Eh, I enjoyed the gay jokes. There was like… one an episode? Which isn’t a lot when you remember there are only six episodes, but is a lot when you realize it’s one an episode.
I love the way Sherlock’s thoughts are shown
I really liked this when they did it, but I also thought they did it rather inconsistently. In some of them, they highlight all the clues, and you can draw the inferences (I chided Sherlock through my screen for not getting it in A Study In Pink); in others, they don’t highlight them, and it’s easy to feel like Watson (Hover for spoiler.).
More than that, I think two or so an episode. There are three in the first (Mrs Hudson, Angelo, and Mycroft), and that’s if you count Angelo’s shipping of Johnlock and Sherlock’s clumsy attempt to let John down gently as one joke. Oddly enough, I can’t find a tally, so I’ll keep one on my next marathon.
The jokes are good—anything that causes Freeman to act one of his nine or so flavors of exasperation is automatic comedy gold. I’m just complaining about the frequency.
they did it rather inconsistently
I think the mood dictates that. A Study In Pink is meant to show Sherlock’s abilities, so we can exclaim “Fantastic!” in chorus with John, which is why we get both clue highlighting and expospeak. Baskerville is about Sherlock losing it a little, so making things less clear helps.
I agree that the characters are sometimes dense. In Reichenbach, Sherlock misses or takes forever to get nearly all of Moriarty’s hints, though a large part of it is probably playing dumb. (Moriarty’s last move genuinely surprises him, but he didn’t phone that one in.) My personal theory for his abysmal stupidity in A Study In Pink is that he starts out incapable of any thinking while distracted (e.g. by Anderson’s face) and that improvement in this area is one of the benefits of having a sidekick-caregiver-sober coach.
(I chided Sherlock through my screen for not getting it in A Study In Pink)
I would like to know what he hadn’t gotten—I just watched ASIP, but I had had the plot spoilered.
Obviously, to avoid doing the same thing to anyone else, rot13 or that link spoiler thing you just did would be a good idea.
EDIT:
Regarding consistency, IIRC they only show that he’s checking “wet or dry” on the coat, not what he’s trying to learn, but with the jewelry they show the deduction onscreen, even though he exposits it anyway. (I think I danced around the spoilers successfully there.)
I would like to know what he hadn’t gotten—I just watched ASIP, but I had had the plot spoilered.
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Eh, I enjoyed the gay jokes. There was like… one an episode? Which isn’t a lot when you remember there are only six episodes, but is a lot when you realize it’s one an episode.
I really liked this when they did it, but I also thought they did it rather inconsistently. In some of them, they highlight all the clues, and you can draw the inferences (I chided Sherlock through my screen for not getting it in A Study In Pink); in others, they don’t highlight them, and it’s easy to feel like Watson (Hover for spoiler.).
More than that, I think two or so an episode. There are three in the first (Mrs Hudson, Angelo, and Mycroft), and that’s if you count Angelo’s shipping of Johnlock and Sherlock’s clumsy attempt to let John down gently as one joke. Oddly enough, I can’t find a tally, so I’ll keep one on my next marathon.
The jokes are good—anything that causes Freeman to act one of his nine or so flavors of exasperation is automatic comedy gold. I’m just complaining about the frequency.
I think the mood dictates that. A Study In Pink is meant to show Sherlock’s abilities, so we can exclaim “Fantastic!” in chorus with John, which is why we get both clue highlighting and expospeak. Baskerville is about Sherlock losing it a little, so making things less clear helps.
I agree that the characters are sometimes dense. In Reichenbach, Sherlock misses or takes forever to get nearly all of Moriarty’s hints, though a large part of it is probably playing dumb. (Moriarty’s last move genuinely surprises him, but he didn’t phone that one in.) My personal theory for his abysmal stupidity in A Study In Pink is that he starts out incapable of any thinking while distracted (e.g. by Anderson’s face) and that improvement in this area is one of the benefits of having a sidekick-caregiver-sober coach.
There it is: Tally of Johnlock-teasing jokes in Sherlock, seasons 1-2. Nitpicking welcome. On average, an episode has a little over two jokes.
I would like to know what he hadn’t gotten—I just watched ASIP, but I had had the plot spoilered.
Obviously, to avoid doing the same thing to anyone else, rot13 or that link spoiler thing you just did would be a good idea.
EDIT:
Regarding consistency, IIRC they only show that he’s checking “wet or dry” on the coat, not what he’s trying to learn, but with the jewelry they show the deduction onscreen, even though he exposits it anyway. (I think I danced around the spoilers successfully there.)
Jura gurl jrer jnvgvat ng gur erfgnhenag, naq gur pno chyyrq hc, vg jnf boivbhf gb zr gung gur pnoovr jnf gur crefba gurl jrer vagrerfgrq va, abg gur cnffratre.