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Anyone catch thislast night?

A Scandal in Belgravia was an excellent intro to the new series, loved all the nods towards the 'minor' cases of the Holmes lore (The Geek Interpreter had me laughing, anyway). At 90 mins it didnt feel overlong, and there was plenty that could have been missed in there if you were not paying attention. Really enjoy this version of Irene Adler, really made Holmes into her whipping boy.

The Hounds of Baskerville next week is the one I'm looking forward to the most.

I caught it. Was bored through out.

I don't why I just didn't find i engaged. Perhaps because the fact instead of an actual mystery and case. We're treated to the long drawn out hashing out of the relationship between Holmes and Addler and why do I even give a shit? The programme seems to take it for granted I'll find Addler awesome and amusing and sympathetic but I don't and I don't much care whether the dominatrix lady lives or dies or has her phone or not.

Plus last season the 'everyone thinks Holmes and Watson are gay' stuff was vaguely amusing and a least slightly subtle. This episode? Just stupid.

I liked it a lot, especially how the entirety of Britain seems to be covertly run by four or five people who can't help but constantly text each other . And frankly I don't see why you'd think the show "seems to take it for granted I'll find Addler awesome": if the character doesn't appeal to you personally that's fair enough, but they went to great lengths to show why Holmes is fascinated by her, extensively contrasting her with the other women in his life to do so.

Saw it and thought it excellent, certainly to the same standard as last series. I particularly liked that all those "cases" at the start that he dismisses are all relevant in their way.

Hounds of the Baskervilles should be very interesting.

Eternal_Freedom wrote:Saw it and thought it excellent, certainly to the same standard as last series.

Depends on which part of the last series. Overall I'd call it third best - not as good as A Study in Pink or The Great Game (although certainly in their league), but better than The Blind Banker (which didn't seem to have quite the same zip to it). Hopefully, given the subject matter, there won't be that dip in the middle this time round (and Moffat and Gatiss may have chosen the most famous Holmes story of the lot as the middle episode specifically to prevent that).

I was going with "same as the average of last series." The Blind Banker definitely didn't have the same zip though.

Crazedwraith wrote:I don't why I just didn't find i engaged. Perhaps because the fact instead of an actual mystery and case.

Adler is the mystery.


Personally, I found this the best episode so far - A Study in Pink might be pretty close, but none of the others come near the intensity of this one.

I enjoyed it pretty much all the way through - I thought a couple of times that they were playing it a bit too much for laughs, but there were a shitload of good character scenes in there, most involving Mycroft - I'm very much enjoying Mycroft. I think I actually found Mycroft and Holmes more interesting than Holmes and Watson this time around. I did roll my eyes at the 'oh, all those cases at the start were totally related' scene, as I thought that was entirely ridiculous and a distinctly Moffat-in-doctor-who mode event. However, I was very pleased that he didn't DoctorWho his way out of the cliffhanger - I was expecting him to give a 30 second 'oh, I don't want to waste time on telling that story' flashback.

I liked it more than the last season, actually. Mycroft seems a bit, not Mycroft at the moment though, Moriarty looks to be running rings around him, although he did imply that he is actually going to focus some attention on him now, so things may change. Quick question though. The woman who Adler had pick up Watson and take him to the meeting, was that Mycrofts lacky from the last series? Because Watson seemed to recognise her and he jumped straight to the Mycroft conclusion but I can't see a reason for her to be working for Adler.

Also, this is a link to Watsons hilariously terrible blog if you didn't already know about it. Read Sherlock be snarky, meet Harry, have a stab at who Anonumous is, read all the stories that were skipped!

I'm really liking this reinterpretation of the character. I delayed in watching it, for the simple reason that I had forgotten the height of last season's cliffhanger. Others have already pointed out some of the fun moments, but Crazedwraith, to quote my favourite line from "To Live and Die in L.A.": your taste is in your ass.

Now this week was a lot better. An actual mystery that I wanted to find the resolution to.

Though there was one bit that slightly annoyed me. When talking with Henry Sherlock decides to send John on his own. Then instantly changes his mind and they both go. I know that was a reference to the original story but it really felt forced to me.

Sherlock said he'd stay in London so that Watson would show him where he'd hidden the cigarettes.

I've seen the second episode now, and was a little disappointed with the ending. Perhaps it's just a case of being overly familiar with the original stories, but from the moment I saw the Spoiler I knew that Spoiler Going back to the first episode of this season, perhaps I missed something but I'm not 100% clear about. In the very beginning of the episode, when Spoiler was it supposed to have been Spoiler With this not being my thread I don't want to muck it up with excessive spoilers. If my tags are excessive, I'll be glad to remove them.

I liked this episode less, but then I wasn't a fan of the original story it was based on either. It was still a good episode, but not "best of the year" level.

I prefered this week's episode to last week's one:
Spoiler Gatiss' scripting on Sherlock is more sure footed and entertaining than his mostly "meh" output on Doctor Who.

I'm speechless at this episode. Moriarty was done brilliantly - true to the character, and yet innovative at the same time.

Well shit. That's all I can think of right now.

At the very end, I kept thinking "He's not dead, there's no way they'd kill of this series." But right at the end in the graveyard, I thought just maybe they had. And then you get that final moment, and it's a case of "WTF?"

God, what a pile of shit this latest episode turned out to be. Moriarty was just as annoying and shit as he was the last time round, and had no motivation beyond 'is a dickhead'. The whole thing was a disjointed mess, even more so than the Adler episode. The Diogenes club was the only interesting thing in the entire episode, apart from that it was a massive pile of failure. The worst thing is that it had the potential to be actually good, which they totally squandered.

Eternal_Freedom wrote:Well shit. That's all I can think of right now.

At the very end, I kept thinking "He's not dead, there's no way they'd kill of this series." But right at the end in the graveyard, I thought just maybe they had. And then you get that final moment, and it's a case of "WTF?"

Spoiler

Spoiler I didn't really think much of this show's whiney, annoying Moriarty (John Simm's Master was also nuts, but it masked grim bitterness) however he likely made his money as one of the most dangerous and powerful criminals on the planet, playing Sherlock as a "fun" challange out of sheer boredom (Spoiler ). I was impressed by Mark Gatiss' Mycroft Holmes, he was more disconcerting than he was last season (and also in comparison to Stephen Fry's more comical Mycroft).

Coop D'etat wrote:

Eternal_Freedom wrote:Well shit. That's all I can think of right now.

At the very end, I kept thinking "He's not dead, there's no way they'd kill of this series." But right at the end in the graveyard, I thought just maybe they had. And then you get that final moment, and it's a case of "WTF?"

Spoiler

You didn't figure out that he was using John to establish himself as being on the ledge and then switched bodies with Moriarty? I thought it was pretty obvious as they were doing it. That was the whole point of getting the Molly the ME in on the plan ahead of time.

Well I thought that but didn't we actually see the face of the corpse that went splat and that it was clearly holmes?

Fuck the spoiler tags. We have warnings. Anyway while I'm glad Moriaty's key code was bullshit, how did he delete himself/create the actor idendity without it?

It would not surprise me at all if Moriarty had several identities he could use for his criminal activities.

As for deleting himself, he used accomplices and bribery to do all the break-ins, I would think he used a similar method for removing himself.

Crazedwraith wrote:
Well I thought that but didn't we actually see the face of the corpse that went splat and that it was clearly holmes?

It looked as though Watson had just received a concussion, though, so he might have just been seeing what he expected to see at that moment. I also wouldn't put it past Holmes to have arranged for the man on the bicycle to knock Watson down at that moment, though having that precise effect would be a bit of a leap (pun intended).

SCRawl wrote: I also wouldn't put it past Holmes to have arranged for the man on the bicycle to knock Watson down at that moment, though having that precise effect would be a bit of a leap (pun intended).

Or Sherlock could be the cylcist.

What do you think of the successful movie series featuring Robert Downey Jr. as Sherlock Holmes? I was surprised at how much of a unexpected success the first movie was and though A Game of Shadows was fun, veered a bit too much into Steampunk James Bond territory.

Crazedwraith wrote:

Coop D'etat wrote:

Eternal_Freedom wrote:Well shit. That's all I can think of right now.

At the very end, I kept thinking "He's not dead, there's no way they'd kill of this series." But right at the end in the graveyard, I thought just maybe they had. And then you get that final moment, and it's a case of "WTF?"

Spoiler

You didn't figure out that he was using John to establish himself as being on the ledge and then switched bodies with Moriarty? I thought it was pretty obvious as they were doing it. That was the whole point of getting the Molly the ME in on the plan ahead of time.

Well I thought that but didn't we actually see the face of the corpse that went splat and that it was clearly holmes?

Fuck the spoiler tags. We have warnings. Anyway while I'm glad Moriaty's key code was bullshit, how did he delete himself/create the actor idendity without it?

I'd have to rewatch it to be sure but I remembered a dark-haired guy whose face was covered in blood from landing face first. Which could be either one.