[ SECRET POST #2220 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2220 ⌋

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

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[Sherlock, The Hobbit, Doctor Who]


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[Hotel Transylvania]


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[Skyfall]


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[Love Actually]


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[The Walking Dead]


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[Small Wonder]


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[Star Trek: Deep Space Nine]


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[Downton Abbey]


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[Magi]


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[Homestuck]


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Notes:

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Comments

[tweedisgood]

Except the bit where it's probably wrong. Holmes says that his ancestors were "country squires". That's not the upper classes. And he has to work for his living, as does Watson. Mycroft is a civil servant (also a middle class occupation)and there is no indication any of the Holmeses were actually in government per se (ministers, MPs)
It's the intellectual difference that makes Watson feel he is Holmes' inferior.

[tree_and_leaf]

Yes, and in any case I doubt that the professional classes felt they were there to serve the aristocracy. They were much more likely to pride themselves on not being a bunch of idle drones who never did a day's work and had inherited everything they were given.

[tweedisgood]

They were much more likely to pride themselves on not being a bunch of idle drones who never did a day's work and had inherited everything they were given

It was a little more complicated than that. There was still huge deference to those with titles - though not to the point of servility, no. "New money" wealthy tradesmen still sought to marry their sons and daughters to titles (who in return often welcomed the cash injection - for a Doylian example, consider Percy Phelps and Miss Harrison in NAVA).

Yet the ideal of being a "gentleman" in more ways than mere manners - in other words, not having to sully your hands with earning a living, a hangover from earlier times, was still around. OTOH the professionals with that pride in making their own way were on the rise, especially towards the end of the 19th century.