Love Love Love Sherlock Holmes. I have read the whole canon once a year since middle school. I have used it in multiple classes that I have taught including British History and History of Science #HATM

I very much enjoy that Holmes, like a subject of my research, Edmund Hillary, is a beekeeper #HATM

But, with very few exceptions, I have neither enjoyed film adaptations nor pastiches, so I am not hugely optimistic about this #HATM Maybe I will be wrong about this

Mycroft shows up in so many of the film adaptations and he is only referenced in 4 of the stories: The Adventure of the Greek Interpreter, The Final Problem, The Adventure of the Empty House, The Adventure of the Bruce-Partington Plans. I guess he really makes an impression #HATM

I know its to make the women more relatable to us, but I am having same complaint now that I had with the recent "Little Women." Beach Waves instead of hair up? #HATM

Oh I was home-schooled too! Sherlock Holmes went to university at least-we see this in in "The Adventure of the Musgrave Ritual" when he talks about a university friend #HATM

Mycroft's personality is really different in this film than in the stories.... #HATM

Also in the stories Sherlock greatly admires strong women such as in The Adventure of the Copper Beeches, "The Adventure of the Solitary Cyclist, The Adventure of the Noble Bachelor, A Scandal in Bohemia and more #HATM

Stories where aristocrats were important characters: A Scandal in Bohemia, The Adventure of the Noble Bachelor, The Adventure of the Abbey Grange, The Adventure of the Priory School, The Adventure of Charles Augustus Milverton, The Disappearance of Lady Frances Carfax #HATM

In the stories, Mycroft is supposed to be the really smart one and Sherlock is the one with better social skills #HATM

This bad guy is being played by Burn Gorman who is in a TON of period TV pieces, including Detective Sergeant Blore in the BBC adaptation "And Then there were None" #HATM

"The Adventure of the Priory School" is about a young nobleman who goes missing and "The Disappearance of Lady Frances Carfax" is about a spinster from a noble family with little money who also goes missing #HATM

Oh I love Lestrade in the books. They often make him bumbling in most adaptations, but in the stories he is presented as really capable who goes to Sherlock Holmes when cases are beyond him #HATM

Beach Waves! #HATM

I just keep thinking how the villain in "Hound of Baskerville" was a naturalist, always seen with his butterfly net #HATM

The Adventure of the Abbey Grange involves a killing of what I seem to remember to be a baronet that is staged as a botched burglary #HATM
He was actually a domestic abuser and killed in self-defense when his wife's ex-BF is trying to protect her

I am having a hard time following this plot honestly because it is terrible meandering. Like I get that Enola is a strong young struggling to express agency in a sexist society, but it just seems like we are seeing episodes of that without a solid story #HATM

Let me go on a tangent on copyright law. There have been tons of Sherlock adaptations because its in public domain. But because of extensions in copyright law, things like Batman and Mickey Mouse aren't. The creators are long dead. How much better if they were free too? #HATM

As someone whose mother taught her how to sew and cook, now skills I find super useful, I think feminist-y media that argues that those skills aren't as good as more traditional male skills are a bit BS #HATM

Ah yes, female villains. Rare in the canon, but there. A Scandal in Bohemia of course, and I guess women culprits in The Adventure of the Golden Pince-Nez, The Adventure of the Second Stain, and The Adventure of the Yellow Face etc #HATM

I think this movie would be better is they cut like 35 minutes off of it #HATM Would focus plot a bit better

Yeah, sorry #HATM. Maybe I am not correct audience, but this British historian/Holmes superfan didn't really enjoy that. Even as a coming-of-story, she never really learns or grows, she is just right all the time because everyone else is either dumb or sexist. No from me