Irritating episode. Some parts were hysterical (not always in a good way). Some were definitely meh. But the point at which I got cross was Sherlock's speech after he'd dropped the glass and advanced into the room. All I could hear was Matt Smith.
Also mightily irritated by the fact they filmed at Wellington Barracks, which is rather close to where I work. Didn't get a sniff of them being around.
Quote: KLRiley @ 5th January 2014, 10:53 PM GMTIrritating episode. Some parts were hysterical (not always in a good way). SBut the point at which I got cross was Sherlock's speech after he'd dropped the glass and advanced into the room. All I could hear was Matt Smith.
Someone else gets it
it's the same show
Quote: KLRiley @ 5th January 2014, 10:53 PM GMTIrritating episode. Some parts were hysterical (not always in a good way). SBut the point at which I got cross was Sherlock's speech after he'd dropped the glass and advanced into the room. All I could hear was Matt Smith.
Someone else gets it
it's the same show
Well it seems I've come into this at a bad time for it but even so, after all the hype it's a 
from me. Gimmicky, twaddly, stuttery visually so not an easy watch. Even the naffest Creek episode would widdle over this.
Quote: sootyj @ 5th January 2014, 10:54 PM GMTSomeone else gets it
it's the same show
It didn't used to be, at least when they were adapting the books they had a story structure, now it has gone full on Doctor Who and the subsequent shitness that goes with an absence of rules, threat or structure.
Adapting the books, they adapted them in the same way a pig does when it eats one.
Quote: sootyj @ 5th January 2014, 11:11 PM GMTAdapting the books, they adapted them in the same way a pig does when it eats one.
What's most shocking is that they've completely abandoned any semblance of following the novels. It's like they're saying 'Feck you Conan Doyle, Sherlock is our property now, we shall craft your creation in our own image. We know best as we're the greatest writers who ever lived!!!'
Tossers.
I wasn't over keen on the yellow walls in the wedding venue.
It still beats the hound of the baskervilles, that was those 2 gay hoteliers dog used a publicity exercise, whilst the mystery had something to do with a high security lab, a rock and roll tshirt and um Daleks probably,
Just caught up and I am so disappointed. What the f**k has happened to this show? It used to be so clever and so gripping and now it is just f**king awful. 90 minute mysteries are great, 90 minute wedding speeches with flashbacks to things you wish you were watching? Barely watchable shit.
And it could have been good if they'd done away with that clunking contrived framing device. Have the wedding at the end, as the climax - where the mystery that they have spent the first hour puzzling through reaches a head.
Start by having Watson (accompanied by best man Sherlock) visit the barracks with the express intention of getting an invitation to the reclusive major - exposition about how he accidentally killed everyone can be dealt with in a less signposted way. The killer is not the totally obvious but random wedding photographer, but whoever it is at the barracks who deals with the invitation (and is an old friend of Watson's who Watson feels he now has to invite), in the process this guy finds out that the recluse he has a grudge against is possibly going to be at a wedding. So Watson's wedding sets the plot in motion, so it makes sense that it is going to happen at his wedding. The murderer starts contriving clever ways to kill someone in public, practicing on guards, but not actually managing to kill any of them, and so they call Watson for help, because they know he is friends with Sherlock, as he's recently been at the barracks with him. The attempted killings culminate in the successful murder of the guard in the shower, but Sherlock only works out what is happening when he's at the wedding, during his speech, which becomes exciting and tense, not silly and Matt Smith-y.
Well, that's how I would have done it anyway.
Hey Shandy why did you fire Prince as your wedding planner
Quote: Shandonbelle @ 5th January 2014, 11:21 PM GMTI wasn't over keen on the sugar walls in the wedding venue.
eurgh unhygenic
Quote: sootyj @ 5th January 2014, 11:22 PM GMTIt still beats the hound of the baskervilles,
I disagree. Whilst I didn't love that episode, it was 100 times better than this one.
Quote: Harridan @ 6th January 2014, 12:07 AM GMT90 minute wedding speeches with flashbacks to things you wish you were watching?
Just about sums it up.
5 minutes of plot spread WAY too thin.
Note how it's moved a bit earlier?
It'll soon be in the Sunday night Merlin slot.
FFS
Quote: Shandonbelle @ 5th January 2014, 11:21 PM GMTI wasn't over keen on the yellow walls in the wedding venue.
I liked that bit.
I hated everything else.
Quote: Harridan @ 6th January 2014, 12:07 AM GMTStart by having Watson (accompanied by best man Sherlock) visit the barracks with the express intention of getting an invitation to the reclusive major - exposition about how he accidentally killed everyone can be dealt with in a less signposted way. The killer is not the totally obvious but random wedding photographer, but whoever it is at the barracks who deals with the invitation (and is an old friend of Watson's who Watson feels he now has to invite), in the process this guy finds out that the recluse he has a grudge against is possibly going to be at a wedding. So Watson's wedding sets the plot in motion, so it makes sense that it is going to happen at his wedding. The murderer starts contriving clever ways to kill someone in public, practicing on guards, but not actually managing to kill any of them, and so they call Watson for help, because they know he is friends with Sherlock, as he's recently been at the barracks with him. The attempted killings culminate in the successful murder of the guard in the shower, but Sherlock only works out what is happening when he's at the wedding, during his speech, which becomes exciting and tense, not silly and Matt Smith-y.
That's a good idea. A+
Well that wedding episode was boring...
About enough real material for a half hour, maybe 45 mins, but it was 90 mins! filled with padding.
And the basic premise that someone (two people in this case) would not notice that they had been fatally stabbed, because it was through a tight webbing belt is absolutely absurd. It would hurt like heck!
Quote: billwill @ 6th January 2014, 3:30 AM GMTAnd the basic premise that someone (two people in this case) would not notice that they had been fatally stabbed, because it was through a tight webbing belt is absolutely absurd. It would hurt like heck!
I suppose someone must have looked into that, but it did strike me as a bit odd that you'd not notice something was up, especially if you're at a wedding for that long.