#1 Surely neither Christopher Eccleston not David Tennant were public school material? (And Matt Smith, for all his RP, isn't, and certainly not in the way that Benedict Cumberbatch very much is - the assumption contained in "He's with me" shrieks major public school.)
#2 Sherlock and John, if anything, are older than Holmes and Watson in A Study in Scarlet, since Holmes when Watson first discovers him in the laboratory at Barts could still pass for a medical student, and Watson himself has not spent more than a year in uniform after getting his own medical degree....
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Date: 2011-09-14 08:52 pm (UTC)#2 Sherlock and John, if anything, are older than Holmes and Watson in A Study in Scarlet, since Holmes when Watson first discovers him in the laboratory at Barts could still pass for a medical student, and Watson himself has not spent more than a year in uniform after getting his own medical degree....