Sherlock

Skippy wrote:My assumption was always that Moriarty never died, but then this episode started with a mystery about how someone fake shot themselves in the head and I assumed it'd be entirely about how to get Moriarty back up and running. Then at the end "Nah he's actually dead lol". It's Moffat strawberry floating with his audience then tugging himself off out of pride

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"We all carried an unencrypted memory stick each with all our information on us at all times as a mutually assured destruction insurance technique to ensure complete trust within our crack team. We all swore we'd never share it and that it would be devastatingating if one were found. This was a great and foolproof scheme. Despite showing in the very episode an obvious setback: capture of death would necessitate an immediate and improvised requirement to hide or destroy one or more sticks. We were a crack team of experts."

satriales wrote:I enjoyed it but that's probably more due to it being so long since the last episode.
I had a feeling they would kill Mary off as her and Martin Freeman split up in real life, then when Sherlock kept saying he would protect her it seemed pretty obvious what would happen.
The Moriarty stuff was also really poor. They've been teasing his 'comeback' for years now but they managed to mention his name a lot without progressing that plot at all.

The case with dead guy in the car was good but solved too quickly. It feels like ages since they a proper mystery episode.

Hexx wrote:

"We all carried an unencrypted memory stick each with all our information on us at all times as a mutually assured destruction insurance technique to ensure complete trust within our crack team. We all swore we'd never share it and that it would be devastatingating if one were found. This was a great and foolproof scheme. Despite showing in the very episode an obvious setback: capture of death would necessitate an immediate and improvised requirement to hide or destroy one or more sticks. We were a crack team of experts."

Sir Delboy wrote:Also loooking forward to seeing what Toby Jones brings as well as he's brilliant in everything I've seen him do.

While I still love Sherlock, I'm now a bigger fan of Elementary. For one, the former has like 10 episodes out, in contrast to the latter's 100+. It's not a question of mere quantity, though. Because the adventures of Barcelona Cuckooclock come out so infrequently, it feels like each episode has to be bigger, darker, and more complex than the last one. The first episode was about a series of mass poisonings. The third one is about blackmailers putting people in explosive vests. The last one will probably be about Bastardneck Crumbcake fighting Satan in the center of the earth.

Elementary, on the other hand, can take its time and focus on smaller cases like home invasions, overdoses, hit-and-runs ...

What it doesn't have, though, is a romantic relationship between Holmes (Jonny Lee Miller) and Watson (Lucy Liu). They are colleagues who respect each other, and nothing else. In fact, over the course of the show, Watson grows into a full-fledged detective whom Holmes greatly admires, and it's inspiring to see such character development in a story as done to death as Sherlock Holmes.

But that doesn't mean Elementary disregards the canon completely. CBS's Sherlock actually works closely with the police and occasionally expresses his respect for the good work they do, and vice versa, just like in the books. This is a welcome improvement on Sherlock, where Detective Inspector Lestrade has been turned into idiotic comic relief who by now would do anything Bikestand Cocoapuffs told him.

KKLEIN wrote:I found that London Aquarium scene so distracting for the sole reason I could tell they were using video screens for some reason rather than the actual tanks in the London Aquarium.