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Post by queenzod on Nov 1, 2020 6:30:49 GMT
And the levels to Benedict’s acting was superb in that episode! Playing Sherlock who’s dreaming of a different sort of himself, but Ben didn’t stretch it so far that we couldn’t see the him in him, if that makes sense, lol. I’m still continually amazed at how good he is.
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Post by dickens38 on Nov 2, 2020 0:58:52 GMT
I love that episode. The entire reunion in the restaurant is pure slapstick with a really upsetting undercurrent. I thought Martin’s acting in that scene was among the best I’ve ever seen him do. All that relief, anger, disbelief, and happiness, morphing into sheer blind rage, done without words. Sublime. Ben is perfection throughout. And then that too cute date with Molly. So flirty! 😍 The kiss in the stairwell. Sigh. And the piece de resistance being Sherlock’s really sh*tty behavior in the tube car. The whole thing is just so enjoyable, more so if you don’t think about the gaping plot holes. 😁 Sorry to be somewhat late, but having just joined the forum I've had to catch up. I couldn't agree more about Martin's acting, absolutely superb. What gaping plot holes? If there were any ( and Obviously missed them) only M and G can do them so well.  |
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Post by dickens38 on Nov 2, 2020 1:01:36 GMT
I watched The Six Thatchers on tv last night, and I’ve been thinking about it ever since. I knew the story by now, so I paid attention to other things, and I think I figured out what bothers me about it. It’s not the writing or the story or the acting - it’s the pace of it. I think “frantic” would describe it best. It’s all so incredibly rushed for the most part, until it comes to a stop for a few seconds before rushing off again. Some of the lovely slower moments - like John and Mary in bed discussing whether baby Rosie is more like the devil in The Exorcist or the Antichrist in The Omen - get completely lost in the frenzied pace. And the baby’s birth and christening seemed to flash by in just a few seconds. I kept remembering other episodes that lingered in those kinds of moments - for example, all the time spent in silence while John waited for Sherlock’s reaction to being asked to be best man, or at the end of Scandal in Belgravia when Sherlock put Irene Adler’s phone in his desk drawer before looking out the window at the rain. Of course, all the episodes have their frantic moments. In The Sign of Three, they quickly showed us a bunch of Sherlock and John’ cases during Sherlock’s best man speech. And in Scandal, as well as in other episodes, we saw Sherlock listening to and quickly dismissing a lot of clients he found boring. I have a theory that might explain why TST seems so frantic to me! There is so much screen time taken up by the transitions from one scene to another that they had to make cuts somewhere. And I have to say that many of those transitions were not only unnecessary, they ended up being a distraction from the show itself. It seems strange for me to complain about them since they were some of the few slower moments, but I just didn’t need to see any more sharks swimming past as we moved from one scene to another! I think they could have made an exciting episode without that frantic pace. A Study in Pink took place in one day and was exciting while still slowing down and being thoughtful. And as Mofftiss have often pointed out, Scandal took place over a year and didn’t even have a crime for John and Sherlock to solve, but the episode was fabulous and that SHERLOCKED scene was thrilling! So that’s my new analysis of The Six Thatchers! and that SHERLOCKED scene was thrilling! Wasn't it just! I didn't have a clue as to what was coming. |
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Post by dickens38 on Nov 2, 2020 1:04:02 GMT
I thoroughly enjoyed every episode of every series except for one. The Blind Banker, it lacked something?
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Post by mllemass on Nov 2, 2020 4:21:14 GMT
I thoroughly enjoyed every episode of every series except for one. The Blind Banker, it lacked something? It lacked Lestrade and Mycroft! I think I remember Steven Moffat and Mark Gatiss saying that after this episode, they decided that the cast of regulars would appear in every episode. It wasn’t my favourite either, but it’s an important episode because it shows us how Sherlock and John have settled into being roommates. We learn that John does the shopping, and that they’re comfortable enough for Sherlock to lend John his bank card. We find out a bit about Sherlock’s university days (he wasn’t liked back then, either). We start to see how Sherlock reacts to John having a girlfriend. There’s also the terrific blind pen-toss scene where we also learn that Sherlock continues talking to John even when John’s not there. And then there was the scene where Sherlock says that he’d borrowed John’s computer because his own was in “the bedroom”. Everyone seemed to think it meant that they shared a bedroom, because otherwise he would have said “my bedroom”. Don’t forget that this was only the second episode, and in the first episode we had Mrs Hudson telling them that there was a second bedroom if they needed it. And finally, we find out that Moriarty (who had already come up in the previous episode) was behind the criminal activity here, too, getting us ready for episode 3 - The Great Game. |
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Post by merej on Nov 2, 2020 8:19:40 GMT
I thoroughly enjoyed every episode of every series except for one. The Blind Banker, it lacked something? It lacked Lestrade and Mycroft! I think I remember Steven Moffat and Mark Gatiss saying that after this episode, they decided that the cast of regulars would appear in every episode. It wasn’t my favourite either, but it’s an important episode because it shows us how Sherlock and John have settled into being roommates. We learn that John does the shopping, and that they’re comfortable enough for Sherlock to lend John his bank card. We find out a bit about Sherlock’s university days (he wasn’t liked back then, either). We start to see how Sherlock reacts to John having a girlfriend. There’s also the terrific blind pen-toss scene where we also learn that Sherlock continues talking to John even when John’s not there. And then there was the scene where Sherlock says that he’d borrowed John’s computer because his own was in “the bedroom”. Everyone seemed to think it meant that they shared a bedroom, because otherwise he would have said “my bedroom”. Don’t forget that this was only the second episode, and in the first episode we had Mrs Hudson telling them that there was a second bedroom if they needed it. And finally, we find out that Moriarty (who had already come up in the previous episode) was behind the criminal activity here, too, getting us ready for episode 3 - The Great Game. Love that one - that's also when we learn that John's left handed. |
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Post by dickens38 on Nov 3, 2020 0:56:51 GMT
Love that one - that's also when we learn that John's left handed.
Do you know? I didn't notice that. *smacks head*
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Post by merej on Nov 3, 2020 4:33:37 GMT
Love that one - that's also when we learn that John's left handed.
Do you know? I didn't notice that. *smacks head* There was talk of the banker guy being left handed so I thought I'd try and totally use my own powers of observation and - bingo!  |
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Post by dickens38 on Nov 4, 2020 0:32:48 GMT
Love that one - that's also when we learn that John's left handed.
Do you know? I didn't notice that. *smacks head* There was talk of the banker guy being left handed so I thought I'd try and totally use my own powers of observation and - bingo! Sighs and rolls eyes!😬 |
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Post by merej on Nov 4, 2020 4:44:25 GMT
There was talk of the banker guy being left handed so I thought I'd try and totally use my own powers of observation and - bingo! Sighs and rolls eyes!😬 I'm clever like that.  |
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