#tplosh

[the-bedheaded-league]

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:

[injouable]

New Year's Eve Bunch of Holmes&Watson Studies 🎄

bonus random doodles

[sword-wielding-sapphic]

We had canon gay Sherlock Holmes in barely post-Hays Code Hollywood

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

The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes (1970) dir. Billy Wilder

[bananaeatstape]

everyone shut up you know what i think is so cool

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

What the ActualHeck

[lestrades-notebook]

Who do people picture when reading the ACD Holmes stories? Do you picture actors or make up what they look like?

I keep flicking between tplosh Holmes with Granada Watson and BBC Sherlock with RDJ Watson like I can’t help it. Idk why I just can’t decide what they look like.

[desiccatedthyme]

26th October

"Resting After a Case"

this wasnt directly after a case in the movie but i like the visuals

[mwagneto]

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)

vertical alignments are on purpose! some of these don't 100% fit into just one category so i moved them up/down to show my level of enjoyment better

horizontal alignments are completely random, it's sllliiightly the order i watched them in but mostly i just put whatever i remembered next.

"are any of these canonically gay?" mostly no☹️ except:

private life (gay holmes)

irregulars (gay watson)

furtive festivity (youtube short where they're a couple)

"why is xy so low?":

sherlock & daughter: idt i need to justify this one but heterosexual + mid. also the twist being that she's his daughter is so annoying to me. coz like that's not a twist. that's something you find out the second you read the title.

watson: would probably be good if it wasn't a holmes adaptation but it's being choked to death by being forced to shoehorn in holmes references. also im still angry they said holmes was fucking not only irene adler but also mrs hudson. please be serious. it's also just not my thing at all which isn't its fault but this is MY blorbo and MY subjective opinion so down it goes

house: this ones probably gonna be controversial but i didn't like house md i genuinely cannot fucking stand house. im fine with unlikable characters but his misogyny and constant objectification of children is repulsive to me. i would've put up with it but then they decided to have him get with cuddy which was like, my last straw. or rather it was like putting straws on a camel one by one and then suddenly dropping a block of cement instead

bbc: self explanatory i hope

holmes & watson: i made no less than 3 separate attemps to watch this fucking movie but i couldn't make it more than like 20 minutes. it's very rare i can't manage to hatewatch something but this one bested me.

i didn't include any podcasts because i didn't enjoy any of the ones i listened to but i don't want to be mean to small indie creators💔💔 but i think most people would enjoy them (and they're gayer than the screen adaptations) i'm just very picky

[thymelessink]

I was listening to the Jeremy Brett Sherlock Holmes Podcast (some episodes that I had missed) and was surprised when it was mentioned that Jeremy Brett and Robert Stephens were best friends! And that there were many anecdotes about and with Jeremy in Robert Stephen's biography.

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."

"In June 1955, Jeremy went off to make the King Vidor film War and Peace in Rome with Audrey Hepburn and Henry Fonda. I remember a letter of farewell from the book and gave it to him to read on the plane. He told me just how touched he was and very kindly said to Tarn and I that if we could find our fares in the next three week break, he would pay all our expenses. So we went to Rome, a city which I have adored unreservedly from that day to this, and we were billeted in a flat with Robert Graves' daughter, Diana. Jeremy, bless his heart, gave us pocket money from his own salary."