Enola Holmes
Jan. 2nd, 2021 10:57 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
iariaI enjoyed it. It was fun.
+ I loved Enola. I found her delightful. I was wary about a third Holmes sibling but the set up of her being much younger and how she was raised in isolation by their mother on the family estate ended up really working for me. I liked how much it informed who she was as a person and her beliefs. Enola as a character works because of how she was raised.
+ I really enjoyed the Enola/Sherlock relationship and if they make another movie theirs is the relationship I'm most interested in seeing explored.
+ I liked Cavill as Sherlock.
+ I'm glad that while it's made very clear how clever and intelligent Enola is the movie doesn't make her smarter than Sherlock. Yes, she solved the case before Sherlock but she also picked the wrong suspect until faced with a shotgun toting grandmother. I loved Sherlock's delighted reaction to learning that Enola beat him to solving the mystery.
+ I loved the relationship between Enola and Eudora. I loved how much they loved and enjoyed being with each other. All the scenes with them were great.
+ The scene where Enola was being drowned and the bad guy goes "too bad you've seen my face now" and Enola responds with "No, wait, it's totally unmemorable!" made me laugh. There were a lot of amusing little scenes. I also loved Eudora being so serious and momentous over a chess game and then it cutting to like four year old Enola.
+ I liked Tewksbury. He was sweet and his relationship with Enola was lovely.
+ I enjoyed Enola breaking the fourth wall and narrating her story.
+ I was disappointed with how the situation with the finishing school played out, especially that Enola ended up having no relationship with any of the other girls. I was expecting her to make friends with another similarly minded girl and then for her to escape herself. I guess the point of that interlude was to show us the contrast between the old society vs the new modern but because it had no actual affect on anything it felt a little like a pointless detour. It's especially annoying considering the whole plot about the vote and Eudora's everything to just leave these girls as flat caricatures instead of actually making them distinct people from Enola to learn something from. It was a wasted opportunity.
+ Mycroft was very meh. He felt very flat and that line about him not being as gifted as Sherlock and Enola and it making him bitter (or however that went) was such nonsense. Have him be an antagonist, sure, but they could have given him so depth at the same time. Sherlock continues to have my favourite version of him I guess.
+ I loved Enola. I found her delightful. I was wary about a third Holmes sibling but the set up of her being much younger and how she was raised in isolation by their mother on the family estate ended up really working for me. I liked how much it informed who she was as a person and her beliefs. Enola as a character works because of how she was raised.
+ I really enjoyed the Enola/Sherlock relationship and if they make another movie theirs is the relationship I'm most interested in seeing explored.
+ I liked Cavill as Sherlock.
+ I'm glad that while it's made very clear how clever and intelligent Enola is the movie doesn't make her smarter than Sherlock. Yes, she solved the case before Sherlock but she also picked the wrong suspect until faced with a shotgun toting grandmother. I loved Sherlock's delighted reaction to learning that Enola beat him to solving the mystery.
+ I loved the relationship between Enola and Eudora. I loved how much they loved and enjoyed being with each other. All the scenes with them were great.
+ The scene where Enola was being drowned and the bad guy goes "too bad you've seen my face now" and Enola responds with "No, wait, it's totally unmemorable!" made me laugh. There were a lot of amusing little scenes. I also loved Eudora being so serious and momentous over a chess game and then it cutting to like four year old Enola.
+ I liked Tewksbury. He was sweet and his relationship with Enola was lovely.
+ I enjoyed Enola breaking the fourth wall and narrating her story.
+ I was disappointed with how the situation with the finishing school played out, especially that Enola ended up having no relationship with any of the other girls. I was expecting her to make friends with another similarly minded girl and then for her to escape herself. I guess the point of that interlude was to show us the contrast between the old society vs the new modern but because it had no actual affect on anything it felt a little like a pointless detour. It's especially annoying considering the whole plot about the vote and Eudora's everything to just leave these girls as flat caricatures instead of actually making them distinct people from Enola to learn something from. It was a wasted opportunity.
+ Mycroft was very meh. He felt very flat and that line about him not being as gifted as Sherlock and Enola and it making him bitter (or however that went) was such nonsense. Have him be an antagonist, sure, but they could have given him so depth at the same time. Sherlock continues to have my favourite version of him I guess.
