In my opinion, the writers have allowed themselves to get caught up in the overtly-quirky, zaniness and have indulged themselves too much.

God I miss how tight the show was when it started out...it seems to have lost its focus now. Still some entertaining stuff here and there, but I'm a little bit sad at the way the show's developed if I'm being honest.

He's finally realised he will be pushed out now john is married and the baby is on the way. He was adamant at the beginning that nothing would change like people were telling him it would. It was just a new chapter, now he's finally realised.

Well... what to say about that? Disappointing, yet somehow can't help to think that a point to it's been missed. On the face of it, the worst episode of the 8 aired to date, yet I can't shake off the feeling that it forms part of a larger whole. Those complaining about the lack of a story last time out have certainly been shown what such a story looks like!

I can't believe it really was such a mish-mash of basically deleted scenes, it must come to something.

Bit worried about Mary becoming such a part of the team, with the sprog too there's only one way in dramatic logic for that story to end...
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Thought this one was again too relationship heavy for me , very little detecting going on.

Sherlock in danger of becoming a caricature of himself.

Thought the crime itself was plausible however big concerns that Holmes had the cases of the Bloody Guardsman and the Ghost Suitor handed to him on a platter..bit like the guy with the train footage last week.

Big coincidence that the two cases he picks are related to John's wedding.

The plot isn't that clever and there is a pattern emerging of covering it with comedy tweeness and arty shots.

Not a patch on the first Sherlock episode for me.

I tell you what's dull. A detective show with no detecting. Thank goodness ITV3 is showing Poirot, that's for sure

That scene was a bordered on self-indulgent gobbledygook.

I don't watch this as it doesn't interest me, but switched over whilst it was on BBC1, to get the text news.
The "yellow/green screen filter" really looked odd in one scene, which then switched to another scene with "blue screen."

The last half an hour rescued it for me, still enjoying but it doesnt seem as good as it was. Im surprised at how much more comedic they've made Sherlock.

TBH the whinging on this thread is probably needed to balance the blind, uncritical fangirl/boyishness of some.

I see what they were going for with that episode and for 75% of time it actually kind of worked, but when there's only 3 episodes and it's been two years you expect a little better. If it was a tighter 60 minute episode in a series of 6 or 8 it would have been brilliant.

Anyway, I still enjoyed most of it and I'm looking forward to next week's episode, the trailer looks brilliant. I like to think there's a great, a disappointing, and an outstanding episode each series and since we've already had the first two I'm hoping next week's won't disappoint.

Fandoms are the worst thing to happen to television. Tumblr is a disease on opinion forming.

So watch that then and go and post on a Poirot thread. I'm perplexed as to what you're commenting here for? You're not going to change anyone's mind. You don't like it. Fine. Then ignore it and don't watch it. The internet really has given rise to some odd behaviors. I understand some fans who will have thought that was rubbish. Lets debate. But if you know you hate the writer and his style and the production what's the point? Its just mindless complaining. Go and enjoy something.

yeah id like the crime aspect to be heavier in season 4 like it used to be. season 3 thinks its mainly a comedy lol which i enjoy but you need a story. not that i expected john getting married not to be a big plot but i dunno...hopefully ep 3 picks up

Probably my favourite episode so far (I said that about the first episode of the week...) but series 3 has not disappointed me.

"He's clueing for looks"

All very nicely done i thought.. why do people want a classic vanilla narrative structure? There are so many of those about and this is a breath of fresh air IMO..

I reitterate.

after last weeks implausable tosh I gave up.

BUT

a good crime writer needs to grab your attention by PAGE 2 ...

as Conan Doyle did.


This Dr Who in a Deerstalker version has you wading through 3 episodes to get there.

If a Crime show has not grabbed you by 10 - 20 minutes it never will.

Any writer knows....you have to grab them to begin with and engage ..

I can kind of understand the negative reaction, though I hope (pure speculation follows!) a lot of it is rescinded when - in the final episode - it becomes clear how the first two episodes fit into a single story for the series (and - even more speculation - John's new wife is revealed as the big bad of the series).

I'll admit, as standalone episodes they're not up to the quality of the first two seasons. Hopefully I'll be vindicated with the third episode!

The middle bit really dragged for me. I enjoyed the stag, but I was lost by the time someone started going on about dating ghosts or whatever it was.

Slightly disappointed by that, if I'm honest. That's the first time I've ever been somewhat let down by an episode of Sherlock and the first time I'll have to rewatch an episode just to see what the hell was actually going on instead of rewatching because I enjoyed it the first time round.

Yeah exactly.

Mary is nice enough, and the actress isn't bad, just don't think she should feature too heavily.

and not only that there have been reports of people shooting themselves with misfiring nail guns or real guns feeling the punch of something but not realising that they have been actually shot

Apologies if it has already been said but I think the bank robbers were at the reception. Fat bald headed guy and wild haired blonde man. May explain how they get one up on the police? Possibly there on Mary's side?

I had planned to look her up as I thought I'd recognised her but wasn't sure. No need now you've spotted her.

But it probably won't be a new chapter. It's Sherlock after all, not the John & Mary show. I suspect the next ep will be a traumatic one for John, though I hope I'm wrong.

Maybe she might end up being murdered soon. By that new criminal.

So what you're actually saying is that you used to like it but you've since been annoyed by any/all of what Stephen Moffat has done with Doctor Who to the point that you're now determined to actively hate everything he's involved with, just on principle alone.