Well, I do think Doyle was making a philosophical point--particularly with Study in Scarlet. I don't think the philosophy of the mind only mattering was the main point of view at the time, but it was a strong one, and I think he bought into it.
I do like House. I haven't watched it through...but as far as I have seen it's just giving us that love/hate relationship you have to have with Holmes because he's such a jerk, and once in a while tantalizing us with the idea that he might become good, and then crushing us. Like...HAHA! He'll never be good and YOU LOVE IT ANYWAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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I think it is interesting to think about the fact that emotions can be dangerous. (I really like in BBC Sherlock when John gets a little bit angry, and he says "there are hundreds of people dying, Doctor. Why don't you go cry by their bedsides." It's a good argument, but ultimately I don't buy it.
I, too, didn't think so much about EMPT until I got into fandom. However, I've been interested in Holmes's lack of emotion/lack of willingness to state that he cared pretty much from the first time I read it. I really liked that moment in 3GAR. It was only as I started to think more about the cowardliness that would make someone be unwilling to EVER express love (and I don't mean soppiness...I am always torn in this fandom, because on the one hand there is the slash, which I hate, and then on the other there is the soppy soppy not-slash, which makes me want to barf...and very little Sherlock Holmes being Sherlock Holmes...if that makes any sense...) to the one person they cared about. That's really a selfish thing, and it took my growing up to see, for example, how much that hurts. I think the quotation I gave from C.S. Lewis (and really all of the Four Loves) is what sent me on that track. And that's when I realized that 3GAR is as horrifying as is is heart warming. The EMPT thing came later, after I had read some fanfiction dealing with it...but as I said in my one post, I've realized that was a girly thing. :-P
DYIN I think is a clear state of Holmes being an absolute jerk, and Watson being nauseatingly, almost Nigel-Bruce-ly fawning. I still don't think Watson would angst over it for days, as some fanwriters have had him do, but I would really have liked Watson to actually be a man for one moment in the story. I rewrote it in BBC verse, because it makes me so mad. It was quite cathartic. Hehe.
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I do like House. I haven't watched it through...but as far as I have seen it's just giving us that love/hate relationship you have to have with Holmes because he's such a jerk, and once in a while tantalizing us with the idea that he might become good, and then crushing us. Like...HAHA! He'll never be good and YOU LOVE IT ANYWAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
:-)
I think it is interesting to think about the fact that emotions can be dangerous. (I really like in BBC Sherlock when John gets a little bit angry, and he says "there are hundreds of people dying, Doctor. Why don't you go cry by their bedsides." It's a good argument, but ultimately I don't buy it.
I, too, didn't think so much about EMPT until I got into fandom. However, I've been interested in Holmes's lack of emotion/lack of willingness to state that he cared pretty much from the first time I read it. I really liked that moment in 3GAR. It was only as I started to think more about the cowardliness that would make someone be unwilling to EVER express love (and I don't mean soppiness...I am always torn in this fandom, because on the one hand there is the slash, which I hate, and then on the other there is the soppy soppy not-slash, which makes me want to barf...and very little Sherlock Holmes being Sherlock Holmes...if that makes any sense...) to the one person they cared about. That's really a selfish thing, and it took my growing up to see, for example, how much that hurts. I think the quotation I gave from C.S. Lewis (and really all of the Four Loves) is what sent me on that track. And that's when I realized that 3GAR is as horrifying as is is heart warming. The EMPT thing came later, after I had read some fanfiction dealing with it...but as I said in my one post, I've realized that was a girly thing. :-P
DYIN I think is a clear state of Holmes being an absolute jerk, and Watson being nauseatingly, almost Nigel-Bruce-ly fawning. I still don't think Watson would angst over it for days, as some fanwriters have had him do, but I would really have liked Watson to actually be a man for one moment in the story. I rewrote it in BBC verse, because it makes me so mad. It was quite cathartic. Hehe.