One of Holmes' most memorable traits from canon, being a "master of disguise", has been almost completely discarded by modern adaptations, because it doesn't fit at all with the idea of a Sherlock who's a total basket case with no social skills who hates dealing with peoplehttps://twitter.com/loudpenitent/status/1298782000908603392 …
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I guess A Game of Shadows was deliberately trying to fix that, involve Holmes with WWI in a darker more cynical way that pushes the more thematically consistent message that war is in the long run just another kind of crime
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(The biggest criticism of His Last Bow is the whole point of the story just doesn't make sense Doyle was still thinking like a mystery writer and not a spy thriller writer There was *no reason* to arrest the bad guy at the end and take him prison, at least none given)
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