[ SECRET POST #2477 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2477 ⌋

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Comments

[dreemyweird]

My reaction to the most spectacular canon dickishness on Holmes's part is... odd. Like, I was mildly annoyed by The Empty House and The Dying Detective, and maybe a bit by The Hound, but I've always accepted Holmes's explanations as reasonable and valid. And I've always kind of thought that Watson knew what he was signing for. Watson saw perfectly well who Holmes was and how he behaved, and he just accepted Holmes this way.

Also, I don't agree that it was terrible of Holmes to do all these things. In The Dying Detective in particular I am quite sure that he was simply anxious for the case to proceed as smoothly as possible. If he would've told Watson that he was a-okay moments before the criminal entered, Watson might've become agitated or angry at him and screwed the case up. Holmes isn't so much a dick as a really professional fellow. Cases>feelings (apart from, as we could see, the instances when there's some real danger to Watson's wellbeing).

Sometimes I think that Holmes doesn't quite get what it is to be deceived like this. He has not succumbed to such deception once (save for the case of Irene Adler, which did not hurt him in a way such actions on Holmes's part hurt Watson), so he's all like, "whatever, there's no physical harm in that."