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** That is a bit of a stretch - Brighton's (well deserved, bless it) reputation for gayness is modern and in fact the more obvious connotation of the town, to British viewers at least, is that Brighton is the traditional destination for the 'dirty weekend'. It's exactly where young couples, whether married or no, headed for rumpy-pumpy.

* When Holmes and Moriarty meet in Moriarty's classroom, both make perfectly clear that they'll stop at nothing to oppose the other. At first, I was scratching my head and thinking [[Why Don't You Just Shoot Him?]] - to ''both'' of them. Then I realized, this is ''[[Great Detective|Holmes]] and [[Evil Counterpart|Moriarty]].'' It's completely in character for both of them to ''want'' the challenge of a [[Worthy Opponent]].

* At first it seems anachronistic for guns like the Mauser C96 to be appearing in 1891, and simply an example of a [[Cool Guns|cool]] and [[Rare Guns|rare]] gun being shoehorned into a Victorian story. It's perfectly plausible for Moriarty's weapons business to be involved in advanced weapon design, and the Maxim machine gun that formed the basis of semi-automatic research was almost a decade old at the time of ''Game of Shadows.'' After Moriarty's death and the collapse of his empire, the plans would have been taken and developed into the C96 model half a decade later.

* At first, many of the weird, steampunk-like things appearing in both films appear to be merely [[Anachronism Stew]] designed to appeal to fans of 21st century action movies. But when you take a closer look, many of the elements--weird weaponry, concerns over foreign invasions, and stories about phony supernatural events--are exactly the sort of stories Victorian fans of Arthur Conan Doyle's works would have seen in other popular stories and novels of the day. This isn't a case of [[Did Not Do the Research]] on the [[Victorian Era]], but a careful reconstruction of the tropes found period pulp fiction that eventually inspired our current action movie cliches.

 

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