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They got the Moriarty arc going! *Pumps fist* I've been looking forward to that since the show started, most especially how they would work him in. And I must say I really liked how they did it. Very, very tricksy. At first I was all WTF because, dude, you're Moriarty, you're not supposed to make so many mistakes. So I thought either A: this guy is making these mistakes on purpose as part of some grand master plan against Holmes or B: this isn't M at all but someone he hired to do the dirty work for him and screw with Holmes. And I love that it's the latter because it pretty much summed up M in a nutshell - brilliant, scary and liable to break Holmes all over again.
Best intro ever, IMO.
And dark!Sherlock is scary as all get out. I was a little concerned at first that things were going down the same road as The Mentalist - lost love, lots of revenge and lots of going behind people's backs and getting away scott free - but it didn't... er, sort of. Yeah, it involves the cliche "revenge for lost love" trope and Sherlock was off the hook, but not for murder, and despite having gone dark side for the moment he did realize he'd gone dark side, freely admitted it and was in fact troubled by it. And because he was troubled by it, Joan is troubled by it so Joan is able to stay on and will (hopefully) become the little angel on Sherlock's shoulder to keep him (or at least try to) from doing anything so crazy like that again (hopefully, unless M messes with Joan, of course). Which, frankly, is a lot more realistic and way, way, waaaaaay less skeevy than The Mentalist's revenge arc IMO.
It did bother me at first why it never registered to Sherlock that this might not be the real M (at first I thought Sherlock was just trying to scare the man into confessing the truth). But, well, Sherlock was being rather overly emotional at the time. More than that, though, I think that despite Sherlock being the number one expert on M, he doesn't really know that much about him. That is, he know him as a killer but not as a person. He probably never realized just how clever Moriarty is. I don't want to say he underestimated M because I'm not sure if he really did. Sherlock's failure to capture him the first time came down to his rampant drug use, and this time he was blinded by the need for revenge. So I'm not sure if underestimation was involved or if, perhaps, Sherlock was in over his head and didn't realize it until the damage was done.
But now he does know, so if M does something clever and Sherlock doesn't catch on, unless Sherlock is being overly emotional again then I'm going to be a little disappointed.
Which I don't think will happen. I've liked the the way the show has been handling the investigations. It's not exactly typical Sherlock - where he has all the answers before everyone else but keeps the answers to himself in order to spring some trap or investigate on his own. But I feel it is realistic. Sherlock still uses deductive reasoning and is still able to follow the clues, but until he has all the clues - which he doesn't because he's not yet in a position to find them (hasn't talked to this person yet, hasn't gone to this house yet, because he's had no reason to) - then some of his deductions are going to be wrong. And I like that, because sometimes investigating means having to eliminate possibilities before finding new possibilities. Sherlock isn't wrong because he screwed up or missed a clue, but because he doesn't have all the pieces to the puzzle, and so must discard some pieces before finding others.
I'm also loving how Joan gets her own chance to be clever - like pointing out the woman who likes a reason to gossip and noticing the broken finger on the X-ray (I also love how her medical knowledge always comes in handy). We're seeing Sherlock's methods rubbing off on her, and I love that.
ETA: Something else I liked about the intro of M was how impersonal it was, like M was saying "I'm so good I can get someone else to do my dirty work and drive you to the brink of murder." And the only new lead Sherlock has on him is a name. Maybe it's just me but I feel it makes Moriarty come off as three times as creepy, like the boogy man hiding in the shadows but you don't know which shadow.
Best intro ever, IMO.
And dark!Sherlock is scary as all get out. I was a little concerned at first that things were going down the same road as The Mentalist - lost love, lots of revenge and lots of going behind people's backs and getting away scott free - but it didn't... er, sort of. Yeah, it involves the cliche "revenge for lost love" trope and Sherlock was off the hook, but not for murder, and despite having gone dark side for the moment he did realize he'd gone dark side, freely admitted it and was in fact troubled by it. And because he was troubled by it, Joan is troubled by it so Joan is able to stay on and will (hopefully) become the little angel on Sherlock's shoulder to keep him (or at least try to) from doing anything so crazy like that again (hopefully, unless M messes with Joan, of course). Which, frankly, is a lot more realistic and way, way, waaaaaay less skeevy than The Mentalist's revenge arc IMO.
It did bother me at first why it never registered to Sherlock that this might not be the real M (at first I thought Sherlock was just trying to scare the man into confessing the truth). But, well, Sherlock was being rather overly emotional at the time. More than that, though, I think that despite Sherlock being the number one expert on M, he doesn't really know that much about him. That is, he know him as a killer but not as a person. He probably never realized just how clever Moriarty is. I don't want to say he underestimated M because I'm not sure if he really did. Sherlock's failure to capture him the first time came down to his rampant drug use, and this time he was blinded by the need for revenge. So I'm not sure if underestimation was involved or if, perhaps, Sherlock was in over his head and didn't realize it until the damage was done.
But now he does know, so if M does something clever and Sherlock doesn't catch on, unless Sherlock is being overly emotional again then I'm going to be a little disappointed.
Which I don't think will happen. I've liked the the way the show has been handling the investigations. It's not exactly typical Sherlock - where he has all the answers before everyone else but keeps the answers to himself in order to spring some trap or investigate on his own. But I feel it is realistic. Sherlock still uses deductive reasoning and is still able to follow the clues, but until he has all the clues - which he doesn't because he's not yet in a position to find them (hasn't talked to this person yet, hasn't gone to this house yet, because he's had no reason to) - then some of his deductions are going to be wrong. And I like that, because sometimes investigating means having to eliminate possibilities before finding new possibilities. Sherlock isn't wrong because he screwed up or missed a clue, but because he doesn't have all the pieces to the puzzle, and so must discard some pieces before finding others.
I'm also loving how Joan gets her own chance to be clever - like pointing out the woman who likes a reason to gossip and noticing the broken finger on the X-ray (I also love how her medical knowledge always comes in handy). We're seeing Sherlock's methods rubbing off on her, and I love that.
ETA: Something else I liked about the intro of M was how impersonal it was, like M was saying "I'm so good I can get someone else to do my dirty work and drive you to the brink of murder." And the only new lead Sherlock has on him is a name. Maybe it's just me but I feel it makes Moriarty come off as three times as creepy, like the boogy man hiding in the shadows but you don't know which shadow.
