Don't get me wrong, I didn't have a violently negative experience with Sherlock Holmes (and The Case of the Franchise Reboot), but I didn't just love it to pieces. I liked Jude Law as Watson best, with Eddie Marsan as the forever-inept Inspector Lestrade. The whole time, I couldn't shake my feeling that Downey's performance was like his interpretation of Charlie Chaplin was playing Holmes. The movie ran long for my taste, though I found it moderately satisfying on the whole as a re-start.

The thing that disappointed me the most with the Blu-ray isn't that it was in any way lacking in extras (quite the contrary, actually). What bothered me the most is that both in Sherlock Holmes: Reinvented (a 15-minute featurette) and the various "focus points" and diversions taken in the Maximum Movie Mode, they treat various elements as fact without backing them up with citations of any kind. It's like a court case with a Defense counsel and no Prosecution to challenge assertions. It's like there's a grand scheme to re-program history, and I resent it.

They most prominently defend Holmes' martial arts skills. I'm with them on the re-characterzation of Watson, but the reference to Holmes' fighting skills is brief and not much more than a footnote. I like these two actors playing off of one another, and I don't want a goddamn deerstalker on his head (which is again, wrong), but there are some diversions from the source that they've played off as "the way it was meant to be". Is it too late to ask for a Holmes/Watson adventure starring Stephen Fry and Hugh Laurie, respectively? The Holmes Blu came out last week and can be found on Amazon for $22.99.