I love this sentence: "it struck me that I had no idea whether his parents were still alive, possibly buried somewhere on a country estate, wrapped in stultifying boredom that their sons had run to London to escape"
And I also love seeing fics where Watson actually points out (as he should have in the actual stories) that Holmes just popping up like that did not automatically make everything better. I can never decide quite how far this should go before it becomes too soap-operatic... But I definitely liked this version.
(Secretly I'm counting on Moffat and Gatiss to hit on the perfect balance, so that I can know what it it. :-P If they knew how much I'm counting on them to do in three 1.5 hour episodes this Fall, they'd be very nervous. Haha.)
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And I also love seeing fics where Watson actually points out (as he should have in the actual stories) that Holmes just popping up like that did not automatically make everything better. I can never decide quite how far this should go before it becomes too soap-operatic... But I definitely liked this version.
(Secretly I'm counting on Moffat and Gatiss to hit on the perfect balance, so that I can know what it it. :-P If they knew how much I'm counting on them to do in three 1.5 hour episodes this Fall, they'd be very nervous. Haha.)