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pargoletta

Sherlock Episode 3.2.1

Mar 25, 2015 21:45

Saddle up, Sherlock viewers! The Sign Of Three is at hand! Awkward and badly paced as it is, this episode is actually the highlight of Series Three. While it doesn't hit the quality of The Great Game or the sheer entertaining lunacy of the first part of A Scandal in Belgravia, it is, in its own way, not that bad an episode. It's stuck with a ( Read more... )

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hyarrowen April 6 2015, 07:49:36 UTC

Back online, with a new computer, and two local mobile broadband towers that are functioning for a change. (I have been trying not to make LoTR jokes but it's hard.So, having watched the ep on DVD, I have a better handle on it than when I first watched it on commercial TV. Not that much better, though; it took the second viewing to figure out that most of it is told in flashback, but I'm still pretty baffled. For most of the ep I wasn't hunting round for the solution to the mystery, I was hunting for the actual mystery. Your analysis has cleared some of that up (the first few minutes have absolutely nothing to do with the rest of the story, who knew? And incidentally, heists are not quite a thing of the distant past http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/1010974.stm but a coupla million is certainly a paltry sum ( ... )

pargoletta April 7 2015, 09:05:29 UTC

Hi there! Welcome back! I wondered where you'd been.

(I have been trying not to make LoTR jokes but it's hard.

Oh, don't hold yourself back on my account! LoTR is a happy, happy thing for me.

The thing about the heist that struck me as 1930s wasn't so much that it happened at all, but how utterly baffled Police Squad! was when it happened. Even the diamond heist that you linked is actually a story about a foiled diamond heist. You'd think that Police Squad! would be able to apprehend guys like this, especially in the era of cell phones. The bank robbers aren't moving all that fast, and really, all it would take would be one person hiding behind a column to call 999 and say, "hey, guys with clown masks emptying the vaults at the approximate speed of cold molasses here." Police Squad! should be all over this like white on rice.

I do like the venue, and I love Mary's dress. Woman has style, I will totally give her that.

All in all, I reckon this ep could have benefitted from some tough editing or a shorter time slot or a bit ( ... )

hyarrowen April 8 2015, 00:34:21 UTC

I think one of the problems they have with the whole concept is that ACD's police really are incompetent, so the Sherlock police have to be the same... A little more thought could've turned up something more believable, but we are, I guess, supposed to be distracted by the shiny. Me, I was just confused.

Major Sholto made me think immediately of Simon Weston, a Falklands veteran who was horribly burned and has done huge amounts of charity work since. A most admirable person. There is a Major Sholto in ACD, but I don't think we see him on-page.

don't hold yourself back on my account! LoTR is a happy, happy thing for me.

Hee *fistbump* glad to know it! I certainly felt that I was stuck between Minas Morgul and Orthanc.

I went to the girls' half of Tolkien's school, and was born and grew up a few miles from Sarehole, so the Shire feels like home to me. Well, I suppose you could say it is home, though perhaps I'm from Bywater rather than Hobbiton.

Don't know the Honest Trailers... but they sound like a riot!

pargoletta April 8 2015, 08:10:06 UTC

ACD's police really are incompetent,

True dat. The biggest irony of all is that police forces in general became more competent by reading ACD's Sherlock Holmes stories and developing the art of forensic investigation. Still, it's not totally impossible to have a Sherlock-like detective working with, or on, a modern police force. Law and Order: Criminal Intent managed it pretty well, for instance ( ... )

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