Here (http://stardust-made.livejournal.com/129312.html)'s a great review from a friend of mine, who's much better than me at separating headcanon from actual canon and makes a lot of great points.
I think this episode needed to be split in two to flow better. Some things worked perfectly, like Sherlock and Mary, but I've spent two years putting myself in John's shoes at seeing Sherlock alive again, by reading fanfics and making fanmixes and so on, and yep, this feels a lot OOC to me too. And yet I wonder if I can really call it OOC, since they're the writers, they decide how their characters act. And yet, and yet, Sherlock was very kind with Molly, why couldn't he show the same kindness for ten seconds to John too, especially when that dialogue with Mycroft implied how much John meant to him above everyone else?
While I thought the first reunion was pure genius - donde estas Yolanda, Sherlock Du Creff and all - I thought it was going to be a nice counterpoint to the actual reunion, when they would talk about what their separation meant to them, what it meant being together again. Instead, the whole episode kept giving us reunion scenes that all ended like the first one, from an emotional point of view.
Going on a tangent here, but this Mary rocks. She's now my third favourite Mary Morstan, after the Granada one and the Guy Ritchie one. *_________*
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I think this episode needed to be split in two to flow better. Some things worked perfectly, like Sherlock and Mary, but I've spent two years putting myself in John's shoes at seeing Sherlock alive again, by reading fanfics and making fanmixes and so on, and yep, this feels a lot OOC to me too. And yet I wonder if I can really call it OOC, since they're the writers, they decide how their characters act. And yet, and yet, Sherlock was very kind with Molly, why couldn't he show the same kindness for ten seconds to John too, especially when that dialogue with Mycroft implied how much John meant to him above everyone else?
While I thought the first reunion was pure genius - donde estas Yolanda, Sherlock Du Creff and all - I thought it was going to be a nice counterpoint to the actual reunion, when they would talk about what their separation meant to them, what it meant being together again. Instead, the whole episode kept giving us reunion scenes that all ended like the first one, from an emotional point of view.
Going on a tangent here, but this Mary rocks. She's now my third favourite Mary Morstan, after the Granada one and the Guy Ritchie one. *_________*