Sherlock series three, writing round-up, Sherlock Remix

[innie_darling]

Hi, everybody!

I was asked by a friend what I thought of the new series of Sherlock, and it ended up being so long that I thought I might as well post it.

Comments

[thesmallhobbit]

My reactions to the two episodes were similar to yours. The Empty Hearse did nothing for me at all - by the time they were at the bonfire I was making health & safety observations - clearly not caught up in the plot. I enjoyed The Sign of Three, but I have tried not to analyse it afterwards, because no doubt I could drive a bus through the story. And the lack of consequences following the Fall is a big problem. I was not convinced about Sherlock's survival story, too many holes and why jump if the snipers were already taken out? And you're right about Sally and Lestrade working together, why haven't they been put on different teams?

[innie_darling]

It's the arrogance of the hand-waving that really gets to me, honestly - the whole attitude of not needing to clean up the messes created by series 2 before getting to "the good stuff" in series 3. That's not how it works!

At this point, I'm watching just to see Martin Freeman astonish me once more.

[alizarin_nyc]

Yeah, that hits it -- what were we doing, so emotionally invested in the events of Reichenbach? What was the danger there? What were those two years all about? I'm deeply disappointed by the lack of resolution and, as Innie says, satisfaction.

[innie_darling]

Right! It feels like we were cheated and mocked and just led astray for having watched John mourn for his friend and empathized with him.

[innie_darling]

Also, leaving aside Donovan, what about consequences to Lestrade himself? The opening of "Sign" lists him, in one of the newspaper articles, as DCI - so he got a promotion out of the whole Sherlock debacle? What happened to the old DCI? How was Lestrade's sniper dealt with? Didn't anyone find it suspicious that a Yarder suddenly disappeared?

[thesmallhobbit]

There's no way Lestrade would have got promotion, even if they did send the old DCI back to the north after he'd provided his stereotyped no nonsense copper bit. It seemse as if, having built up the relationship throughout S2, he's now been pushed back into the background. But then, without any police cases to deal with, there's no real need for the Yarders.

[innie_darling]

So frustrating. Lestrade and Sally really got poorly used in this series.