Sherlock, Series 2

[Suzie Miyazaki]

Another series, another three episodes and the first one?

A little too many details all winding together, maybe with half an hour less it would've been quicker. Though I did like the bit at the end when we find out about the first few requests for help. I don't think it needed Jimmy boy to show up in the middle and text Mycroft that he knew about his plan. And the opening was good but a little clunky, but it did work more or less.

It was nice to see a more human Sherlock and that he cares for people other than John. Not just Adler but the way he trusts Mrs. Hudson to keep his stuff safe, and when that CIA agent takes her hostage and he scans every critical point in his body and throws him out of a window, repeatedly.

[Natsumi Hikari]

The CIA agent and the window. Badass, Sherlock.

I thought it got a bit convoluted towards the end, and the beginning was a bit slow, but around the 20 minute mark, it was great, until around the time Irene was at Baker Street for a while.

How did what's-her-name work for Irene? That was something I wanted to know (Mycroft's girl).

I marathoned all of Series 1 with two friends today, they left (to see Game of Shadows, since his girlfriend hadn't yet; friend and his girlfriend), so I went onto this episode. I love 1.1, despise 1.2 (unanimous that it kind of sucks), and 1.3 had ups and downs (maybe it's just coming off of 1.2...), but this was the best episode yet, of the four. In 1.1, you have to establish things. 1.2 just sucked, and 1.3 was about Moriarty, really. Now we get another fresh start on things, since we have our established characters, and are now digging deeper.

Damn, I hope Mary Morstan shows up soon. I'd also love to see Sebastian Moran for the finale, since it's The Final Problem, and would make sense, with how Moriarty is here. Hell, I wouldn't be surprised if he was one of the snipers from 1.3. I'd be disappointed if he wasn't; missed opportunity would be an understatement.

Also, I like Lestrade in this version, I really do, but I want other canon detectives. Like Stanley Hopkins.

[Suzie Miyazaki]

Last five minutes of Japanese class:
Me: Ooh! Ooh! We should write about English television!
E: Do either of you watch Sherlock?
Me and N: Oh my God!

Yeah I agree, 1.2 has it's moments but bloody Hell it's boring. 1.1 and 1.3 are the best. I'd say this one loses a few points because it confused me. (Plane, boomerang bit being more or less unrelated, dead people, Adler saying she's gay but getting all fluttery around Sherlock)

That wasn't Mycroft's assistant was it? (Anthea was thinner and had different hair to her) It was just a girl with a car and an abandoned warehouse, which is the elder Holmes standard MO.

N (above) actually raised a point, she's taking the end bit where Sherlock shows up in Kahari to save her as a small fantasy in Adler's mind and that she's dead because it makes more sense.

This made me chuckle.

[Tsubasa Todoroki]

Wikipedia doesn't say Anthea, but another site kind of implied so. Doesn't Watson give his name, though, as if they know each other? I guess that was my assumption.

I liked Anthea; I hope she pops up again.

Anyway, I do like the idea of it being a fantasy, but is Sherlock like that? To imagine a fantasy at the end? Because if it was Irene's fantasy, why show it if she's dead? I'm hoping Moffat clears that up as a fantasy.

[Suzie Miyazaki]

Now that was a good episode through and through.

The fog, the dog and the whole episode was wonderful.

I gotta say though, all of Knight's lines would've worked so much better if Russell Tovey wasn't using that weird accent.

[McKenzie Williams]

I was wondering how they would pull off a hellhound. I don't remember how it worked in the novel exactly. Really need to re-read; the best of the four. I think it was just a large dog.

I liked the headlight/Morse Code thing. Nice callback to the novel (and breakdown of how it isn't relevant).

Huh. Guess they blew their budget on locations and the explosion, since the CGI was so subpar.

Great episode. Can't wait for the finale, and how that guy at the end plays into it. I love it when they tie things together like this (granted, the movies failed to, unfortunately, so this makes up for that).

[Otoya Kurenai]

Wait. Final scene; that was Moriarty imprisoned by Mycroft? I didn't catch that (thanks Wikipedia). Well, thought that was Moriarty using the H.O.U.N.D. experiment on someone else with Sherlock's name as stimulus. That's much more interesting this way, to see what happened there.

[Suzie Miyazaki]

Wasn't it a large dog with phosphorous in it's mouth?

Yeah, this episode sort of blew the budget on location and costume that they didn't have enough for CGI but I honestly don't care about that since this is probably my favourite episode ever.

I think Moriarty may have snapped ...

[Hoji]

I really don't remember.

I think it was better than Series 1 as a whole, but not better than last episode.

[Suzie Miyazaki]

I didn't really understand the last one, it seemed to confusing for me, I didn't get until Monday afternoon. >.<

I had a discussion with some friends that basically boiled down to:
Sherlock is better than Doctor Who by episode percentage, (5 episodes, 4 are good compared to the hundreds upon hundreds of Doctor Who ones and a larger percentage of bad eps)

[Rein Hana]

There were problems with it, but I still ended up preferring it.

I agree. I keep saying I'd also rather watch Sherlock. DW offsetting Series 2? No. Screw Series 6; nobody really cares about River being Amy's daughter as a cliffhanger. We do care about how they got out of the pool.

[Suzie Miyazaki]

Steven Moffat's best writing is, at the moment, in Sherlock. His Doctor Who stuff is ... not the best at the moment, disappointing since Empty Child and Blink were amazing.

[Marcel Labat]

I like his writing, but yeah, as of late it's poor. Probably because the plot he's running is...stale. It was good, then got stale this year.

[Psycho Suzie]

Single episodes are so much more his thing, he can do a damn fine self-contained story.

[Hoji]

Yes, that's very much the truth.