Very well observed, Watson!

[bummble]

Some good remarks on the recent Sherlock season (and a bit about Dr Who) here:
http://wrongquestions.blogspot.com/2012/01/big-guns-thoughts-on-sherlock-s-second.html

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[voske]

This. Thisthisthis. Especially the mixture of parts I love and I hate, ♥ Freeman!Watson, Moffat's inability to recognise his own misogyny and sloppy plotting. In episode 3, I could not believe people jumped to the 'Sherlock is a fraud' conclusion that fast, when he had just helped catch a criminal who had been most wanted since 1982, or that Rochard Brook could apparently have a program out on dvd without anyone recognising him when he was on trial as Moriarty. (there were also spelling mistakes in the rolling headlines btw) I think what makes me still like Doctor Who is that I've disengaged somewhat, whereas with Sherlock I'm actively annoyed.

[bummble]

Ah, I hadn't even thought of that!
What bothered me was the death: there's quite a difference between disappearing into a river and jumping to your death-on-concrete in public, right in front of your friend.
I cannot believe any kind of fake Sherlock-body is that convincing - especially because of course it would get a post-mortem, etc.

I think I'm the reverse: I disengaged from Sherlock a bit already around the second episode of season one (and even more at the cliffhanger at the end of that season), whereas with Dr Who I feel more involved - or feel like I would like to be more involved, anyway.
Dr Who is (was) closer to my heart, which makes the trainwrecky plots (they usually start out so promising!) more painful.

[voske]

Sherlock asked Molly (a mortician) for help, he repeatedly told John to stand at precisely that spot, with a convenient van in front of him and a cyclist bumping into him. He was also playing with a tennis ball earlier in the ep (I didn't pick up on that, saw people referring to it later): Harry Houdini used to put a tennis ball in his armpit to apparently simulate no pulse.

But, yeah.

I had just seen an old episode of Scooby Doo on Sunday morning before the ep, in which the plot concerned a pterodactyl who terrorised people in a river/canyon area. It turned out to be a man in a hangglider dressed as a pterodactyl, who was to scare people away and smuggle pirated albums and cassettes, which were made by a gang in a cave in the mountains. I think this plot was better.