"BECAUSE I'M SHERLOCK MOTHERFUCKING HOLMES, AND THEREFORE CAN DO THINGS OTHER PEOPLE CANNOT."

[crystalcleared]

Okay, first of all, movie news. From the sounds of it, they're going to get Watson right, for once!!

"No," Downey laughed. "To me, the great win in our depiction of Sherlock Holmes is Jude Law's Watson, [who is] much more right from the book. He's had a military career, a decorated soldier, a serious doctor, a bit of a womanizer, a bit of a gambler. And I think that makes him a much more interesting foil for Holmes." ( full article here )

I'm still iffy about Irene being a love interest, but....you win some, you lose some.

ITEM TWO, TAKEN DIRECTLY FROM THE SHERLOCK HOLMES YAHOO GROUP I FOLLOW:



"So, sometime in 1970, a guy named Alastair Martin was thinking, "Hmm.
Holmes lied about the Hiatus. I bet he did something weird, like
marry some random woman. "Wait--who would Holmes marry? I know--
Professor Moriarty!"

And then he wrote a piece of "Sherlockian scholarship" on it, which
he sent to the Baker Street Journal, where it was promptly published.
Yes, the BSJ published Holmes/Moriarty slash. And not just any, mind
you. Martin also proposes that Moriarty was the widow of Count
Dracula, and that s/he learned his/her amazing mathematical skills
from sitting around the castle library all day.

Oh--and Moriarty's "high, domed forehead," and "oscillating" head---
yeah, that would be the result of a false face pasted on not quite
right. Martin also suggests that Holmes had no idea that Moriarty was
a woman until Reichenbach, and that during the fight, Moriarty's face
came off. Holmes than realized how much in love he was with his
adversary, and they skipped off arm in arm to elope. (I really hope
that Martin knew how dirty he makes the struggle at Reichenbach
sound.)

There's a bit more to the article--reasons for the return to London,
suggestions that Holmes and Moriarty are happily keeping bees
somewhere in Sussex, and so on..."

/endquote

SERIOUSLY. I SWEAR TO GOD. THESE SO-CALLED SHERLOCKIAN SCHOLARS COME UP WITH THE CRAZIEST SHIT. THEY MAKE THE SLASHERS LOOK SANE.

I mean, what's weirder? Holmes harboring romantic feelings for Watson, or HOLMES ELOPING WITH PROFESSOR MORIARTY UPON DISCOVERING THAT MORIARTY WAS IN FACT A WOMAN?

Maybe Moriarty's really Irene Adler.

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.....shit. I would not be surprised if this theory has already been postulated. o_o;; I put nothing past the Holmes scholars.