Sherlock: "The Sign of Three"
Episode 3x03 hasn’t even aired yet, and already I can tell that the theme of me not liking the middle episode in any Sherlock season continues.
Don’t get me wrong, “The Sign of Three” had a lot of cute, funny, intense and quirky moments, but I couldn’t help cringing all the way through at the overall depressing undertone. Sherlock in E minor.
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Don’t get me wrong, “The Sign of Three” had a lot of cute, funny, intense and quirky moments, but I couldn’t help cringing all the way through at the overall depressing undertone. Sherlock in E minor.
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And I don't disagree about the underlying depressing note floating about in the episode, but that can mostly be thrown onto Mrs. Hudson whom I thought showed the most appalling lack of forethought in almost every single thing she said throughout the entire episode. Indeed, if SHE played a game called 'How Could I Depress Sherlock In the Worst Possible Way', I'm pretty sure she said everything she could possibly have thought of for the game -- and then pushed it one step further by trying to shove John away as well, just in case he had any silly notions of still hanging around Baker Street following his marriage.
But apart from that, there were so, so many hysterical moments; so much delving into character motivation; so many true feelings being realized and expressed; and (as part of the funny) Sherlock's constant back and forth of such inappropriate things being said thruout the 'Speech That Would Not End.' (Personally, if Sherlock spoke throughout an entire episode, I could be happy w' that, to tell the truth...)
I don't know diddly about English wedding traditions (as I've lived my entire life in the states) so the telegram reading, for ex., was a completely new and random thing to happen (in my experience). It was certainly worth it, to see Sherlock's facial expressions & deepening difficulty in reading such messages, tho, so I was all for it. I was much more concerned w' the reference to Redbeard which I still don't understand in context with the show. (I tried to look this up and all I learned was that Redbeard was a pirate who had a brother who passed away, but Redbeard continued on after his brother's death.) What did Mycroft's comment mean? How did Sherlock's involvement, either in John's life, John & Mary's lives, or in the wedding itself compare w' the death of fellow bro pirate of Redbeard? What did that MEAN?
Yes, I'm still at a loss.
Billy Kincaid, on the other hand, I thought Sherlock explained thoroughly on the show itself. (Altho if there was, indeed, a real person named Billy Kincaid, perhaps that adds additional substance to the whole scene.)
How Janine, tho, somehow decided NOT to go for Sherlock but ultimately for the sci-fi geek is beyond my comprehension. When she first brought up the concept of 'getting together', she threw it out there in such a manner that almost any guy might be thrown (except, perhaps, for random seriously horny men who just don't give a crap about that sort of thing). But after spending time w' Sherlock; after getting dancing lessons from him; there just wasn't anything that I, as an audience member, anyway, saw, that seemed to say: stay back; get away; don't touch me; anything along those lines. Indeed, other than w' Irene Adler, I don't recall ever seeing Sherlock so easy with someone, so why she was convinced that they didn't have a chance remains perplexing.
Molly, however, had a great opportunity to see her two men together and realize that no matter how much Tom might resemble Sherlock, he appears to be a moron (or, to be fair, a moron as compared to the detective.) Why SHE didn't follow Sherlock as he appeared to be leaving the wedding is another mystery.
I've actually re-watched The Sign of Three a bunch of times and enjoyed each and every re-watch. (Altho I can't tell you HOW MUCH I appreciate your pics of Sherlock's drunken deductions from the Mayfly Man's apartment!!) Sherlock KNOWS ash, ya know. Don't tell him he doesn't!!
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