[ SECRET POST #2477 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2477 ⌋

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

Actually, you know what makes this story so cruel to re-read if you know that Holmes is faking? The fact that we get to be right inside Watson's head from the perspective of the presence and see, blow-by-blow, Watson's panic and pain and misery at his bff's impending death all throughout the story. And all his declarations of loyalty and sympathetic responses to each of Holmes's totally bogus fits of agony spelled out vertabim.

It's hard to tell with Doyle, but given the narrative choices in that story, I think he purposely wanted the readers to be pissed at Holmes.

[sootyowl]

Well, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle was ending the series when he killed Holmes off as he didn't care much for him anymore. He supposidly only brought Holmes back, because of money and death threats (I believe people close to him bothered him to make more stories as well). Maybe that's why the tone was different?

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nayrt

Nah, I don't think that was quite it. Because some of Holmes's most sympathetic/human moments come from the post-hiatus stories. It seemed more like retroactive foreshadowing of Reichenbach.