能人所不能的人

這陣子迷上了看劇集，先是美劇《絕命毒師》 (Breaking Bad)，之後是瘋摩亞洲的韓劇《來自星星的你》，再次後是英劇《神探福爾摩斯》。

自日劇《悠長假期》以後，很久沒如此瘋狂於煲劇。

雖然三套劇還未正式看完，《絕命毒師》只看到第二季，《神探福爾摩斯》還未完全看完，已弄得我迷頭迷腦，不能自拔。

回頭看這三套劇，都是由能人所不能的角色帶領故事。《絕命毒師》中的主人翁 Walter White 將化學知識弄得出神入化，自家製毒易如反掌；《來自星星的你》的都敏俊為自己心愛的人施展獨有的超能力；至於《神探福爾摩斯》Sherlock Holmes，更是能人所不能。

書中，Dr. Watson 對Sherlock Holmes，有這樣的形容：

Knowledge of Literature – nil.
Knowledge of Philosophy – nil.
Knowledge of Astronomy – nil.
Knowledge of Politics – Feeble.
Knowledge of Botany – Variable. Well up in belladonna, opium and poisons generally. Knows nothing of practical gardening.
Knowledge of Geology – Practical, but limited. Tells at a glance different soils from each other. After walks, has shown me splashes upon his trousers, and told me by their colour and consistence in what part of London he had received them.
Knowledge of Chemistry – Profound.
Knowledge of Anatomy – Accurate, but unsystematic.
Knowledge of Sensational Literature – Immense. He appears to know every detail of every horror perpetrated in the century.
Plays the violin well.
Is an expert singlestick player, boxer and swordsman.
Has a good practical knowledge of British law.

                         --Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, A Study in Scarlet

能人，就是專注於某種能力上，然後發揮。

上述角色，碰巧兩個也是化學人。

雖但如此，還是由利害的編劇創作這些有趣的角色。

文理科同樣重要。