#I would watch BBC Sherlock Season 4 over a hundred times before I'd watch Irregulars again

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"But Hawk why do you watch every single adaptation of Sherlock Holmes?" It's little things like this. The small quirks that the actors give him, or that authors write him with. Its the small hand movements and the leaps over the couch that Jeremy Brett does, the small 'I know something you don't' smiles that Basil Rathbone does. The eccentricities of Elementary Holmes vs the down-to-earth Peter Cushing. Whether I like the adaptation or not, this is always worth it.

Holmes's habit of touching his ear when he laughs