[ SECRET POST #2634 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2634 ⌋

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

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[Lady Gaga]


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[free!, attack on titan]


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(Panic! at the Disco)


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[Anarky]


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(Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.)


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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

Seriously. There are lots of reasons to have shaky hands other than drunkenness. There are lots of reasons to take your wedding ring off regularly other than being unfaithful. He's just lucky, most of the time.

[inevitableentresol]

Yes.

[(Anonymous)]

Well, to be fair, that's what Holmes does in canon too.

The difference is that if canon Holmes was totally wrong, he'd just go "what, really??? How fascinating! Watson! Put this down in your next book to show your readers I'm not as infallible as your overexaggerated scribblings claim me to be!"

I'm replying mostly so I can save this comment for later.

[elephantinegrace]

Seriously, now I finally know what people mean when they say they want to marry a comment.

OP

[(Anonymous)]

Yes, exactly why I have a problem with BBC Sherlock. Thank you for this.

[(Anonymous)]

A lovely example of a published crossover with this is Flashman and the Tiger by George MacDonald Fraser. It's one of the standard Flashman books, but it has Flashie pretending to be a drunk seaman after having hunted Moran down in the vicinity of the Empty House (Moran was making moves on Flashman's daughter), and having to sit there and listen to Holmes making deductions about him based on things like his old German duelling scars, etc.

The thing is, while everything Holmes said is perfectly plausible and the most likely explanation for Flashman's condition, this is Flashman he's talking about, who has had the single most convoluted life it's possible to have as a fictional British political officer, spanning five decades by this point. Occam's razor might get you a drunken German sailor who used to be nobility, based on duelling scars and general condition, but no way will it get you Prisoner of Zenda style shenanigans forty years ago.

I always liked it, because it wasn't so much pointing out that Holmes was wrong, as such, as it was pointing out that life is sometimes a lot more crazy and convoluted than logical deductions can really allow for, even if we aren't all eighty year old ex-spies with the most insane service record in history.