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Sherlock series 3

Why do you all always wait for me to reply first so that if I say something negative you can reply "OH LOOK AT WACKY BEING NEGATIVE AGAIN LOL I LOVE THE EPISODE LOL!" That's literally what you'll say!

Anyway, I liked it, it as certainly a lot better than last week's, but I still don't think it's as good as the first two series. I mean Sherlock ends up at the ponit where the only way he can win is to commit murder and this is a really big deal but then the last few minutes of the episode are "forget the murder, it's back to fun now!" And Mary being a super-spy assassin...I kind of liked her being a normal person? The Moriarty thing there isn't much point commenting on because we don't know if he's really alive (even with the bit after the credits which could have been a dream or something) and won't find out for at least two years. BUT MY GUESS is it was Irene that did it somehow.

The guy playing CAM was really good.

I noticed quite a lot of references to the original stories in this one. Like I think Sherlock actually did proper to the blackmailer's housekeeper or something (and when he broke in the book he found the blackmailer murdered.) Also wasn't Wiggins in the books, Fuddlemiff? I think so, maybe.
 
I got a lot of comments about people saying I should watch the other series and the classic "Oh, I like the early stuff. It was much darker" Like they are talking about Steve Martin's career or something.

The third series of Sherlock is NOT "Cheaper by the Dozen" compared to his seminal stand up performances.

Anyway, haven't seen last nights. I was watching a Mike Leigh film and slashing my wrists. Jeez that man gives people desperate lives.
 
No, I wouldn't say they were any darker, just a bit more straightforward. This series has been throwing the kitchen sink into every episode and having more false endings than LotR.

I really liked this episode. Lots of great one-liners, a few red herrings and a good mix of character and plot. I did think some bits were a little predictable, but equally there were some real shocks. Mary being the main one. I did like her just being normal, but at least it was signposted so they covered their tracks.

Yeah, I noticed a few elements from the books aswell. Watson going to a crack den and finding Sherlock there in character was one of them. And the bit where Mary thought Sherlock had used a lookalike dummy (but they made fun of that as being too crude). I don't remember Wiggins, but I read through the books quite fast so tend to remember general plots more than characters.

As usual I loved the use of London, including the house that really is just a facade, and the office bits filmed in Heron Tower. It's fun identifying the locations.

I hope the Moriartu message was just on a timed delay after his death. I never really took to him.
 
Moriarty appearing five minutes after Sherlock is kicked out of the country makes it look like it was in reaction to that...I don't suppose beardy guy could have done it somehow. Or Irene like I said before. Either way it'll probably not make sense that he was on every tv in the country at once!

Wiggins is a street urchin in London and head of the Baker Street Irregulars. He has no first name in the stories. His first appearance is in A Study in Scarlet (1886).

The film The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes, directed by Billy Wilder, features a character called Wiggins (played by Graham Armitage) who is a footman at the Diogenes Club. He delivers a note to Mycroft Holmes (played by Christopher Lee) and receives instructions concerning various items. He appears in the BBC adaptation Sherlock with the name Bill and is played by Tom Brooke.
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I hope they have Toby the dog in it next series.

Toby is a dog who is used by Sherlock Holmes. He is first introduced in The Sign of the Four and is described by Watson as a "ugly long haired, lop-eared creature, half spaniel and half lurcher, brown and white in colour, with a very clumsy waddling gait." Though used by Holmes, the dog belongs to Mr. Sherman who keeps a menagerie of creatures at No. 3 Pinchin Lane in Lambeth. Toby lives at No. 7 within his house. Holmes states he would "rather have Toby's help than that of the whole detective force in London." and requests the dog by name.
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That looks like something I should watch! And also reminds me that I want to read the Meyer Sherlock books.
 
I want to read them or at least watch his movie version.

Watching that doc it was great to see how much of a Sherlock nerd Gatiss is. He references so much in the bbc show.
 
I watched Sherlock last night. I haven't ever watched it before so it was a bit confusing. Sherlock and his brother both have superpower noses!
 
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