Stephen said:
Actually, I think the Holmes/ Watson analogy breaks down given that it is not, at any point, recorded that Holmes snogged Moriarty or flung Watson off the Reichenbach Falls.
It all depends on which Websites you read, doesn't it?
Jacqui asked:
Would Moriarty be Travis then? And Servalan Irene Adler
(or whatever her name was - the one with the compromising picture)?
In that Holmes "never spoke of the softer passions save with a gibe and a sneer" [ObB7: that's sneer not sleer] and Irene Adler was "the woman," I'd vote for Anna = Irene Adler.
Betty said:
I don't think their personalities are all that similar. For one thing, Holmes has a strong sense of social justice, and Avon, well, doesn't. In fact, he's just the sort of person Holmes would be trying to put behind bars...
But actually Holmes didn't always insist on apprehending sympathetic criminals, and he didn't object to blackmail victims shooting blackmailers in cold blood, and he let someone he caught cheating on exams go off to become a policeman, of all things, in the colonies. I would say that both of them have a sense of honor, and a lack of interest in conventions, including conventional morality.
Holmes, poor guy, really only functions properly in his own time and place. Take him out of Victorian London and stick him on the Liberator, and his encyclopedic knowledge of tobacco ashes has just become useless.
Unless you needed to track Colonel Quute by his cigar ashes?
Dana