For instance, I don't agree with a lot of the camera shots, but that's just nit-picking. Conan Doyle never really could decide in the canon where he had been shot, could he?)Īs to the downsides, most are rather superficial. (The level to which they payed attention shows in the end of "A Study in Pink" where John reveals that he had actually been shot in the shoulder, while leading the audience to believe it was the leg.
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And, like in that recent movie with Law and Downey Jr, I always feel happy when the writers show their research with canon shout-outs or quotes. I know that a lot of people like it, and Holmes/Watson is one of literature's biggest and brightest bromances, but the way it was written seemed a little shoe-horned, thrown in there for the fangirls.) I was a little afraid that they'd build the substance off of nothing but snide quips and snarking, but there's actually more to (some) conversations. The writing is fairly tight (though, admittedly does falter somewhat when the writers are playing the "I'm not gay" gag. The additions made to the cast compliment them. Holmes' (or, sorry, Sherlock's) character, as well as Watson's, is spot-on. However, I am going to have to admit that I was quickly brought around when I finally watched the first one. And from the fandom, all I could get was that the characters are snarky and bromance is funny. From everything that I had heard about it, it sounded like a terrible idea. Having quite recently binged on the entirety of the Holmes canon and been quickly directed towards this series, I have to admit that I was skeptical enough not to touch it for the better part of a year. Sherlock does its best to impress, but these days it can't show you either. The least you can expect in a mystery story is for there to be a mystery and that someone attempts to resolve it. Season 4 ends with one character passionately describing Holmes as an detective, but having spent that episode trapped in a Saw like dungeon (and most of the previous episode having psychedelic, film-wanky drug trips) this feels like an informed attribute rather than a description of what he does. Rather than show us a problem with a smart solution, it shoots them in their stupid face instead. Holmes is only as smart a detective as his writers, and It's like they keep running out of smart things for him to do. Since then at least half a dozen other villains have met the same end. And then, sadly, the episode surprises you when Watson comes along and shoots Holmes' opponent dead. We don't know if there even is a way to win it. It is a tense moment, because we don’t know how he is going to win it. The very first episode of the first season (which annoyingly remains the best episode in the entire series) has Holmes playing a deadly game of “guess the suicide pill”.
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One other thing that has consistently been a problem in this series is how lazy it is in resolving plots. It’s boring, it’s outlandish, and it feels its length. It isn't satisfying to watch, because Holmes is no longer doing any onscreen detective work, he is playing the overbearing comic relief in an unrelated, secret-agent thriller. What’s presented as the episode's big mystery is resolved in a matter of minutes, swapped out for an ongoing personal drama surrounding John Watson's mysterious wife. In the first episode, the mysteries are now just montages, which Holmes solves without us even getting to see. Season 4 is even worse for this than before.
Sherlock as a series is so besotted with those little fleshy bits that it often disregards the mystery aspect altogether. But those were just little details used to flesh out a functional murder mystery.
That Holmes has a people problem is hardly a new thing the books always took some time taken to show Holmes' lack of decorum, warmth, sexuality, and basic general knowledge. I enjoy Sherlock Holmes stories because it is about an eccentric detective who is solves mysteries, but the BBC television series would have you believe it is all about an interpersonal drama with the world's biggest asshole. Sherlock is brilliantly well made and tremendously polished but, like a misaligned NASA telescope, it is stuck focusing on entirely the wrong thing. Sherlock has always been a frustrating thing to watch.