This made me think of Horatio Hornblower; the films had moments when someone would say something quite simple, and it would hang in the air, because his eyes were alive.
It's like Holmes to lay himself out to move Watson and want a reaction — and then not know what to do with it. And it's like Watson to be moved and then to accept a chess game he will probably lose as the price of Holmes' company.
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Date: 2009-02-19 04:00 am (UTC)This made me think of Horatio Hornblower; the films had moments when someone would say something quite simple, and it would hang in the air, because his eyes were alive.
It's like Holmes to lay himself out to move Watson and want a reaction — and then not know what to do with it. And it's like Watson to be moved and then to accept a chess game he will probably lose as the price of Holmes' company.