Sorry, should say more...but your reaction made me laugh out loud.
As I was telling Your Librarian, I found it far more confusing and convoluted than required. I don't know why the writers felt the need to trick their audience, and use all sorts of gimmicks to show off their cleverness.
Hard to follow, silly in places, and with lots of logistical plot-holes.
The second episode, The Lying Detective was the best. This was rather disappointing after it.
Plus the whole 'Eurus can control an entire James Bond villain's lair of armed men just by looking at them' scenario was so preposterous I almost changed the channel.
Yep, I got confused during that section. Was she controlling them by what she was saying? By looking at them? And if so, why couldn't she control Watson, Mycroft or Holmes?
I think the writers had intended to build up to the reveal that she programmed Sherlock to kill his best friend when he was a child and this severely traumatized him, but at the last minute changed their minds and decided to leave that ambiguous and open to interpretation.
That was one of my problem with the episode...it was so indecisive. I felt like the writers were throwing things at the wall to see what stuck. It felt like we were watching a writer brain-storming session --"oh wouldn't it be cool to do a creepy ghost story bit -- let's scare Mycroft to death -- then reveal it's Sherlock and Watson doing it to make Mycroft tell them the truth?" or "how about we do a cool rip-off of James Bond and Agatha Christie?". The ghost story bit at the beginning felt a bit out of character for Watson -- I just didn't see Watson coming up with that.
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Date: 2017-01-18 01:42 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2017-01-18 03:28 am (UTC)As I was telling Your Librarian, I found it far more confusing and convoluted than required. I don't know why the writers felt the need to trick their audience, and use all sorts of gimmicks to show off their cleverness.
Hard to follow, silly in places, and with lots of logistical plot-holes.
The second episode, The Lying Detective was the best. This was rather disappointing after it.
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Date: 2017-01-19 03:07 pm (UTC)Plus the whole 'Eurus can control an entire James Bond villain's lair of armed men just by looking at them' scenario was so preposterous I almost changed the channel.
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Date: 2017-01-20 02:05 am (UTC)I think the writers had intended to build up to the reveal that she programmed Sherlock to kill his best friend when he was a child and this severely traumatized him, but at the last minute changed their minds and decided to leave that ambiguous and open to interpretation.
That was one of my problem with the episode...it was so indecisive. I felt like the writers were throwing things at the wall to see what stuck. It felt like we were watching a writer brain-storming session --"oh wouldn't it be cool to do a creepy ghost story bit -- let's scare Mycroft to death -- then reveal it's Sherlock and Watson doing it to make Mycroft tell them the truth?" or "how about we do a cool rip-off of James Bond and Agatha Christie?". The ghost story bit at the beginning felt a bit out of character for Watson -- I just didn't see Watson coming up with that.
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Date: 2017-01-26 07:48 pm (UTC)