I didn't mind the mind-altering drugs (although they kind of did that to Sherlock in the previous episode).
I don't mind the glowing animals (although those glowing genes have to be done to the actual DNA of the creature before it is born, so Bluebell couldn't have suddenly GLOWED LIKE A FAIRY one night after some living gene manipulation. Or have I got that wrong?).
It's not so much that it's scifi, it's that it's like an independent Syfy movie. One of the fair-to-middling ones. With the terrible special effects, the convoluted plot (honestly, who wastes that much money and time on gaslighting an emotionally disturbed person with pressure pad-releasing chemicals and a planted therapist and triggering him with the bright lights? You'd think the guy would have considered pushing him off one of those handy cliffs and made it look like a suicide- everyone in the town thought he was a basketcase whose story made a good tourism trade), and the constant zooms on the one monkey in the lab, making it really really obvious they only had one rabbit and one monkey to spare. I never felt like Hound took place in the here and now, as opposed to in the fantastical mind of Mark Gatiss.
Yeah, true, there were way easier ways to deal with Henry Knight, all things considered. I'm not sure about the glowing thing. Though I thought the bunny already glowed and Kirstie just noticed it that once becasue it as night...? I dunno... You're right about the "zooming in to hide the budget" thing, though. Hee.
In Hound's defence, I will say that terrified!John locking himself inside one of the animal cages is one of my very favorite moments in Sherlock ever. He was so scared his voice was going, but he held out until he thought the dog was right on top of him, before making a cage into a fortress.
I don't mind the glowing animals (although those glowing genes have to be done to the actual DNA of the creature before it is born, so Bluebell couldn't have suddenly GLOWED LIKE A FAIRY one night after some living gene manipulation. Or have I got that wrong?).
It's not so much that it's scifi, it's that it's like an independent Syfy movie. One of the fair-to-middling ones. With the terrible special effects, the convoluted plot (honestly, who wastes that much money and time on gaslighting an emotionally disturbed person with pressure pad-releasing chemicals and a planted therapist and triggering him with the bright lights? You'd think the guy would have considered pushing him off one of those handy cliffs and made it look like a suicide- everyone in the town thought he was a basketcase whose story made a good tourism trade), and the constant zooms on the one monkey in the lab, making it really really obvious they only had one rabbit and one monkey to spare. I never felt like Hound took place in the here and now, as opposed to in the fantastical mind of Mark Gatiss.
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