Watson May Have Logic And Late 1800s Doctor Knowledge But He Sure As Hell Doesn't Have Self Preservation - Tumblr Posts

Sherlock Holmes in the books is wild because I went from the TV show where you had like a small tiny chance of figuring out the end to the Conan Doyle novels where we're looking through the eyes of Watson so half the time when Holmes gets to explaining the story we're just like "?!??! I'm sorry she looked like what and it smelled like who"

I'm half convinced this is why most of the subsequent protrayals like to show John as a knucklehead because sometimes Doyle went apeshit on Holmes' Eye For Detail and just left Watson in the dust because I assume he got caught up in clever descriptive detective funsies

Ngl though I love the books a bit more than the show with one example why being that in one short story Holmes just kind of neglects to tell Watson that the reason they're on a stakeout in a woman's bedroom is to figure out if her (step?) father is sending a venomous snake through a hole in the ceiling

Like thanks Sherly I'm glad you solved the case here's a pat on the back but like tHE FUCK did you JUST GLOSS OVER telling your partner about the THREAT OF DEATH

Legit though Watson was more like "woah, gnarly Holmes that's an Indian species of snake we heard there and it be trained by that there bell" [the discrepencies in our responses to Sherlock's tomfuckery show why he is the Watson and I am the Concerned Onlooker]