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Sherlock 2x02
I think I need to re-watch that, switching off my knowledge of national security, military installations, spycraft, and the US Post Office abbreviation system.
I thought it was an aerosol hallucinogen from the moment Henry and Sherlock stumbled out of the misty hollow John was pointedly not in, but I'm actually OK with the mystery not being particularly mysterious (the hints as to the identity of the killer in PINK were practically anvilicious, and I still love the heck out of it). The total lack of attention to anything involving the military, national security or technology, in this episode centered around a militarized version of Plum Island? Less forgivable. Still, like BELG, I enjoyed the character development aspects (which are really why I come to the fandom party, in any case). And OMGWTFBBQ was that last 30 seconds about?!
Things I Loved
* "I only have one." A year ago, it would have been impossible for Sherlock to make this kind of concession.
* Lestrade has a first name! And John uses it! And Mycroft orders him around, sending him to babysit/entertain Sherlock!
* "Well, that was tedious."
* Clue, again!
* Sherlock freaking out in nicotine withdrawal.
* John and Sherlock team-deducing the client ring.
* The cinematography of the moor.
* Sherlock's naughty child smile when he gives John the doctored tea (yes, it was nasty of him, but he looks so adorable while doing it).
* The tons of lovely shout-outs to the canon: mire/minefield, the aluminum crutch, Dr. Mortimer, "They were the footprints of a gigantic hound!", "You are a conductor of light" etc.
* John "Three Continents" Watson: there's not a pretty woman on this planet you wouldn't run game on, is there?
* "I had a bacon sandwich at Cal's wedding--" (I had to stop the film, I was laughing so hard.)
* Was that silent room the Diogenes Club?
Things I'm Not So Sure About
* My personal laptop has a stronger password than Major Barrymore's password for the SuperUltraTopSecret!Database. Hotmail wouldn't let you set a password that weak. We couldn't have talked this information out of Stapleton instead? It wasn't even that fascinating a bit of deduction.
* I'd really love to give Moffat and Gatiss some books on MI-6, the CIA or the military, and supervise them during a reading session (I'd bring a riding crop, if that's what it took to focus their attention). There's artistic license, and then there's just plain laziness.
* Mind palace: cool idea, silly-looking execution.
Personal Interpretations
* Mycroft permitted Sherlock to lift his passcard, and will continue to do so, partly in the cause of keeping track of Sherlock, partly in the cause of entertaining Sherlock. The pass has some kind of automatic reporting function, special to the pass, that keeps Mycroft informed of when it is being used. (To interpret otherwise, IMO, is to believe that Mycroft Holmes might not notice when he loses his security card--impossibly in conflict with other presented characteristics.)
* Mycroft's role in government is apparently somewhat similar to his canonical role of being "the central exchange, the clearinghouse, which makes out the balance" from the conclusions of all government departments. A spooky version of the cabinet secretary.
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Yes, Yes and YES! my un-smart phone (cellphone that only makes phone calls) has a harder password - i found myself yelling it out like I was watching them play Wheel of Fortune or something!
* I'd really love to give Moffat and Gatiss some books on MI-6, the CIA or the military, and supervise them during a reading session (I'd bring a riding crop, if that's what it took to focus their attention). There's artistic license, and then there's just plain laziness.
Yes again! - but think, none of them have spent as much time under a mountain in Colorado as we all have either... a little slack may be granted, but just a smidge
* Mind palace: cool idea, silly-looking execution.
totally - minority report it was not...Palace? of course it was! - Mine would either be my "Mind-Crawlspace-under-my-trailer", "mind-hole-in-the-cabinet-where-only-the-mouse-can-fit", or most appropriately, "Mind-backwoods-shitter" - mostly because it's a place dark, dank and smelly and someplace no one really wants to go even when they are really desperate
peace!
-#21
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I have the fashion sense of a blind piranha and even I thought it was too horrible for words - that costumer needs to be shot (possibly with that harpoon from the first scenes)
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So. Much. This. Ye gods - I can't get over that the gate guard *saw a picture of Mycroft and still waved Sherlock through!*
I'm also having trouble with the idea of Sherlock so cold-bloodedly experimenting on John. For all I was less than thrilled with Irene Adler, there were more moments to BELG that made me squee. On the other hand, I've only seen BASK the once; it may grow on me.
this episode centered around a militarized version of Plum Island?
More like a mashup with The Adventure of the Devil's Foot, I think.