EstoBro Wants All The Puppies. He Will Raise Champions

EstoBro wants all the puppies. He will raise champions

-Tina Tran, Even If We Did Things Differently, I Still Would Have Chosen You

Ok, every time I watch 'The Great Mouse Detective' my mind clings to this.

Okay, there's nostalgia in this, my childhood and such. But that's not all, there's something 'magnetic' about the character Basil (Sherlock), which I can see why Dawson (Watson) is so impressed on Basil's presence. Basil is so energetic that he should come with a warning on his forehead: "danger 440 Volts".

This little mousie called Basil is incredible and unbearable at the same time, he is so full of energy that watching him act and talk makes me lose weight just by looking at him. Lmao. The fact is, Basil is very agitated and hyperactive.

And he's smart in a way that seems mad, especially when he gets an idea in his head and no one is going to stop him from following through. Basil can be harsh and full of himself at times, but he also redeems himself, as he can regret his bad actions seconds later when he realizes he hurt someone's feelings.

He wants interesting and vibrant cases like himself, like his mind is, that's what he likes. But he also hides too well that he knows how to care about people, when he should. Some empathy is in him, although he acts like a hyperactive machine of reasoning and action most of the time, who cannot remember client names or have no time for sentimentality. Lmao.

He is focused and proactive when his mind is working and everything is going as he wants. And at the same time Basil is a complete Drama Queen when things don't go as he plans. Changing mood so abruptly, from extreme vigor and energy to depression and anguish, that he is insanely exaggerated in 'Holmes' mode. Is fun to me.

Basil of Baker Street completely steals all the show, being a brilliant and charismatic protagonist

There is almost no space for Dawson (Watson), whose personality can go unnoticed and those who casually watch it may think that he is just the "fool and comic relief", the movie and fans are so focused on Basil, that we almost don't see how Dawson has so much empathy inside him, and a giant gentle, sympathetic and kind heart.

Dawson is balanced and calm and brings a good counterpoint to Basil's personality. Dawson is so naive, he seems silly in comparison to Basil. But don't be so easily fooled, Dawson can also be direct and angry and put Basil in the right direction, be it with questions, or by grumbling and bothering about how stupid the detective is being, or act sadness about something harsh, said by Basil, and its making the detective regret and be more 'condescending' instantly.

Dawson has the patience of a saint, an (half) limitless peace in relation to Basil, possibly Dawson is the only mouse who can be in the presence of the mouse detective without being overwhelmed by all of Basil's striking personality. Dawson colludes with Basil, without really being swallowed by him, knowing how to impose himself when he must.

Dawson makes a perfect pair for Basil, and yet it's barely noticeable, because he's there humbly adjusting Basil to good, but ignores his own participation, giving all the credit to Basil, adoring the 'amazing' Basil. When in fact Dawson also had a lot to do with the case and its good outcome. But Dawson doesn't care and is fine with making Basil proud as the star of the Show and giving him all the credit, and Dawson really thinks Basil deserves it all.

Basil and Dawson definitely manage to convey the Sherlock Holmes and Doctor Watson 'vibe' very well, so much so that for me this movie is a good adaptation of the Sherlock Holmes and John Watson universe.

Extra:

1) the 'case', although it is a Disney children's plot, is charming enough and brings good drama, from the beginning with the kidnapping scene to the end with the Big Ben scenes, the case has charismatic characters with whom we import (Olivia and Flaversham) and the film is full of references to the Canonical Sherlock Holmes books and others adaptations, to everyone's delight.

2) Ratigan (Moriarty), madness and dangerous he can be, beneath all the fancy pomp and satin. He kills a drunken accomplice for calling him 'Rat' (in other words, the truth). He tortures his most loyal henchman, Fidget, with his pet torture device (the cat). And he's so falsely polite when he's both blatantly cruel and mad. He is a villain with a lot of charisma, as well as scary

3) The movie soundtrack is so good. I love it from the 'main title', to the 'end title-credits' (Goodbye So Soon).

I have written something... extremely schmoopy about Holmes's aromantic view on soulmates, specifically attaining to his return in The Empty House.

Plato proposed that humans were once beings with four arms, four legs, and two faces. Peace reigned, great things were achieved, until the spiteful Zeus came to be jealous and fearful of humanity's power, rending us in two and condemning each soul to walk the earth in search of its other half. Many people upon hearing this, think it romantic, that every person on Earth is destined one day to fall in love with another and reunite in matrimony. These people are, frankly, terminally closed-minded.

The other half of one's soul is not necessarily a romantic partner, much less a spouse. It may be a sibling, a child, a parent. It may be a great passion one commits the whole of themself to researching. One's other half may be a whale, as in the case of Captain Ahab. It may be the skeleton of a dinosaur. Or it may be a companion with whom one's bond survives every hardship life can bestow. A companion whom, upon witnessing your apparent return from Hades, faints to the floor and embraces you upon reviving. Who insists on hearing the entire tale of your absence and return, and agrees to accompany you to tame a tiger. Who, when you are overpowered by that beast of a man, strikes the fellow over the head with the butt of his revolver. A companion who agrees to do so over and over and over again. A companion who smiles in the darkness from his familiar chair on the other side of the fire, and makes even one who recoils at the very notion of love believe that Plato was right.

I like this!

I now headcanon that "Don" in "Don Karnage" is not a title, it's just short for Donzel

The name meaning even matches his ego

Just checking in to make sure I can still draw this guy.