I can't wait to see this. It sounds like a piece of work, but I also think — from all the spoilers I've read, which admittedly are quite a lot — that I'm going to like it better than I did the first one. Hopefully, anyway.
I've a hard time hating on either Irene or Mary, to be honest, because I think both Rachel MacAdams and Kelly Reilly are fantastic actresses; but I hated the way they treated Irene in the first movie, and the fact that they just off and kill her in this one doesn't make me sympathise much with the scriptwriters. She's an interesting character in her own way, but she's simply not Irene Adler, and that they should eventually just reduce the greatest female character in the entire Holmes books to an annoying extra who gets killed off in grand indifference is frankly frustrating.
As for Mary, I liked her well enough in the first movie, so I'll have to see what they make of her in this one. None of what I've heard so far is very positive :/
Terribly excited for Reichenbach, though. All the Sherlock Holmes-related fandoms are going to be in tears this year.
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Date: 2011-12-17 11:35 am (UTC)I've a hard time hating on either Irene or Mary, to be honest, because I think both Rachel MacAdams and Kelly Reilly are fantastic actresses; but I hated the way they treated Irene in the first movie, and the fact that they just off and kill her in this one doesn't make me sympathise much with the scriptwriters. She's an interesting character in her own way, but she's simply not Irene Adler, and that they should eventually just reduce the greatest female character in the entire Holmes books to an annoying extra who gets killed off in grand indifference is frankly frustrating.
As for Mary, I liked her well enough in the first movie, so I'll have to see what they make of her in this one. None of what I've heard so far is very positive :/
Terribly excited for Reichenbach, though. All the Sherlock Holmes-related fandoms are going to be in tears this year.