Sherlock

I liked the idea of a mind palace. But it became very obvious that when they knew it they were gonna kill him.

I would have put the gun in Mag's pocket and have the cops shoot him when he shows it. That would have been the Sherlock way, a clever ruse.
 
I liked it better than the first two episodes, but I still don't think a two-epsiode buildup (three, if you include 2x03) for a single-episode payoff is warranted with only three episodes a year. The series should only start now, but it's altready over.
 
Hmm... I can't really agree with your criticism, especially predator101's. I enjoyed the hell out of ep3. A proper, weird 'villain', very well presented. It is unfortunate that they wasted whole season for a single story, but the story I liked.

I don't think mind palace was all that improbable. Every Sherlock ep forces you to suspend your disbelief, hell, the main character himself. Selecting one correct possible scenario from a single clue that could easily have 1000 different explanations? Surely absurd, but this is Sherlock Holmes, and we the viewers don't challenge this sort of writing on this sort of show.

Besides, there are real people with photographic memory, there are people who learn thousands of decimals of pi, sequence of tens of decks of cards on a single glance, whole books precisely by words, etc. There are memorization techniques not unlike the "mind palace" idea in the show. The script just stretches this idea slightly.
 
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I enjoyed the hell out of ep3. A proper, weird 'villain', very well presented. It is unfortunate that they wasted whole season for a single story, but the story I liked.
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I don't think we disagree too much there, it was a good, if not even great episode - I just think no story, no matter how brilliant, warrants two thirds of a series' run that can't carry it's own weight as a buildup. Either make the buildup shorter (like, a single act) or make the buildup good enough to stand on it's own.

If five more episodes (or even only three) would follow, I'd cheer Moffat for his audacity (sacrificing a third of the series for a brilliant climax). But the way things are, it just was not worth it IMO.
 
I think there might be more to Appledore/Magnussen than just shooting him in the head.

But anyway, they still haven't unveiled how Sherlock faked his death.
 
I liked it. Also as soon as I heard Magnusson I thought "He sounds like Kip Le Chiffre."

As for the shooting, remember once you have eliminated the impossible.......

EDIT And I bet Martin Freeman loved filming the scene where he disarms the smackhead. Brilliant.
 
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Sherlock uses mind palace to store memories that are his own. No matter how photographic your memory is, You simply cannot build up a database of every person's secret, including their "porn preferences".... The idea was stretched beyond what is acceptable even for Sherlock.
 
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As for the shooting, remember once you have eliminated the impossible.......
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Moriaty's real name is Connor MacLeod!
 
Of the Clan MacLeod?
 

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No, of course he is:
 
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Hm, it seems they've burned through the literary cannon quite quickly, if the house with bees is anything more than a throwaway joke, and let's be honest here it might be.

I'm torn on Moriarty's resurgence, We say him blow his brains out, like literally bits of brain flowing with the blood in 2x03, his body was on the rooftop. Based on that and the fact the Moriarty on the screens is not actually him, I am inclined to believe that it's just that sherlock didn't quite destroyed all of his network. On the other hand if they're hyping Mr. Brook so much audiences may react negatively if he doesn't show up and I'd love to see his new characterization as a transparently villainous man that quite literally everyone on the country, nay, the world knows is trouble whenever he shows up. The Sherlock cannon is too tight for just narrating stories out of order a la Doyle aswell
 
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gaasc said:
Hm, it seems they've burned through the literary cannon quite quickly, if the house with bees is anything more than a throwaway joke, and let's be honest here it might be.

I'm torn on Moriarty's resurgence, We say him blow his brains out, like literally bits of brain flowing with the blood in 2x03, his body was on the rooftop. Based on that and the fact the Moriarty on the screens is not actually him, I am inclined to believe that it's just that sherlock didn't quite destroyed all of his network. On the other hand if they're hyping Mr. Brook so much audiences may react negatively if he doesn't show up and I'd love to see his new characterization as a transparently villainous man that quite literally everyone on the country, nay, the world knows is trouble whenever he shows up. The Sherlock cannon is too tight for just narrating stories out of order a la Doyle aswell
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A simple explanation there would be a meta-fourth-wall-breaking of sorts: Moriarty's gun being loaded with blanks and blood-filled stuntman-like squibs triggered by the gun?
 
Maybe Moriaty is a previously-unseen incarnation of The Master? Would slash Moff's workload in half.
 
I have found this series a bit of heavy weather to be honest - surfeit of cool does not make up for a stogy script IMHO.
 
hmpf, came around seeing this one late ... and walked away with quite mixed feelings. How do I say this ... it?s like the episode shat all over itself in the last 20 Minutes. I?m not bothered by the mindpalace thing ... but the whole episode felt like a big buildup with a very, very unclimactic ending ... it was a bit embarrasing to be honest, like they didn?t know where to go with this all to start with and wanted to make it up as they went along ... but that moment never really happend and instead of just throwing the whole skript away at this point they just went on with it. It?s quite reminiscent of why Doctor Who started sucking ...
I mean it?s not like I did not like the episode at a whole ... 70 great minutes, followed by 20 very weak ones ... but finished the series on a down, no less.
 
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Google 'The Great Mouse Detective' if you're too young to get the reference.
 
Sherlock has been renewed. Steven Moffat has said-

?A special, plus a new series of three episodes ? it?s a record-breaking run! Of course, it?s far too early to say what?s coming, but we?re reasonably confident that the very next thing to happen to Sherlock and John, is the very last thing you?d expect??
 
Doctor Who crossover. You read it here first.
 
In The Loop crossover.
 
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