Cress

I liked all the women in Young Sherlock

Ok is all right to speak of plot twists now, or should we still be vague for viewers who haven’t binged it? ;) I will say that I liked the princess storyline. Sherlock is confused by her crimes, yet by episode 3 we learn that she is avenging her dead parents and village. Love the character

What weakness? He won and then he rescued her. It was fucked up. As I already said, I hated it.

It was fun that they did a murder mystery episode for her.

Think what a higher budget with British actors could do! Sherlock and Daughter was pretty good after all. I just want a younger Holmes and Watson so we can start with their early cases.

I don’t know enough young actors, let alone British actors to cast. On YouTube the Tady Brothers productions do a few traditional Holmes adaptations over the years. It starts out low budget but improves over time. There’s supposed to be more episodes coming out on March 26.

Reminds me of Wishbone. How I miss that show.

Holmes said he’d been beaten four times, by 3 men and 1 woman. Nobody tried to sexualize the 3 men, only the woman. It might have been fun as a joke, but then Moffatt didn’t let her beat him at all. She was thoroughly defeated and Moffat missed the entire point of the story

If Irene had to be a sex worker, at least don’t make her an evil blackmailer and let her rescue herself out of her predicament instead of the shitty ending of Scandal in Belgravia.

Not that I don’t respect sex workers. Kitty Winter was implied to be a prostitute after Gruner “ruined” her, but in the story she’s far more sympathetic than Violet. Kitty also exacted her revenge independently of Holmes

Even today singers and actresses are thought to be sluts because their job is to be sexy and outrageous. Some people thought Chappell Roan’s tits-out dress was a reflection of her morality instead of a performance.

And if you do a modern update, why wouldn’t Irene just be a rockstar diva or Hollywood actress nowadays? Why do TV writers think “dominatrix” or “conwoman” are equivalent jobs to “opera singer”?

If you want a female villain, write one and give her an original name, or try Isadora Klein, or the unnamed “most winning woman I ever knew” who poisoned children for insurance money. Don’t wreck Irene and twist her character into something she’s not.

The Carole Nelson Douglas books had Irene get a woman friend, and they investigate cases, occasionally crossing paths with Holmes again. I have heard there are comic books that make Irene a hero. There are many things she can do to have her own adventures and career

If anything she should resemble Kitty Winter in the Illustrious Client, only she decides not to take revenge on the king, and to be happy with Godfrey

Yes Irene has a lot of potential but too many adaptations want to turn her into a criminal or they want her to be Catwoman. They want to disregard her marriage in the story and how Holmes respects her. She’s not the villain. She’s a wronged woman trying to protect herself from an ex who harasses her

By the time of Lions Mane, Holmes sounds more resigned to Watson’s absence and just misses him. But the fact that he thought to publish the other opinion about Watson “deserted me for a wife” in BLAN shows a lack of graciousness. It might have made Mrs. Watson mad

Yes can someone please finish the canon on TV? Radio programs haven’t been afraid to finish all 60 stories. Why can’t we get a pair of youngish actors to play Holmes and Watson?

I watched a TV movie about ACD and Sherlock Holmes. They had a scene portraying Holmes & Watson's reunion in HOUN as if it were Holmes's resurrection from the dead. I was skeptical, but your comments on HOUN are persuading me of ghostly Holmes symbolism. cress4.blogspot.com/2025/08/stra...

He's definitely possessive and jealous about Watson beyond mere platonic friendship. All his talk of "that's my Watson" when he talks Watson into risky stuff like breaking into places or stupid stuff like inhaling Devil's foot root. And calling Watson's 2nd marriage "selfish" in Blanched Soldier.

They already do “simplification”. I don’t recall the series name, but it was something like “Great Illustrated Classics” where they condensed and reworked literature like Robinson Crusoe or Sherlock Holmes for kids to read. I’m sure AI will do poorly at this.

I can’t remember which chapter it is, but Holmes shows up at Baskerville Hall without bags and has no explanation to give to Sir Henry, not even a “the train lost my luggage”. One wonders if Henry suspected then that “oh they’ll be sharing a bedroom in my house I guess.”

I wanted all the clothes. Somebody should do an article on the costumer and all the clothes

They keep saying they’re working on a third movie, but nothing happens. I’ll believe when I see it

I’m bummed. I wanted to see it. They were going to do CGI like the recent Jungle Book remake.

They could have gone back to bed afterwards for sneaky snuggles, but Watson omitted it from the book.

Oh did you mean “every time”?

How interesting that he refers to Selden as his neighbor, as if they shared adjacent stone huts on the moor, borrowing cups of sugar from each other

I think the photo for Tom Baker might be wrong, but otherwise a good list of obscure Holmes actors on screen. There are more actors in plays, radio programs and animated series.

Oh yeah that’s a weird movie. Even the title has nothing to do with it