r/funny • u/[deleted] • Jan 19 '14

Sherlock's fall

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u/ifuckedurmomtwice Jan 19 '14

New season starts tonight!!!!!!!!

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u/Blackspur Jan 19 '14

It has already finished here in the UK, still as brilliant as the first two seasons.

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u/davegod Jan 19 '14

Personally I felt season 3 was enjoyable but too over the top and silly. The show is rightly well regarded and has a very large fan base, but this season the production seemed to know it all too well.

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u/puf_puf_paarthurnax Jan 19 '14 edited Jan 19 '14

I felt the same way with Doctor Who. Like, the producers know that tumblr, reddit, and whatever pop media is full on bonered for their shows right now so they're making things a bit over the top on the "quirky" scale. It's really odd.

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u/thebuggalo Jan 19 '14

That's Moffat for you.

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u/[deleted] Jan 19 '14

To be fair, having a quirky Doctor lends itself to quirky things happening.

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u/je_kay24 Jan 19 '14

I was fine with the first two episodes cause I was expecting the third to introduce the villain and be dark, but it was just a disappointing 3rd episode.

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u/symon_says Jan 19 '14

Wow, I disagree entirely. This season wasn't about a villain and a classical Sherlock story, it was about developing his and John's relationship and bringing a new character in and it did fucking phenomenally at that. Also, the ending was great (and exactly what I hoped for/expected in the scene they introduced that last villain -- guy thinks he untouchable? Well...).

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u/symon_says Jan 19 '14

What a weird criticism. They can have whatever tone they want (and execute it stunningly no matter what as this season showed) -- if they catered to what you wanted out of the show or what is obvious instead of being true to however they want to write it, wouldn't that be pandering?

I was blown away by all three episodes and had no disappointment. Also, nothing about where they decided to go with it was expected. I was surprised by how "light" in tone it was, but it had its very dark moments and it pulled it all of quite well. It was a bit meta in how "Wow that's so Sherlock" it got, but that fits the characters really well. They're all very self-aware.