It also gives them a chance for a bit of fun away from the modern settings. This jump back in time allows the writers to not have to worry too much about where/how to advance the Moriarty plot, while at the same time appearing to advance it.
In the jump back in time, we enter Sherlock's mind as he tries to solve a similar mystery he read about. There is a sense of both these things with this episode, which occur in the few minutes that the plane takes to turn around and land so that the banished Sherlock can deal with the apparent return of Moriarty.
As part of this as well, it must be tough for the writers, as they are trying to write an ongoing story without knowing when/if they will get the next episode. I guess there was also the risk that this amount of effort, and the fact that the stars no longer really 'need' Sherlock as a vehicle, means that there is a feeling of them doing the viewer a favor. I remember feeling that season 3 was a bit too pleased with itself for my tastes, and this is magnified here, where lots of increasingly famous and successful people are crowbarred into place to deliver this episode – and to be fair it must have taken a huge amount of schedule balancing to make it happen, so credit for that. Season 3 of this show already saw it confirmed as 'event television', and there is a greater feeling of that with this first episode to what IMDb calls 'season 4' although it has been a year and a half since the last 'season' ended, and will reportedly be that again before we see another episode. It was still enjoyable, very amusing and off the wall. However the episode with mind maps, drug use and two time periods can appear to be self indulgent as you lose the fact that Sherlock is using an unsolved mystery from over a 100 years ago to deal with a present mystery regarding the apparent death of Moriarty in the previous series. I liked the sleight of hand that she was holding two guns. As with Moffat's version of Doctor Who, it becomes rather timey-wimey even Inception like. It was finely structured for the first two thirds of the episode and then got slightly messy. I found this episode amusing and fascinating. We get increased hints that something else is looming large and Victorian Sherlock will collide with modern day Sherlock. As Sherlock investigates this Gothic crime which includes consulting Mycroft (Gatiss in a fat suit and make up) in The Diogenes Club, take note to the reference to Billy Wilder, director of The Private life of Sherlock Holmes. Such as Mrs Hudson just showing people upstairs and Mrs Watson left on her own when Watson and Sherlock team up to investigate the latest case. In the meantime Watson's tales published in the Strand magazine have given him a fervent following and complaints that the women are sidelined. Sherlock is fascinated when Lestrade recounts the tale of a bride who shot herself so publicly but the next night came to life to kill her husband so publicly. A clue that things might turn out going sideways.
How can i watch sherlock the abominable bride series#
The episode started with a recap of the story so far of the modern Sherlock series from the very first episode onwards. The opening scenes had nods to the Jeremy Brett era Holmes. Sherlock and Dr Watson in period costume with a mystery set in the Victorian era.
0 kommentar(er)
