the bbc sherlock series by the dr who 'bloke' and starring tim from the office

Confirming that the 2nd ep is not as good as the 1st. Have not seen the 3rd but it is avail online for free viewing as I understand.

3rd is wonderful, you can skip the 2nd; it's not bad but it does feel very conventional tv mystery show.

concur

sic did u get my webmail

All you really need to know from ep 2:

Watson gets a girlfriend

'M', as mentioned in ep 1, is behind the baddies in ep 2 too

Oh and:

Chinesers have alternate numbering system for markets (which I have never seen before and I'm learning the freaken language).

The guy playing Holmes too much of an obnoxious twerp for my liking. Maybe living up to his name (Benedict Cumberbatch).

lmfao Cumberbatch

It means loads of something e.g. 'oh hai I has baked a cumberbatch of doughnuts, would you like a doughnut'

TamTam: y but been busy

Boo, Cliffhanger! 3 not as good as 1. I quite like the portrayal of Moriarty (reminds me of Simm's Master), though his various schemes make bugger all sense.

Wonder how Freeman getting Hobbited up will affect series 2.

The two episodes I've watched have the best use of London locations I've seen for ages. It feels like they actually take place in the city I live in, unlike a lot of things set here.

Also: the planetarium fight was amazing.

is nu-moriarty still a professor?

can forgive the nicotine patches but anorexic mycroft is over the line!

Decision to go with 90-minute films such a good idea.

In the original Study in Scarlet 'Rache' actually IS the German word for revenge!

I'm pretty sure "rache" is also German for "revenge" in real life too.

no, what's meant is that it's the other way round in conan doyle: the cop suggests dude was trying to spell rachel and holmes has a good laugh at him before revealing it's german for revenge.

only got to second ep of this because although b.c. was good, the writing was mostly awful

idk if it's a drama exactly

How was the writing awful?

the mystery in ep two was just bad, boring, not good, pretty much like any brit detective show but with a better-than-usual protag

Episode two was the weakest of the three by far.

I've only watched epsiode 1 (excellent!), consensus on other Holmes thread seems to be 2 is a bit rubbish. Can I skip it and still understand 3?

― A brownish area with points (chap), Wednesday, 8 December 2010 02:58 (5 months ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

Confirming that the 2nd ep is not as good as the 1st. Have not seen the 3rd but it is avail online for free viewing as I understand.

― calstars, Wednesday, 8 December 2010 03:01 (5 months ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

3rd is wonderful, you can skip the 2nd; it's not bad but it does feel very conventional tv mystery show.

― balls, Wednesday, 8 December 2010 03:16 (5 months ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

concur

― i'm assuming that it's tity boi, host of the mixtape (sic), Wednesday, 8 December 2010 03:21 (5 months ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

Oh, I agree - if they had only released the first and third it would have been perfect.

See, I really liked two, I must be the only one - London being interpretable through signs and symbols, the Sax Rohmer nods, erm, some other stuff I liked at the time but now can't remember. It did meander I guess, and was the weakest of the three, but I still really enjoyed it.

It wasn't bad, but it was like an album track that didn't belong on a 3-track EP.

aight i'll watch three then

It wasn't bad, but it was like an album track that didn't belong on a 3-track EP.

Yep, that sounds right.

i thought the third was pretty weak tbh

me too, couldn't get through it

IMO - 1st showed great potential, 2nd was a let down but watchable and 3rd was a bit rubbish. Ending was poor show. But don't take my opinion - I'm near to completion working my way through 12 series of Poirot box set and loving most of it.

All three were terrific. I immediately wished that Moffat would do a full series of this rather than Dr Who.

last episode of the series 2 is gonna be titled Reichenbach Falls.

bah, that's terribly soon. also shush!

it's "the reichenbach fall", so it might not be quite what you think.

3 eps too many imho

― former moderator, please give generously (DG), Monday, August 9, 2010 5:21 PM (9 months ago)

bollocks to the baftas, this show was appalling

Worst show EVER. http://i56.tinypic.com/317cohw.jpg

u hacked my webcam :(

Cumberbatch

watchin this now, love it

Yeah this is totally great

everybody otm about the second ep tho

even the ciphering is tedious

loved the open on the attacking guy in the turban tho that subsequently gets dropped

Slight nagging irritation that they insist getting black cabs everywhere despite living directly above a minicab firm. Despite money worries suspect background trust fund.

for martin freeman fans....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=umBqBH1RM_8

OK so the new one for series 2, SPOILERS OMG SPOILERS ahead:

So is Moff like "I'm being clever, details be damned" or is there more to Mycroft saying that he was extra careful examining her corpse despite it being, yanno, not her corpse?

consider the significance of mycroft's next line, directly after saying he was thorough, this time.

lol whoops big oversight on my part.

the scene between sherlock and mycroft in the morgue after identifying her body (the first time) was one of the all-time great holiday TV moments. for me.

Loved this, although thoroughly dismayed at some of my favourite stories (Greek Interpreter, Naval Treaty, Speckled Band) being discarded as in-jokes therefore won't be made.