I can now come back to your post with something more substantial than laughing and making OGAM references.:)
You've seen my review so you know on how many points we agree, both good and bad. I think your point about the characterisation - the whole psychopaths thing - is an excellent example where the season went wrong. It's too much in our face. Subtlety is your friend, writers. (I should try harder on that, too, but it's different with fanfic, because they're mostly for me to act out my fantasies, while 'Sherlock' is for the viewers - these people get paid to deliver something more than their fantasies.) Why do we have to be shown and told everything? As a fanfic writer, I'm telling you, there's little to nothing I want to write about. Drugs - done on-screen. Psychopathic threesome - done on-screen. Holmes family - done on screen. Like you say and I totally agree - it's the Sherlock and Mycroft season, because at least there I found some good scenes that let me watch, showed them to me without spelling out stuff all the time.
You make a good point about the strong cliffhangers and their weak resolution...so maybe we should be happy this one wasn't so dramatic? (Doesn't mean it won't get a weak resolution, though.;))
"And at least now it makes sense why we never actually got to see how Sherlock did his magic trick." I read something that the BBC made an official statement that the version Sherlock gave Anderson was how he did it. Have you heard anything about that?
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Date: 2014-01-14 08:35 am (UTC)You've seen my review so you know on how many points we agree, both good and bad. I think your point about the characterisation - the whole psychopaths thing - is an excellent example where the season went wrong. It's too much in our face. Subtlety is your friend, writers. (I should try harder on that, too, but it's different with fanfic, because they're mostly for me to act out my fantasies, while 'Sherlock' is for the viewers - these people get paid to deliver something more than their fantasies.) Why do we have to be shown and told everything? As a fanfic writer, I'm telling you, there's little to nothing I want to write about. Drugs - done on-screen. Psychopathic threesome - done on-screen. Holmes family - done on screen. Like you say and I totally agree - it's the Sherlock and Mycroft season, because at least there I found some good scenes that let me watch, showed them to me without spelling out stuff all the time.
You make a good point about the strong cliffhangers and their weak resolution...so maybe we should be happy this one wasn't so dramatic? (Doesn't mean it won't get a weak resolution, though.;))
"And at least now it makes sense why we never actually got to see how Sherlock did his magic trick."
I read something that the BBC made an official statement that the version Sherlock gave Anderson was how he did it. Have you heard anything about that?