Sherlock 2x02, "The Hounds of Baskerville"
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kindkitMy two blessed days off did not quite materialize. Yesterday, just as I was *ahem* acquiring the new episode of Sherlock, one of my co-workers called to say her car had broken down and could I take her shift? So I ended up being at work from 4-11 pm, then today I had my previously scheduled shift of 8 am - 4 pm. (Today I learned I'm getting Wednesday off in exchange for working yesterday, so you needn't feel too sorry for me.) I am a bit tired, not helped by the fact that when I got home last night I decided "screw it" and watched Sherlock anyway.
Somehow its plot managed to be even sillier than the original Hound of the Baskervilles, which is something of a feat. I'd like to believe that one reason I didn't immediately guess the villain is that I assumed, because of the name, it would be Stapleton. Ah, well.
Things I liked: mostly non-villainous and not hopelessly stereotyped gay men, Sherlock's freak-out after seeing the hound, John getting fed up with Sherlock's behavior and Sherlock actually worrying about losing John's friendship (but also, in a very Sherlock fashion, taking advantage of John yet again), John no longer bothering to argue when people assume he and Sherlock are a couple, Russell Tovey, tanned!Lestrade, John and Sherlock undercover at Baskerville, the scenery, Sherlock posing dramatically atop the scenery, the "cheekbones" line, Mycroft's brief appearances (I'm starting to wish I was watching "The Adventures of Mycroft Holmes, With Occasional Appearances by His Little Brother and Dr. John Watson"). ETA: I also liked realizing why people find Benedict Cumberbatch beautiful, which I never quite saw until this episode.
Things I didn't especially like: H.O.U.N.D. as an acronym, the general unmotivated randomness of most of the plot, vast pipeline networks of hallucinogenic gas, John attempting to seduce the psychiatrist for information (and Sherlock using her attractiveness as a lure to get John to help him again), the baffling obsessed!out-of-control!Moriarty scene at the end. And speaking of which, when was Moriarty arrested, anyway? And why, and how?
I'm trying not to get my hopes up for next week's finale, considering who wrote it. And I'm also trying not to dwell on how Steven Moffat could be such a poor showrunner as to let that idiot (the same writer responsible for last season's utterly irredeemable "The Blind Banker") write the season finale. Or anything, come to that. But perhaps the universe will surprise me and it will actually be good.
ETA: And I seem to have a Sherlock icon now. Oops.
Somehow its plot managed to be even sillier than the original Hound of the Baskervilles, which is something of a feat. I'd like to believe that one reason I didn't immediately guess the villain is that I assumed, because of the name, it would be Stapleton. Ah, well.
Things I liked: mostly non-villainous and not hopelessly stereotyped gay men, Sherlock's freak-out after seeing the hound, John getting fed up with Sherlock's behavior and Sherlock actually worrying about losing John's friendship (but also, in a very Sherlock fashion, taking advantage of John yet again), John no longer bothering to argue when people assume he and Sherlock are a couple, Russell Tovey, tanned!Lestrade, John and Sherlock undercover at Baskerville, the scenery, Sherlock posing dramatically atop the scenery, the "cheekbones" line, Mycroft's brief appearances (I'm starting to wish I was watching "The Adventures of Mycroft Holmes, With Occasional Appearances by His Little Brother and Dr. John Watson"). ETA: I also liked realizing why people find Benedict Cumberbatch beautiful, which I never quite saw until this episode.
Things I didn't especially like: H.O.U.N.D. as an acronym, the general unmotivated randomness of most of the plot, vast pipeline networks of hallucinogenic gas, John attempting to seduce the psychiatrist for information (and Sherlock using her attractiveness as a lure to get John to help him again), the baffling obsessed!out-of-control!Moriarty scene at the end. And speaking of which, when was Moriarty arrested, anyway? And why, and how?
I'm trying not to get my hopes up for next week's finale, considering who wrote it. And I'm also trying not to dwell on how Steven Moffat could be such a poor showrunner as to let that idiot (the same writer responsible for last season's utterly irredeemable "The Blind Banker") write the season finale. Or anything, come to that. But perhaps the universe will surprise me and it will actually be good.
ETA: And I seem to have a Sherlock icon now. Oops.
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Date: 2012-01-11 02:13 pm (UTC)AHAHAHA YES THIS IS GOING TO BE INTERESTING.
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Date: 2012-01-15 04:09 pm (UTC)