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got her d/led. still need to finish s2e3 tho
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pretty pretty good

a little too heavy on the hyperstylized super-heroish #SHERLOCKBACK moments but not so bad as to ruin it. the hype effect was inevitable, they handled it decently enough
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the how did Sherlock die fanboy shit was hella lolz, esp the poster on the face.
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the fat girl's gay slashfiction theory and the outrage of the 'serious' nerd was hilariously on point

they handled the cliffhanger well in general, i hope they don't mention it again. no need for it really

tiny bit apprehensive about the new arch villain. Moriarty is a tough act to follow, considering he's pretty much the original blueprint for all modern arch villains. another omniscient omnipotent god of crimelords would just feel samey with diminished results
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cool ep, plenty of goofy, plenty of #fun, about par for the course. oh snap, next eps today? they're burning on through apparently. now that i'm watching off netflix it's might nice to hear that bbc announcer dude again, him (surely it's not the same dude but whatever they sound the same) talking dream on after larry sanders was always good for a bubble, as was his last sherlock preview
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new one is out, pretty good, but next week's needs to be a slam dunk

For some reason I thought the 3rd was the final season. Don't know if this was posted here already, ausom:

http://www.deadline.com/2013/03/sherloc ... mberbatch/
Benedict Cumberbatch and Martin Freeman have signed on for a fourth season of the BBC1/PBS Masterpiece drama Sherlock
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I liked this one more than the first. Neither was super satisfying on the actual mystery front, but they did the wedding really well. I like how this season tries to give a more rounded picture of the environment the show has created and populated, as opposed to just going through the paces of individual cases. It's out of the scope of the source material, but this kind of approach didn't even exist in serialized fiction when Doyle was writing the stories. And they pull it off, aside from a few moments of corn and contrivance the characters are engaging and the episodes end up being hugely entertaining.

Had no idea there would be another season, this one already feels like a victory lap
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Really liked the second more than the first. Seems like they're going a little over the top with comedy tho.

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LilLeftBrain wrote:got her d/led. still need to finish s2e3 tho
Don't watch 3 until you finish.

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that is indeed what i did
probably do that second ep of the new season tonight
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Last ep of this season was entirely brilliant.

Some of the 'fluff' in ep 2 was kind of required for this finale.

Would be looking forward to the next season more if they had a different Moriarty. I really don't like the guy who plays him. Not at all creepy enough.

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great finale. had some problems with the villain of the ep, but easily the best of the 3.

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also dug ep2 more than the first, if for no reason other than drunken sherlock, but indeed there were other reasons as well
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villian of the episode was mads milkks bro, just for a fun fact. liked him a lot. cool finale, will be glad to have morty back tho
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feel like the s3e3 was one of the best eps they've done in the entire run. easily up there with the irene adler and moriarty ones. and they way they've set it all up through the season was fucking brilliant

the amount of nods to og stories was amazing. i literally fist pumped when I realized he was about to find Holmes in the crackhouse working on a case just like it happened with opium den in the source material.

My only complaint was that Magnussen was better at being a Moriarty type than Moriarty himself. He just seemed far more effectively evil, the resolution is a testament to that. Really curious how they handle the cliffhanger tho
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trying to avoid spoilers so apologies if this has already been in the thread- does watching this on PBS mean that things have been edited in any way? I was gonna watch the first two seasons on Netflix streaming and then the newest season on PBS but I'll wait if PBS makes changes to the episodes.

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Apparently PBS took out 10% of Season 2 when aired. I couldn't find anything definitive for Season 3 but it seems that people definitely were bitching and they allotted a larger time block to show the episodes: http://movies.stackexchange.com/questio ... -in-the-us

The 3rd episode (3rd Series) was definitely one of the better of the entire show. Apparently 'Mind Palace' is a real thing: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Method_of_loci

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yeaaa boy

laying on the meta stuff a bit too thick but i got a good lol out of the moustache line and 'the dog one'

this feels like a low stakes thing though, even if this comes off a little too on the nose and precocious it's still just a one off episode
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new trailer here, can't embed but it's the first link in the player

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/masterpiece/sherlock/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;


looks much darker and more gothic than the first trailer let on
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Saw it last night in a theater. It's not exactly what the trailer implies it is, it's much more ambitious, kind of a meta experiment that explores the relationship between the source material and the show, and elements of Holmes' character that the og stories simply take for granted but the show tries to develop more.

It doesn't exactly work and is very self indulgent in parts, and I totally understand why the reviews for it have been so mixed, but I generally enjoyed it. I'd rather have an ambitious failure than a safe but limited success, so in that regard it's very appealing. Realistically tho, I'm pretty sure most will probably hate on it.
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I've found it entertaining as much as the regular episodes of the show.

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wizeguy wrote:I've found it entertaining as much as the regular episodes of the show.

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yeah, i didn't love it or hate it, was just an ep of sherlock
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glad to see positive reactions in here after seeing some ridiculously vitriolic kick back in the published reviews
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Cosign, it was fun.

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New episode was kinda so-so. The twist in the end felt forced, not necessarily in terms of what happened, but how it happened.
Killing Mary off makes sense in the story they were telling, but her jumping in front of the bullet just to save Sherlock was pretty ridiculous. Sad to see her character go in general though, she had great chemistry with the two leads. I think they made a mistake in making her a superspy, that was never very believable and seemed like something from a different narrative universe entirely. She could've had some mysterious past without being a female Liam Neeson.
I kind of wish they went back to more straightforward and self-contained updates of old stories of the first 2 seasons, the jokey meta stuff and the continuities they've been forcing since S3 are dragging the show down.
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