My thoughts on Sherlock Series Three (so far)
Aderyn, who normally writes exquisite poetic short fanfiction stories wrote a lovely piece of poetic meta-analysis talking about “A bullet flown from Hope to Magnussen singing I killed for you.”
What she writes there is interesting too because I also see the events of A Study in Pink, The Reichenbach Fall and His Last Vow as a triplicate with repeated elements.
In some other meta written before this new series came out I said ASiP and TRF were mirrors of each other; in ASiP characters are nominally in charge of events and moving cheerfully forward, in TRF, things repeat a lot more uncomfortably backwards. In HLV, after a few bumpy incidents with Sherlock’s return they have moved forward once again.
In numbers we have gone from two to three, 2+1 in characters (Sherlock, John and added Mary) and in episode numbers (1, 6 and 9). In all three episodes we also travel in the story from scenes at Bart’s lab to running around a city (in HLV it’s internal rather than external) but we do, as she rightly says, end up with a character meeting a bullet in each case. John shot Jefferson Hope, Moriarty shot himself and now Sherlock has shot Charles Augustus Magnussen. Both Sherlock and John also have a healed bullet wound each and Mary stands between then holding a gun with which she saved Sherlock’s life.
I know because of how narrative theory works, and the human story-reading mind understands, there are only so many patterns and rhythms you can use when crafting a tale. Still, as you know, as Dyslexic and Asperger’s type throwing narrative theory at a story gives me the life-raft of structure. I need that to hold onto when getting involved and show runners create emotional storm breakers that then leave us with another two years to wait.
What do you think so far?
What she writes there is interesting too because I also see the events of A Study in Pink, The Reichenbach Fall and His Last Vow as a triplicate with repeated elements.
In some other meta written before this new series came out I said ASiP and TRF were mirrors of each other; in ASiP characters are nominally in charge of events and moving cheerfully forward, in TRF, things repeat a lot more uncomfortably backwards. In HLV, after a few bumpy incidents with Sherlock’s return they have moved forward once again.
In numbers we have gone from two to three, 2+1 in characters (Sherlock, John and added Mary) and in episode numbers (1, 6 and 9). In all three episodes we also travel in the story from scenes at Bart’s lab to running around a city (in HLV it’s internal rather than external) but we do, as she rightly says, end up with a character meeting a bullet in each case. John shot Jefferson Hope, Moriarty shot himself and now Sherlock has shot Charles Augustus Magnussen. Both Sherlock and John also have a healed bullet wound each and Mary stands between then holding a gun with which she saved Sherlock’s life.
I know because of how narrative theory works, and the human story-reading mind understands, there are only so many patterns and rhythms you can use when crafting a tale. Still, as you know, as Dyslexic and Asperger’s type throwing narrative theory at a story gives me the life-raft of structure. I need that to hold onto when getting involved and show runners create emotional storm breakers that then leave us with another two years to wait.
What do you think so far?