I bet the next episode will start months after and we'll get a swift 'that's how they got out of it' explaination. Quite surprised they revealed Moriarty after 3 episodes.
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He's going to shoot the jacket Holmes and Watson jump into the pool to avoid the blast.
The real trick is what stops Moriarty just killing Holmes?
Quote: sootyj @ August 8 2010, 10:39 PM BSTHello Slippery long time no see!
I liked Moriarty. It was like he was so used to being someone else he'd lost his personalityy/identity. So his voice and gestures were liked a badly tuned radio.
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Maybe I'll get used to the flouncing cartoon Moriarty on second watch (the Blu Ray is pre-ordered). I just like my super villains to have a degree of menace - it's like John Simm's Scissor Sisters dancing Master all over again!
Quote: sootyj @ August 8 2010, 10:42 PM BSTThe real trick is what stops Moriarty just killing Holmes?
The red beams were just laser pens . . .
After a sluggish start, it developed into an exciting episode. The Moriarty reveal was disappointing, though. As was the confrontation between him and Holmes. But overall great stuff.
I liked flouncy Moriarty. (despite the fact that he looked a bit like Ant McPartlin) He was quite chilling.
That was such a great episode. Get rid of the writer who did number two, and make some more just like 1 and 3.
I was hoping there would be something to suggest that he is just a fake Moriarty, and the real one is still behind the scenes. But no, it looks like Ant's the evil genius . . .
Throughout I was thinking Cumberbatch would make a great Lucifer Box if Gatiss could get the Beeb to make The Vesuvius Club on his terms . . .
Quote: zooo @ August 8 2010, 10:49 PM BSTI liked flouncy Moriarty. (despite the fact that he looked a bit like Ant McPartlin) He was quite chilling. That was such a great episode. Get rid of the writer who did number two, and make some more just like 1 and 3.
Episode 2 does feel like it belongs to a completely different series.
Very good, apart from the tall bloke.
Ooh, I LOVED the fight scene in the planetarium. So dramatic and yummy. Gatiss is ace.
The Golem! That was an odd development - is he from the novels? I've only just started reading them . . .
Quote: chipolata @ August 8 2010, 10:55 PM BSTEpisode 2 does feel like it belongs to a completely different series.
Yes. More like a straight run of the mill cop show.
No offence to the poor writer, it just didn't really fit in with the style, I don't think. There were good bits though.
Very disappointing.
Plus points: was very fast paced and had some snappy dialogue (an improvement on last week's drivel)
But it was like watching a series of speed dates one after another, everything was so breathless that there was absolutely no time for character development. People were just shunted onto the screen one by one so we cared little about them or their fates. I'm surprised the Columbo fan here liked it, since it was the antithesis of Columbo, which was as much a human drama as a detective show.
I did not like the torture porn aspect especially the gruesome murder of the old lady. "Well" I can imagine the producer saying "she didn't have long to go anyhow."
The final 10 minutes were awful. I thought up at least half a dozen scenarios which were more convincing than this. The camp Moriarty was badly conceived and acted; the actor was almost as bad as Gatiss.
At the cliffhanger end, I almost expected "self preservation society" to start up in the background.
The fight with Golem (ah my precious) was good though, easily the highlight.
Quote: Cheesehoven @ August 8 2010, 10:59 PM BSTThe final 10 minutes were awful. I thought up at least half a dozen scenarios which were more convincing than this.
When does your series come out?
Thanks Cheese now you made feel like a bumhole just for liking this episode.
Columbo is still superior. But then it was one of the best TV shows ever.
Quote: chipolata @ July 27 2010, 9:29 AM BSTIf people are so lardy-da precious that they can't watch a TV show because it might harm their enjoyment of the books, then they shouldn't be watching any television at all. Cretins!
I endorse this.