Folks that’s it. I can’t feel my legs… This is too much for me to handle. TOO GOOD, TOO GOOD.
What hooked me in this series was that Kinny wasn’t just pouring every part by telling the story she wanted to tell. She’s giving us love progressing entries. She’s making us feel what pure romance feels like.
God the things we really do for love.
ALSO WHERE MY PAUL ANTIS AT I LOATHE THIS MAN TO DEATH
I feel so weird about Sherlock these days. Something about it feels off. Is it just me? I can’t tell if the show’s changed or I’m just too old for Christmas.
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I haven’t been enjoying Doctor Who for a while and I put a majority of the blame on Moffat, but I didn’t expect to get the same kind of feeling I got watching Sherlock. (I think Moff can have good ideas when he’s not in charge, ie his RTD era episodes and early Sherlock episodes. That, and part of me isn’t convinced that he cares about DW very much, or at least not nearly as much as SH. In the same vein as JJ Abrams and Star Trek vs Star Wars. What real DW fan would be an asshole and stop living Doctors from being in the 50th??Sorry. Never did write a reaction to that.)
Watching s3, for me, is like watching Moffat’s first DW season: bursts of excitement, funny moments between characters, and then bwuh–? random confusing plots that take over the majority of the episodes and result in indifference.
Mary’s reveal didn’t seem to mean anything in the end. What was the point? Felt like Moffat’s touch again: wacky, shocking things happen to and about the female characters! (But really this is a study on the male characters. See? John likes danger. Because Mycroft and Sherlock didn’t point this out in ep1….)
I’m not trying to single out Moffat too much here. I’m sure Gatiss had something to do with the negative aspects, I just don’t know any of his other written work to point out his hand in it. (I may love Mycroft, but I’ve got my eye on you, Gatiss…)
And, as naive as it is, the queerbaiting somehow hit me the hardest this season. Maybe because it feels like Sherlock and John had much less time together? I was pretty disappointed how light Sherlock’s return to John was and how quickly John stopped reacting about it. Yeah, he’s an ol’ stiff upper lip manly army man and there’s only 3 episodes a season, but the last season ended so emotionally for them both and it hardly shows this season. I don’t care if it’s boring or depressing watching them have real emotional scars, I want character arcs that lead to actual development, not problems for the plot-of-the-week. So yeah. Any “shippy” moments for them feel more like cheap devices than genuine character interactions.
The season’s big bad didn’t get enough exposition to feel important (and boo, I hate ‘gratuitous villain sexually harasses women.’ Lazy. Boring. Gross.)
I actually don’t know how to feel about Moriarty. I agree both survivals lesson the s2 ending, but at the same time I was never convinced he was dead, so I’m not that broken up by it. (If John’s apparently over Sherlock’s faked-death-to-get-rid-of-Moriarty’s-network–which he btw probably has a new one–then so am I. *screams internally*)
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~Positive stuff~
Mycroft! Idk why, but I love 'em. He’s my ensemble darkhorse. I actually like the limited time with him. He’s like the cherry on the cake. Also the cake.
Molly’s been great this whole season; go Molly!
Glad Sally made it in the season. Fuck the haters.
The acting’s been great.
Special shoutout to Amanda Abbington’s acting.
Freebatch still has great chemistry, shame we didn’t get to see more of it.
I still like the cinematography and the visuals and stuff. Idk what to call it.
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Yeah. As with all of my reactions, I tend to write them about things I have conflicted feelings for. So assume there’s more neutrality in my opinion than what I’ve written.
