[ SECRET POST #3203 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #3203 ⌋

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Comments

Re: Unpopular/Controversial Headcanons

[dreemyweird]

Well, it does say "at this period of my life", not "from then on Watson and I grew apart and were never close again". This line is not contradicted in any later stories, but it's not like this couldn't change in the extracanonical timeline.

Re: Unpopular/Controversial Headcanons

[(Anonymous)]

Yeah, it's not set in stone. They may have gotten back into the habit of seeing each other more after this. But realistically, I think it's unlikely. For two elderly men to have grown so much apart that Holmes would say Watson was "almost beyond his ken," and to evidently be living at some distance from each other, seems likely to be fairly final.

I think ACD probably wrote "at this period of my life" not to imply there would be a later period where they grew close again, but just to let the audience know that Holmes was writing of a later period of his life, when Watson was no longer around much.

Re: Unpopular/Controversial Headcanons

[dreemyweird]

Yeah, that's one of the reasons I don't headcanon them as having retired together. But there's definitely wiggle room!