Mfw almost two entire seasons without a mystery

>mfw almost two entire seasons without a mystery

It might be the biggest quality drop ever.

>Make modern Sherlock Holmes
>Stylish direction
>Carried by chemistry of its leads and Cumberbatch actually being really good

>Introduce Watson's real life, dumpy middle aged wife
>She's actually a badass super spy
>Make her the focus of the series
>Make a Victorian special, as a fun respite from how bad the series has gotten
>It's all a dream lol
>Continue to focus on Watson and his wife to the point that an entire masturbatory episode is their wedding
>Introduce Sherlock and Mycroft's sister who's a better Sherlock
>"You created the perfect metaphor."

Bravo, guys.

Wouldn't it be better to dive down since heat rises?

They're jumping out of a window.

Everything Sherlock did wrong, Elementary did right. Including Joan Watson

Only 75 more days till season 6

>Eurus or whatever her name was can "program" people just by talking to them, even when they KNOW she's dangerous to talk to
>Watson not only had her as a therapist, the person you're really open to suggestions from, but was also texting her on the side
>none of the characters immediately bring it up
>nothing comes of it

It honestly wouldn't surprise me if they had a "omg mindblowing twist" where he's running around thinking he's Moriarty next season because of that.

10,000% this. I almost finished season 1 of Sherlock before I just couldn't take it anymore. Elementary is great in comparison and I've watched it all. There are some places it lags a great deal, like that black guy getting a job subplot was terrible.

I still prefer Jeremy Brett over every other Sherlock series.

>lucy liu
>hng
that woman god fucking dammit

Of course it lingers sometimes, but then it picks right back up after that. I also gotta admit I don't like who they cast as Lestrade, but he was only in for 2 episodes or so, so it's fine

Basil Rathbone is the only Sherlock Holmes.

I just don't understand how they could fuck up this hard. Did they run out of books to lift mysteries from or something? Just steal some Agatha Christie plot or some shit.
Or was it the tumblr circlejerk over the characters that made them turn it into a terrible relationship drama?

I recall the character being pretty terrible as a person more than anything. Like a "Dark Lestrade" or something in a way.

Why do people adore the intense homosexual Moriarty? That has to be in the top 10 worst performances on television

They don't, it is shit.

Sherlock is the prime example of a fanbase ruining a show. The problem with things like Rick and Morty and this isn't that idiots like it and overhype it, it's that the writers start pandering to that audience. Sherlock became popular with tumblr browsing teenage girls and the show decided to cater to these people who cared more about fangirling over those two characters than any compelling murder mysteries.

>have a special set in the original setting of the Holmes stories
>decide to make it a feminist cringe fest about women's suffrage

I am genuinely mad that they ruined one of the only good things to come out of the BBC in recent years.

>make Watson into a woman
>still have less relationship-drama and sexual tension between them than in Sherlock
Absolute madmen. It's so fucking refreshing to not have a will-they-finally-get-together plot between the leads.

>Make a Victorian special, as a fun respite from how bad the series has gotten
This was the worst one, where Sherlock investigates a series of murders and discovers that the people behind the crime are a group of feminists wearing pink KKK robes. Then Sherlock gives a speech on how women are oppressed and lets them go free.
Not that it mattered because it was all a dream anyway, so Sherlock could figure out Moriarty survived. All he discovered was that Moriarty didn't survive.
Complete waste of time

That's just Moffatt, he's done the same thing to Dr Who. And even now he's leaving I think the damage he's done is beyond repair.

>The episode where a friend of Watson asks her to look for her mystery one night stand man
>Turns out mystery man was Sherlock
>Sherlock fucking roasties left and right for sport
>Coitus in progress

>implying there was anything to ruin
Have you rewatched the Hound of The Baskervilles lately? It was always contrived shit, it just didn't have time to sink in until the later seasons where the writing finally caught up with the novelty of watching Sherlock Holmes set in the present day. All of the episodes in season 1 has retarded shit in them, which shouldn't fucking happen in the first season of a show with so few episodes.

In their defense Hound of the Baskervilles was fucking garbage as a book too. There's no way to adapt that piece of shit story

That fucking episode. Sherlock wouldn't give two shits about female rights. His lack of human empathy/bondship is a key part of his character.

>it's a Joan is awakened by lots of noise or smells and walks down to question Sherlock in her pyjama-shorts scene
Whoever's in charge of her wardrobe is an ace. Come to think of it, it's kind of crazy how much attention the Sherlock show's wardrobe got just because Sherlock had that coat and a fucking scarf.

>actually talking shit about the hound of the baskervilles
What went wrong in your life?

It is a lot like Supernatural in that way.

His disdain for the masses was one of the definitive aspects of his portrayal of the character, idea he'd even want all men to vote nevermind women was absurd.

It's mostly tumblr. Moffat loved to pander to the Tumblr and Twitter crowd especially, and in my opinion, ruined Doctor Who and Sherlock with it.

>Sherlock
>lack of empathy

You obviously don't know shit about Sherlock. Have you read any of the books?

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To be fair to that guy, the books have nothing to do with it at this stage of the show. It's the tv-show version that's been shown to lack human empathy and that's why it's a bit ridiculous to have him care about something like that after having established that in all the previous seasons.

Post superior modern Watson

>Eurus vs. 1 billion IQ

easy

I thought this show would be a lot worse than it is.

>Set up mystery
>Sherlock sends Watson alone to the mansion for no reason
>Spend 90% of the book watching Watson in pointless filler that has nothing to do with the mystery
>Sherlock shows up at the end and tells us he solved the case 'off-screen' with evidence we never get to see
Truly genius writing

>Sherlock sends Watson alone to the mansion for no reason
But there was a reason, you idiot. A very good reason. Maybe you should work on your reading comprehension.

In my head canon he was literally just pretending to be a retarded flamboyant bipolar homo so Sherlock can't deduce anything legit about him

But yeah, that was at first. Then he turned out to be just a shit character

>says theres a reason
>doesn't say what it is, just throws out insults
Ebin

sherlockshit fatigue

I stopped watching when they introduced Watson's wife as an assassin. It was one of the dumber things in an already bad season.

I'm not gonna retell the fucking story for your dumb ass. It's not like it was some vague part of it that there's any merit in discussing or explaining, Sherlock outright states the reason after Watson finds him on the moors.

You must either be shitposting or you read the book once when you were a little kid and have forgotten the plot.

That still doesn't excuse the fact that it was a Sherlock Holmes novel that Sherlock was barely in, and we see no mystery being solved.
It was a book intentionally written to be shitty and people still defend it.

The relationship this show has with Sherlock is like the relationship between Batman The Animated Series and Superman The Animated Series. One series has ceiling level highs but basement level lows (BTAS) and the other show has a consistent top shelf level high, but will never receive the acclaim that the other one has because of those highs it hit.

In essence, Elementary is a better show all around, but Sherlock has some fantastic episodes that have unfortunately set some impossible standard that everyone hopes the show will return to.

>we see no mystery being solved.
Yes we fucking do. Sherlock doesn't just appear at the end with the solution like you say, he meets up with Watson and then they solve it by combining the information they've both gathered, along with what happens after Sherlock rejoins Watson.
Did you watch some shitty adaptation of the book and think it was an accurate representation of the book-plot or something? Or are you just misconstruing the plot because you're upset that your husbando didn't feature heavily enough in it?

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