This series was utter poo.
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This series was utter poo.
It was awful. Huge, lavish production[s] with ludicrous story lines, last night's being the most ridiculous yet. As each series progressed, it came away from an interesting detective-based thriller, to self indulgent clap trap..Originally Posted by nugent
Couldn't understand what was going on last night,was she his sister or what?
Yep, he also had a best friend, but not a dog. Seems he'd forgotten/imagined all three...
Sister was more a repressed memory. I'm not sure what the term would be for altering his memory of his friend but he wasn't forgotten and the dog wasn't imagined.
If you haven't watched any of it yet and wondering if you should I would highly recommend the first two series.
Confused the crap out of me tbh.
My recommendation - get some Basil Rathbone Sherlock Holmes DVD's
Call me an old fashioned git, but the idea of Sherlock in the modern day played by Cumberbatch, is almost unwatchable.
Give me Jeremy Brett and the period Sherlock anytime.
That show disappeared up its own arse quite a while ago. Watched the first episode of this series and realised I wasn't interested in watching the rest.
Apparently it's too much to ask for a show about a clever detective and his faithful partner solving crimes, which is what it started out as, instead we get some oblique shitshow that jumps around like a 90's Tarantino movie while trying to simultaneously be gritty, flashy, broad and weirdly politically correct in that way BBC drama tends to be.
Better to give the Ridley Scott/Tom Hardy vehicle "Taboo" a watch, the first two episodes have been a good watch although, what with it being a BBC show, episode 3 will probably see the introduction of a new character, a sassy and super-intelligent female Asian twenty-something that can inexplicably beat up 10 men at once with karate.
BBC'd yp
I like to be liberal minded, but when the offerings continually become too contrived, it starts to get a bit insulting IMO
Last edited by Vimana.; 16-01-17 at 09:43.
Yes, how insensitive of me.
I meant the BBC's contrived offerings btw - not vous ;)
Yeah I know, don't get all BBC on me now...
I couldn't agree more. Moffat has ruined Doctor Who and with this series pretty well done for Sherlock too. How many writers can claim to have killed two superheroes ?
I also agree with you about Taboo too.
It owed a lot more to Dr Who than it did to Conan Doyle.
It was very silly. I quite like some of the gimmicks but it has turned into Bond v's Crystal Maze with some Adam West Batman thrown in. Lost the plot and certainly lost me.
I hadn't watched the previous series of Sherlock but decided to watch this three parter. It was disjointed and incomprehensible and I had no interest in any of the characters.
and you still watched all 3 parts?
Don't get me started.
Not everyone says "This looks shit" during the opening credits like you.
Think this series could be summed up in one of my friend's stating that Moffatt is obsessed with everyone being related, I'm a little surprised Moriaty wasn't a second cousin in the end, and my mum asking where the high functioning sociopath had gone.
The ongoing drama coming from Mary's past seemed to dominate the last 3 years (a downside of them being so spread apart) and I'm a little disappointed that she had the final monologue. Was it part of Martin Freeman's contract that she had to stick around? I did manage to enjoy the second and third episodes, though not as much as previous series.
Got it on catch up. It's about to get deleted due to the comments which I kind of thought it might be. I watched Silent Witness on catch up the other day, the one with the Syrian girls, it came across as very BBC biased in some parts.
I' m a patient man Mr SR . Engaging in posts with your goodself is also disjointed and incomprehensible but I am still prepared to do so "for the good of the country"
Quick edit.
Well deduced Mrs Holmes.😁Quick edit.
I've recorded the three episodes and was going to watch them all in one go - I'll start watching them and see what happens, but, based on the episode from last year, reviews I've read and what's being said on here, I can't see me lasting long. Just like the early Moffatt episodes on Doctor Who, Sherlock was a marvelous watch when it started, but there should be a verb to Moffatt, because I'm afraid, with me at least, he ends up making you not care about brilliant characters that had been created by someone else.
The thing is that as far as I'm concerned, if you do a programme about Sherlock Holmes and the Conan Doyle books become incidental in it, then what is the point? It just seems so self indulgent to me.
Now wait for me to come on here in a week's time raving about all three episodes
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