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poliphiloSo there's going to be a third season- and we weren't seeing a ghost when we caught a glimpse of Sherlock skulking in the vicinity of his own grave. Good. At least I think it's good. My fear is they'll spin things out for too long and it'll get samey and stale.
The first episode of the second season was the best. It was just so twisty. The Hounds of Baskerville was hobbled by its fidelity to its intractable source material- and strayed too far (for my taste) into the realms of SF. Wasn't it Dorothy L Sayers who said "poisons unknown to science" are a no-no in detective fiction? The same surely applies to wholly fictitious hallucinogenic gases.
The Reichenbach Fall was almost up to the highest standard. I like Andrew Scott's geek Moriarty, but I do hope he's really dead. Conan Doyle was very sparing with the super-villains- and one of the strengths of the original stories is the way he anchors them in the mundane- and sordid- realities of late Victorian England. National security and the fate of the crowned heads of Europe are very rarely entailed. My plea to Gattis and Moffat for Season Three is, "Rein it in a bit, chaps".
The first episode of the second season was the best. It was just so twisty. The Hounds of Baskerville was hobbled by its fidelity to its intractable source material- and strayed too far (for my taste) into the realms of SF. Wasn't it Dorothy L Sayers who said "poisons unknown to science" are a no-no in detective fiction? The same surely applies to wholly fictitious hallucinogenic gases.
The Reichenbach Fall was almost up to the highest standard. I like Andrew Scott's geek Moriarty, but I do hope he's really dead. Conan Doyle was very sparing with the super-villains- and one of the strengths of the original stories is the way he anchors them in the mundane- and sordid- realities of late Victorian England. National security and the fate of the crowned heads of Europe are very rarely entailed. My plea to Gattis and Moffat for Season Three is, "Rein it in a bit, chaps".
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Date: 2012-01-16 12:13 pm (UTC)So do I. I was willing Sherlock to check! If rugby players can fake blood injuries on the pitch, how hard would it be for a supervillain to fake that death? :)
I was glad that the bit of magic computer code turned out to be a con because I was thinking, "There really isn't any such thing as a universal computer key." But the faking of the computer hacking was a nice touch and very believable. People worry about having uncrackable passwords, but most systems are hacked by bribing someone who knows how to get in.
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Date: 2012-01-16 12:30 pm (UTC)If Moriarty survives into a third season it'll be because Sherlock has permitted him to.
I'm assuming Sherlock's plunge was a conjuring trick that ended in a soft landing which Watson didn't see because he was too busy being knocked down.
I want Moffat and Gattis to keep it believable. Conan Doyle mostly played by the rules- no impossibilities, no SF solutions- and I want them to do the same.