I'll have to keep an eye out for Saul & Orrie in the next couple of books... IIRC Johnny Keems plays that role for a while (the totally handsome slick metro guy who thinks he'd look good in Archie's chair) and then it switches to Orrie later.
Also, the thing about Orrie is that Archie can't possibly believe that Wolfe would *actually*, for reals, give Orrie his job-- at least not while Archie was still alive and kicking and *wanted* the job. So I never really bought the resentment as being *entirely* based on possessiveness. I mean, part of it is just that Orrie is an asshole.
Although now that you bring it up I do wonder if maybe Archie *really does* have some tiny spark of fear that Orrie actually has a chance at his job. I mean, if you look at how much Archie's evolved in later books, he really is kind of a thug in the earlier ones (sorry, Archie!!!) and that's AFTER Wolfe's been a civilizing influence on him for seven years! So maybe he thinks that Wolfe would be willing to put in the same amount of effort with Orrie and turn him into a worthwhile sidekick. (Of course IMO it would never work, Archie is a diamond in the rough and Orrie isn't and it's that simple, but I don't think Archie sees it that way.)
On sort of a similar note I kind of suspect Wolfe of hiring Orrie to temporarily replace Archie on occasion TOTALLY ON PURPOSE just because he knows it will annoy Archie way more than if he hired any other guy, and Archie kind of subconsciously suspecting this and that adding exponentially to his Orrie-resentment.
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I'll have to keep an eye out for Saul & Orrie in the next couple of books... IIRC Johnny Keems plays that role for a while (the totally handsome slick metro guy who thinks he'd look good in Archie's chair) and then it switches to Orrie later.
Also, the thing about Orrie is that Archie can't possibly believe that Wolfe would *actually*, for reals, give Orrie his job-- at least not while Archie was still alive and kicking and *wanted* the job. So I never really bought the resentment as being *entirely* based on possessiveness. I mean, part of it is just that Orrie is an asshole.
Although now that you bring it up I do wonder if maybe Archie *really does* have some tiny spark of fear that Orrie actually has a chance at his job. I mean, if you look at how much Archie's evolved in later books, he really is kind of a thug in the earlier ones (sorry, Archie!!!) and that's AFTER Wolfe's been a civilizing influence on him for seven years! So maybe he thinks that Wolfe would be willing to put in the same amount of effort with Orrie and turn him into a worthwhile sidekick. (Of course IMO it would never work, Archie is a diamond in the rough and Orrie isn't and it's that simple, but I don't think Archie sees it that way.)
On sort of a similar note I kind of suspect Wolfe of hiring Orrie to temporarily replace Archie on occasion TOTALLY ON PURPOSE just because he knows it will annoy Archie way more than if he hired any other guy, and Archie kind of subconsciously suspecting this and that adding exponentially to his Orrie-resentment.