Sherlock

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Only complaints are Euros being Killgrave is a bit silly, and Mary is such an awful character they need to stop bringing her back.

Also not a huge fan of how much they keep bringing Moriarty down. He was such an awesome villain, but now we know he was being completely manipulated the whole time by all 3 Holmes so was he even that much of a genius in the first place?
 
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The problem is that they solved every promising villain after Moriarty in a single episode - Magnussen was absolutely genius and disgusting, but got shot in the face almost instantly, Culverton Smith was awesome, but again got busted. That leaves Irene, which just disappeared and that's about it. That means Moffat needs to pull a bigger villain out of his ass every single time he wants to up the stakes and he keeps parading Moriarty around as a fan service to pretend it was all planned ahead. Granted, Moriarty is played to perfection, but it's pretty tiring. It seems like there's one awesome episode per season and the rest are merely good, largely propped up by the acting and cinematography, as long as they don't use CGI, that was bad.

As far as I understood, Euros just shared some info with Moriarty about her siblings so he could get under Sherlock's skin and he made all those clips to make her deathtrap a bit more interesting, but they remained largely independent. It also implies she was behind the S3 ending ?
 
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The whole "even though he has done this same bit before, Sherlock isn't a genius he is crazy let's all doubt him.... OH WAIT HE WASN'T CRAZY HE WAS RIGHT THIS ENTIRE TIME" card is getting a little played out too.
 
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Moffat has a bad habit of indulging in over sentimentality as a replacement for having an interesting ten minutes. It gets melodramatic.

But it's also a thing that Moffat does, so you know going into a Moffat production there is probably going to be some of that going on.

First two seasons were excellent. Then the quality degrades to "pretty good". Which is a step down but it's still pretty good.
 
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Zaphid said:
The problem is that they solved every promising villain after Moriarty in a single episode - Magnussen was absolutely genius and disgusting, but got shot in the face almost instantly, Culverton Smith was awesome, but again got busted. That leaves Irene, which just disappeared and that's about it. That means Moffat needs to pull a bigger villain out of his ass every single time he wants to up the stakes and he keeps parading Moriarty around as a fan service to pretend it was all planned ahead. Granted, Moriarty is played to perfection, but it's pretty tiring. It seems like there's one awesome episode per season and the rest are merely good, largely propped up by the acting and cinematography, as long as they don't use CGI, that was bad.

As far as I understood, Euros just shared some info with Moriarty about her siblings so he could get under Sherlock's skin and he made all those clips to make her deathtrap a bit more interesting, but they remained largely independent. It also implies she was behind the S3 ending ?
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She was definitely behind the S3 ending. The miss me? was actually referring to Euros, not Moriarty. She mentioned he was ok with dying as long as he his death would lead to more torment for Sherlock, which makes him come off as just a pawn of hers. I think she would have made an awesome villain if she was just used better.

It's also odd they keep mention how Mycroft is the smarter of the two, but they never show anything to actually back that up. Mycroft's always standing there lost while Sherlock figures everything out.
 
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