[ SECRET POST #2885 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2885 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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[Avengers]


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03.
[Terminator: Genisys]


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04.
[Red Dwarf]


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05.
[Gracepoint/Broadchurch]


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06.
[Doctor Who]


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07.
[All The President's Men]


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08.
[The Great Mouse Detective]


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09.
[Supernatural]


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10.
[Transformers: Prime]












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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

Actual ACD Holmes has very little tact or patience, and is very much a "the ends justify the means" type, which can lead to him being very manipulative and using people if he thinks it's for the greater good. He's also a show-off, at least in front of Watson, and will occasionally jerk people around for the sake of being able to better pull off the dramatic reveal. (Some will say that's just lazy writing on Doyle's part, but I say we base our character analysis on the canon we have, not the canon we wish we had.)

He's also smart and strong, occasionally very kind, reasonably open-minded for the era, and very quick to apologize once he realizes he's fucked up. And has amazing hands, if Watson is to be believed ;). (Seriously, Watson spends a ridiculous amount of time describing the man's hands in loving detail.)

[(Anonymous)]

One of my favourite tactless!Holmes moments was in Norwood Builder:

MacFarlane: "For Heaven's sake don't abandon me, Mr Holmes! If they should come to arrest me before I have finished my story, make them give me time so that I may tell you the whole truth."
Holmes: "Arrest you! This is really most grati-- most interesting. On what charge do you expect to be arrested?"

... Nice save, Holmes. Truly.

He is a genuinely kind and just man a lot of the time, though, and a fairly decent hand at comforting people. He just has this tendency of treading on people's finer feelings in order to get to the meat of things the faster, sometimes very, very badly.