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Holmemes pt. 12

Took me a while to decide which Holmes picture to put this text post with and then realized that there was really only one answer:

(he tries to persuade Holmes to sleep with Madame Petrova)

the fact Nigel Bruce who worked with Basil Rathbone in several Sherlock Holmes films knew Sir Cedric Hardwicke

Sir Cedric Hardwicke's son Ted Hardwicke ended up playing with Jeremy Brett in Granada's Sherlock Holmes production, replacing David Burke

David Burke appeared in a series called The Champions, and so did Brett

Brett was besties with Robert Stephens who played Holmes with Collin Blakely as Watson in Billy Wilder's The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes

the Granada production also had Jude Law appear with Brett and Ted in the Shoscombe Old Place episode

Brett had met Stephen Fry who has met Hugh Laurie, who plays the title role in the Holmes-inspired medical drama House with Robert Sean Leonard as Dr. James Wilson

also Jude Law plays Watson alongside Robert Downey Jr. as Sherlock Holmes in the Guy Ritchie films

RDJ has acted with Benedict Cumberbatch in Marvel's Avenger movies

guess who also appears in those movies? Martin Freeman

Cumberbatch and Freeman have played Holmes and Watson respectively in BBC's Sherlock

Ben's family was also friends with Brett and he grew up watching the show

Cumberbatch and Freeman also appear in the Hobbit movies alongside Ian McKellen, who stars as Holmes in a film based on a book of the same name, Mr. Holmes

both McKellen and Cumberbatch have met Jonny Lee Miller who stars with Lucy Liu in CBS' Elementary

Miller and Ben have acted together in a production of Frankenstein, alternating each other's roles

also i forgor but was reminded by yall that Stephen Fry did not just meet Laurie, he acted with him in Jeeves and Wooster and he also played Mycroft in the Ritchie Holmes films

26th October

"Resting After a Case"

updated tierlist coz it's been too long since the last one. all my own extremely biased opinions mostly based on the following:

did the writer understand the holmes & watson relationship (are they nice to each other; is it clear they both like each other and couldn't exist alone)

is watson shown to have his own skills that are necessary for the plot just as much as holmes's skills are

is the mystery good (can the viewer follow along and solve it if they pay attention; are the clues things that a crime would actually have or are they just newspaper riddles or extreme conveniences that the writer made up bc they couldn't come up with actual clues)

Here are two that were mentioned and isn't Jeremy just lovely?

"Jeremy snuggled up to me and to Tarn. And we became inseparable best friends. He was terribly good-looking and always suffered for it. At school he was known as 'the tart of Eton' because he sang like Elizabeth Schwarzkopf, but was giving out all the wrong signals to unsuitable men who kept trying to pick him up. And I was the gentleman's relish who sat between him and the rather heavy old queers in the company. I winkled him out and we bonded. As platonic friends, never sexual partners."