Talk:Basil of Baker Street/@comment-30591854-20180619070111

If I remember correctly his Dutch name was Sherlock Basil Holmuis. Now "Holmuis" was a well-found trick by the translators, since that refers clearly to Sherlock Holmes, but "hol" means "hole" in Dutch as in "rabbit-hole" or "mouse-hole", and "muis" means "mouse" in Dutch.

Now being an aspie, I can relate to Basil's rather odd behavior. Always thinking ahead in ways that others cannot think in (very well shown in Dawson's astonishments), showing how genius he is, and lack of ability how to present yourself to others, which might also be one of the weaknesses Ratigan exploits somehow (Basil may be one hell of a guy when it comes to science, but Ratigan is clearly the better strategist and social manipulator).

And I guess Olivia is the better dog boss.

Still as shown in Basil also, aspies are quite often (due to their lack of social presentation abilities) thought of not caring about others at all, while in reality they do care (and may even feel lonely), and Basil shows this several times. The way he panics when Olivia gets herself kidnapped by Fidget is (odd as it may seem) one of those moves, and how he feels bad when Dawson takes the blame for that. Also when Olivia and her father leave after the case is solved, you can see that (despite the fact he always pronounces her name wrong) he did start to feel affections for her, and he was also unable to let Dawson go home, kind of forcing him into a new case, clearly wanting to have a friend. Dawson being a doctor is, of course, trained to work with people and even if they are a little "odd", so I guess that's why Dawson catches up with Basil so well. Basil fits the picture of either an aspie or another disorder in the autism spectrum. Not sure if this was Disney's intention (as the original Sherlock Holmes is also believed to have Asperger or a related disorder), but that doesn't matter. Maybe this is a good movie to show people in a rather funny way what autism or rather disorders in the autism-spectrum are. :)