[ SECRET POST #2577 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2577 ⌋

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

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[Theresa Lopez-Fitzgerald-Crane, from the soap opera Passions]


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03.
[BBC Sherlock]


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04.
[Nobunaga the Fool]


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05.
[Carrie Fisher as Princess Leia from Star Wars]


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06.
[The Quick and the Dead]


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07.
[Nathan Fillion]


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08.
[Warehouse 13]


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Notes:

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

But that's not because ACD didn't give a fuck about the "Mary" character, it was because he didn't really give a fuck about the whole Holmes franchise anymore.

[(Anonymous)]

You have your dates a little off. By the time ACD truly was actively hating having to write Holmes - Watson was on wife two or three.

[(Anonymous)]

Considering he found Mary easily replaced with any 'wife' I don't think ACD thought much about her once he married her to Watson.

[(Anonymous)]

All the "wives" apart from the one in The BlanchedSoldier (which takes place near Holmes retirement) are intended to be Mary. She's not mentioned by name, but they're clearly meant to be her. Where are you getting your wildly erroneous information? You do realize how transparent it is that all your information is the result of you reading secondhand analyses poking fun at acd's lousy dating of stories, and interpreting them as serious? Please don't try to pass yourself off as a canon fan if you haven't read the books.

[misty_anon]

People assume Watson had more than one wife because it was stated that Mary is an orphan in The Sign of Four but, in a later story, Watson's unnamed wife is off visiting her mother.

Of course, since ACD couldn't remember where Watson's wound was (leg vs. shoulder), it's entirely likely he completely forgot that Mary's mother was supposed to be dead.

[(Anonymous)]

IIRC aren't there also some pretty long periods of time after his marriage to Mary, but before some later mentions of his wife, where he appears to be living at 221B again?

[(Anonymous)]

Yep! I suggest all Holmes fans pick up the Annotated Sherlock Holmes. The time lines and side notes are to die for.

[(Anonymous)]

I've heard enough criticism about Baring-Gould's chronology to be a little skeptical about that... but I'll check it out.

[(Anonymous)]

The important thing is to take it with a grain of salt and remember that the 'joke' is that the 'author' is writing everything as if Holmes and Watson were real.

[(Anonymous)]

It's batshit insane, and I love it. It's FASCINATINGLY batshit insane.

[misty_anon]

Lots of the stories aren't dated. If you take them as being written chronologically, then yes, Watson must have been a widower a few times as he's married, not married, married, not married... However, with the lack of dates, it's difficult to tell. None of Watson's other (possible) wives got a name, so far as I recall, so who knows how many of them were there in the end?

[(Anonymous)]

The stories aren't in chronological order at all. ACD does make some (well, a lot) of timeline boo-boos but not worse than,say, most old bible-less TV shows. And yeah, lots aren't dated, and there's acouple where Watson's wife is away for the week. But most of the pre-hiatus ones at Baker Street are just ones that occurred before Watson's marriage, even if they were written after the sign of four.