5/28/2023 0 Comments Review sherlock 2017In summary: though entertaining, this episode just didn’t work for me. Or maybe the incongruity of his looks, sound and evil wiles is exactly what the creators were aiming for. With his annoying voice and off-kilter accent (the actor’s original Irish accent after it had been put through a blender, apparently), Moriarty was a pastiche of Sherlock that didn’t quite work. Even if he isn’t the real deal, what is with this character? I get that Moffat and co like ‘quirky’ characters and actors, but come on. Really, writers? This is the best you could do? You couldn’t bring in possibilities we actually cared for – Lestrade, Sally Donovan, Molly – even if it was none of them in the end? Where was the intrigue, the suspense? You gain points for the whole text becoming vocal commands progression that did make the audience lean toward Mycroft (who I honestly believed was the antagonist/brains behind an organisation called ‘Moriarty’.) (Side note: There are only so many he’s-not-gay-but-let’s-imply-it moments a series can take before it just becomes childish.) Moriarty is… Molly’s gay boyfriend who slipped Sherlock his number earlier in the episode. It’s entirely plausible that Moriarty could have hired an employee to be his face in his dealings with Sherlock, but for the sake of this review we’ll stick to the facts presented in the episode. Now, I’m not entirely convinced that he IS ‘Jim’ Moriarty. Could John Watson – Sherlock’s friend – have somehow been the primary antagonist all along? Of course not, but those few seconds of wondering were thrilling.Īnd then we get introduced to Moriarty himself. Admittedly, the fake out of Watson being the villain (before we see the bomb strapped to his chest) was breathtaking. Instead, we get an unexpected reveal that answers a question that we had not been asked. Three episodes of Sherlock solving cases, saving lives, and meeting countless possible-Moriarty’s, only to end with a big reveal? Perfect. It would have been a lot more interesting if the audience had been trying to figure out WHO Moriarty actually was.Īnd that is why this episode would have worked better as a whole series. The question should have been: who or what is Moriarty? But it wasn’t. It was clear straight away that the entity behind this case was Moriarty. The latter question ruined the episode for me. Spoiler alert: it was the brother-in-law. We’re given very little to work with, so little in fact that we pretty much round it down to the only three people who could possibly be connected with the case: West’s brother-in-law, Mycroft himself (he’s an arrogant bastard, who would put it past him?), and the person behind the clues-and-threats case. The former is an actual honest to God mystery. We spend the episode pondering two main questions: how did Andrew West die and where is his USB drive containing UK defence plans? And who is behind the clues-and-threats that Sherlock is trying to crack? All is well in Casa Holmes.Īnd then the frantic string of cases begin. Then we get Sherlock shooting at a wall in his flat (doesn’t 221 Baker St have adjoining properties on either side? Or people nearby worried enough to call the police?), storing a head from the morgue in his refrigerator, and Watson going to spend the night with his girlfriend, who did stick around after all. I’m still not entirely sure what we were supposed to get from this scene. And that, it seems, is the end of that case. Sherlock doesn’t seem convinced, even after the murderer corrects his own grammar in an attempt to please Sherlock. He claims that killing his girlfriend was an accident. The episode starts with Sherlock visiting a murderer in a Minsk jail. As Sherlock races to solve the clues (and, incidentally, save the life of innocent civilians), he must also try and figure out what connects each case and thus reveal the identity of the antagonist. The first five all involve clues sent to Sherlock’s mobile phone (a pink number reminiscent of the one in A Study in Pink, which was sent to the police station for him). Six if you include the case of Andrew West and the USB Drive given to them by Mycroft Holmes, Sherlock’s secretive and antagonising older brother. The problem is that it contained a potential series-worth of plot. Do you ever feel like you’ve missed an important memo? That’s the sensation I had watching the end of this week’s episode of SHERLOCK, ‘The Great Game’, which was also the series one finale.
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