What would you like to see in series 4?

[T.o.b.y]

I have no idea what my dealio is today.  I think it's a sum of Carter crapping all over the X-Files (if you haven't seen it, Mulder and Scully broke-up)

 

WHHAAAAAAAAAAAATTTTTTT???????????????

 

See, this is why I like series to just end properly while they are still going strong. Because eventually, something like this is bound to happen and I hate it so.

 

You have every right to be cranky!

 

Anyway, I'm kind of puzzled and frustrated about the special too, but I really liked the trailer, so I think it's going to be okay. (Besides, it's very hard to mess something up that takes place in late Victorian London).

[sittything]

 

I have no idea what my dealio is today.  I think it's a sum of Carter crapping all over the X-Files (if you haven't seen it, Mulder and Scully broke-up)

 

WHHAAAAAAAAAAAATTTTTTT???????????????

 

See, this is why I like series to just end properly while they are still going strong. Because eventually, something like this is bound to happen and I hate it so.

 

You have every right to be cranky!

 

Anyway, I'm kind of puzzled and frustrated about the special too, but I really liked the trailer, so I think it's going to be okay. (Besides, it's very hard to mess something up that takes place in late Victorian London).

 

 

I know I joke about Mofftiss, but they're really quite lovely, long hiatus aside, compared to say... Carter.  I was optimistic that Carter was going to use these final 6 episodes to wrap things up.  Give Mulder and Scully, and hopefully William, the happy ending they deserved.  Newp.  He has instead elected to break them up and seems to be counting on getting a season 11, which is far from a guarantee.  And yet I've been dumb enough since season 8+ to think that maybe the next season/movie will get better when it only keeps getting worse.  *sigh*  In an ideal world X-Files would have ended after season 7, when Duchovny left the show.

 

I'm trying to be optimistic about the 6 episodes in January, but it's becoming increasingly difficult.  There was no rhyme or reason to split them up other than trying to recapture that old "will they, won't they" (get together) dynamics.  Makes no sense.  None.  But hey, at least they're coming back to my TV?!  

[sittything]

Thank you, all, for listening my non-Sherlock related rants.  lol   It's been a rough week.

[T.o.b.y]

Thank you, all, for listening my non-Sherlock related rants.  lol   It's been a rough week.

 

If someone messes up a favorite series, it's always a rough week. Ask me about Mad Men... or don't, really.

 

You are right, Moffat and Gatiss so far have been rather lovely about Sherlock. The cliffhangers weren't so bad that it would be impossible to stop watching the show after the last episode of a season, and right now, particularly, I feel as if a complete story has been told and if the sequel is any good, I can enjoy it, and if it should turn out a disappointment, it would be easy for me to ignore.

[Inge l-w]

If it becomes a sitcom or romcom, complete with a devoted ex-assassin wife and child for Dr Watson, relegating him to chronicle-keeper, I'm so out of there!

[Carol the Dabbler]

Likewise for me if it becomes all grim and scary and no fun any more.  But I doubt that either is likely to happen

[T.o.b.y]

If it becomes a sitcom or romcom, complete with a devoted ex-assassin wife and child for Dr Watson, relegating him to chronicle-keeper, I'm so out of there!

 

Likewise for me if it becomes all grim and scary and no fun any more.  But I doubt that either is likely to happen

 

I doubt that Sherlock will fit neatly into any given genre in the near future. That was one of the things I really liked about series 3, that it made the show even harder to pin down. It's somewhere between crime show, literary adaptation, comedy, rom-com, detective story, coming of age (better late than never) and drama. It has mild horror and thriller elements as well.

 

Yet I wouldn't call it any of these things. It's just... Sherlock. Wow!

[J.P.]

Exactly like the main character. You can hang many tags on him, but in the end he's just... Sherlock.

[Boswell]

I'd like more scenes of Sherlock at his laptop, it's a joy to watch him type away at express speed. It was one of the bits I liked in the unaired pilot, and which was turned into a thing of beauty in The Great Game.

When I first saw the pilot, I thought there was the possibility to make Sherlock a computer security expert, or atleast dabble in a bit of computer forensics. It is certainly something the modern Holmes would find fascinating. Yes a humongous amount of research would be required to get it right, however.

[sittything]

I don't think Sherlock would ever be classified as a comedy or turn into a sitcom.  It's a (crime) drama and dramas can have elements of humor in them.  Plenty of the dramas I like have bits of humor here and there in them.  I like a levity to take the edge off when things get a bit too dark.

[Arcadia]

One reason I was ultimately disappointed in both "Lost" and "Heroes" -- they never tapped into that vein of humor that can lift shows like "Buffy" and "Sherlock" out of the ordinary.

[Carol the Dabbler]

Right.  And most comedies don't bother tapping into any serious veins in order to ground the show.  (Please note that I'm not talking about any "very special episodes."  Bleh!)

 

[Shadow Dweller]

Give Lestrade more screentime and role beside as Sherlock's handler. Handler... interesting choice of word. Why not minder, which would invoke a more civilian image? Handler instantly remind people to the secret service.

[Carol the Dabbler]

Give Lestrade more screentime and role beside as Sherlock's handler. Handler... interesting choice of word. Why not minder, which would invoke a more civilian image? Handler instantly remind people to the secret service.

 

Or exotic animals!

[Shadow Dweller]

*grins* Too true, exotic animals and dogs. *pet Sherlock's fluffy furcoat*

[T.o.b.y]

Yeah... Seems like everybody wants more Lestrade. Maybe they really should give him his own show as a spin-off. :-D

 

I want more Sherlock. The secondary characters are all wonderful, but he is what I really watch the show for. I just want to see a lot of Sherlock - and Sherlock and John solving crimes.

[Inge l-w]

On the other hand, they could be inspired by ACD's real life, like the ITV series Arthur and George, which would give more insights, perhaps about the two brothers' past, or their family, having Dr Watson learn the answer to what was shown in the official trailer: "I made me." Into what, except the world's only consulting detective, one wonders.

[joanneta1]

Right! According to Mr Moffatt in his latest Radio Times interview, not all characters of the series made the transition in the Victorian period special, he and Mr Gatiss are in the process of writing S4, he would rather not know what his deadlines are, and, (thankfully) there will be no Thompson intervention this time, it's just him writing one episode, Mr Gatiss the other, and they will collaborate on the third.

What mystified and upset me was his declaration that he had discovered the 1916 William Gillette Sherlock Holmes film, when it is common knowledge to all Sir Arthur's fans that it was William Gillette who first produced a theatre piece with Sherlock, introducing the character of Billy the pageboy, played by one Charles Chaplin, that it was William Gillette who got the notorious answer that he might marry off or even kill Sherlock as the fancy took him, who was responsible for the plot lines behind The Mazarin Stone! Nice observational skills, Billy (sorry, Mr Moffatt, I meant to say), as the character himself says in HLV!

[Arcadia]

I'd like to see Sherlock stop smoking.

[Carol the Dabbler]

I'd love to see a newspaper headline reading "Entire Waters Gang Convicted and Sentenced!"

 

[Arcadia]

With credit given to DI Gavin Lestrade for the capture. :d

[T.o.b.y]

*Sigh*... I was hoping for another Thompson episode, but from what I've heard, no such luck. I know The Blind Banker isn't popular, but I always felt he had a wonderful way of writing the characters. And The Reichenbach Fall in and of itself is a masterpiece, in spite of the confusing (and for me slightly disappointing) follow-up. And I love The Sign of Three (that was a collaboration of all the writers though, wasn't it?). Anyway. Not this time. *Sniff*... Somehow it makes me fear that the series will be missing something. Some little extra that I loved.

[Shadow Dweller]

More than anything, I am hoping to see more of Mycroft's world. Glimpses given to the audience, most notably being the exchange with Harry the Equerry in the ASiB and with Lady Smallwood & an unknown man in the end of HLV, shows promise of intricate and delicate 'dance' behind the seemingly genteel facade of the echelon where Mycroft moves. Because of Sherlock's decision to execute Magnussen himself, there would be repercussions far more than mere 'punish the offender'. How would it affect the lives of the Holmes brothers? I hope to see it more than the mystery of Moriarty's broadcast.

[T.o.b.y]

I can't say I'm eager to see more of Mycroft... But I am sure he'll be around plenty, so it's good that at least other people appreciate him.

 

I want more Sherlock. Sherlock working, Sherlock thinking, Sherlock sulking and Sherlock inappropriately joyful at some crime scene. Sherlock hovering over John and Mary like a weird combination of adopted child, guardian angel and third wheel. Sherlock being badass and Sherlock and being surprisingly gentle, Sherlock being brilliant one moment and awkward the next. Sherlock on drugs and Sherlock off drugs, Sherlock wise and heroic and Sherlock the petulant little brother. Sherlock as Lestrade's best ally and worst terror. I want more mind palace and more flashbacks, I'd like to learn something about his student days and why Redbeard is such a sore topic. I want the curls and all the dressing gowns, I want shirts stretched just a little too tight over a chest literally swollen with pride and lots of swooshing coat.

 

I like almost all the characters, but I am in love with Sherlock only, and I am looking forward to seeing him above everyone else. I am a big fan of the "show about a detective" rather than "detective show" concept.

[Slithytove]

I second that!  Yes, John, Lestrade and Molly are wonderful, and I'm keeping my fingers crossed for the (unlikely) reappearance of Jim Moriarty because I like a barking mad villain, but Sherlock is the one I really love.  As long as he remains centre stage - and why wouldn't he? - then I'm happy.