Originally posted at LiveJournal on Jan 2, 2014.
"What? I'm in shock - look, I've got a blanket!"
...AND it's because I just watched "The Empty Hearse." Twice in a row.
Last night, a fellow Sherlockian book blogger told me about this thing she'd just discovered: hola. It unblocks websites from other countries -- for example, here I am in Not the U.K., thinking wistfully about all those lucky Brits who get to see S3E1 today. Along comes hola (which kind of totally looks like Calcifer from the Miyazaki Howl's Moving Castle XD ) and suddenly I can use the iPlayer on bbc.co.uk. Which just enabled me to watch S3E1 twice in a row.
...
SPOILERS AHEAD
This isn't going to be very coherent. 'S a bit too soon and a bit too late in the day for that. And things may get cheesy at times.
It... both was and wasn't what I expected. John's reaction to Sherlock's Surprise!-it's-me-aren't-you-thrilled? stunt (really, Sherlock, you need to take a course on human nature) was brilliant -- funnier, even, than I expected. The actual explanation of "The Fall"? What has two thumbs and totally knew Mycroft was in on it all? THIS GIRL. And we finally get the answer to a very important question: Anderson's first name is Phillip. ...What? I thought it was interesting.
And I'm trying to decide which is sweeter:
A) John's proposal to Mary (Amanda Abbington is perfect as Mary Morstan. Probably a duh-DOY since she is Martin Freeman's wife, but seriously, in character, she and Martin are lovely together. Mary really cares about John, and she gets his friendship with Sherlock. It helps that she likes him herself -- just like John, she sees the positive side of his extreme eccentricity) That may've been the sweetest proposal I've ever seen, because it was clear they both knew what was going on, so there really wasn't any pressure.
B) The way John ends his newest blog entry: "#sherlocklives means #johnwatsonlives." Yeah, who am I kidding -- sorry Mary Morstan, but this one wins the sweetness contest. This goes beyond ShirlAnnie levels of "Awww!" Of course, it won't exactly help him convince people like Mrs. Hudson that it's-really-actually-platonic-guys-seriously...nor will saying that Sherlock's "like a drug" to him. And really, Mofftiss, you're just torturing the Johnlock fans here. But seriously I don't care because that was one of the sweetest professions of friendship I've ever seen and it totally made me melt.
So that was nice.
But then there's Sherlock. Oh, Sherlock. Well, Benedict Cumberbatch did say in an interview that, in terms of Sherlock's character growth, he's "regressed" after those two years away from John. I was just hoping for more moments like at the pool, when Moriarty first leaves and Sherlock is actually trying to thank John for trying to save him, and there's that brief brilliant smile...
But Nerija, what about that moment right near the end of "Empty Hearse," where they're talking before going out to get ambushed by the press? Yes...yes, that's true. That was a good moment.
But...I didn't feel like I did after watching the second Hunger Games movie. I didn't come out of this all OMG THAT WAS AMAZING. I'm not rushing to Amazon or the PBS store to pre-order the DVD.
"The Reichenbach Fall" was so packed with tension and emotion, and that final scene had me in tears, and I've been waiting months and months and months to see the big reunion, and it was realistic, wasn't it? I mean, it's been two years for John, and he was finally starting to heal, and then the miraculous actually happens! Except that means his best friend had knowingly re-broken him, after having helped John heal from his experiences in Afghanistan. His best friend purposely put him through two years of hell.
Like I said, it's late and my head's going fuzzy and it's too soon to make a definitive judgment.
I reeeallly hope Sherlock's wedding toast won't be too embarrassing...
"What? I'm in shock - look, I've got a blanket!"
...AND it's because I just watched "The Empty Hearse." Twice in a row.
Last night, a fellow Sherlockian book blogger told me about this thing she'd just discovered: hola. It unblocks websites from other countries -- for example, here I am in Not the U.K., thinking wistfully about all those lucky Brits who get to see S3E1 today. Along comes hola (which kind of totally looks like Calcifer from the Miyazaki Howl's Moving Castle XD ) and suddenly I can use the iPlayer on bbc.co.uk. Which just enabled me to watch S3E1 twice in a row.
...
SPOILERS AHEAD
This isn't going to be very coherent. 'S a bit too soon and a bit too late in the day for that. And things may get cheesy at times.
It... both was and wasn't what I expected. John's reaction to Sherlock's Surprise!-it's-me-aren't-you-thrilled? stunt (really, Sherlock, you need to take a course on human nature) was brilliant -- funnier, even, than I expected. The actual explanation of "The Fall"? What has two thumbs and totally knew Mycroft was in on it all? THIS GIRL. And we finally get the answer to a very important question: Anderson's first name is Phillip. ...What? I thought it was interesting.
And I'm trying to decide which is sweeter:
A) John's proposal to Mary (Amanda Abbington is perfect as Mary Morstan. Probably a duh-DOY since she is Martin Freeman's wife, but seriously, in character, she and Martin are lovely together. Mary really cares about John, and she gets his friendship with Sherlock. It helps that she likes him herself -- just like John, she sees the positive side of his extreme eccentricity) That may've been the sweetest proposal I've ever seen, because it was clear they both knew what was going on, so there really wasn't any pressure.
B) The way John ends his newest blog entry: "#sherlocklives means #johnwatsonlives." Yeah, who am I kidding -- sorry Mary Morstan, but this one wins the sweetness contest. This goes beyond ShirlAnnie levels of "Awww!" Of course, it won't exactly help him convince people like Mrs. Hudson that it's-really-actually-platonic-guys-seriously...nor will saying that Sherlock's "like a drug" to him. And really, Mofftiss, you're just torturing the Johnlock fans here. But seriously I don't care because that was one of the sweetest professions of friendship I've ever seen and it totally made me melt.
So that was nice.
But then there's Sherlock. Oh, Sherlock. Well, Benedict Cumberbatch did say in an interview that, in terms of Sherlock's character growth, he's "regressed" after those two years away from John. I was just hoping for more moments like at the pool, when Moriarty first leaves and Sherlock is actually trying to thank John for trying to save him, and there's that brief brilliant smile...
But Nerija, what about that moment right near the end of "Empty Hearse," where they're talking before going out to get ambushed by the press? Yes...yes, that's true. That was a good moment.
But...I didn't feel like I did after watching the second Hunger Games movie. I didn't come out of this all OMG THAT WAS AMAZING. I'm not rushing to Amazon or the PBS store to pre-order the DVD.
"The Reichenbach Fall" was so packed with tension and emotion, and that final scene had me in tears, and I've been waiting months and months and months to see the big reunion, and it was realistic, wasn't it? I mean, it's been two years for John, and he was finally starting to heal, and then the miraculous actually happens! Except that means his best friend had knowingly re-broken him, after having helped John heal from his experiences in Afghanistan. His best friend purposely put him through two years of hell.
Like I said, it's late and my head's going fuzzy and it's too soon to make a definitive judgment.
I reeeallly hope Sherlock's wedding toast won't be too embarrassing...
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