Sherlock series three, episode three: His Last Vow

Jan 12, 2014 21:13

[Spoiler (click to open)]Everyone on the staff of this show kept saying it was going to be worse than Reichenbach, and I completely disagree. Reichenbach tore my heart out and left it bleeding out on the pavement outside of St Bart's along with that strong, capable, horrendously broken man who had to watch the man he believed in most supposedly give up and jump to his Read more... )

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pandoras_chaos January 13 2014, 04:31:54 UTC
I love to watch him be brilliant.

YES. THIS. YES.
He wasn't particularly brilliant this season, was he? Don't get me wrong, The Sign of Three is my new favorite episode, but I'm 99% sure that has everything to do with Johnlock and nothing to do with actual quality of writing. It was hilarious and amazing and so overwhelmingly lovely that I fell instantly in love with it. But again, that's because it was pretty much ALL about the Johnlock. Yes, John married Mary, and it was lovely and adorable, but that episode was about two men who love each other (sexually or not-sexually, it's up to fanfic) finally getting the opportunity to say it blatantly and without regret. Much as I loved that episode, though, Sherlock wasn't particularly clever, was he?

The whole point of this show is Sherlock Holmes, the great detective. Much as I love the Johnlocky goodness, the point of this show is supposed to be the detective stories, no? There was pretty much no plot in TEH, and the plot in TSo3 was the wedding. There were no real "cases" at least not ones that honestly deserved the attention of Sherlock Holmes. What happened to "There’s no point in my leaving the flat for anything less than a seven."?

Series two was pretty much flawless. Belgravia is probably the most brilliant episode ever, at least in my opinion. I was hoping that TEH was a fluke, and that they just had to get it out of their system. There were definite moments of brilliance in this series, His Last Vow especially, but after two incredible series, this one falls a little flat for me.

I definitely have to re-watch HLV before I write it off for good. Empty Hearse took three viewings for me to finally come to terms with it.

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jcporter1 January 13 2014, 04:40:41 UTC
Exactly. He knew how to jam a security card and get into a secure building but didn't know that Mycrofts laptop would have a GPS devise.
Unless he did know, and was intending to wait until Mycroft showed up to use John's gun to kill CAM. In which case should he have asked John?... I guess it makes a bit of sense .
I gess we wait now, and warm our hands by fic.

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pandoras_chaos January 13 2014, 04:58:41 UTC
Sigh.

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