#yes the satisfied reference at the end was necessary because that should have been john's song sorry not sorry

[binch-i-might-be]

I am having. thoughts. about these again

lover's eye jewellery........

just...... historical lams (we will ignore that lams was slightly too early to have this because I do what I want) getting lover's eye jewellery done. maybe as a necklace. more likely as a brooch, pinned to the inside of their coats maybe, where no one can see but where it is still close to their hearts.

looking at their beloved's eye during long, painful, (many) times of separation. Alexander crying over his when he finds out John was taken prisoner.

John keeping it tucked close, always. taking it out to look at it once Alexander is married, thinking that he probably got rid of his now (he didn't), because what would he need it for? what would he want it for?

oh, but John won't throw his away.

at least he keeps his eyes in his life, right?

[whovianfeminism]

Whovian Feminism Reviews “The Doctor Falls”

“The Doctor Falls” is an ambitious story, there’s no doubt about that. With two generations of Cybermen, two Masters, two Doctors, five emotional arcs, and multiple farewells, it seems impossible to pull it all into a coherent episode. And yet, it comes together in the end to create a moving story that lets Peter Capaldi shine and sends him off to his final episode with reluctant excitement. But in trying to tackle too much at once, “The Doctor Falls” can’t give all the competing story arcs the time and attention they deserve. And it’s Bill Potts who particularly suffers as a result. “The Doctor Falls” compounded many of the problems with how her character was treated in “World Enough and Time,” and her superficially happy ending was an unsatisfying end to an underserved character arc.

“The Doctor Falls” is a story about conclusions and farewells. Peter Capaldi’s regeneration lurks underneath this entire story, from the flashes of fire around his hands to his urgent, growling speeches. But he’s still got one more episode left to go. His friends, enemies, and frenemies take center stage here. The first to go are Missy and the Master, who rather appropriately exit the show by stabbing themselves in the back.

Michelle Gomez and John Simm have delicious chemistry together, and it’s a pure delight to watch them banter. But they both have very different relationships with the Doctor, which creates an interesting conflict for Missy. Throughout this season I had doubted that Missy’s attempts to be good were genuine, so I was a bit surprised by the end of this episode. And yet, it’s the perfect conclusion for her arc. At the end of Series 8, Missy tried to rekindle her friendship with the Doctor on her terms -- now she has to choose whether or not to stand with him on his terms. It’s unintentionally the ultimate test of whether or not Missy meets the Doctor’s definition of “good.” She does something kind, without witness or reward, even though it risked her own survival. But it’s a massive break from her past -- which is why it is strangely appropriate that a past regeneration shoots her in the back for it.

Now that Missy and the Master are properly together, Moffat takes the full opportunity to play with Time Lords, regeneration, and gender. Ironically in the previous episode, Moffat made a point of having the Doctor say that Time Lords were “billions of years beyond your petty human obsession with gender and its associated stereotypes.” And, yes, this episode did have it’s progressive moments to show Time Lords could get beyond those petty obsessions. But it also leaned further into those stereotypes too.

One blink-and-you’ll-miss-it moment that got a lot of positive attention was when the Master took a quiet moment to fix his eyeliner. Make-up is expected but often unremarked upon for film, TV, and stage actors. We know that they all wear some amount, and yet, we never see any of them apply it -- unless it’s to mock the character or mark them as a queer character. But there’s something beautifully understated about this moment. Both he and Missy take a moment to reapply their makeup during this episode, and both scenes happen quietly and without fanfare, like it’s a normal part of their daily routine. It’s a nice way of challenging gender norms around makeup.

Although John Simm’s Master is pushing some boundaries, he’s also reinforcing them in other ways. He makes a cruel and unnecessary attack on Bill’s gender while he’s trying to rile her up, and continues deliberately denying her gender as a specific part of his attempt to dehumanize her. He refers to her as an “it,” says she “used to be a woman,” and makes a point of asking for her old bras for his future regeneration (implying that perhaps those parts of her body were also cut up and thrown away during her conversion into a Cybermen). We know the Master is a villain already, his credentials have been well established there. So it felt especially unnecessary to add a gross campaign of misgendering to his ledger.

When Missy refers to Bill Potts using her correct gender pronouns, the Master mocks Missy, saying “Becoming a woman is one thing but have you got...empathy?” You know, that trait stereotypically associated with women. Way back in Series 8 I talked about the way Missy’s characterization and motivations seemed to play into gender stereotypes, but for most of this season I had been pleased to see that she had a more complicated emotional journey that stayed away from those stereotypes. But now here’s the Master all but saying that Missy’s reformation is only happening because she’s a woman, with all those associated gender stereotypes. And no one refutes his assertion. A villain can say things that are wrong or that the audience isn’t supposed to agree with, but at some point they should be refuted. 

The next character we say goodbye to is Bill Potts. And it’s especially bittersweet to see her go.

We were fairly certain from the get-go that Bill would be a one-season companion. With both Peter Capaldi and Steven Moffat leaving, it was unlikely that Chris Chibnall would hang on to Bill. And although I thoroughly enjoyed her for the time we had her, I’m left at the end of this season feeling like her story and emotional arc were really underserved. She had good moments in each episode, but they didn’t all add up to a wholly satisfying story. She’s faced with the choice of whether or not to travel with Heather in her first and last episode. In her first episode she refuses Heather, but by her last episode she accepts. And yet the only thing that seemed to change about her was that, instead of letting Heather lead, she wanted to be the one to show Heather the universe. The sum of her emotional arc is “I’ve been through a lot.” Or, to paraphrase, “Girl, I have seen some shit.” And that’s not really a compelling arc.

But boy, did she see some shit in “The Doctor Falls.” When we first truly see Bill again -- when we first see Pearl Mackie -- she's being kept in a barn, segregated from the rest of the community. Everyone is terrified by her, and she doesn't know why. Her perception of herself is that she is normal, human, exactly like everybody else. But they see her as a monster. And it's not just that she looks frightening, she is actually dangerous. Her anger is literally destructive, so she must never express when she's angry or upset. The fear of the community occasionally results in her being shot, but she’s supposed to understand their fear and not protest, even when she’s hurt and upset.

These are a lot of heavy themes to tackle, especially when the character in question is a queer black woman. But the story never really commits to exploring any of the challenges her situation raises. So it unintentionally leans in to a lot of problematic tropes and stereotypes about black women.

One of the most frustrating of these -- especially because it would have been so easy to fix -- is this episode’s approach to Bill’s anger.  Black women's anger is frequently portrayed as irrational, dangerous, and destructive -- it's known as the Angry Black Woman stereotype. In this episode, Bill's anger is literally destructive. If she gets angry or upset, she will begin uncontrollably firing the weapon she's been given as a Cyberman. So the Doctor instructs her never to be upset. She has to endure insult and injury without ever expressing how she feels about it. And there's no payoff. We never see her release all of the anger and sadness building up inside her. She occasionally gets to fire her gun when the Doctor directs her to, and she gets to express her sadness over the Doctor's near-death. But there's never a moment that's entirely focused on Bill. We never see her anger portrayed as valid and necessary, instead of dangerous and destructive. Pearl Mackie's performance was incredible in those glimpses where she showed us what she was really feeling, but she and the audience deserved more.

By the end of this episode, Bill survives, has her body restored (somewhat), and gets to fly off to her happy ending with Heather. It's a remarkable ending that elicited a lot of complicated feelings. In the heat of the moment, I was almost crying with happiness. The importance of seeing women kissing women on screen cannot be understated. It was affirming, it was beautiful, and it was so necessary. It's so rare that queer love saves the girl instead of dooming her. I wanted this kiss more than anything this series.

And yet, those feelings couldn't last. I had no investment in Heather and Bill's relationship, beyond a desire to see adequate queer representation in media. They had a cute flirtation in "The Pilot" but hadn't really established a relationship. And the last time we saw Heather, she was barely herself anymore. It all felt rather superficial. We needed to see more of their relationship being built up throughout the series. This could've been accomplished by showing glimpses of Heather following Bill throughout her adventures.

There was also something very odd about Bill's last words to the Doctor, when she asked if he knew she was a lesbian. People I follow on Twitter couldn't agree on whether she was making a trolling joke or if this was an attempt to insinuate that maybe she might've had something for the Doctor if he was her type. Either way, it was clumsy and tonally off as they prepared to face their imminent deaths.

All of these problems could've been fixed had more time been spent on her story, both in this episode and throughout the series. I will always love Bill and adore Pearl Mackie, and yet I will always believe she deserved more.

But, of course, this episode is about saying farewell to Peter Capaldi.

And what a send-off. It’s a gift-wrapped package to the actor who’s still a fanboy at heart. He gets to have a story exploring the genesis of the Mondassian Cybermen. He gets a scene with the First Doctor, probably his favorite Doctor, who he has been emulating since the very first moment it was announced that he would be the Twelfth Doctor. And he gets Rachel Talalay, who has directed every single one of his finale episodes, to direct his final episodes.

And let’s take a moment to appreciate their collaboration and the stunning work Rachel Talalay did on this episode. They have built a wonderful creative relationship together that has given us stunning episodes and brought out the best of Capaldi’s Doctor. And Talalay’s dedication to the details of Doctor Who really stands out in this episode. The Fan Show’s interview with her about “The Doctor Falls” is a must-watch. She talks about how she achieved the switch between Pearl Mackie and the Cyberman in-camera with some clever work, and how they debated how the newly-converted Cybermen should behave in even the briefest moments. One under-appreciated moment I wish I saw more gifsets of was a small scene at the beginning of the episode where ash floats around the Mondassian Cybermen, like snow from “The Tenth Planet.”

But above all what I loved most about “The Doctor Falls” was the focus on kindness. It was the perfect sentiment to send-off the Twelfth Doctor. From the man who once said he needed his companions to care so he didn’t have to, to the man who cares so much he’d lay down his life for strangers, this Doctor has been through an incredible evolution. His final speech to Missy and the Master perfectly summed up everything the Twelfth Doctor stands for, and it epitomizes the man who portrays him. Peter Capaldi, above all, is kind. He shows as much care and dedication to the role he plays as he does to the fans who love this show. It will be hard to say goodbye, but he’ll leave behind an incredible legacy.

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Argument analysis: Justices skeptical of claim that retirement-plan participants have “actual knowledge” of all facts included in disclosure documents

The Supreme Court heard oral argument on Wednesday in Intel Corp. Investment Policy Committee v. Sulyma, a case that puts a spotlight on the disclosures that retirement plans provide to plan participants.

Under the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA), participants in employer-sponsored retirement plans have the right to challenge the prudence of decisions that plan fiduciaries make about the investment options available through the plan. ERISA sets time limits for bringing such suits. Section 413(1) of ERISA gives plaintiffs six years after the end of the fiduciary breach, violation or omission. Section 413(2) imposes a shorter three-year limit when a plaintiff has “actual knowledge” of the breach or violation. In that case, the clock starts on the earliest date on which the plaintiff had “actual knowledge” of the breach or violation.

Donald B. Verrilli, Jr. for petitioners (Art Lien)

The question before the court was whether the three-year limit in ERISA Section 413(2) bars suit when the defendant – here the committees and individuals at Intel responsible for administering the retirement plans – disclosed the relevant plan information about the plan investments to the plaintiff more than three years before the plaintiff filed the complaint, but the plaintiff chose not to read or could not recall having read the information.

During the oral argument, several justices expressed sympathy for Christopher Sulyma, a former Intel engineer who participated in the company’s retirement plans, and they drew on personal experiences to suggest that most people do not read retirement-plan disclosures. The justices challenged Intel to explain how individuals could have “actual knowledge” of materials that they had not read. The justices also expressed concern about relying on Intel’s policy arguments to rewrite the standard chosen by Congress. At the same time, they pressed attorneys for Sulyma and the federal government on the application of Section 413(2) to plaintiffs who ignore or fail to comprehend the retirement plan disclosures. The justices also explored how reading Section 413(2) as requiring “actual awareness” by individual plaintiffs would affect class certification in class actions brought under the statute.

Arguing for Intel, Donald Verrilli Jr. asserted that plan participants “have actual knowledge of facts that are actually given to them in mandatory ERISA disclosures.” According to Verrilli, when a participant receives the required disclosures, he “has in his possession … the body of knowledge contained in the disclosures.” That’s the knowledge he “actually has” and that’s the knowledge, according to Verrilli, that satisfies the “actual knowledge” requirement in Section 413(2).

The lower court’s reading of “actual knowledge” as requiring “actual awareness” does not, according to Verrilli, make sense in the context of the statute as originally drafted in 1974. Furthermore, such an interpretation would double the time period over which plaintiffs can “exploit hindsight bias to second-guess investments,” and would create “arbitrariness” as well as “intractable proof problems.”

The first question came from Justice Brett Kavanaugh. He began with the observation that “most people don’t read” the disclosures. How, he inquired, could someone have actual knowledge of something that he or she hadn’t read? Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg drew laughter from the audience by admitting that she doesn’t read all the mailings that she receives about her investments. She suggested that it’s hard to read the reference to “actual knowledge” as something other than “yes, I, in fact, know.”

Chief Justice John Roberts observed that Intel’s argument depends on the assumption that disclosure documents will be read, which he suggested is the opposite of “common personal experience.” Roberts joked that he wouldn’t ask for a show of hands of who had read their retirement-plan disclosures.

Verrilli disagreed but, turning to the importance of ERISA’s disclosure regime, he posited that “the understanding that Congress is operating under here is that people do read these … disclosures when they come.” He noted that one of the emails sent to Sulyma in this case had the words “important information” in the heading and linked to materials that were not “some big giant document” but rather an eight- or 10-page document describing fund investments. 

At this point, Justice Elena Kagan moved the discussion to the role that “willful blindness” plays in Intel’s argument. She asked Verrilli whether anyone who doesn’t read the disclosures is being willfully blind. Verrilli responded that he was not making that argument but rather reasoning by analogy to willful blindness. He argued that by taking into account both the particular context and the purpose of the statute “to protect the interests of the defendant,” the “actual knowledge” standard in Section 413(2) can be satisfied by “imputing knowledge.”

Ginsburg did not seem convinced. Verrilli’s interpretation, she suggested, was reading the word “actual” out of the statute. To Kavanaugh, Intel’s interpretation sounded like a “constructive” knowledge standard, which would apply to a plaintiff who either knew or should have known about the alleged breach.

The justices also expressed concern about relying on Intel’s policy justifications. Kavanaugh stated that although Intel has some “strong” policy arguments, he questioned why the court should deviate from the words of the statute. Justice Neil Gorsuch suggested that despite the “good policy arguments,” the province of shortening the statute of limitations belongs “across the street,” in Congress.

When pressed by Justice Sonia Sotomayor about why the language of the statute shouldn’t be used to conclude, for example, that a comatose person who received disclosures did not have the requisite actual knowledge, Verrilli raised the concern that plaintiffs could always say they didn’t read the materials and so didn’t actually have knowledge. To this, Justice Stephen Breyer retorted that “there’s always a possibility that a plaintiff under oath will tell the truth.” Breyer indicated that he did not see a problem with giving ordinary workers who don’t read everything the longer six-year period to bring their claims. In response, Verrilli returned to policy concerns about randomness, inadministrability and the risk that “excessive liability” would discourage plan formation. Notably, he also seemed to suggest that a shorter statute of limitations would benefit participants by encouraging interventions to “cure” the breach “sooner rather than later.”

Matthew Wessler, representing Sulyma, made the case that the ordinary definition of “actual knowledge” means that the plaintiff must have “real awareness.”  While emphasizing that nothing beyond a plain reading of the statutory text is necessary to decide this case, he explained that Congress set a high bar for shortening the limitations period because ordinary workers are not poring over plan disclosures for possible “kernels of breach.” Instead, because ERISA fiduciaries owe “an unyielding duty to act in participants’ best interests,” participants trust that plan “fiduciaries are not breaching their obligations.” At the same time, Congress sought to protect the interests of plan fiduciaries by giving them the certainty of the six-year time limit.

Appearing for the government in support of Sulyma, Assistant to the Solicitor General Matthew Guarnieri asserted that the case “can begin and end with the plain language” of the statute. No one, according to Guarnieri, “would say that a person has actual knowledge of the contents of a document that the person has never read.”

In their exchanges with Wessler and Guarnieri, the justices questioned how far to extend the requirement of actual knowledge. Ginsburg expressed concern about how easy it would be for a plaintiff to claim not to have read the disclosures. Wessler responded that this issue would not be different from all sorts of fact-specific questions that come up in the context of statutes of limitations.

When asked if it matters whether plaintiffs understood the disclosures, Wessler and Guarnieri agreed that a plaintiff who read but did not understand the materials would not have “actual knowledge.” In response to questions from Kagan, Wessler argued that there is no statutory basis for importing “willful blindness” into the ERISA statute but suggested that it could be used as a “fact-finding tool” after the summary judgment stage. 

The justices also pressed Wessler and Guarnieri about class certification when only some participants will have read the disclosures. Although he noted that such concerns do not bear on how to interpret the language in Section 413(2), Wessler pointed to Rule 23 “mechanisms that are designed precisely to assist courts in making those decisions.” Guarnieri added that the existence of a defense that might be applicable to some but not other members of their class would not necessarily preclude class certification.

Toward the end of the hour, Justice Samuel Alito acknowledged that Sulyma has a strong textual argument. He nevertheless pressed Guarnieri to explain why Congress didn’t adopt a uniform six-year limitation period on the understanding that most people don’t read the disclosures. Guarnieri responded that Congress would not have wanted plaintiffs who do have actual knowledge to delay bringing suit. Guarnieri also sought to reassure the justices that there are many reported decisions that apply the term “actual knowledge” in a manner consistent with Sulyma’s interpretation to find that a suit has been brought too late.

In his rebuttal, Verrilli urged the justices to consider the “actual knowledge” standard in its original context. He warned that if the court were to disagree with petitioner on the merits, it should be mindful of the “catastrophe” that the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit’s interpretation would cause in the class-action context.

We will know by June whether the justices – several of whom seemed to believe that most individual participants do not read retirement-plan disclosures – will find that such individuals nevertheless have “actual knowledge” of all the information included in the disclosure documents.   

Editor’s note: Analysis based on transcript of oral argument.

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For John And Renni As They Were In 2018

                                    Written By: Ralph Hawk

              Two outstanding people were married recently. And it’s been a privilege for me to have    known them. John has a keen wit, and an exceptional way with words, and Renni, who is a superb problem solver, has the most phenomenal ability to use what’s termed “common sense”.

           And when I learned of their marriage plans, I asked them if I might ask their joint opinion of two subjects:  one, would marriage change them as individuals, and two, has America’s decades of negligent enforcement of its immigration laws led to the crisis it now finds itself in regarding that topic? And I don’t recall their answers verbatim. And I didn’t tape them. But the next two paragraphs provide a synthesis of what they said, and, after those two paragraphs, the remainder of this piece will be my own, basically off-the-cuff remarks.

           I’m building a wall between past indiscretions and future common courtesies. And I believe that people always do what they determine to be either right, necessary, self-serving, fun, or easy – and often more than one of those simultaneously. But my conviction is clear. I say “Be careful, and protect yourself and others now in the present. Then, in years to come, hopefully you’ll not need to rectify (and sometimes with great peril) situations which shouldn’t have been allowed to develop.”

           “And yes, the time has now come for America to confront the immigration problems it permitted to occur inside itself as a result of poor, or no enforcement of immigration laws over the span of many years. And some very tough decisions will now need to be made. And a border wall will need to be built along America’s southern border.”    

You know, life’s been good to Ralph Hawk. And fate, or deities, or masters, or whatever one may wish to denote them as, have granted me leadership in a city of otherworldly interventions, where there now exists a strong class of both blue and white collar workers, as well as an enclave of artistically minded individuals who live on part of the northern bank of our city’s river.

           And one day a muse came to Mr. Hawk and said “You’re on your way, but you have a long way to go. Still, you have a couple of years left before the twenty first century’s decade of roaring begins.”

           “Thus, continue in your quest. You lived the years when your ascendance into literature would have been impossible. And you didn’t live in New York. But the times always change, and maybe sometimes times take us back to where others superior to us in ability, left their marks amidst many empty liquor bottles, smoked cigarettes, arguments amongst friends and spouses, attractions that couldn’t be satisfied, attractions which were satisfied, but sometimes to the detriment of those involved as well as others who loved them, and friends and spouses of authors whose jealousy led them down paths of unhappiness, and sometimes insanity.”

           And I answered the muse thus:  “But none of us were actually there then, thus, none of us know whose love was really true and whose wasn’t. And, like everyone else who reads bits of history, we can only assume that what we’re reading is true. And, although the 1920’s may have been a time of wildness, at least it appears the populaces of the world heard basically truthful news then. And while we don’t know now what type of ‘ness’ will dominate the 2020’s, it’s beginning to appear as though fake news will be thriving then.”

           Anyway, I should have told you by now that this piece is actually meant to be a congratulatory note to my friends Renni Maes and F. John Surells. But, as you’ve noticed by now, it doesn’t concern itself solely with them. And, after a long time spent together as singles, John and Renni were married recently. And since, in jest, the artists and I who live here in the city like to refer to John as a second (albeit far less talented) famous author who now uses an F abbreviation as that other one once did, I guess Renni will now have no choice but to function as, well, you know, (Z). Oh, but she’ll be such a better wife. I just know that. That’s the way she is!

           But Z was jealous of F, I think. So, at a too late age she tried to become a dancer. And she and F had a child together, and became famous. But his and Z’s best years, I believe, were those they spent in Paris amongst so many others as talented as they. And besides that, Gertrude liked them.

           Nonetheless, back here in the present I’m praying that God will grant comfort and protection to a nation which now too lately has finally found itself in need of addressing its problem of non-citizens living within its borders. And we can only hope that from now on a concerted effort will be made to keep all of America’s immigrants only legal immigrants, because as we’ve seen in recent times, eventually difficult decisions will need to be made about people who’ve either come to or been brought to this nation in violation of the laws of this nation. But if the fate of America’s non-residents is to be that some or many of those should stay here as legal citizens, then let’s pray that they’ll be citizens who’ll love America, obey its laws, and try to live successfully within it.

           But someone had better begin to do some very serious planning in regard to the future population of The United States. And, the days of unchecked illegal immigration into this nation must end now. Of course a border wall needs to be built! And for those who continue to so smugly say “Everything will work out in the end,” we say “Yes, you’re right, there will be some sort of result, but it may well be a catastrophic one. And certainly it might be that many years will pass before such a scenario would occur, but here are two very serious questions which perhaps the youngest Americans of today, or at least their children may have to face:  One, “What will America be like when the race which has always been the majority race is that no longer?” and Two, “What effect upon the population of the United States would a possible overthrow of Roe VS. Wade have?”

           In the above paragraph I outlined some of the fears I live with daily. But yet, I can’t help but observe all possible developments from the perspective of someone who’s, because of his true birthright in a different reality of the earth, in many ways divorced from much of what occurs daily in not only America, but across all of what’s known as the Earth One reality.

And, I believe that my artistic friends and I will always live safely near the river in a city which can’t be touched by invaders, outlanders, haters of artistic advancement, or malcontents   trying to promote discord between the sexes. And my people and I will continue to live here in accordance with rightful, just, and protection affording decrees of government, no matter how many spiteful words are spoken at awards ceremonies, and no matter if some people think that dressing in a certain color at those ceremonies really means anything to people such as us, and also no matter how many sexual abusers are now finally being brought to justice long after they should have been.

           Oh, but our prayers will always journey toward those lords who guide and govern us from their jurisdictions in other realms and other realities! And the greatest of those lords is He who shows exceptional care and mercy for us. He’s our three person God. And for us (though others may have another) it’s He who ultimately answers our prayers, no matter to whom those prayers may have initially been addressed.  

           And that God has now seen fit to join two of my greatest friends, F.John Surells and Renni Maes, together in marriage, And it’s my hope that they’ll be able to grow old together in a nation that features as its greatest citizens such people as work and toil for an honest living, as they simultaneously obey all rightful governmental decrees, and honor all attempts which constructively seek to advance the freedom and well-being of the citizens of the United States and all other nations.

           But I don’t really know how I feel about people who take America’s middle working classes to task from behind microphones at awards ceremonies, or on talk radio shows, or on late night television programs. Yet, it is quite clear to me that America’s common people will be the only losers in all the debate about illegal immigration. And, they’ll also be the only losers as a result of the ridiculous probes into America’s last presidential election which, if they must be continued, should be focused on possible wrongdoing by not only the winning side in that election, but by the losing side as well. Still, if enough attitudes toward reporting sexual abuse are changed as a result of the recent disclosures concerning that subject, then perhaps some good will come from both the fake and real news reports of the last few years before the onset of the new roaring twenties.

[autoirishlitdiscourses]

Discourse of Wednesday, 12 July 2017

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[themeresthobby]

The Hound of the d’Urbervilles by Kim Newman

This is long and includes my thoughts on the nature of canon and fannishness, so, TL;DR:

Impressive, and I laughed out loud at parts, but not recommended if you want something with the same flavour as canon, as it sprawls into a sort of crossover sandbox, and the humour can lean towards farcical.

There’s a lot to like about the Sherlock Holmes canon, but what I like most is the layers of meta. From the memoirs of Dr John H. Watson, MD, published in-universe, with dubious continuity to protect client confidentiality - you never know how many steps away you are from how it ‘really’ happened.

And I like to think the inconsistencies, gaps, and throwaway mentions of unpublished events are a big part of why it spawned the kind of fandom it did. So, thanks, ACD, for writing that way.

I’m not much into fiction that spends a lot of time setting up its own background lore. Sherlock Holmes canon is a series of glimpses, not a comprehensive record, or even a sort of montage that gives you a general trajectory.

Fans have been finding different meanings in and expanding on it since the beginning. You can do that to virtually anything, but I feel there’s a particular leeway for it in SH canon because of all the necessary events that happened off-page over so many years. Even the stuff that happened on-page: did it really?

As far as canon is concerned: yes, and that’s all there is. But to propose something beyond or beneath canon, that’s fair game. It is literally part of The Game.

And then, there are the troublesome issues of which interpretations are valued, which fans are taken seriously, people who insist their preferred interpretation is the One True Reading, and an uninspiring tendency towards popular un-canonical tropes in adaptations. But I think you’re probably familiar with those.

Finally, about the book

It’s not a novel, it’s seven stories with a preface and endnotes. The preface is a variation on the ‘I found Watson’s Cox and Co. despatch box papers’ setup: after the collapse of Box Brothers, a bank catering to criminals, Colonel Moran’s manuscripts fell into the hands of a Professor Christina Temple, who then published them. I smiled while reading it.

The endnotes are written by Professor Temple, and outline references to history as well as canon and other fiction, both contemporary and later. But not knowing about every crossover in detail wasn’t a big deal for me. I only read two of the other canons referenced, E.W. Hornung’s Raffles series and Dashiell Hammett’s The Maltese Falcon, plus some of Herge’s Tintin. Yes, someone from that was in there.

As for the stories, I already read one, A Shambles in Belgravia, on the internet a few years ago. It should still be out there. But I felt it wasn’t one of the better stories, because it was too straightforwardly an anti-Scandal in Bohemia. The individual elements, like the hired mob and the final reveal, were satisfying, but I wasn’t fond of it overall. I also didn’t like The Hound of the d’Urbervilles and A Volume in Vermillion for the same reason. Clever, but left me cold.

The most enjoyable stories for me were the two that were the most over the top and had the least connection to canon: The Red Planet League and The Adventure of the Six Maledictions, where Moriarty’s Firm ruins the professor’s academic rival, and steals six different sacred treasures, respectively.

If you’re wondering where I laughed, it was twice at descriptions of the Camorra-run gelato stand in Six Maledictions, and once at the beginning of The Greek Invertebrate, when James and the Colonel meet James the colonel.

Spoiler comments

The Problem of The Final Adventure, the last story, was where the crossovers peaked, since it involved a meeting of elite criminals.

Moriarty’s real target wasn’t Holmes, but one of these rivals. While that’s fair enough, I wasn’t interested in a showdown between Moriarty and another fictional Victorian-era criminal I don’t know much about.

Major ending spoiler

Nice twist, that symbolic patricide. Coincidentally, lately I’d been thinking about the possibility of that as a Reichenbach outcome, and how and why it might happen. Greed and ambition, yes, but combining that with daddy issues never crossed my mind.

It was believable, but I’m personally not too fond of stories where father-son dynamics are presented as the root of things. But I don’t think it was unwarranted here, especially considering what Holmes says in EMPT about family trees.

All in all, not a contender for headcanon for what happened on the other side of canon, but fun enough.