Even worse was what would have happened if Irene had been anything less than who and what she was. If she had been less quick on the uptake, or even a little less quick on her feet, she would have been left facing a KING without any protection at all.
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The only thing that saved Irene from Holmes's mistake was Irene. And he knew it. He knew the moment they opened the safe that he was on the wrong side, and that Irene had saved herself from him as much as from the King of Bohemia.
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It wasn't romantic. It was evidence that Holmes had a conscience, and that he was aware of how catastrophic things could be if he wound up on the wrong side of justice. I really wish somebody would do THAT take in one of these adaptations.
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Replying to @CWGaither
Watson's protesting too much that Holmes didn't have any hint of prurient interest in Adler was inviting readers to close that gap in their imaginations and Holmes was right to be pissed at Watson for even bringing it up
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And the whole character tic of Holmes never referring to Adler by name but as "The Woman" probably wasn't the romantic love Doyle implied it could be (by having Watson stridently deny it) It's much more in character as a way for Holmes to remind himself of his failure
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EXACTLY. And framed by Watson's unreliable narration, you tend to miss it. I mean any discussion of Holmes' romantic life and lackthereof is academic. But the romance with Adler, specifically, has never seemed to fit well. Every take has to change her too much to make it work.
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Yeah -- resurrecting this for a sec, what info we manage to get about canon Irene Norton (née Adler) is that she's TIRED of whatever femme fatale shenanigans she may or may not have been involved with All of her actions in the actual story are to AVOID tangling with powerful men
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She seems to be marrying Godfrey Norton because he's a decent, normal guy who doesn't have any big mission in life with a big ego to match and a need to win her as a prize to back that up She wants the hell away from the King because she wants out of dealing with men like that
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So actually getting tangled up with Sherlock seems like it'd be WORSE than staying entangled with the King It'd be the worst possible thing she could do
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You're right. And I think that's the other bit that bothered me, and I didn't think of it until you articulated it: Irene has no interest in Holmes beyond figuring out who's screwing with her this time. She has her own self-contained life and he is the intruder.
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Exactly One of the iconic things about old school Holmes stories is the "But Now I Must Go" trope, that Holmes barges in on someone's deeply personal family drama and then leaves again He's able to do what he does because he sees himself as a disinterested third party
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(Which got flanderized wildly when they made him into House MD, a voyeur addicted to trashy soap operas who interferes with other people's lives because he has no relationships of his own, etc)
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But on Holmes' side it's wildly out of character for him to stay involved with a case after it's been resolved, *especially* to shack up with a woman in a case where he refused payment because he concluded he was wrong to ever fuck with her life in the first place
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