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silver_sun) wrote2014-01-06 12:29 am
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Sherlock series 3 - spoilers (episode 1 and 2) and speculation ep 3)
First of all the none spoiler stuff, three episodes a series with nearly two years in between S2 and S3 is too long. If there is going to be a S4 I hope that we don't have to wait for so long.
I'm not sure what it is about S3, the episodes are alright, but I'm not liking them as much as the S1 and S2 ones. They manage to feel both hurried and lacking in storyline at the same time. Too much seems to be played for laughs, and I can't help but feel that they've try for as many jokes in the first two because in the third they will be thin on the ground.
Mary Morstan is a great addition, and I like how she manages to both like Sherlock and not be pushed around by him. There's not enough Mycroft, Lestrade or Lestrade's officers though. And has Anthea disappeared to?
Molly's new boyfriend will presumably have something odd turn out about him, just because she's so sure he's utterly ordinary.
Mycroft and Sherlock backstory and normal parents :) Bickering and deducing over the operation game and a hat. They whole conversation between them about needing people, and later Mycroft (ep2) Mycroft exercising makes me think that it will be revealed that Mycroft is actually in a relationship with someone.
I could see the series continuing with John with Mary. John as a family man with a baby. I can't see happening. And even though it's an adaptation of the Holmes stories and a lot has been changed I'm not sure that they'll add John Watson being a after to those changes.
What will happen? Well in the original stories Mary died. Will they go that route here? I don't know. I'm tending towards not yet. If they get a forth series then I think it's possible. I'm thinking that perhaps the suspected pregnancy will turn out to be a false alarm - and if this is the case then it will be the herald of some medical issue that will eventually lead to her death. The other options of either Mary and the baby dying, or perhaps the baby dying and Mary and John splitting up after don't seem likely. It's not a route most shows take and I don't get the feeling that Sherlock will be any different - Moffat like intricate yet conventional at the same time.
So on to the main mysterious bad guy of series 3. The little seen Charles Augustus Magnussen. Magnussen motivation for having John grabbed off the street in broad daylight and put in a bonfire (ep1) is currently rather baffling. It wasn't to see whether Sherlock really alive, he already knew that. It wasn't a trap for Sherlock, nobody was waiting there for him. Simple because he could do it, really isn't a reason. He doesn't seem to be a Moriarty kind of bore, deranged genius. To see if Sherlock was clever enough doesn't work either - why send the message to Mary in the first instance rather than Sherlock? There was no guarentee that she'd show it to him and certainly not that she'd show it to him in time. If it was a warning it was too vague, also it alerted Sherlock to his existence, gave him a reason to pursue him when he didn't before. Magnussen also didn't seem to care if John lived or died, it didn't matter to him whether Sherlock saved him or not. So it probably wasn't a matter of revenge. It seemed detached rather than personal.
A demonstration of pure power then. But not for Sherlock or there would have been some message, some contact afterwards. So was the demonstration of what he could do meant for somebody else's eyes? If so who? If I had to guess it would be Mycroft. So why? Magnussen is based on Milverton the blackmailer from the books. My suspicion is that Mycroft does actually have a relationship with somebody and that he's being blackmailed about it.
So my predictions for episode 3.
Molly's boyfriend turns out to be more than he seems - possibly not plot related and played for laughs in an otherwise serious episode.
There's bad news for Mary and/or John.
Mycroft is in/was in something like a relationship.
Also I think somebody will be killed off. Okay the likely ones are Mary (as per the books) or Magnussen because he'd the bad guy and that's what happens to the bad guys more often than not.
Only I get the feeling that it could be somebody else. And as unlikely as it seems if I had to guess at it being somebody else I'd say Mycroft.
Okay, I really don't want it to be. I want to be wrong on this. But the talking about their childhood, the increased interaction between him and Sherlock, him even trying to give Sherlock advice after a fashion, the 'humanising' for want of a better word of Mycroft, it all feels like it's designed to make people like him more. And perhaps it's me being cynical, but it feels like a ploy so that people will care about him more, so that when they kill him off it will actually matter.
Just hoping my thoughts here on this are as unfortunately accurate as they were about some of the characters on Ripper Street.
The following two are ideas that popped into my head that aren't even remotely likely, but I thought I'd add them anyway, because well who knows.
Unlikely prediction. 1. The person Mycroft is in a relationship with is Magnussen.
Massively unlikely prediction 2. Magnussen is Mary Morstan's father (There were no mother or father of the bride present - now need to go back and listen to what Sherlock read out on the apologies for not being able to attend cards as I'm sure one of them was about one of Mary's relations.)
So now it's just the wait until next Sunday night to find out what is really going to happen.
I'm not sure what it is about S3, the episodes are alright, but I'm not liking them as much as the S1 and S2 ones. They manage to feel both hurried and lacking in storyline at the same time. Too much seems to be played for laughs, and I can't help but feel that they've try for as many jokes in the first two because in the third they will be thin on the ground.
Mary Morstan is a great addition, and I like how she manages to both like Sherlock and not be pushed around by him. There's not enough Mycroft, Lestrade or Lestrade's officers though. And has Anthea disappeared to?
Molly's new boyfriend will presumably have something odd turn out about him, just because she's so sure he's utterly ordinary.
Mycroft and Sherlock backstory and normal parents :) Bickering and deducing over the operation game and a hat. They whole conversation between them about needing people, and later Mycroft (ep2) Mycroft exercising makes me think that it will be revealed that Mycroft is actually in a relationship with someone.
I could see the series continuing with John with Mary. John as a family man with a baby. I can't see happening. And even though it's an adaptation of the Holmes stories and a lot has been changed I'm not sure that they'll add John Watson being a after to those changes.
What will happen? Well in the original stories Mary died. Will they go that route here? I don't know. I'm tending towards not yet. If they get a forth series then I think it's possible. I'm thinking that perhaps the suspected pregnancy will turn out to be a false alarm - and if this is the case then it will be the herald of some medical issue that will eventually lead to her death. The other options of either Mary and the baby dying, or perhaps the baby dying and Mary and John splitting up after don't seem likely. It's not a route most shows take and I don't get the feeling that Sherlock will be any different - Moffat like intricate yet conventional at the same time.
So on to the main mysterious bad guy of series 3. The little seen Charles Augustus Magnussen. Magnussen motivation for having John grabbed off the street in broad daylight and put in a bonfire (ep1) is currently rather baffling. It wasn't to see whether Sherlock really alive, he already knew that. It wasn't a trap for Sherlock, nobody was waiting there for him. Simple because he could do it, really isn't a reason. He doesn't seem to be a Moriarty kind of bore, deranged genius. To see if Sherlock was clever enough doesn't work either - why send the message to Mary in the first instance rather than Sherlock? There was no guarentee that she'd show it to him and certainly not that she'd show it to him in time. If it was a warning it was too vague, also it alerted Sherlock to his existence, gave him a reason to pursue him when he didn't before. Magnussen also didn't seem to care if John lived or died, it didn't matter to him whether Sherlock saved him or not. So it probably wasn't a matter of revenge. It seemed detached rather than personal.
A demonstration of pure power then. But not for Sherlock or there would have been some message, some contact afterwards. So was the demonstration of what he could do meant for somebody else's eyes? If so who? If I had to guess it would be Mycroft. So why? Magnussen is based on Milverton the blackmailer from the books. My suspicion is that Mycroft does actually have a relationship with somebody and that he's being blackmailed about it.
So my predictions for episode 3.
Molly's boyfriend turns out to be more than he seems - possibly not plot related and played for laughs in an otherwise serious episode.
There's bad news for Mary and/or John.
Mycroft is in/was in something like a relationship.
Also I think somebody will be killed off. Okay the likely ones are Mary (as per the books) or Magnussen because he'd the bad guy and that's what happens to the bad guys more often than not.
Only I get the feeling that it could be somebody else. And as unlikely as it seems if I had to guess at it being somebody else I'd say Mycroft.
Okay, I really don't want it to be. I want to be wrong on this. But the talking about their childhood, the increased interaction between him and Sherlock, him even trying to give Sherlock advice after a fashion, the 'humanising' for want of a better word of Mycroft, it all feels like it's designed to make people like him more. And perhaps it's me being cynical, but it feels like a ploy so that people will care about him more, so that when they kill him off it will actually matter.
Just hoping my thoughts here on this are as unfortunately accurate as they were about some of the characters on Ripper Street.
The following two are ideas that popped into my head that aren't even remotely likely, but I thought I'd add them anyway, because well who knows.
Unlikely prediction. 1. The person Mycroft is in a relationship with is Magnussen.
Massively unlikely prediction 2. Magnussen is Mary Morstan's father (There were no mother or father of the bride present - now need to go back and listen to what Sherlock read out on the apologies for not being able to attend cards as I'm sure one of them was about one of Mary's relations.)
So now it's just the wait until next Sunday night to find out what is really going to happen.
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Just have to wait and see what next week is.:-/