Totally excited.
Donāt know if folks saw this interesting tie in, but heās actually related to Sir Arthur Conan-Doyle! http://theweek.com/speedreads/670402/sherlock-actor-benedict-cumberbatch-related-arthur-conan-doyle-researchers-discover
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Nuh-Uuhhhh! What are the odds??? (Cool!) 
Desperate, too! It seems like there is just a huge gulf in quality between domestic (US) and foreign programming, IMHO. Sherlock (and plethora of other British, Norwegian, Swedish, etc. shows) led to a lack of enthusiasm for domestic programming.
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One of our favorite shows (mini-series)! Stupid DVR glitches last night and missed the first airing. thankfully I checked as was able to set it to record again (2nd time). so we will get to watch tonight.
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(No spoilers below.)
Last nightās episode made me think theyāre reaching the end of the creative line. Not sure if youāve seen any of the tweets from Moffat, etc. He said they killed off a character and claimed theyāre doing it to maintain consistency with the Doyle canon. But they add babies and multiple death/return to life scenarios without regard to their lack of support in the ācanonā.
Killing a major character off is one of the things TV does as a show starts to run down. Wouldnāt be surprised to see some sort of bromance focus next.
Who believes a hot girl stumbles onto a guy in the street and then unprompted gives him her phone number but not her name? Is the subsequent texting the least bit believable - happily married & devoted husband is supposed to be led into temptation because he found out something he a) should have suspected given his wifeās background and b) overtly decided not to learn about when she originally gave him the opportunity to learn it all when he burned it when she gave it to him? Seriously, now he wakes up and decides her history is all lies? He didnāt want to know that history. Said it didnāt matter and it was all behind them. But now they have a thread for a burgeoning romance that otherwise would have been totally out of character instead of merely somewhat.
The last sceneās Sherlock performance was mean & vindictive and totally out of character for Sherlock. It was just a cheesy ploy to create the stage for what followed.
Irritated. Complex storyline that devolves in the end to hackneyed story telling.
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Yeahā¦[spoiler]knew this was coming, it had to, and they handled it well. But i do agree that they are winding it downā¦not because they lack ideas, but because the two main stars have gotten so āin-demandā that they canāt shoot on the same schedule any more. Did you notice they didnāt have a lot of scenes together in this one, and it made things feelā¦choppier? It was still quite entertaining, but the chemistry between the two main characters is what drives the story. It was sad, but we knew it had to happen. Iām surprised they managed a season 4.
Oh well,[/spoiler] two more to go and then we find something else to do. (Maybe something involving lasers.) 
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Ahh!!! I canāt look at this thread until later!! I still need to watch it!!
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No spoilers in the thread. Everyoneās been good - including the folks who have seen the entire season on the BBC already 
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Oh sweet! Iām going to be watching it tonight! Canāt waittt!!
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Me too. Itās just a lame setup. No imagination and requires someone to then act totally out of character.
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I got a completely different take on it when I saw itā¦watch itā¦itās totally worth seeing.
(And Iām not giving any more on it because some of you guys havenāt seen it yetā¦so hurry up, itās killing me to not discuss the plot points with some of my intelligent co-viewers.) 
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Weāre about to cue it up on the DVRā¦
Good thing thereās a āhide spoilerā function in Discourse!
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In the US you can watch online for free.
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I Like the show and have watched it sporadically. Wish I had more time
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I always like Sherlock. However, I think the idea of having John have a sudo-affair was sort of a cheap way to ramp up the crisis with his wifeās death. If it didnāt feel completely out of character it would have worked better, or, for me, if they had shown more stress in the marriage that led him to not throw the number away, which I think his character normally would have, then I could have gone for it. But as it was it felt very forced for me. Still enjoyed it and looking forward to what will probably be the last two (at least for a very long time.
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Ahhhh, but you seeā¦
The end result was we see that John is not the perfect goody-two shoes that he has appeared to beā¦he is subject to human failings like everyone elseā¦he grew weary of being a full-time father (a totally demanding task to be sure) and grew tired of being overlooked in favor of his wife, who was working more with his best buddy than he wasā¦so he slipped. (At least it was just flirty textingā¦I didnāt get affair out of thatā¦Iād need to watch it again to be sure.) Granted it was a little bit clumsy, but thereās only so much you can do in a 90 minute episode.
We also see Sherlock, who has always prided himself on avoiding the pitfalls of emotion start to show some of his - so he is slipping up as well. Both of them are being humanized, with heroism and faults in equal measure.
I actually like it - it gives the characters depth, and theyāve been building up to it over the last couple of seasons. Maryās death was inevitable - in the Conan Doyle books John is a widower, living with Sherlock. Having her sacrifice herself to save his best friend just adds delicious drama that they have to overcome in the next episode. And yes, the ālove interestā for John is foreshadowing if ever Iāve seen itā¦Gatis loves little twists like that.
Iām going to have to watch it again at least once before the next episode to pick up on everything I missedā¦but i had to do that with all the episodes, so nothing new there. 
It was goodā¦if a little darker than the initial seasonsā¦looks to me like both the main stars are wanting to do other things now. There might be some jealousy in there too, which I hate to see.
Anyway, that was my take on it. 
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yea, donāt get me wrong, I enjoyed it, I just felt like they were a little rough around the edges getting John to that failing. I would of thought some sort of ongoing tension between him and Mary, or over-stressed demands of having a baby (which they did a little). I still have to watch it a second time. I always watch them twice, so my opinions will probably change 
I know I will be very sad to see this series go. All I can say is they better step up their production schedule for Doctor Who. I need a fix more than every two years!
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Amen to that!
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