SHERLOCK HOLMES: A Game of Shadows (2011)

Sherlock Holmes // Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows

Feeling a lot of feelings about these two today.

Are you happy? At this moment. Are you as happy as you would be on your honeymoon in Brighton?

Day 16: Flatline

Hawaii Five-0 8x10 | Eureka 4x15 | The Haunting of Hill House 1x10 | Graceland 2x13 | Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows | Lucifer 2x13 | Warehouse 13 1x06 | Stargate Atlantis 1x04 | Superman and Lois 2x13 | Iron Man 3 deleted scene | Stargate SG-1 4x18

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Paul Anderson as Colonel Sebastian Moran

ROUND 2C, MATCH 1 OUT OF 4

Cause of Death & Propaganda Under the Cut:

Jenny Calendar

Cause of Death: Neck snapped

Propaganda:

Jenny is so beloved to me. She was sent to Sunnydale, California to watch over the vampire that killed her family (Angel), told that he was supposed to suffer for all eternity, but after he saved her life + after she spent some time with him and the people who cared about him, she realized that she'd changed her mind and didn't want anything to do with continuing a mission of vengeance -- especially since Angel's girlfriend Buffy was also the mentee/surrogate daughter of Jenny's boyfriend Giles! Messy! Despite this, when Angel lost his soul and it came out that Jenny had been sent there to watch him, Jenny was immediately blamed, even though she'd had no idea that Angel would turn evil and TOLD everyone as much! She decided to try and find a way to resurrect old magic and give Angel his soul back, and Angel killed her in retaliation. Parts of the fandom talk about Jenny's death like it was necessary/a good thing/a good writing choice, but I don't think it was. Jenny's death is talked about by the showrunners as "proving that anyone could die," and her dead body was placed in Giles's bed, surrounded by red roses, subsequently inspiring him to try to go on a suicide mission and kill Angel. When the kids are looking at a drawing of her dead body, one of them says, "Wow. Poor Giles." Her death is very clearly engineered to raise the stakes by emphasizing how sad it is for Giles to lose her, and before her death, nearly all of her scenes centered around being Giles's girlfriend/love interest. She was never given a chance to develop as a character, and the only backstory they gave her was designed to push her towards death.

Irene Adler

Cause of Death: Poisoned

Propaganda:

[No Propaganda Submitted]

Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows (2011)

Happy Birthday dear Sherly❤❤

Sherlock Holmes: London (1894)

Our rooms.

Our dogs.

Gladstone is our dog.

Rachel McAdams in Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows (2011) as Irene Adler

Exhibit A:

“I have never loved, Watson, but if I did and if the woman I loved had met such an end, I might act even as our lawless lion-hunter has done. Who knows?”

- The Adventure of the Devil's Foot

Exhibit B:

“You are right,” he cried with an immense sigh of relief. “It is quite superficial.” His face set like flint as he glared at our prisoner, who was sitting up with a dazed face. “By the Lord, it is as well for you. If you had killed Watson, you would not have got out of this room alive. Now, sir, what have you to say for yourself?”

- The Adventure of the Three Garridebs

Sherlock Holmes really said

Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows (2011)