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Ending, Eligible Bachelor.

posted 8 years ago by Cobram
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This whole episode was rather strange for a Holmes story.

The ending I really did not understand, what play were they at? Most of the episode was completely out of character for Holmes, but especially the ending, which just kind of gets thrown in for a very short time.

I haven't read the actual stories in a while, but from what I remember of the original story "The Adventure of the Noble Bachelor", this is probably the most the series ever strayed from the printed original stories.

Any reason for them going so far off?

No where near as bad as the pitiful film "Mr. Holmes", which was a total sham, just using the Holmes popularity to peddle a film which had absolutely nothing to do with the Conan Doyle character.

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[–] AdmiralTugBenson 7 years ago

I probably can't explain the ending anymore than I could explain the rest of the film. It's just a mess. I tried not to dwell too hard on any of it, I was just like "Oh, he took that nice crazy lady to a play, is it over yet?". I don't know if there was supposed to be any meaning to it, just a sort of happy ending that was as bizarre for a Holmes story as the rest of it. Not that Holmes stories don't have happy endings, it was just a strange happy ending.

I didn't mind that the plot itself strayed so far from the original story, in my opinion it was one of the weaker Holmes stories. The addition of the titular bachelor's criminal activities added some excitement to an otherwise boring story. Had they made a more straight-forward film out of the plot they came up with I would consider it a pretty decent entry in the series probably. But then all the other crap they added like they were trying to make it some bizarre supernatural thriller where Holmes is apparently a psychic detective now, just ruined it. It seemed like they got some first year film student on a bad acid trip to write/direct the thing.

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