesn't see Watson for THREE YEARS it just made me want to handwave and shout that ACD GOT IT WRONG.
This story is amazing because it shows how life goes on. Holmes made the wrong choice and Watson made the best of it. Both of them went on as heroes in their own right.
For you to conclude the story in Sussex with the two of them finally side by side again, with Holmes open to hearing what is really in Watson's heart, is a magnificent opening out of the constrictions of canon.
ACD GOT IT WRONG --or rather, he took the hermit in Holmes to his logical, tragic conclusion -- and you made it right again. Kudos! I do mourn for Watson's lost children -- there is no loss so heartrending. But retirement with Holmes is a chance for happiness and contentment between two convivial minds -- and that's not nothing. :D
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Date: 2012-10-22 03:17 pm (UTC)This story is amazing because it shows how life goes on. Holmes made the wrong choice and Watson made the best of it. Both of them went on as heroes in their own right.
For you to conclude the story in Sussex with the two of them finally side by side again, with Holmes open to hearing what is really in Watson's heart, is a magnificent opening out of the constrictions of canon.
ACD GOT IT WRONG --or rather, he took the hermit in Holmes to his logical, tragic conclusion -- and you made it right again. Kudos! I do mourn for Watson's lost children -- there is no loss so heartrending. But retirement with Holmes is a chance for happiness and contentment between two convivial minds -- and that's not nothing. :D