Reasons why Granada Sherlock Holmes is Perfect

rejohnson53:

1. Jeremy Brett
2. Edward Hardwicke (And David Burke too)
3. Rainbows in 221B
4. Lack of chronology snarls and other consistency errors
5. Rainbows
6. The Soundtrack
7. Faithfulness to the canon (mostly)
8. Lack of migrating bullet wounds
9. Lack of Mary forgetting that John Watson’s name isn’t James
10. Lack of a mysterious second (third? more??) wife for Watson
11. Lack of love-at-first-sight bizarre romance subplots for Watson in general
12. Holmes reaching for Watson’s hand in The Red Circle
13. Holmes tickling Watson’s feet to wake him up in the morning
14. Holmes calling Watson ‘Dearest’
15. Watson implying that Holmes is his husband
16. The entire Twisted Lip episode tbh
17. Watson telling Holmes ‘My bedroom is at your disposal’
18. Holmes referring to ‘their room’
19. Watson’s model ship in Holmes’ bedroom
20. Holmes bathing in front of Watson
21. The Musgrave Ritual Blanket
22. The Devil’s Foot Blanket
23. The Dying Detective Blanket
24. Holmes and his blankets
25. Holmes and Watson being gloriously married
26. Rainbows in 221b
27. Rainbows
28. RAINBOWS