Why Steven Moffat should not let other people write his stuff

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Dear Steven Moffat,

Please don't let other people write your stuff anymore. Or at least, become friends with people who can write as well as you can. All things being equal between episodes one and two of Sherlock (acting talent, production, directing), the average suckitude of episode two just depressed me.

Comments

[finncullen]

I quite agree. The second episode was pedestrian to say the least with none of the mythic/archetypal fun that made the first episode so engaging. Holmes showed no brilliance, took a long time to come to simple conclusions, and there was nothing of originality about it.

Also some annoyances -

1. Surely a genius would realise you don't have to fanny around untying the hands of the woman in the path of the crossbow... just knock the seat over and she's safe

2. The man garotting Holmes was inept. He should have been unconscious or dead inside 30 seconds.

3. Naturally the newly introduced female character HAS to spot the obvious clue that Holmes has missed. He's only the deductive genius of course, and hey wouldn't it be a funny moment if she spotted something he didn't, nyuk nyuk. Cheap.

4. Watson sees the writing on the wall (literally) and in the couple of minutes it takes him to find Sherlock, someone has painted over it. Luckily (and sensibly) Watson had taken a photograph of it. But... Holmes should have realised Watson would do that, not faff around trying to get Watson to recall the details (but again, cheap gag), AND who was watching Watson so closely as to know he had seen the writing and just happened to have a bucket of paint with them and managed to cover the whole thing in two minutes and didn't spot that Watson had photographed it anyway. Gah. The writer was going for Scooby-Doo tension.

Not impressed.

If I'd watched it without seeing episode one first I'd have thought it was "Okay" at best. In comparison though, having seen the first episode, I was massively disappointed.