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Jan 1, 2017 - 8:42 PM
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Aidabaida
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You can't help but admire how "Sherlock" continues to thumb it's nose, grinning, at formula and cliche, daring to inject the silly into the serious, the dramatic into the comedic, the tragic into the lighthearted. There's no rule that cannot be broken in this universe, and no character who is safe. Once again, using a dream like phantasmagoria of slurred effects, symbolic imagery, and inventive cinematography, Mark Gattis and Steve Moffat have created something unique and gorgeous. I just finished watching "The Six Thatchers" 10 minutes ago, and I'm once again absolutely stunned by the level of detail packed into these 90 minutes. Pitch perfect performances by Benedict Cumberbatch and Martin Freeman, haunting music by David Arnold and Michael Price, and most of all, superb writing by Gattis. The dialogue, the twists...it all builds to create something so uniquely...itself. Sherlock Season 4 is looking great so far.
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It is of course a cheeky parody on 'The Six Napoleons', and that comparison in the UK at least is worth it alone!
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"I thumb my nose at it." Gee, what surprise.
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Jan 2, 2017 - 11:32 AM
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Aidabaida
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I have to suspend my dislike of the negatives as outlined by Rory to appreciate the positives as outlined by Aidabaida. I have to wonder how Conan Doyle would have liked having his hero turned into essentially a superhero. .
Wow! That's a different way of looking at it. This episode did EVERYTHING to humanize Sherlock. I mean, he's seeing a psychiatrist now. He doesn't have amazing fighting skills (He loses to A.J.), he's just smart. I think they've turned him into the antithesis of a superhero, or, perhaps more accurately, shown the true nature of what the public CONSIDERS a superhero.
Anyway, I have Rory on my "ignore" List so I cannot see whatever negatives he's outlined, but it doesn't surprise me that he'd dislike it. After all, it's creative, intelligent, and doesn't stick to formula! I'm joking. But people like him see the bad in everything. Everything! It's become "Hip" these days to hate everything. And people like him, despite claiming to stand in opposition to pop culture, have become assimilated into it.
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Jan 2, 2017 - 11:46 AM
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Aidabaida
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Just saw the episode. Certainly a lot better than the last season, with that whole silly 19th century/dream thing going on. I sometimes have problems with rapid-fire, information-heavy dialogue, but thankfully the intrigue wasn't TOO complex this time around. Not yet, anyway. Gutsy ending of the episode too!
Gutsy was how I'd sum up the whole episode. And not just the death at the end.
Gutsy was practically switching genres, abandoning their proven formula, removing the long "mind palace" scenes of deduction/crime solving, not introducing a maniacal villain, summing up Mary's month long spy escapade in 3 minutes of montage, daring to make Sherlock human and removing his 'superpowers', NOT involving Moriarty, etc. They ABANDONED their template. It's sheer brilliance
You didn't like the Abominable Bride though? I thought that was gutsy too. I tend to always admire stories that never play it safe. I've loved every episode of Sherlock so far.
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Jan 2, 2017 - 11:57 AM
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RoryR
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I have to suspend my dislike of the negatives as outlined by Rory to appreciate the positives as outlined by Aidabaida. I have to wonder how Conan Doyle would have liked having his hero turned into essentially a superhero. .
Wow! That's a different way of looking at it. This episode did EVERYTHING to humanize Sherlock. I mean, he's seeing a psychiatrist now. He doesn't have amazing fighting skills (He loses to A.J.), he's just smart. I think they've turned him into the antithesis of a superhero, or, perhaps more accurately, shown the true nature of what the public CONSIDERS a superhero.
Anyway, I have Rory on my "ignore" List so I cannot see whatever negatives he's outlined, but it doesn't surprise me that he'd dislike it. After all, it's creative, intelligent, and doesn't stick to formula! I'm joking. But people like him see the bad in everything. Everything! It's become "Hip" these days to hate everything. And people like him, despite claiming to stand in opposition to pop culture, have become assimilated into it.
That last part's rich coming from a fifteen year old. You can't understand the negativity unless you've seen decades of tv and movies, and enough to know that this BBC Sherlock show is slick, well-produced entertainment, but otherwise shallow and cloying.
And how do you imagine Sherlock himself would react to it?
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I respect rule breakers.