#also didnt they say sh would be bisexual and then he just wasn't. lmao

[mwagneto]

okayyy as per my "must watch every new sh adaptation" contract i watched enola holmes 2 so here's my thoughts

first of all it was way better than the first one but that's not saying much coz that bar is incredibly low since i hated the first one

but the thing is. i only liked this because the bits with sherlock were cool and i really like their take on him which is ironic since the whole point of these movies is that enola is a cool interesting #girlboss and better than her brother but then the only good parts of the movie are the parts with her brother coz she's just insanely boring😭😭 but also it was just . SO bad to see holmes without watson. he shouldn't be alone!! actually im making this a separate post

the plot was so . painfully predictable like idk if anyone else felt it but for me any time there was, well, anything, i immediately went "oh it's [solution] . no wait that'd be wayyyy too fucking simple even a toddler would guess this there's no way it's this" and then it was that. every single time. like im not kidding this happened w literally every clue/mystery/reveal etc like. broooo!!!!

they repeated the bs of the first movie where enola barely solves anything and it takes her ages to realise anything while they show sherlock figuring out the same things in seconds and then they constantly parade her around like shes smarter than sherlock while she not only never actually figures out anything that he doesn't, it's actually the opposite

another thing i hated in the first movie that they brought into this too and that many period dramas fall victim to is the way they do activism like. idk how to explain this one well but why is the feminist and workers rights message of the movie viewed through a modern lense despite being set in 1885. like we dont need someone to look us in the eyes and snarkily be like girls can fight! girls should vote! victorian orphans working in factories is bad! when literally anyone with a brain already knows that

then there's the worst offense imo which is that . it's just insanely racist ?????? like how are you gonna do colourblind casting but only when it suits you. ofc all the lords in parliament are white men but somehow the cops are people of colour??????? and then ofc there's worst bit where where netflix finally cast a dark skinned black woman and SHE'S FUCKING MORIARTY???? and she kills children in order to have more money??????!😭😭😭😭😭 are y'all insane... like i wannnnt to say that we should be able to cast poc to play villains without it having racist implications but girl not when every main character except a random orphan and a woman who's in like 3 scenes are white.