More Russian Holmes and Watson squee

These movies have so much goodness in them I don't even know where to start. How about we start at plot level? I watched The Mortal Fight (The Final Problem) and The Hunt for the Tiger (The Empty House) the other night, and the plot changes they made were interesting and made sense for a movie. The Charles Augustus Milverton affair was made into a movie right before these two, and it had Milverton as a friend of Moriarty's. This is what triggered Moriarty's attacks on Holmes, which I think makes plenty of sense. The Ronald Adair thing was also in place from the beginning, not just a plot in The Empty House – Watson was in the process of observing/protecting Adair while Moriarty was harassing Holmes. All in all, I was impressed with the attempts to pull these three stories together to make a cohesive whole.

Okay, enough plot. On to the characters XD


( In which there is a lot of squeeage and some relaying of scenes )