Rant incoming. Wtf was this last season? I'm honestly both enraged and disappointed at the immense budget they clearly had (don't get me wrong, the CGI, sets and overall visual quality was amazing) and still managed to f it up. It starts out okay - and then they pull the whole "catch a bullet for you" BS. It was incredibly dumb for a show that's all about smart people. (It's been proven several times that no one has the response time to actually "catch a bullet", and even if you did, why not just kick the victim out of the way?). The "text-cheating" plot-line was just as weird - it seemed weirdly out of character for John and it served little purpose, other than to put a scene in where Sherlock comforts John (Cumberbatch's performance is AMAZING here, and I feel so sad that it's wasted on a horrible script). I initially excused the trippiness of the second episode, since I thought the director is trying to make us experience how Sherlock feels while high on drugs. But after a while it became disorientating and frustrating, and perhaps like the director was having too much fun with the special effects and forgot that he's supposed to interact with the audience. Also Sherlock legit almost dies. Like he just straight up goes on a suicide mission and the fact that John comes to save him was a miracle. He would have DIED. It thought he was smart. I feel like this also doesn't add up since he admits that Mary dying to save him places value on his life - and then he just marches into a serial killer's den like a goof and admits to not "being able to remember any of the backup-plans". ?? Also Mary WTF? Her message that she left was so horribly manipulative and also... kind of dumb? Like it was pointless. Can I just say how much I hated the idea that Sherlock can predict the future like some friggen psychic?? what even? There comes a point where suspension of disbelief just collapses into a heap of "why" and confused facial expressions. Making the character of Sherlock basically omnipotent does nothing for the show other than to dehumanize him - something I thought the show was slowing working against - as he literally said "Maybe we are all just human" in the same episode. Well clearly you aren't, Sherlock. You're a friggen ORACLE. A lot of this season just felt like smoke and mirrors and no actual crime solving. As a fan of the original books, I feel like the books are a lot about Sherlock's incredible ability to deduce information from seemingly obscure information- and revealing to the audience that it's actually pretty simple (at least, in his mind). This concept is almost completely lost in this season, as a bunch of borderline supernatural crap happens for no good reason other than "it looks cool". And then the last episode... God it was terrible. Since when is this show a horror? It was just basically a weird series of people being forced into horribly traumatic situations and the reason being "lol psychopath goes brrrrr". The mind control thing was some stupid shit. It's not explained, and is basically in the realm of supernatural mumbo jumbo. Except they act like it makes sense. Also I love the characters but really- I'm just some dweeb and even I was able to conclude that there was no plane from the very beginning.
Can you imagine the weeks of preparation that Eurus had to do lol - like she had to get a guy to buy TV screens, set up the networks, build a little set full of childhood photos to put Sherlock in after transporting him across the ocean, bewitch?? someone into carefully lowering John into a well, setting up a water pump system to fill up the well, go do coffin shopping etc etc. It's honestly hilarious.
My last complaint would be the absolute diminishment of Moriarty as a character. We are basically told that he was just a good lap dog for Eurus - all his actions had no meaning previously - it felt like a weird form of red-conning. Which is sad. If you're going to make him this incredible mastermind, why not just stick with it? The audience already knows this villain, why attempt to introduce a "new, bigger, even better " super villain?
Without the needed realism and limits of the human mind in place, this season just became a laughable series of "oh hey hey you know what would be cool? what if we added even more bullshit to this?"
Review by MadPegasusBlockedParent2021-01-25T10:43:35Z
Rant incoming.
Wtf was this last season? I'm honestly both enraged and disappointed at the immense budget they clearly had (don't get me wrong, the CGI, sets and overall visual quality was amazing) and still managed to f it up.
It starts out okay - and then they pull the whole "catch a bullet for you" BS. It was incredibly dumb for a show that's all about smart people. (It's been proven several times that no one has the response time to actually "catch a bullet", and even if you did, why not just kick the victim out of the way?).
The "text-cheating" plot-line was just as weird - it seemed weirdly out of character for John and it served little purpose, other than to put a scene in where Sherlock comforts John (Cumberbatch's performance is AMAZING here, and I feel so sad that it's wasted on a horrible script).
I initially excused the trippiness of the second episode, since I thought the director is trying to make us experience how Sherlock feels while high on drugs. But after a while it became disorientating and frustrating, and perhaps like the director was having too much fun with the special effects and forgot that he's supposed to interact with the audience.
Also Sherlock legit almost dies. Like he just straight up goes on a suicide mission and the fact that John comes to save him was a miracle. He would have DIED. It thought he was smart.
I feel like this also doesn't add up since he admits that Mary dying to save him places value on his life - and then he just marches into a serial killer's den like a goof and admits to not "being able to remember any of the backup-plans".
??
Also Mary WTF? Her message that she left was so horribly manipulative and also... kind of dumb? Like it was pointless.
Can I just say how much I hated the idea that Sherlock can predict the future like some friggen psychic?? what even?
There comes a point where suspension of disbelief just collapses into a heap of "why" and confused facial expressions.
Making the character of Sherlock basically omnipotent does nothing for the show other than to dehumanize him - something I thought the show was slowing working against - as he literally said "Maybe we are all just human" in the same episode.
Well clearly you aren't, Sherlock. You're a friggen ORACLE.
A lot of this season just felt like smoke and mirrors and no actual crime solving. As a fan of the original books, I feel like the books are a lot about Sherlock's incredible ability to deduce information from seemingly obscure information- and revealing to the audience that it's actually pretty simple (at least, in his mind). This concept is almost completely lost in this season, as a bunch of borderline supernatural crap happens for no good reason other than "it looks cool".
And then the last episode...
God it was terrible. Since when is this show a horror? It was just basically a weird series of people being forced into horribly traumatic situations and the reason being "lol psychopath goes brrrrr".
The mind control thing was some stupid shit. It's not explained, and is basically in the realm of supernatural mumbo jumbo. Except they act like it makes sense.
Also I love the characters but really- I'm just some dweeb and even I was able to conclude that there was no plane from the very beginning.
Can you imagine the weeks of preparation that Eurus had to do lol - like she had to get a guy to buy TV screens, set up the networks, build a little set full of childhood photos to put Sherlock in after transporting him across the ocean, bewitch?? someone into carefully lowering John into a well, setting up a water pump system to fill up the well, go do coffin shopping etc etc.
It's honestly hilarious.
My last complaint would be the absolute diminishment of Moriarty as a character. We are basically told that he was just a good lap dog for Eurus - all his actions had no meaning previously - it felt like a weird form of red-conning.
Which is sad. If you're going to make him this incredible mastermind, why not just stick with it? The audience already knows this villain, why attempt to introduce a "new, bigger, even better " super villain?
Without the needed realism and limits of the human mind in place, this season just became a laughable series of "oh hey hey you know what would be cool? what if we added even more bullshit to this?"