Sherlock episode 2 thread!

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Who is with me?

Stephen Moffat has just been on Radio 2. Said they are building toward something darker and next week will be an emotional roller coaster.

Also said series four was a certainty.

they are making another series, i read it somewhere.

i didnt like the ending that he gave away the pregnancy, to mary

The only thing I can think of that Mary didn't do is touch her stomach, or am I over thinking it?

No there is someone who is killed by a pigmy with a pipe, which they referenced.

Watson is a widower in later stories. So make of that what you will. She has also been shown to be smarter and more cunning than Sherlock or Watson.

I think I'm going cancel everything I'm meant to do today inorder to watch both episodes again.

Just to make sure I've got all the references. Oh it's going to be a hard day

There must be some significance about Mary having no family but only friends at the wedding too.

i am sure mary isnt a bad un. but pehraps she meets a bad end

Dh is a Conan Doyle fan and gets all the references, he says there is a story about someone being killed by a skewer. Major James is also a character in one of the books

I agree givemeaclue. The series is based on the original books and a lot of these plots that people on here are finding so far fetched are from those books.

I would be amazed if Mary suddenly became a villain because she certainly wasn't in the books and I don't think that the current writers will change the storyline that much.

I loved the episode last night. Yes it is a bit self indulgent, but it was great entertainment - a bit sad, very funny and a lovely escape from the real world.

Mary does die at some unspecified point in the books. I will be very upset if they kill her off any time soon.

I tuned in to last night's to see what all the fuss was about. My God, but what an absolutely self indulgent turd of an episode that was.

I made me quite angry that this is held up as the shining jewel in the crown of BBC drama. Flabby, self congratulatory nonsense.

Squoosh - I wouldn't go by this ep to start off with. Watch the very first ep instead and see what you think.

I'm pretty sure one of the women being romanced by the photographer bloke was one of the women from Tittybangbang, she's also been in loads of comedy things but she's lost loads of weight! She's also gone blonde aswell. Also spotted one of the women from Horrible histories too.

Watched last night's again without all the bloody buffering from the iplayer and enjoyed it more this time.

I don't think Mary's a wrong 'un, they've gone to a lot of trouble to build up her character and a nice relationship with Sherlock. As someone said above Mary dies in the original book and I bet that's what they've got planned. Will also solve the problem of having an inconvenient new domestic life to distract Watson.

I remember watching an early episode and enjoying it, just couldn't believe how silly last night's episode was.

Also annoyed that Martin Freeman's real life wife got the job of Watson's wife. And they claim it isn't nepotism.

well they ahve worked together a lot if you look at their wiki pages. and she is good.

She's an okay actress as are thousands of other British actresses who don't happen to live with him. I think it's pretty outrageous.

I didn't find it the best of episodes...and the whole wedding reception scene was painful to watch in parts.....

Yeah to be fair, she is good in it. I rather like her. I'll be quite sad if anything happens to her next week.

Regarding the ep, I think the change in format just made people think wtf? It kind of reminded me of The x files in a very strange way. What I mean is, the x files was a serious show as everyone is aware I'm sure but towards the end of season two they suddenly did a really strange ep set in a circus and it was really funny. People were confused and didn't know what the hell to think. But the episode was good, just not what people were expecting or used to. Last night's Sherlock reminded me very much of that, so that's my take on it.

There are ridiculous, convoluted and bizarre plots in Doyle - so in that respect, it is very true to Sherlockian history.

I'm in the minority but I loved last nights episode

I've just seen a trailer for the next episode. Let's just say that those who prefer a more gritty Sherlock will be very happy I think.

Loz - I liked it too you are not the only one. It was different, no doubt, but I liked it. Particularly liked Mycroft working out and checking out his flab, or lack of it!

I loved it. It was entertaining, and I didn't mind the fluffiness. Just what people needed on the last sunday of the Christmas holidays. But bring on the dark stuff next week.

Hi all

two camps here as well - kids thought it was brilliant, we have loved all the Series of Sherlock, but did find this one a bit too long, could have been tweaked here and there, but there were some brilliant bits, esp ' The elephant in the room' and the drunk scene which was excellent comic acting - however like many of you, feel this is lull before the storm which will end in tears, probably for Mary, and as predicted be a return to form. We desperately need a super bad villain (Moriarty was utterly brilliant) and some deep Sherlock solving and thinking.

The support acting from Lestrade, Molly and the landlady were great too, it is a real team effort, lots of 'fluffiness' and love around, surely pointing the way to more sinister things.

As a complete aside, the grenadier guard who was murdered was utterly gooooooorgeous. .

Ah but he wasn't murdered. He survived. Yum. I am doubly shallow.

He was the actor who played Dean Thomas in the Harry Potter films.

I'm not sure how I feel about the episode. I do think it was a bit TOO fluffy and played for laughs. The drunken stuff was a bit overlong.