quick thoughts

[insaneneko]

Did not know episode 3 was a cliffhanger. I'm actually not gnashing my teeth about it, amazingly. Moriarty was pretty damn hilarious (if annoying as hell). I enjoyed episode 3, but I think I found episode 1 to be better overall. Maybe. I'll have to rewatch. I thought episode 1 was very tight. Episode 3 sprawled a bit, though the pacing was great.

Episode 2 was so weak in comparison! Plus, that whole "Orientals" are so exotic and mysterious and dangerous and whatever thing was frustratingly annoying. I wanted to spork someone when John and his date (I can't remember her name right now) were kidnapped and they used the crossbow thing to get John (aka Sherlock, LOL) to 'fess up.

Must find fanfic now. I'm curious as to how the fangirl imagination resolves the cliffhanger.


I'm a bit tipsy and can't think straight, so that's it for now.

Comments

[keelieinblack.livejournal.com]

I liked episode 1 the best as well, possibly because the writing was the best out of all of them or possibly because I found Moriarty too annoying to be amusing. *g*

The Orientalism of episode 2 was incredibly grating! Particularly after the first episode made a point of not including any reference to the original story's dumb anti-Mormon subplot--because of that, when the second episode came around and they layered on the clichés with a trowel I thought, "aha, there's going to be a clever subversion of all this!"...and there totally wasn't. Bah!

[insaneneko.livejournal.com]

I can see how Moriarty could be annoying. I think the dose we got in episode 3 wasn't *too* much. If I saw too much of him I'd find him really irriating.

I've never read the original so I didn't know there was an anti-Mormon subplot. I'm glad they chucked that! I didn't even hope for a clever subversion in episode 2. I just hoped they'd tone it down after a while; instead, it got worse and worse....