A Game of Shadows happens to be on right now, a most timely viewing if you ask me. :3

Even though I love/hate certain things about the films, overall I do love them and the second film was even stronger than the first in my mind.

Ahem.

Other adversaries did try to take on Holmes but I do recall Moriarty being the biggest fish in the sea. (Yes, we're at that point in the film with fish metaphors) And there's the whole 'sneaky death' thing where someone ends up not being as dead as we might think, as seen in both movies, which can get annoying but...if done well enough, might be another avenue to look into later.

Side note: They touched on supernatural in the first film with the occult which intrigued me, and while I enjoyed the logical debunking of it, I still think the mystery was unfolded much too soon, and could have been an option to make people question whether or not the magic and supernatural do exist, compared to the scientific advances people were making in that time.

Yeah, Moriarty wouldn't need to threaten or blackmail until she began to question her loyalties and then that would be something fun to see, since I know she's got feelings for Holmes, but those have been complicated and she knows they both end up attracting trouble...

Squirrels are so cute, but apparently their the spawn of satan, according to the dogs.

So should we flesh out the first case which brings the four together? If we did want to do the route I suggested, with kidnapped animals, we could have some kind of experimentation going on (it was briefly touched in the first film I think). Maybe if Moriarty did want Holmes to be confronted by some "impossible" witchcraft of sorts, the route would surely be to do deal with that kind of dark demented stuff.