In Sherlock Irene Adler is just as obsessed with outwitting Holmes as he is with outwitting her, and I feel like that’s a fundamental misreading of the source material, because in Doyle’s version Holmes happens to get in Irene’s way, so she does the functional equivalent of trapping him under a cup, sliding a newspaper under him and dumping him out in the backyard.
You know that scene at the end of Lord of the Flies, when the sailor turns up and he’s all, “I say, what the devil’s been going on here?” and all the boys just mill around sheepishly, their orgy of violence and destruction now embarrassingly ridiculous in the face of civilised society?
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