[ SECRET POST #2776 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2776 ⌋

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[intrigueing]

I don't think either Freeman's Watson OR Law's Watson was really true to the character in the books, even though I like both interpretations (I like Law's Watson just a little more, but that might be more because of Moffat's Moffatery playing hell with my suspension of disbelief when it comes to random accidental jerk-moments).

The thing is, I don't really think Law's Watson is a guy who can control Holmes or a guy who takes no shit. He's pretty much Holmes's bitch, he's just a lot more awesomely mouthy about it than most adapted-Watsons. He still pretty much does whatever Holmes tells him to even when he doesn't want to, eventually. And I don't think Freeman's Watson is like ACD Watson in the way that he behaves when Sherlock acts rude or crazy, or the way John has so much trouble wrapping his mind around how someone can act like that and making excuses for him with others. ACD Watson mostly just stood back and sort of lol'd quietly to himself when Holmes acted like a nut or was rude to people (because ACD Holmes was never as nasty as BBC Sherlock, and was most often sarcastic to inflated upper-class pricks), and was content to just accept that Holmes was a weird rude dude and slowly study him and catalog Holmes's behavior even when he couldn't figure it out, instead of being irritated at it when he couldn't understand it (except when Holmes wanked about how he was so much smarter than everyone else, or insulted Watson's writing).

Honestly, one of the reasons I can never feel that any adaptation Watson feels like canon Watson is that they're all simultaneously a) less patient and good-natured and accepting about Holmes's weirdness than canon Watson, and, at the same time, b) more susceptible to being bamboozled or manipulated or bullied into doing what Holmes wants instead of what they want than canon Watson. Canon Watson usually had no complaints about Holmes's weird behavior or bossiness, 90% of the time he was totally unbothered by Holmes ordering him to do stuff or acting like a loon because he usually trusted that Holmes knew what he was doing. But despite this, only very, VERY rarely did he actually cave into what Holmes told him to do when he really didn't want to do it or was certain that Holmes's idea was idiotic, (as opposed to merely being uncertain but still trusting Holmes knew what he was doing.)

This doesn't mean any of the adaptation Watsons are bad, mind you, just not like canon.