i enjoyed this episode a lot, more than the first one. yet now i will proceed to complain about it in many words, because there's not much to say about things that i liked except than i liked them.
anyway, i just can't help but be bothered by how detrimental and crucial random correspondence of events and blatant coincidences are this season. like sherlock switching to finding whoever's breaking the thatcher' busts while working on a completely unrelated case that had become a mystery after an accidental car crash.
and in this episode he figures out the "anyone" bit because he recently heard that word from the people close to him, what?.. and even worse - john only goes to save sherlock, in the last moment no less, because mrs hudson throws a fit and points out that sherlock likes to stab case related things that give him grief, otherwise he would have never found the cd in time, if ever. i like detective stories and complicated plots that neatly unravel by the end and hopefully shock us the viewers or make us smugly nod if we had drown the right conclusions before it all became clear, but i hate when it's too convenient, obviously set up, it just takes me out of the action, and then it's not even clever anymore, is it?
also, fuck, i really wish they wouldn't have been continuously and heavily implying that sherlock is asexual while also continuously and quite bluntly trying to erase his asexuality via john and his adamance to "humanise" and "normalise" sherlock which, quite offensively, means that you just can't be either human or normal if you aren't driven by carnal or at the very lest romantic desires. i don't even expect the writers to commit and label sherlock as asexual, i've basically given up on any representation at this point, because sex sells and everything is about money, i get it, but i wish they would have left it unclear for some and clear for others, yet unspoken, ambiguous, instead of trying to forcefully stir it in another direction in a sad attempt of making sherlock a more desirable character in the eyes of the sexually unsatisfied fans of the actor who plays him.
Review by chairBlockedParentSpoilers2017-01-09T16:45:22Z
i enjoyed this episode a lot, more than the first one. yet now i will proceed to complain about it in many words, because there's not much to say about things that i liked except than i liked them.
anyway, i just can't help but be bothered by how detrimental and crucial random correspondence of events and blatant coincidences are this season. like sherlock switching to finding whoever's breaking the thatcher' busts while working on a completely unrelated case that had become a mystery after an accidental car crash.
and in this episode he figures out the "anyone" bit because he recently heard that word from the people close to him, what?.. and even worse - john only goes to save sherlock, in the last moment no less, because mrs hudson throws a fit and points out that sherlock likes to stab case related things that give him grief, otherwise he would have never found the cd in time, if ever. i like detective stories and complicated plots that neatly unravel by the end and hopefully shock us the viewers or make us smugly nod if we had drown the right conclusions before it all became clear, but i hate when it's too convenient, obviously set up, it just takes me out of the action, and then it's not even clever anymore, is it?
also, fuck, i really wish they wouldn't have been continuously and heavily implying that sherlock is asexual while also continuously and quite bluntly trying to erase his asexuality via john and his adamance to "humanise" and "normalise" sherlock which, quite offensively, means that you just can't be either human or normal if you aren't driven by carnal or at the very lest romantic desires. i don't even expect the writers to commit and label sherlock as asexual, i've basically given up on any representation at this point, because sex sells and everything is about money, i get it, but i wish they would have left it unclear for some and clear for others, yet unspoken, ambiguous, instead of trying to forcefully stir it in another direction in a sad attempt of making sherlock a more desirable character in the eyes of the sexually unsatisfied fans of the actor who plays him.