Jeeves and Wooster can be read, I think, as a version of Holmes and Watson in which Watson is under the delusion that he's solving the cases more-or-less by himself, with just a little help from Holmes. Jeeves is very Holmes-ish in some ways--cerebral, reserved, emotionally unattached.
Bunter's reaction to Peter and Harriet's marriage is rather telling, I think
*weeps for heartbroken!Bunter* And now I'm imagining a scenario where Bunter turns to drugs for consolation; it's ALL YOUR FAULT that my brain has decided to make Bunter's fate even more unhappy than it canonically is.
More seriously, I think Peter and Bunter sort of split the Holmes role between them. Peter's got most of the crime-solving genius, but Bunter has the fastidious perfectionism, the detachment (from anyone who isn't Lord Peter), and the interest in forensic technologies (as opposed to LP, who approaches detection as a logic puzzle). And actually they split the Watson role too--Bunter is the genius-wrangler, certainly, and he literally keeps Peter sane in the early books, but on the other hand it's Peter who leaves him for a wife.
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Bunter's reaction to Peter and Harriet's marriage is rather telling, I think
*weeps for heartbroken!Bunter* And now I'm imagining a scenario where Bunter turns to drugs for consolation; it's ALL YOUR FAULT that my brain has decided to make Bunter's fate even more unhappy than it canonically is.
More seriously, I think Peter and Bunter sort of split the Holmes role between them. Peter's got most of the crime-solving genius, but Bunter has the fastidious perfectionism, the detachment (from anyone who isn't Lord Peter), and the interest in forensic technologies (as opposed to LP, who approaches detection as a logic puzzle). And actually they split the Watson role too--Bunter is the genius-wrangler, certainly, and he literally keeps Peter sane in the early books, but on the other hand it's Peter who leaves him for a wife.