I sat down this morning to write this and I have to say a
little part of me feels a bit sad. Yes, I do know that I shouldn’t feel sad
about the fact that a particular BBC One program that ran for just three short
weeks in the 9pm slot on a Sunday night is all over. Yet there it is.
Sherlock is I believe an example of not only brilliant BBC
entertainment, but also wonderful writing that brings the stories and the legendary
character created by Arthur Conan Doyle up to date and contemporary for today.
It is also a display of great acting by all involved.
In my lowly and irrelevant opinion, Benedict Cumberbatch’s
take on the master detective and Martin Freeman’s on the everyday man Dr John
Watson are fantastic and far surpass the portrayals of the same characters by Robert
Downey Jr and Jude Law in the Hollywood big budget Sherlock extravaganzas.
Last week’s episode has caused a media and social
networking frenzy of speculation and intrigue. The question being how did
Sherlock fake his own death? I love reading people’s theories and ideas and
it’s almost as good as watching the program. No it’s really not, but it is
pretty good.
I have to say though that I was surprised at the amount of
people that think Mycroft is on it. I too thought that the bike rider that
knocked Watson off his feet was not just an unfortunate coincidence, but is it
really believable that Mycroft orchestrated that? He seems to work on much larger
scales than London cyclists. In fact we are led to think that he “is” the
British Government.
We also know that Sherlock is not without his own cunning
in being able to foil his, I want to say, intellectually superior older brother
– I fear this comment make spark outrage. Let us not forget what happened in
episode one of this series.
My money, were I gambling woman, would be on backing those
tweeting Molly’s involvement. She seems by far the more likely to have helped
Sherlock. Yet I think the bigger question to be answered and I am sure that the
writers have all the answers, is where does the story go next?
We all know that following the outrage of Arthur Conan
Doyle’s decision to kill off his main character that he bought him back, but
are the stories that he wrote after “The Final Problem” as good as the ones
that went before? Again this may be a contentious point amongst the most loyal
of Doyle’s readers.
Yet I wonder after two such short series and with the faked
death plot done and dusted and never to be used again, what is next? Also the
last episode saw the end of the great, yet without question psychopathic, Jim
Moriarty. I have to say as well though, hats off to Andrew Scott, he really
pulls off crazy and has played a great nemesis to Cumberbatch’s Holmes.
I suppose I must accept that the series is complete and find
another program to fill the void. Yet having eliminated the impossible notion
that I will be turning over to ITV’s line up of Dancing on Ice and Wild at
Heart, and knowing that despite having hundreds of channels I still rarely find
something that I really want to watch and have not seen before, I must accept
the truth. It will be a much duller Sunday evening this week without Sherlock on
air for ninety minutes to entertain me, and rumours are that a third series
won’t be on air till 2013!
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