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

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.

Not much compensation but they're fleshed out a bit here:

http://www.johnwatsonblog.co.uk/

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.

so so so so so much fun. sacrificing an evening's essential study was totally worth it.

does anybody know where i can watch this online?

I just webmailed you

Best thing on telly over the whole Christmas period. Absolutely loved it.

otm. wish they hadn't kept referring to her "camera phone" though.

Really enjoyed this, better than last year's and hilarious throughout. The beheading reveal was lame though.

Was the beheading reveal bit an actual memory or a Sherlock fantasy moment?

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

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.)

also part of why i like this -- the scene where they're waiting in buckingham palace really brought this home -- is that cumberbatch and freeman are sort of playing peter cook and dudley moore, too

I enjoyed it, but found all the "look at me, I'm writing a blog!/ hey guys just Tweet me @sherlockholmes" stuff to be a bit overdone. I think Cumberbatch is a bit of a ham too. Freeman and Gatiss are both good, though.

I enjoyed it - but it's definitely made for the attention deficit disorder generation.

I loved this unreservedly.

i've seen the first 2 minutes of this, which was enough to remind me how little i care for the dude playing moriarty.

Oh yeah, I forgot about him! Which probably speaks to how slight and badly miscast he is.

oh noes it's scary Ant from Ant 'n Dec!

he might be a good actor in another situation but he was just so obviously at sea, and overcompensating by doing the whackadoo sub-joker loud-quiet madman schtick we've all seen 10 million times

i totally plant to watch, though