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clevermanka) wrote2014-01-06 09:53 am
clevermanka) wrote2014-01-06 09:53 am
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My thoughts on Season 3 of Sherlock so far
No spoilers.
I liked The Empty Hearse (TEH). I thought it was beautifully done and an appropriate and affectionate nod to the fandom who has waited for two years. I think it was not a great episode for people who are being introduced to the show and I think it's borderline for people who know the show but who just watch it and aren't in fandom.
Everything I said about TEH applies to The Sign of Three (TSoT), too. This morning, though, I am dissatisfied with TSoT and it took a couple emails withpennswoods for me to figure out why. I'm tired of every episode being a cliffhanger. Story arcs are fine, but I prefer shows that are more episodic. Having so many open ends at the end of every episode (we haven't had what I feel to be a closed storyline since HoB) is exhausting for me and it makes me enjoy the show less. It's possible that I'm reading my own cliffhangers into the plot because of my (admittedly) Extreme Emotional Involvement with the show. But that doesn't change the fact that I'm having problems enjoying it as much as I did the previous seasons because I don't enjoy feeling emotionally wrung-out.
I am generally an emotionally stable person. I generally coast along with a sense of general satisfaction/happiness/overall feeling of being pleased with life. It takes a lot to make me angry or sad or any other negative emotion. I simply don't attach emotion to many things in my life. And I don't appreciate it when someone/something forces me to EMOTION OVER THIS NOW. I don't like it. And I have a tendency to remove myself from the things that force me to negative emotional reactions.
So I don't know what to do with this. I love Sherlock, but I don't love how it's making me feel these feels with no time to breathe and no expectation of relief in sight.
I liked The Empty Hearse (TEH). I thought it was beautifully done and an appropriate and affectionate nod to the fandom who has waited for two years. I think it was not a great episode for people who are being introduced to the show and I think it's borderline for people who know the show but who just watch it and aren't in fandom.
Everything I said about TEH applies to The Sign of Three (TSoT), too. This morning, though, I am dissatisfied with TSoT and it took a couple emails with
pennswoods for me to figure out why. I'm tired of every episode being a cliffhanger. Story arcs are fine, but I prefer shows that are more episodic. Having so many open ends at the end of every episode (we haven't had what I feel to be a closed storyline since HoB) is exhausting for me and it makes me enjoy the show less. It's possible that I'm reading my own cliffhangers into the plot because of my (admittedly) Extreme Emotional Involvement with the show. But that doesn't change the fact that I'm having problems enjoying it as much as I did the previous seasons because I don't enjoy feeling emotionally wrung-out.I am generally an emotionally stable person. I generally coast along with a sense of general satisfaction/happiness/overall feeling of being pleased with life. It takes a lot to make me angry or sad or any other negative emotion. I simply don't attach emotion to many things in my life. And I don't appreciate it when someone/something forces me to EMOTION OVER THIS NOW. I don't like it. And I have a tendency to remove myself from the things that force me to negative emotional reactions.
So I don't know what to do with this. I love Sherlock, but I don't love how it's making me feel these feels with no time to breathe and no expectation of relief in sight.