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=== Fridge Brilliance ===
== ''Sherlock Holmes'' ==
* Blackwood {{spoiler|kills the ginger dwarf with cyanide (which deprives the body of ''air''), and buries him in the '''earth'''. He kills his father in a bathtub filled with ''fire''-heated '''water'''. He kills the American lodge member with by setting him on '''fire''' with what said member thought to be ''rain''. And finally, his machine, beneath the ''earth'', would poison the very '''air''' Parliament breathed.}} ''It's elementary.''
** {{spoiler|Lord Blackwood's death}} ended up being an unintentional replacement for {{spoiler|the parliament}}. How, you ask? {{spoiler|Lord Blackwood died by hanging, in the '''air''', from a bridge, which connects two pieces of ''earth''}}.
* Why didn't Watson {{spoiler|come to Holmes' aid atop Tower Bridge}}, and where did Blackwood get {{spoiler|a sword for his final fight}}? Look closely: Blackwood is {{spoiler|wielding Watson's sword cane, which Holmes of course makes sure to take with him at the end. Watson loses his sword cane when he gets thumped by the large French fellow, and he doesn't regain it during the ensuing fight scene. Blackwood might have found it on the sewer floor}}.
* One of the points of criticism that was raised was that Holmes and Watson's relationship was more tense and prone to bickering than their solid friendship in the original novels. Of course, if you subscribe to the idea that Watson's a bit of an [[Unreliable Narrator]] and that the movie is getting under the skin of the original stories this makes a bit more sense, since Watson's hardly going to write about all the times that he and Holmes bicker like an old married couple.
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*** I'd reverse that cause and effect - after years of sharing a home, a job and a life, Watson is marrying someone else, moving away and quitting the detective business. Holmes is enormously jealous and feeling abandoned and is lashing out at his best friend.
* Holmes drinking eye surgery medicine just seems like an amusing throwaway joke, until you learn that [[Continuity Nod|cocaine]] was widely used in Victorian times as an local anesthetic for eye surgery.
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* 1891 was a hallmark in the road to [[World War One]] in [[Real Life]], as it was the year that the Triple Alliance between Germany, Austria and Italy was renewed (in response to France approaching Italy), France and Russia signed an alliance, and Britain refused an alliance offer from Germany. So Mycroft's comment that the conference's aim is to defuse the current crisis between France and Germany (who were sworn enemies since the end of the Franco-Prussian War in 1871) but that in case it doesn't work everybody else is there to decide which side they pick is part this and part [[Shown Their Work]].
* 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.
=== Fridge Horror ===
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