That moment killed not just Sherlock, but also me! Didn't she actually call him "Junior" or something? I thought that moment was well-written and well-acted.
I agree with your insight about making Sherlock give up. I think the reimagining of Irene as a dominatrix was a stroke of genius.
I didn't consider the problem of bridging the gap between the last series and the current series. (I also didn't notice that six months passed between incident with the pool and Irene's first staged death! But that makes sense: Sherlock accepted a lot of cases. I actually found it really satisfying to watch Sherlock plow through half a dozen monster-of-the-week plotlines in about thirty seconds. I tend to think that pretty much every monster-of-the-week episode of pretty much every TV show could be condensed to a few seconds of dialogue, and I breathed a sigh of relief when I realized that we wouldn't have to spend half an hour watching Sherlock Holmes solve the case of the spotted blonde.)
I forgot about the "burn the heart" line!
Anyway, all of the stuff you mention about the timeline makes a lot of sense to me: I somehow hadn't even realized that there were practical considerations that the story had to deal with, plus I forgot (!) that John and Sherlock had only just met. I can't remember how much time the first series covered, but I vaguely had the idea that they had been living together for a while, like at least a year. And I didn't realize until you mentioned it that this sense I had was unsupported by anything I'd seen.
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Date: 2012-01-03 02:26 am (UTC)I agree with your insight about making Sherlock give up. I think the reimagining of Irene as a dominatrix was a stroke of genius.
I didn't consider the problem of bridging the gap between the last series and the current series. (I also didn't notice that six months passed between incident with the pool and Irene's first staged death! But that makes sense: Sherlock accepted a lot of cases. I actually found it really satisfying to watch Sherlock plow through half a dozen monster-of-the-week plotlines in about thirty seconds. I tend to think that pretty much every monster-of-the-week episode of pretty much every TV show could be condensed to a few seconds of dialogue, and I breathed a sigh of relief when I realized that we wouldn't have to spend half an hour watching Sherlock Holmes solve the case of the spotted blonde.)
I forgot about the "burn the heart" line!
Anyway, all of the stuff you mention about the timeline makes a lot of sense to me: I somehow hadn't even realized that there were practical considerations that the story had to deal with, plus I forgot (!) that John and Sherlock had only just met. I can't remember how much time the first series covered, but I vaguely had the idea that they had been living together for a while, like at least a year. And I didn't realize until you mentioned it that this sense I had was unsupported by anything I'd seen.