Sherlock: "The Sign of Three"

[tj_teejay]

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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[tj_teejay]

Oooh, yes, of course. Thanks for catching that! I've fixed it now.

[tj_teejay]

A-ha! Wow, thanks for explaining the part about Sholto, looks like that went right past me. And all the other stuff, of course. Being a big Great Britain fan, I daresay I know quite a lot about certain UK-specific things, but I think you must have lived there for a longer period of time to really understand all the nuances.

And, yes, that explanation about I.O.U. is very disappointing. I bet sometimes the writers just like to mess with the fans. How mean! :-)

[prosen8966]

Just to be annoying (well, actually that's not true, but I thought it would have more weight if I phrased it that way) I totally enjoyed The Sign of Three (the first time I, personally, said that about the middle episode of a Sherlock season. Not that THOB was bad or anything, but compared to ASIB and TRF, it didn't have the same heft

[prosen8966]

Pt. 2 of 2

[tj_teejay]

You can be as annoying as you want to be, I love a healthy, controversial discussion every now and then

[prosen8966]

One can never emphasize with Sherlock 'too much' -- that is an impossibility (IMO). And while I do basically throw most of the blame on Mrs. Hudson, Mycroft essentially echoed her statements and at the end of the wedding, after Sherlock's last deduction, he, himself, said something along the lines of John & Mary no longer needing him around w' the arrival of the 'real' infant (or some such thing - I don't feel like Googling the actual sentence and I just woke up less than 30 minutes ago

[tj_teejay]

You're probably right that one can never empathize with Sherlock too much. Though, mostly, I must admit I empathize more with John, because he usually gets the short end of the stick. Maybe this had such a big impact on me because it's very unusual that you even realize Sherlock's being emotionally affected by anything. Sherlock's normal outward perception is that everything even remotely emotional rolls right off his back, but of course that doesn't mean he doesn't have any feelings

[gaedhal]

The telegraph thing has to be an English tradition -- who in the U.S. would
even know how to send one? The last one I got was literally in 1980.

I'm waiting impatiently for the new episodes, but it's making me uneasy
because for the first time I'm reading not at all positive reviews of not
just one (the middle) ep, but the first two. When there are only three
episodes every thousand years (so it feels), that's troubling.

I'll have to wait and see.

[tj_teejay]

because for the first time I'm reading not at all positive reviews of not just one (the middle) ep, but the first two. When there are only three episodes every thousand years (so it feels), that's troubling.Just for the record, I loved The Empty Hearse a lot, so if you're referring to my review about it, I must have phrased it wrongly. But I'm guessing you're alluding more to the general tone of the fandom's take on it

[gaedhal]

I'm not talking about the fandom at all -- I'm talking about the professional
critics, both here and in the UK, mainly ones who have been very supportive
of the show in the past. That concerns me.

But I'm holding my judgment.

[alicambs]

The 'telegram ' is now a short hand way of saying card and messages sent from those who couldn't be at the wedding and it is traditional for the best-man to read them out - fortunately most make less of hash of it than Sherlock.