Sherlock, Season 3 (previous seasons spoilers)

[Lonely Paper Star]

Not dead!

Also, I enjoyed the episode.

[KristaWebster]

I am up for it. Desperately waiting for it.

[Pant Leg Eater from the Bad World]

Anybody seen episode 2 yet?

[Pant Leg Eater from the Bad World]

Just watched episode two. Cried twice.

[Jiro]

(SPOILER)

smurfing knew it was the photographer. Good episode. The cinematography in this show is unsmurfingbelievable sometimes. Everything is shot so well. There are so many little jokes and references hidden everywhere, I feel like goddamn Sherlock when I get them.

I can't say anything else that isn't just me going through all the moments I thought were awesome. Oh, except (SPOILER)please let Tom not be a mental case.

[Psychotic]

This was such a different episode to normal, it was nice seeing all these little cases and then have them all come together. The (SPOILER)drunk moment was absolute sheer comedy. Like Jiro I figured out who did it and who the target was first and felt like a badass. And Sherlock, I know how you feel! Best Man Speeches are scary!

It was interesting in so much as there wasn't really much of a build up for whatever is going to happen in the finale. The last two have seen huge showdowns with Moriaty but it was all building up to that in both seasons. We saw a glimpse of someone at the end of the first episode but then no more in this. It was somewhat disappointing actually.

[blackmage_nuke]

I found episode 2 of the last two Sherlock seasons to fall a bit flat, however this season I found episode 2 to be very entertaining even if there wasnt any final ep setup or foreshadowing (Unless there was and it will only become obvious when we see ep 3)

[Psychotic]

I found episode 2 in Season 1 to be the worst of all Sherlock episodes, but I actually didn't mind the Hound of Baskerville. It was a good change of pace to be away from London and the mystery surrounding the Hound was a neat one.

[blackmage_nuke]

Three things I actually didnt get about episode 2

(SPOILER)
Why did the photographer date all those women?

Didnt any of those well trained troops at least try to first aid the shower guy before just saying "yep he's dead"?

Did all the women leaving when asked about a secret have some kind of signifigance that I missed or was it just a red herring?

Maybe these are just clues for the finale. At least thats what Im hoping so I can feel like a detective

[Psychotic]

Three things I actually didnt get about episode 2

(SPOILER)
Why did the photographer date all those women?

Did all the women leaving when asked about a secret lead to something I missed or was it just a red herring?

(SPOILER)They were all the personal staff of the Major who was a known recluse and thus had people come in to do things for him as he couldn't leave the house. The photographer wanted to kill the Major so he dated the women to try to find out where the Major would be, and the Nurse saw the wedding invite, blabbed, and that's how the photographer knew the Major would be at the wedding. The secret thing is because the Major made them all sign confidentiality agreements about working for him as he's such a hated figure.

[blackmage_nuke]

That makes sense, but then
(SPOILER)How did he find 5 women working for the Major when he's so secretive?

[Psychotic]

Yeah, I had the exact same thought when I was typing out the post. Maybe (SPOILER)he watched the house or something. I don't think it was explained.

[blackmage_nuke]

Also quite strange that (SPOILER)John doesnt know where the Major lives but is still able to send him a wedding invitation unless he was invited via phone or something.

And 5 women instead of just thinking "lying dickhead" joined the same ghost dating forum

[Freya]

(SPOILER)

Drunk sherlock was the best sherlock.

[Shorty]

(SPOILER)I think the fits the Detective Inspector was throwing at the beginning were a little out of character. And clowns! A heist! Nearly the same mask as in Batman. I am extremely bothered, though, that the introduction to the episode was so insistent on selling you that the criminals absolutely intend to not get caught over and over, and finally, when they do, nothing is seen of it, nothing more is heard of or said of it! Couldn't they have just shown Lestrade camped out at some random crime scene when he gets a text from Sherlock and races over there? All of that repeated getaways from the criminals and then finally nabbing them was pointless. I get that it was to show how important Lestrade holds Sherlock but still, a little silly and redundant. Enough of a deal was made about the opening scene that I thought it would be the basis for the episode. When it wasn't, I found myself confused.

I squealed in delight at the lengths that Sherlock went with interviewing his fiancee's friend/ex-boyfriend, especially him setting up monitored arranged meetings xD It's out of character for him to care so much about someone to go to these lengths, but it is in his character to be thorough.

bawwww sherlock asking molly for a drink oh my god, and drunk sherlock holy trout good lord, never thought I'd see that in my life. That was ridiculously amusing and fantastic. I generally dislike changes to characters, but it's fun to see them behave in ways you imagined they never would.

That speech was so moving, oh my god in heaven ;_________________;

I think something is going to happen to Mary. She seems too good to be true for John. Sherlock just recounted all of the horrible luck and turmoil that John has experienced in his time. I don't think that he is meant to have a happy ending with anyone but Sherlock (not in the gay way that fans obsess about). This show thrives on building relationships between the fans and the characters, and there is no existing relationship the fans have with Mary - she's popped out of thin air, and we have no emotional attachment to her whatsoever. I think something is going to happen to her, and John is going to be destroyed and Sherlock will have to act in a way that he's never acted before to save him and that she will be used as leverage to trigger an emotional ransom from fans on behalf of John. This episode so far has all been about Sherlock behaving in ways that he wouldn't normally, all for his friend that he cares about so much, which shows now that he has the capacity to behave that way. I do like, though, at the end that he returned to his lonesome usual self, even if it is a bit sad.

I think that Molly may be important in the finale. They're showing her in more scenes, using more interactions with her and Sherlock, she seems a bit more intimate with him than a scared mousy little girl who's too shy to say anything unless spoken to. She picks up on his behaviors and notices what he is doing and how he's reacting. They showed quite a bit of her in the flashbacks of crimes, her observing and reacting to his theatrical half of the speech, and a good while observing him standing by himself alone amid the crowd on the dance floor. I think/I hope she will play a somewhat key part in the next episode.

I was happy to see Irene Adler, even if only for a moment, even if it was almost unnecessary.

I was a little bit sad that there wasn't some sort of cliffhanger. For a while I thought that the Major was the man we had seen a flash of at the end of the first episode. When Sherlock was going on about, "Who would you kill at a wedding?" all I would think of is that you kill either a) the bride, b) the groom or c) the bride and groom at a wedding. Because of the shot of the dude at the end of the first episode, I was almost certain that he was a sort of culprit, and thought it would have made for a good story for this long-lost man who nobody has seen or heard of in all these years shows up to John's delight and then tries to kill him (or someone else), for whatever reason, especially since he got up and went straight for his gun and especially since John was a target in the last episode and we still don't know why. But the photographer looked too much like the photographer who had been snapshotting the guard who was stabbed, and that was the only solid thing to go on.

Season two has been the best season so far. I have a feeling I will be disappointed with the finale of this one, but I am excited to see where it goes. I very much like how Moriarty was the constant link in episodes and crimes through seasons one and two for Sherlock. It seems they're operating on another level now (like still not solving why John was a target from the first episode), but there's enough mystery left for it to be interesting, I think.