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bronzeblues
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But Irene is one of the most famous SH characters in general while Molly exists in this version only.
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Jaguar in a cello... good one.
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Someone said his voice is like fine wine and dark chocolate. The metaphor is truly perfect.
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While I agree that BC has loads of awkward photos, it's in interviews where he truly comes off as attractive. And it's not about the way he looks at all, it's the voice and the way he handles himself. Before I saw him in any interviews I thought it was an absolute enigma why anyone found him attractive. But when I heard him in an interview I went like "Ooohh... riiiight "
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Finished it yesterday. Teriffic series. I say anyone who wants to see how great BC's talent truly is should watch this show. Truly a captivating performance. BC and Jessica Raine(who plays his on and off lover Julia) had teriffic chemistry.
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Alternate personalities who make no sense whatsoever. One second she is a female Hannibal Lecter the other "the girl on the plane" is a metaphor for her loneliness? For f sakes. Spare me the bullshit writers and make up your mind. The fact that Eurus came out of nowhere is one of the lesser problems here.
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I could understand the possibility that they had fun writing Eurus-since they only could have done so if they were high as kites. But all that dreadful Mary stuff was so... smug. You could just feel how smug Moffat felt while writing that storyline. How brilliant he thought it was.
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If only Moffat listened to himself when he said they shouldn't explore Sherlock's childhood or family or any of that. The problem is the writers completely misinterpreted what made this show successful in the first place.
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To expertly manipulate people and understand what makes them tick you have to have some practical experience with them. The most expert manipulators of people's feelings have years of practising behind them. They observe how other people behave in all sorts of situations. Eurus or Euros(whatever, I don't care enough) was locked up in a cell like Hannibal(they even compare her to him when mentioning "it's like silence of the lambs down there") when she was 7. By Mycroft. Who I guess was "the British Goverment" at 15 years old and yet their grown up parents didn't know anything about Eurus. So basically, she had little to no contact with people a.k.a she could not possibly have manipulated them that expertly. But anyway, it's not like the writer thought any of that through... "Happiness is a pop song" what the hell is that? LSD bullshit, my god, my head hurts just remembering all that.
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Euros lured John like some expert famme fatale even though she is later presented as someone who doesn't understand human processes or attraction. Yeah... that just describes later part of this show perfectly.
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Oh, gee, how imaginitive... infidelity.Except he didn't even cheat on her, just texted with sigh... Eurus who somehow went in and out of that fortress. Also another spouse still seing the other after they are dead is one of the most used, cheesy tricks there is out there.
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I don't think either Moffat or Gatiss were sure what Mary was supposed to be. Secret agent? Simply an assassin? I don't know. Sherlock said something about her skills being the one of the CIA agent so that must be it. The problem is I don't care. Also her ghostly(ghastly) presence in TLD is completely unnecesssry and also melodramatic. That sort of thing has no place in a show like this. At least in a show pre-season 3 when it was actually a detective show. Even though that scene when John tells Mary he "cheated" on her is well acted from every player involved(including BC) it still feels like it came straight out of "The Days of Our Lives" or whatever the show's called.
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Actually, I felt that the writers were trying to present Mary martyred saint in a wholly objective light. I never got the impression that was supposed to be just John's subjective way of seeing her. And that's just the thing. We were supposed to take it lightly she was a gun for hire just because she loved John and he loved her back and she appearantley wanted a fresh start. Sorry, but we have to question what kind of person she is in the first place because oh, you know...she killed people for a living. I felt Mary the assassin was actually glorified. Instead of going to prison she was presented as some sort of badass love of John's life who could shoot Sherlock and he still be all chummy with her. I mean, that's the man who seemed very iritated when his own parents came to visit him but he wants to hang around the person who shot him. I can not even begin to describe all sorts of wrong with this.
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They may have kept him dead-but it certainly didn't feel like that to me. The same with Mary-why the hell kill her if she is gonna be narrating John to save Sherlock(I guess she can see the future) or make speeches about "Baker Street boys" beyong the grave.
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I think it was the question of how. Another peeve I have(as do some others) is with just cramming Moriarty into everything and anything.In fact, that's exactly the case that famous "Why Sherlock is garbage" video makes. Moriarty's "crazy Joker" type characterisation and Scott's teatrical performance only add to that pile even though I am aware many love this particular Moriarty. The writers seemed to think that everything and anything must go back to Moriarty because I guess he's the only criminal mind interesting enough(I just find him annoying really, he reminds me of those annoying bratty kids who are always the loudest on the playground). So really, with their strict "in the box" thinking they shoot themselves in the foot because they clearly didn't know what to do after they killed Moriarty.
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Someone said that while TRF might be a great episode of Sherlock it was the worst thing that happened to this show since that turned out to be a death sentence for any serious detective work. While I have my reservations with TRF primarily because of Moriarty whom I dislike because of all the teatrics I can't deny that the moment they suggested Sherlock hired "Richard Brook" to play Moriarty wasn't brilliant.
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I somehow doubt it's even possible to make an episode worse than TFP. I mean what would have to happen? Remember that time when people thought The Blind Banker and THOB were weak? That was nice
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Don't get me wrong I don't think Moffat and Gatiss are literally stupid or doing drugs for real. I was just trying to make my point. The fact that they are not as intelligent as Sherlock Holmes means nothing since... no one is. That's especially true if we are talking about BBC Sherlock because as the time went on his "deductions" were made up out of thin air. In fact, that just reduced my perception of him being incredibly intelligent. That's not the same problem I had with RDJ's Sherlock or Miller's Sherlock. While they are both incredibly perceptive and smart I never though "puff, he just made that up out of thin air". Their deductions were always plausible more or less. As for the continuation of the series I don't think it' s happening for a number of reasons and frankly I don't want it to. TFP with that awful Mary narration and cheesy frame of John and Sherlock jumping in the air(shudders) felt like goodbye. Also, they just hit rock bottom at the end and you can only screw up so much before passing the point of no return.
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That bit of facial hair in TLD also did Sherlock(and BC) some good I have to say.Suits him well
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Yes, I am talking about Eurus. While this show hadn't been what it used to be for a while TFP is the moment people actually started to wonder whether this show was ever as good as everyone thought.That,I think, in itself tells everything one needs to know about the finale. I also think the fact that Sherlock to the writers was some sort of boy fantasy is the root of all the flaws that just became more and more obvious over time. Someone wrote how this is a show about smart people written by stupid people who think smart people are indistinguishable from wizards. That explains a good part of this show in a nutshell, I think. Eurus is not exceptionally brilliant. She is a character someone wrote when using heavy drugs.
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The problem with Mary is, as someone already mentioned, this bloody pressure to go all feminist with her. And when I mean feminist, I mean this need to make any "strong" female into a super badass ninja or spy or assassin/whatever. Because I guess being a nurse is just too damn weak for some people never mind it's far more admirable than being a gun for hire. And then it just gets worse and worse. Another problem I see is Sherlock being way too chummy with her EVEN AFTER SHE SHOOTS HIM MY EFFING GOD. Notice the way he smirks at her when they talk about both of them using Janine for their own goals. You know when John says in HLV that Sherlock and Mary should have gotten married he's not actually that far off. I think that case can be made for Sherlock actually being reminded of Irene when he learns the truth about Mary. After all, both are intelligent and dangerous(except as much as BBC's Irene felt different in comparison to ACD's Irene she never felt out of place and wrong to me, Mary did) Sherlock's words about doctor's wife sure boredom actually ring true. Mary "the assassin" doesn't seem like someone eho would actually ever settle down abd certainly not with someone like John. From the moment we learn this big secret about Mary everything feels off. Just horribly off. And it is... but then we actually get a character that the writers got even more wrong than Mary... if that's even possible.
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Sherlock's skin tone was the least of these episodes' problem. BY FAR THE LEAST. I don't wanna remember it, really.
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Yes, well, there's a difference between a more ordinary girl wanting a handsome, wordly guy at school and craming that sort of stuff in BBC Sherlock where they already made Sherlock an extreme case of... everything. I also think women who are past their teenage years don't behave like Molly does in front of Sherlock. She may be shy and akward but she's not 14 for christ's sake.
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Honestly, she only said so because at that moment she realizes she's not over Sherlock. When she speaks about her relationship to Sherlock it's clear she lists all the things that to her probably mark a good relationship. The reason she didn't fully enjoy those things is because she's with the wrong guy. But Sherlock certainly would be far worse. I think people like the idea of an atypical hero and good girl next door together. I was never a fan,that sort of stuff always bored me to tears and the idea here is just even worse because this is BBC Sherlock we are talking about.
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I never said Molly isn't smart or a capable scientific mind. Being pragmatic when it comes to your daily life and work doesn't have connection with the way Molly was presented to us when it comes to romance. It was more than clear for me that she just is the girl for pubs on weeknd, walking the dog, watching telly... even if perhaps she wouldn't want to be cause she must know that's not in the cards when it comes to Sherlock Holmes. No one said Molly isn't smart or good at her job. That doesn't change the fact that she is a good girl next door type and for someone like Sherlock that's a fatal kiss of death. Boring.
