Clive Merrison has nailed them, but the medium is different so I can't really compare their skill that closely.
I think it's for the better, really, that they worked in different media. Because I do love them both so much, but their interpretations would get in each other's way in my mind if they were both on-screen or both on radio. As it is, though, they're separate and distinct and each is amazing.
She's smart, and level-headed, and perceptive enough that I wouldn't think she'd freak out at much of anything.
She's a puzzle, and no mistake. That's up there is my general impression too, but as I've started rereading SIGN, I keep coming across weird moments that don't fit with that characterization-- as she takes her seat at Baker Street she is described as "trembling" and "quivering," for example. Although maybe that's just a side effect of her initial exposure to Watson's irresistible sex appeal XD But then when she's telling about the disappearance of her father, "She put her hand to her throat, and a choking sob cut short the sentence," which seems a bit much as a reaction to a tragedy a decade old. So is she acting, trying to play to their sympathy? Or does she really have a strain of flutteriness in her nature? And which makes for a more interesting, sympathetic and real character? It's appalling how much of my daily ration of brainpower goes towards attempting to unsnarl Mary Morstan...
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Date: 2009-06-10 03:27 pm (UTC)I think it's for the better, really, that they worked in different media. Because I do love them both so much, but their interpretations would get in each other's way in my mind if they were both on-screen or both on radio. As it is, though, they're separate and distinct and each is amazing.
She's smart, and level-headed, and perceptive enough that I wouldn't think she'd freak out at much of anything.
She's a puzzle, and no mistake. That's up there is my general impression too, but as I've started rereading SIGN, I keep coming across weird moments that don't fit with that characterization-- as she takes her seat at Baker Street she is described as "trembling" and "quivering," for example. Although maybe that's just a side effect of her initial exposure to Watson's irresistible sex appeal XD But then when she's telling about the disappearance of her father, "She put her hand to her throat, and a choking sob cut short the sentence," which seems a bit much as a reaction to a tragedy a decade old. So is she acting, trying to play to their sympathy? Or does she really have a strain of flutteriness in her nature? And which makes for a more interesting, sympathetic and real character? It's appalling how much of my daily ration of brainpower goes towards attempting to unsnarl Mary Morstan...