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you're right... we'll see what next we'd get. i started watching Sherlock only from Series 3, and then get first 2 series on DVD and watched them, which is the reason to be disappointed in some way with series 3, after seeing 1st 2 series. i still like Empty Hearse, but how come they made that Sign of Three this out of character and bad for Sherlock as charactor? i just cannot get over it given it's quality of the first 2 series. many people were blew away by the Last Vow, which i do like the most part of, but if people notice the plot details of the last vow, then they should see the entire episode is showing how not that smart and overplayed Sherlock became in handling that bad guy. in every conversation he had with his opponent, it revealed he's inferiority to his opponent and he couldn't even find a way out except shooting him, which is entirely out of character for Sherlock Holms' nature. they could just follow the Canon story to let someone else pull a gun on the bad guy, but why Sherlock? does he become such weak in deduction and lost his wit that he cannot even resolve the situation in a better way? -- that's what i don't understand why writers of the show write the plot... it's for a shock for sure, but it's not logical for Sherlock. anyway, just rant a bit to get over this... at least we will have long wait until all my feelings about series 3 is gone.

cannot think of anyone else but Benedict Cumberbatch.

maybe i should instead to put 'Sign of Three' as my least ftavourite, switching place with 'The Blind Banker', though the latter has so silly carton like bad guys and deserve to be at the last place. i watched 'The Blind Banker' again, and like the first half basically, but cannot get over the carton chars from the plot... as to 'Sign of Three', i felt really betrayed by the show which is supposed to show how clever and super intelligent Sherlock is, even in a wedding or normal situation, but the writers seems to rather portrait him to be as silly as ordinary people, and get stupidly drunk and cannot even think clearly about the case and resolve it until the last minute. i almost feel like Sherlock is no longer the one and only Sherlock we know but a different person. i watched it a few times, but every time i felt the same about this episode. the point is that what we like about Sherlock is because he's superior than all of us in intelligence and attention to details and deductions, and he's not an ordinary person like the rest of us. but this season, we start to see so many weaknesses on Sherlock side, especially in 'The Last Vow', when he's over matched by his opponent, and yet keep making mistakes till he's cornered to the last moment when he became a shocking killer instead. it really felt Sherlock is going down from now on, and we start missing the good old Sherlock in series 1 & 2... i really hope they'd make up to us on Sherlock in series 4 to erase some of those silliness and judging mistakes from Sherlock in this series and get back on solving crimes and deductions that Sherlock is good at... or else i for one will be utterly disappointed and stop watching it.

here is mine (best to worst): 1. The Reichenbach Fall 2. The Scandal in Belfgravia 3. The Great Game 4. His Last Vow 5. Study in Pink 6. The Empty Hearse 7. Hound of the Baskervilles 8. The Sign of Three 9. The Blind Banker