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wikey
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| Post #1: 1st Jan 2016 7:01 PM | |
Liked it!
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| I wish they had stuck to the Victorian story throughout though, every time they went back to the present I got impatient. |
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wikey
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| Post #2: 6th Jan 2016 8:44 PM | |
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| Wikey your game spoiled everything for her you monstrous shit |
I could have sworn Buffy said she was never going to watch it!
Maybe the game was so awesome that she changed her mind... | | |
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wikey
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| Post #3: 18th Jan 2017 9:56 AM | |
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So disappointed! All that waiting for...that.
The show seems to have forgotten what it's main strengths are, namely the Sherlock/Watson dynamic, a good story, and a good antagonist.
I think it may have at least achieved the latter with Euros, who was a pretty good villain, though not on the same level as Moriarty and Magnussen. But everything else was pretty bad.
Every season prior to this has had a cool mystery at the center of it. This one didn't really have one.
And there were some really glaring plotholes in each episode.
A major reason this season sucked for me was Mary. She was a lame character, who got way too much focus this year. I thought the twist with her last season was cool and made for a good story, and she was an okay addition to the cast when she existed on the periphery with characters such as Miss Hudson, Molly etc. (I would have rather had more screentime from them than Mary) But making her the one of the main focuses of S4 was a bad idea.
The first episode started very strong, and they even teased us with a cool mystery, loosely based on one of the classic stories (It was about someone going around breaking busts of Napolean, rather than Thatcher) I lost interest as soon as the story became about Mary's past instead. It felt like they were treading old ground. Did anybody really care about Mary's past?
Suddenly the episode became a spy thriller instead of a detective story. Anyway, it became really obvious she was going to die about halfway through the episode, and after she did I had high hopes the rest of the season would be good!
But no. Sherlock got a disk with 'Miss Me?' written on it. My first thought was that it might be the start of the Seasons central mystery. Maybe it would be Moriarty. But oh wait no, it was a video Mary made in case she died. THAT IS SO MUCH MORE EXCITING. Even dead, she still managed to make the following episode crappy.
Sherlock/Watson been at odds with each other and the Jimmy Savile esque serial killer were neat ideas, but they fell flat in execution. It was another episode less about Sherlock/Watson and more about Mary's weird task to save John Watson. Tbh I cringed every time Mary was on screen, especially the scenes with Ghost Mary. Ugh
I don't know why they elevated such a weak character to such a high level.
In the finale, they finally moved on from her, and it happened to be the best episode. Finales tend to be the best anyway, but it helped that the show started playing to it's strengths again. I still thought it was subpar in comparison with previous seasons, but it had some bright spots. Mycroft/Sherlock/Watson were entertaining, and Euros' game was cool. I though the revelation that she was the little girl in the plane made no sense though. But at the same time, I kept bitching throughout about how unrealistic it was for the plane to still be in the air all that time.
But the last scene was awful. The one were Mary gives that gay monologue. This was me:
Is it just me or did this show try really hard to be quirky at times this season, in the same way Doctor Who does? That is a really annoying trend in British TV shows that make it big in America, and it baffles me.
I hope it's better next season. Oh, and I'm actually glad they didn't bring Moriarty back for real.
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