I'm not gonna go to bat for Doyle as a perfect progressive ally but I actually am pretty sure it was, to a degree, intended Holmes, multiple times, lectures Watson about how Watson isn't stupid but just imperceptive, he ignores people he's socially expected to ignorehttps://twitter.com/snarkbat/status/1298712492026155008 …
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And Sherlock and Watson just let the woman go They're even willing to take the fall for it When Inspector Lestrade asks them about the murder case they're like "Nope can't help you"
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When he's like "The staff saw two suspicious guys on the grounds, one of them was this big guy with a gun" they're like "Oh that could be anybody, come on, Watson is a big guy with a gun" (This, by the way, is strong textual evidence that Movie Watson should look cool/badass)
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Holmes fandom, btw, takes this whole series of events as a hint that what actually happened was when Milverton smugly told Holmes how he'd foiled his plan Watson lost his temper and just pulled out his gun and shot him right there Then made up the lady as legal ass-covering
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That's a good story, but I think I prefer the version where the lady killed him It's actually more satisfying
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