{"id":393,"date":"2014-02-03T15:39:00","date_gmt":"2014-02-03T15:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/coyotebroad.com\/blawg\/2014\/02\/03\/my-review-of-sherlock-s3-e3\/"},"modified":"2014-02-03T15:39:00","modified_gmt":"2014-02-03T15:39:00","slug":"my-review-of-sherlock-s3-e3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/coyotebroad.com\/blawg\/2014\/02\/03\/my-review-of-sherlock-s3-e3\/","title":{"rendered":"My review of &#8220;Sherlock&#8221; S3 E3"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>\nHere thar be SPOILERS!<\/h3>\n<p>Please, please don&#8217;t read this if you have never seen <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt1475582\/\">Sherlock<\/a>. Even a comment like <i>I loved it<\/i> or <i>I hated it<\/i> is a spoiler if you&#8217;ve never seen it.<\/p>\n<p>And please don&#8217;t watch Season 3 without seeing seasons 1 and 2 &#8211; that would completely deny you of the brilliance of this series.<\/p>\n<p>Okay, what I loved about episode 3 of season 3:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>It was on and I got to watch it. Let&#8217;s face it: Sherlock and Watson could just sit there and have witty banter and it would be better than everything else on TV. The two-year waits between seasons is&nbsp;excruciating.&nbsp;<\/li>\n<li>John remains the heart of the show, particularly in this episode. That&#8217;s what keeps me watching and loving the show even more than my geek outs over Benedict Cumberbatch, believe it or not. You&#8217;re shocked, I know&#8230;<\/li>\n<li>All the references to things in Doyle\u2019s stories &#8211; I LOVE how they do that: Sherlock found in a drug den, Sherlock involved with a woman but breaking it off &#8211; those, and other little details, are straight from Doyle.&nbsp;<\/li>\n<li>Mind palace!<\/li>\n<li>That it was just SO British &#8211; so much so that, like some other episodes, I have to look some references up because I don&#8217;t completely understand something that was said. Just as with the written stories, London is the third most important character. It&#8217;s what makes the stories so much fun, and to see it on this version, particularly season 3, just feels so right.&nbsp;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\nWhat I wasn\u2019t crazy about:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>I didn\u2019t get why the villain was so awful, so dangerous, that he had to be off\u2019d. He was super icky (shiver), but I didn\u2019t get the depth of evil such that it was necessary to shoot him. I didn&#8217;t get Sherlock&#8217;s depth of contempt for him, why he was SO dangerous. Bad? Yes. So dangerous he had to be killed? Hmmmm&#8230;.&nbsp;<\/li>\n<li>Also, despite working so hard to avoid spoilers, two big surprises in the show had been spoiled for me weeks ago-I&#8217;ll always wonder what it would have been like to have been surprised. How did I find out? Facebook friends would post comments about Sherlock and say, &#8220;no spoilers&#8221;, but then their friends would post spoiler comments. Even the BBC teaser posts on Facebook spoiled some little things that would have been fun surprises for me. Next time, I&#8217;m reading NOTHING! I&#8217;m unfollowing everything even remotely associated with the show when it starts showing in the UK.&nbsp;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\nOverall feelings about season 3:<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s the weakest of the three seasons, by far. It&#8217;s still delightful, don&#8217;t get me wrong &#8211; I enjoyed it. I laughed A LOT. Drunk Sherlock &#8211; that was awesome. I&#8217;ll watch it all again. But season 3 is way, WAY below the awesomeness of Seasons 1 and 2. There were times, especially during episode 1 of season 3, where it was like fan fiction, and that was disappointing.<\/p>\n<p>But, then again, those first two seasons were so mind-glowingly awesome that, really, how could that level be sustained?<\/p>\n<p>So, Season 3, the fangirl season, was fun, but for season 4, Mr. Gatiss and Mr. Moffat:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Please re-read at least some of the Doyle stories. Get back to the soul of Sherlock\n<li>If you do anything with an evil twin, or a Dr. Who crossover, I&#8217;ll quit watching, I swear<\/li>\n<li>Could we get back to the mystery solving and darkness and snark, please?&nbsp;<\/li>\n<li>Could it be shown at the SAME time in the UK and USA, just like Dr. Who?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>And now, the two-year wait for season 4 begins.<\/p>\n<p>Red beard.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here thar be SPOILERS! Please, please don&#8217;t read this if you have never seen Sherlock. Even a comment like I loved it or I hated it is a spoiler if you&#8217;ve never seen it. And please don&#8217;t watch Season 3 without seeing seasons 1 and 2 &#8211; that would completely deny you of the brilliance [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-393","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/coyotebroad.com\/blawg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/393","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/coyotebroad.com\/blawg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/coyotebroad.com\/blawg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coyotebroad.com\/blawg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coyotebroad.com\/blawg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=393"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/coyotebroad.com\/blawg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/393\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/coyotebroad.com\/blawg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=393"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coyotebroad.com\/blawg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=393"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coyotebroad.com\/blawg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=393"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}