James Robinson on Prometheus

[arbre_rieur.insanejournal.com]

From the text section of the latest Cry for Justice issue, Robinson muses on the character Prometheus...

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[stig.insanejournal.com]

Moriarty is only a villain for the same reason that Watson is seen as a fat old idiot (thank you Kate Beaton): because of the films and other media blowing him out of proportion. Doyle's original intent was to bestow upon him the same aura of dread that comes from the unknown - similar to Dorian Gray's painting. Apart from that, he was just a plot device to get Holmes dead so that he wouldn't have to write Holmes stories any longer.

If Moriarty had never been invented, Holmes had a good rogues gallery full of better-developed villains, any one of whom could become his arch-nemesis - Jonathan Small, perhaps, or the old Professor in the adventure of the Spotted Band, or even Dr. Stapleton.

[magus_69.insanejournal.com]

Moriarty is only a villain for the same reason that Watson is seen as a fat old idiot (thank you Kate Beaton): because of the films and other media blowing him out of proportion.

This is why I'm glad that my first exposure to Sherlock Holmes was through the original stories. Watson was never Holmes, but he was always a badass in his way.

[stig.insanejournal.com]

True that. You don't come back home after years as an army surgeon in Afghanistan without being a somewhat capable individual. Holmes' intelligence was originally established on the scale that he could fool and outwit someone as clever as Watson; reduce Watson's intelligence, and Holmes himself becomes only slightly cleverer than the average man.

[kagome654.insanejournal.com]

Or Arsène Lupin.

...I don't care if Doyle never wrote a Lupin/Holmes story, they're rivals!

[psychop_rex.insanejournal.com]

HE didn't, but I believe contemporaries of his did. I suppose it boils down to whether or not you consider the original author's work to be the sole defining canon for the character, or whether one allows later influences as well. (In the latter case, Sherlock Holmes has also faced the Loch Ness Monster, Fu Manchu and Dracula. I prefer the latter case.)

[kagome654.insanejournal.com]

Leblanc himself wrote a handful of Lupin/Holmes stories (unsurprisingly Lupin almost always come out on top during these encounters). I tend to prefer the latter case as well, since that means Holmes has also had a run in with Cthulhu.

[kagome654.insanejournal.com]

*come=came

[psychop_rex.insanejournal.com]

And Batman, of course. Come to think of it, who HASN'T Holmes encountered?

[majingojira.insanejournal.com]

Motto!

God, I read his first sentances regarding Moriarity and then just stopped.

If you're going to make an analogy to something--KNOW WHAT YOU'RE TALKING ABOUT FIRST!

[icon_uk.insanejournal.com]

I always liked David Burke's Watson in the Jeremy Brett line, even more than Edmund Hardwicke, he made Watson a decent, intelligent admirable man (He WAS a Doctor, and Holmes noted their values in "The Speckled Band" when he pointed out; When a doctor goes wrong, he is the first of criminals. He has nerve. He has knowledge. Palmer and Pritchard were among the heads of their profession)