And so it ends, on such a low note. Horrible, crying shame. Left me hitting up my thesaurus for fresh ways to express my disappointment (dismay, sorrow, ire) at this ludicrous (risible, nonsensical) tosh. I don't go for super-villain type shows or movies at the best of times, so to see the Sherlock series sacrificed on this particular altar was painful.
This is where writers become victims of their own ideas of how things should go. They had a winning formula, why not run with it? It's like there are Commandments of modern scriptwriting that must be slavishly adhered to in the name of "story arc". Thou shalt develop a rift between your lead characters. (Uh, no, I and millions of others *enjoyed* the season 1 and 2 dynamic between Sherlock and Watson. Why did you change it?) Thou shalt find the bizarrest possible ways to incorporate women into the plot. Thou shalt represent authority figures, like Mycroft, as imbeciles incapable of even, let's just say, choosing a good Christmas present for a psychotic criminal in the world's highest-security prison.
I'm not expecting more episodes. The Final Problem does have a definite finality about it, particularly the speech at the end, of an eye-rolling cheesiness sure to leave even the most strong- stomached Parisians pinching their noses.
This is where writers become victims of their own ideas of how things should go. They had a winning formula, why not run with it? It's like there are Commandments of modern scriptwriting that must be slavishly adhered to in the name of "story arc". Thou shalt develop a rift between your lead characters. (Uh, no, I and millions of others *enjoyed* the season 1 and 2 dynamic between Sherlock and Watson. Why did you change it?) Thou shalt find the bizarrest possible ways to incorporate women into the plot. Thou shalt represent authority figures, like Mycroft, as imbeciles incapable of even, let's just say, choosing a good Christmas present for a psychotic criminal in the world's highest-security prison.
I'm not expecting more episodes. The Final Problem does have a definite finality about it, particularly the speech at the end, of an eye-rolling cheesiness sure to leave even the most strong- stomached Parisians pinching their noses.