#Mary Sutherland

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Truly, the women of the Sherlock Holmes canon and the surrounding media are beautiful and excellent and messy and awful and human, human, human... and the fandom does not deserve them.

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As he spoke there was a tap at the door, and the boy in buttons entered to announce Miss Mary Sutherland, while the lady herself loomed behind his small black figure like a full-sailed merchant-man behind a tiny pilot boat. Sherlock Holmes welcomed her with the easy courtesy for which he was remarkable...

Miss Mary Sutherland, drawn by Sidney Paget, Josef Friedrich, Martin Van Maële, and Gastão Simões da Fonseca, respectively

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¿Soy solamente yo o A Case of Identity podría ser increíblemente fácil de modernizar? Gracias a la tecnología, que alguien finja ser otra persona es bastante sencillo. Hasta tiene su propio termino el infame Catfish. Si la historia inicia desde el punto de vista Mary Sutherland, tienes una history extremadamente perturbadora.

Diablos, creo que la verdad me gustaría una adaptación que inicia los misterios desde el punto de vista de los clientes, con la excepción de Wilhelm Gottsreich Sigismond von Ormstein. El puede irse de puntitas a la chingada.

¿Alguna recomendación?

Is it just me or A Case of Identity might be incredibly easy to modernize? Thanks to technology, we even have a term for that "catfish." If you start the story from Mary Sutherland point of view, you have very disturbing tale.

Heck, I think I would really enjoy an adaptation that starts from the point of view of clients. However, Wilhelm Gottsreich Sigismond von Ormstein can pack his bags and go straight to hell.

Any recommendations?

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The young Ms Sutherland’s whole story is just one big moment of this, really:

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PRIDE AND PREJUDICE (2005)

dir. joe wright

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Letters From Watson Liveblog - Mar. 12

A Case of Identity, Part 1 of 2

The story just starts with Watson and Holmes together in Baker Street; no contrived reasoning, no mention of Mary, and no justification needed it seems. It's kind of refreshing in a way.

From what I'm getting, Holmes is arguing that the stuff people come up with in stories could never be as interesting as what the real world could offer. Watson evidently disagrees, on the basis that what the real world offers is usually too crude and "vulgar" to be in any way fascinating.

I don't know who's right, but what humors me is the fact that it's Sherlock Holmes and John Watson having this conversation, arguably some of the most famous fictional characters ever written, so there's a certain level of meta irony there.

Oh, it looks like I was wrong. We do get the merest wisp of an explanation for Watson being at Baker Street.

It's also interesting that we get such a direct reference to A Scandal in Bohemia, but publication wise, this case was released soon after that one, with only one other story between them.

That couldn't have been normal back then, could it? I know romance in stories tends to fast forward through a relationship, but being engaged after the first walk seems a bit too much. I'm hoping that it was as much a warning sign to the readers of the time as it is to us.

If I didn't know any better, I'd say Ms. Mary Sutherland has gotten herself a vampire for a fiancé.

Of course, the majority of the evidence seems to be pointing in a much worse direction.

Interesting how Mr. Hosmer Angel always seems to show up when Mr. Windibank is "in France." How utterly convenient he only appears when the step-father is gone.

Holmes has already figured out the solution to this case, and immediately feels sorry for Ms. Mary Sutherland. It's sweet how he goes to say this before he can even tell her what the truth is.

Hopefully it will be soon, Watson.

This case is certainly interesting. I like how much evidence there is in this letter to point you in the right direction. Can't wait for the final part.

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Robert Redford’s ORDINARY PEOPLE hit theaters across the U.S. on September 19, 1980. The winner of four Academy Awards including Best Picture stars Donald Sutherland, Mary Tyler Moore, Judd Hirsch, and Timothy Hutton.

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”#out of this batch it's clearly Holmes, #my boy is behaving abominably, #I don't think he understands this but it's still very not on and not even a very good plan, #Jabez Wilson is a bit rude and too full of himself, #but that really can't compare to faking a fatal illness and saying horrible cutting things to your best friend to preserve an illusion, #none of the rest of these people qualify”

Letters from Watson: Worst Client poll 3

Poll 2 link

I really had to stretch the definition of "client" for this one, but I'm dead set on including one from each case. I am excited to see the results for this one--don't forget to include your rationale in the tags!

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Pride and prejudice (2005)

dir. joe wright

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I'm seeing a pattern here...

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“I can’t respond when someone says, ‘here, I just did this great thing, love me.’”

Ordinary People (1980) dir. Robert Redford

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Watson told Mary Watson, and she found a means to talk to Mary Sutherland.

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Letters From Watson Liveblog - Mar. 14

A Case of Identity, Part 2 of 2

I don't know why, but Watson has been in a very judgmental mood this story. He was quite callous in his regard of that domestic abuse situation in the newspaper, and now he's judging Miss Sutherland's appearance and intelligence. At least she has his respect, I guess?

Watson doing an observation, and Sherlock telling him everything he missed is a fun little thing that happens throughout the series. It can be a little rude at times, but I've always found it enjoyable.

Is this as close to the iconic-but-not-actually-in-the-story catchphrase as we'll get? I know there are a few other ones in some other stories that get close as well.

Honoré de Balzac was a French novelist, and I'm assuming the fact Mr. Windibank is always going off to France is the reason Sherlock finds this noticeable here.

A weird and gross answer to this mystery, though I will say that I personally found this much more believable than the reveal in The Man with the Twisted Lip. I'm guessing it's because that story had a much more serious tone cut off by the ending, whereas this story so far has been pretty light-hearted throughout.

I'll give the bare minimum of credit to Mr. Windibank for, I'm hopefully assuming, not having done anything physical with Miss Sutherland. They just went on walks and wrote letters, then got engaged. This story could have been much worse than what we got.

You know you're a really bad person when Sherlock Holmes threatens physical violence upon you. But without the law on his side, it's probably the best he could manage in this situation.

No, but you should still tell Miss Sutherland. She deserves to know the truth, whether you think she'll believe it or not. Or at the very least tell her that her step-father and mother are mooching off her money.

I'm going to choose to believe that Watson told her the truth regardless of what was said here.

This was a short, neat little mystery. The Red-Headed League, though, now there's a strange case! I always thought that was a fun one.

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Paintings of Napoleon’s son, Alexandre Walewski, when he was a young man

The last time Alexandre saw Napoleon was during the Hundred Days in 1815 before Napoleon departed for his final exile on the island of St. Helena. Two years later, his mother died unexpectedly. He was 7 years old. He described his mother as “one of the most remarkable women that ever existed.” In his Memoirs, he described his childhood after her death:

“In almost every conversation my uncle Laczynski paid homage to the memory of my mother—his sister. As a result, from a very early age, we two boys [Alexandre’s half-brother] learned to love and admire her, realizing the enormity of our loss. . . . Uncle Theodore told us much about the Napoleonic Wars and always expressed his unbounded admiration for the Emperor. . . . It is needless to say that we listened to him spellbound. . . . My uncle’s greatest wish was to take us on a visit to St Helena, but he thought we had better wait until we were older.”

Source: Marie Walewska, Napoleon’s Great Love, by Christine Sutherland

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Ordinary People (1980) / Wishbone - Richard Siken / Corpus Christi - Terrence McNally / A Primer for the Small Weird Loves - Richard Siken