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.
― A brownish area with points (chap), Wednesday, 8 December 2010 17:53 (thirteen years ago) link
is nu-moriarty still a professor?
― Philip Nunez, Thursday, 9 December 2010 00:38 (thirteen years ago) link
can forgive the nicotine patches but anorexic mycroft is over the line!
― Philip Nunez, Thursday, 9 December 2010 00:40 (thirteen years ago) link
Decision to go with 90-minute films such a good idea.
― Cobra Laser-Face (Leee), Monday, 24 January 2011 05:32 (thirteen years ago) link
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.
― Cobra Laser-Face (Leee), Monday, 24 January 2011 05:33 (thirteen years ago) link
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.
― zvookster, Monday, 24 January 2011 07:47 (thirteen years ago) link
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
― if opinions about ofwgkta could fly this place would be the wtc (history mayne), Monday, 23 May 2011 08:03 (twelve years ago) link
How was the writing awful?
― StanM, Monday, 23 May 2011 08:53 (twelve years ago) link
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
― if opinions about ofwgkta could fly this place would be the wtc (history mayne), Monday, 23 May 2011 09:03 (twelve years ago) link
Episode two was the weakest of the three by far.
― England's banh mi army (ledge), Monday, 23 May 2011 09:05 (twelve years ago) link
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.
― StanM, Monday, 23 May 2011 09:10 (twelve years ago) link
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.
― Fizzles the Chimp (GamalielRatsey), Monday, 23 May 2011 09:21 (twelve years ago) link
It wasn't bad, but it was like an album track that didn't belong on a 3-track EP.
― StanM, Monday, 23 May 2011 09:28 (twelve years ago) link
aight i'll watch three then
― if opinions about ofwgkta could fly this place would be the wtc (history mayne), Monday, 23 May 2011 09:29 (twelve years ago) link
Yep, that sounds right.
― Fizzles the Chimp (GamalielRatsey), Monday, 23 May 2011 09:56 (twelve years ago) link
i thought the third was pretty weak tbh
― thomp, Monday, 23 May 2011 09:59 (twelve years ago) link
me too, couldn't get through it
― 百万个叉烧包 (Autumn Almanac), Monday, 23 May 2011 10:39 (twelve years ago) link
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.
― mmmm, Monday, 23 May 2011 11:21 (twelve years ago) link
All three were terrific. I immediately wished that Moffat would do a full series of this rather than Dr Who.
― Hippocratic Oaf (DavidM), Monday, 23 May 2011 13:47 (twelve years ago) link
last episode of the series 2 is gonna be titled Reichenbach Falls.
― remy bean, Monday, 23 May 2011 14:14 (twelve years ago) link
bah, that's terribly soon. also shush!
― the man who forsook his wife for fap fap fap (sic), Monday, 23 May 2011 14:27 (twelve years ago) link
it's "the reichenbach fall", so it might not be quite what you think.
― joe, Monday, 23 May 2011 14:29 (twelve years ago) link
3 eps too many imho― former moderator, please give generously (DG), Monday, August 9, 2010 5:21 PM (9 months ago)
― former moderator, please give generously (DG), Monday, August 9, 2010 5:21 PM (9 months ago)
bollocks to the baftas, this show was appalling
― Romford Spring (DG), Monday, 23 May 2011 16:07 (twelve years ago) link
Worst show EVER. http://i56.tinypic.com/317cohw.jpg
― StanM, Monday, 23 May 2011 16:14 (twelve years ago) link
u hacked my webcam :(
― Romford Spring (DG), Monday, 23 May 2011 16:19 (twelve years ago) link
Cumberbatch
― am0n, Monday, 20 June 2011 17:20 (twelve years ago) link
watchin this now, love it
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Saturday, 23 July 2011 04:03 (twelve years ago) link
Yeah this is totally great
― I dream of vodka sandwich (jjjusten), Saturday, 23 July 2011 04:43 (twelve years ago) link
everybody otm about the second ep tho
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Saturday, 23 July 2011 04:56 (twelve years ago) link
even the ciphering is tedious
loved the open on the attacking guy in the turban tho that subsequently gets dropped
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Saturday, 23 July 2011 04:58 (twelve years ago) link
Slight nagging irritation that they insist getting black cabs everywhere despite living directly above a minicab firm. Despite money worries suspect background trust fund.
― Fizzles the Chimp (GamalielRatsey), Saturday, 23 July 2011 17:40 (twelve years ago) link
for martin freeman fans....
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=umBqBH1RM_8
― Dark Noises from the Eurozone (Tracer Hand), Sunday, 14 August 2011 22:26 (twelve years ago) link
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?
― alpaca althusser (Leee), Monday, 2 January 2012 20:03 (twelve years ago) link
consider the significance of mycroft's next line, directly after saying he was thorough, this time.
― the girl from spirea x (f. hazel), Monday, 2 January 2012 20:27 (twelve years ago) link
lol whoops big oversight on my part.
― Leee, Monday, 2 January 2012 20:40 (twelve years ago) link
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.
― the girl from spirea x (f. hazel), Monday, 2 January 2012 20:51 (twelve years ago) link
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.
― 50,000 raspberries with the face of Peter Ndlovu (aldo), Monday, 2 January 2012 20:52 (twelve years ago) link
Not much compensation but they're fleshed out a bit here:
http://www.johnwatsonblog.co.uk/
― Quoth the raven "Nevermind" (ledge), Monday, 2 January 2012 21:57 (twelve years ago) link
that is a bit better than the fake sherlock one, at least
this was really pretty good, i thought. ever-increasing bait-and-switch-and-switch-and-switch-and-switch. it seems strange to me that there are british television shows where things happen every minute or two, rather than one or two things happening in an episode, at depth.
― thomp, Monday, 2 January 2012 22:06 (twelve years ago) link
so so so so so much fun. sacrificing an evening's essential study was totally worth it.
― Upt0eleven, Monday, 2 January 2012 22:18 (twelve years ago) link
does anybody know where i can watch this online?
― gnome rocognise gnome (remy bean), Monday, 2 January 2012 22:24 (twelve years ago) link
I just webmailed you
― kinder, Monday, 2 January 2012 22:48 (twelve years ago) link
Best thing on telly over the whole Christmas period. Absolutely loved it.
― that mustardless plate (Bill A), Tuesday, 3 January 2012 10:25 (twelve years ago) link
otm. wish they hadn't kept referring to her "camera phone" though.
― 1N1ck, Tuesday, 3 January 2012 10:37 (twelve years ago) link
Really enjoyed this, better than last year's and hilarious throughout. The beheading reveal was lame though.
― Matt DC, Tuesday, 3 January 2012 12:07 (twelve years ago) link
Was the beheading reveal bit an actual memory or a Sherlock fantasy moment?
― Daisy Click Clack, Tuesday, 3 January 2012 12:10 (twelve years ago) link
i even liked that. that kind of setup - we're in That Middle East, there are sinister looking arabic types with swords, possibly muezzin wailing - is a horrible televisual cliché and tends to be telegraphing the idea that dark, serious things are happening; for two seconds i thought they actually were going to go there (which would have been aaaaaaaawful) and then it turns out to be for the sake of a gag, so well done them
xpost i had that thought but if it's a fantasy he's not established as having any other reason to know she was/n't beheaded, so
― thomp, Tuesday, 3 January 2012 12:13 (twelve years ago) link
also it sets up that sherlock definitely knows mycroft is enlisting john to lie to him. (that stuff in this episode that sort of shifts into the idea that sherlock's family/friends are in the position of dealing with a mentally ill person is really smart, i think. -- in terms of convincingly modernizing the given material of the original without rewriting it.)
― thomp, Tuesday, 3 January 2012 12:17 (twelve years ago) link