Dana Shilling wrote:
It all depends on which Websites you read, doesn't it?
*I* wasn't going to say it. :)
But actually Holmes didn't always insist on apprehending sympathetic criminals,
Well, he would have let Blake go, there's no doubt in my mind... I don't think Avon's sympathetic enough. :)
I would say that both of them have a sense of honor, and a lack of interest in conventions, including conventional morality.
I'll go along with that, though, more or less. Add a strong sense of individuality, too.
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?
Genetically engineered tobacco that didn't even exist until well into the Second Calendar. :)