Sherlock is Over

[LUniqueDan]

Hey you Holmesian from the UK, after 1 year of Facebook Spam, The show is back! And the guy even have a chance to get laid. (Hey! They modernize or they don't)

Show your enthousiasm please!

[Atelier]

Show your enthousiasm please!

Yay! Another Spontaneous TV Digest! I'm glad the second Holmes film coincides too. I will be watching both TV and cinema screen... eagerly.

[straydogstrut]

Show your enthousiasm please!

Oh yes! I've been expecting Sherlock to come back for ages, I can't believe it took so long. Just over an hour to go - can't wait

[arj0n]

Yes, can't wait to see what they made of 'A Scandal in Belgravia'... 

[Stupot]

Superb!  Been waiting all year for this and it didn't disappoint.
I'm really enthousiastic for next week's episode :-)

[LUniqueDan]

Superb!  Been waiting all year for this and it didn't disappoint.
I'm really enthousiastic for next week's episode :-)

Down Speed : 3.2kB/s
ETA : 3w4d

I want my fix.

[Eggie]

A review from a casual viewer: It was very good!

[LUniqueDan]

That was amazing!  :o

All the details... all the modernisation. I mean they did something revolutionnary in television : they hired a writer who actually knows what he was writing about.

Spoiler

- The "Geek Interpreter" 
- They plug the aluminium crotch !!
- They found a nice way to plug a "deer hunter" without being lame
- The "don't touch miss Hudson VATS mode"
- The 3 punches (Yeah ! 3!)

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Can't wait for next week.

[Snarky]

Thanks for the tip! Perfect holiday viewing for the family (though with more nudity than expected).

I've had mixed feelings about Sherlock so far (in the first episode the solution was obvious, the depiction of Chinese culture in the second was embarrassing, and the killing spree in the third one downright un-Holmesian), but this episode pretty much nailed it. The take on Irene Adler did a great job at updating yet staying true to her myth (as it has grown through different adaptations) rather than just to Doyle's character, and the mystery was better and more substantial than I remember the original story being. And for the most part it was just at the right level of un/predictability, so you could feel clever for seeing things coming yet still be surprised now and then.

Nicely packed with obscure Holmes references and fan service, too. I liked "Hamish", Watson's non-canonical middle name (Dorothy L. Sayers proposed it to explain a slip-up where Doyle accidentally calls him "James" instead of "John"; Hamish being the Scottish form of James). And I still love the Sherlock-vision and the way text messages and blog posts are integrated into the picture.

[InCreator]

The modern Sherlock? I needed some more Sherlock after seeing second movie and found that first season of modern Sherlock was actually quite awesome. Only thing that I cannot unsee are his uneven nostril sizes

[LUniqueDan]

I needed some more Sherlock after seeing second movie and found that first season of modern Sherlock was actually quite awesome.

Watch out! Season 2 is so far twice as good as the 3.5 episodes of season 1!

@Snarky : Tx for the infos. I never heard of L.Sawyer before nor her clever Hamish solution. (None of her works was translated since the 80's I guess). Now I can show everyone on the fr:wikipedia how great I am ! 8)

[Igor Hardy]

Only thing that I cannot unsee are his uneven nostril sizes

Hey, I have uneven nostril sizes too! What's wrong about uneven nostril sizes?  :'(

[Stupot]

It seems Sherlock himself, Mr Bendy Cummerbund, has landed himself the role as Star Trek 2's main baddy.
http://www.totalfilm.com/news/benedict-cumberbatch-is-star-trek-2-villain

[Anian]

It seems Sherlock himself, Mr Bendy Cummerbund, has landed himself the role as Star Trek 2's main baddy.
http://www.totalfilm.com/news/benedict-cumberbatch-is-star-trek-2-villain

Well I said it before, the guy looks like an alien.

onT: great news about season 2, I've really liked s1 and I have recently watched the movie and so as InC said, it's the right timing...in fact, they might have even set it to be aired just after majority of people see SH: Game of shadows.

[Stupot]

I haven't seen either of the movies.  Don't really care too much.  But the BBC show really is just great.  The episode we've just seen was so full of twists and sleights of hand, it was a joy to be led down so many garden paths by some of the best writing on television today.

[InCreator]

Watched Belgravia yesterday... Felt more boring than Season 1 although ending kind of made it up. Romance and Sherlock won't mix really. I seriously hope Sherlock won't evolve into superman, because it's surely moving that direction - fight scenes so far have been ridiculous, single-hit knockouts only happen in MMA and Boxing where men have hands like hammers, not ones of violin players.
The guy from book and recent movies fight with skill in boxing and stick fighting, relying on skill mostly. The fights in modern Sherlock looked like this Krav Maga magic Jason Bourne does, but guy doesn't really look like a cage fighter who could outlast more than a round. In other words, if punches are needed to be thrown, he'd better throw them carefully like a man trained in fighting, and not single cheap knockouts Macgyver/any US tv-series since 1980- style.

Modern Moriarty sucks. He looks like crazed, overworked, spoilt-kid stock broker and not the evil genius.

[arj0n]

Modern Moriarty sucks. He looks like crazed, overworked, spoilt-kid stock broker and not the evil genius.

That was also my only "complain" of this awesome serie...

[Stupot]

Modern Moriarty sucks. He looks like crazed, overworked, spoilt-kid stock broker and not the evil genius.

That was also my only "complain" of this awesome serie...

Yeah, I'm kind of in agreement there.  He's just seems like some rich kid who's off his tits and playing big-boy games.  Doesn't seem like someone with the potential to outwit Sherlock.

[Alan v.Drake]

Agreed, IMHO Moriarty would look more proper with a moustache.

[InCreator]

I found Moriarty portrayed in second movie excellent: That reddish beard, that double front tooth, sinister, empty look in eyes... perfect villain. The moment he said "I can play this game too" (or something along the lines during final thought duel) my body temperature dropped to -20C