[Closed] Is it 9 o'clock yet? New Sherlock.

Can't wait

Not long now!

If it's not Basil Rathbone and Nigel Bruce, then it's not Sherlock.

Grrrrr!

Is that Harry Enfield?

I say Darling!

Liking the classic version so far

Prefer the modern one. Still cracking though

Woah there Nellie!

Timeshift!

Ooh very good

Hmm.
Not convinced.

Bit too smart for it's own good tbh.

Too smug and self-indulgent for the Sandwich household. Should have gone with yippee-kayai.

Liked it a lot
Especially the idea of present Holmes being a fantasy of old skool Holmes

Anyway found it quite gripping

Sherlock vs Inception?

Ruined. Utterly ruined.

The 11 bus doesn't go anywhere near Baker Street!

Excellent apart from that!

I dozed off for a minute, I was fairly confused that he was sitting in a plane.

It went from great to daft to great to daft to great to daft and so on but it was worth it for the Moriaty scenes. I also liked his fat brother and the spearing of the waterfall legend. Contains spoilers btw.

all a bit too self-knowing and Christmas Special for me

Yes, yes, yes.

Well... The Dr who and League of Gentlemen influences a bit too clear perhaps?

Prefer Elemental really

The very poor story just seemed like an afterthought, an excuse for the Victoriana.

Weakest so far, self referential and far too pleased with itself.

Hope they've got some decent ideas for the next series.
The books are full of them.

Bit too smart for it's own good tbh.

Too smug and self-indulgent

all a bit too self-knowing and Christmas Special for me

Yup, all of these.

Trying to be too clever when it doesn't need to. Shame. Loved the others.

Have to echo the above - not as good as the previous, highly excellent episodes.

Once I got my head around that there wasn't really story I just enjoyed it as a series of sketches. The Victoriana bits started faintly naff but not so bad that you couldn't give them the benefit of the doubt until it became like black adders Christmas carol and just got camper and camper that you started to feel this part of the joke. That does still make it massively smug and self referential though.

Fell asleep. But Catch Me if you Can is on now - a classic!

I fell asleep. Was a bit meh IMHO.

First hour was decent with some cracking dialogue and knowingly camp humour. Then Moffat's increasing inability to actually finish a story properly showed up and the whole thing disappeared up its own arse.

Some lovely touches though.

I particularly liked the mounted deer's head with an ear trumpet in the Victorian flat. Instead of the skull with headphones in the present day.

As a Xmas special it was fine. Bring on the next series soon, though.

Crap

Reminded me of our class's Christmas play at school one year, for which the worst English teacher in the place had come up with the genius idea of a play about our class coming up with an idea for a play the night before the show. Which is to say that I was disappointed… Moffat and Gatiss appear to have the good timing to arrive at the BBC during a drought of decent British TV writers. Incidentally, the best English teacher in the school was an unshaven, alcoholic, moped-riding misanthrope. He was great.

I just kept getting the distinct feeling I'd seen it all before.....

Mansplaining early feminism/suffrage through the medium of self indulgent opiate fuelled time travel dreams.
Absolutely rubbish.

I half expected David Tennant to pop up and say 'ah human beings, you're amazing!!'

What's such a shame is the wasted potential.

The first two series and the start of the third were superb:
The characters were so true to the books, the stories were excellent and the updating clever and appropriate.

I think it jumped the shark with 'The Sign Of The Three', the wedding episode.
The writers seemed to abandon plot and structure for a self congratulatory mess of references and poorly resolved characters.

The stories should come first - the characters and their quirks should be the spice, not the main ingredient.

Loved the Sidney Paget references though, the train scene was excellent.

I stopped watching Pulp Fiction to watch that. Shame. Back to Vincent et al...

The highest TV drama audience of the festive season with over 8 million viewers, but gets panned by STW 8)

For what its worth, I enjoyed it 😀

Expectations and got panned pretty much everywhere fwiw

The highest TV drama audience of the festive season with over 8 million viewers, but gets panned by STW

For what its worth, I enjoyed it

How many of those 8 million viewers were as disappointed as I was? Some nice ideas but overall just didn't work. Who ever thought suffragettes in Milk Tray coloured KKK robes was a good idea? The stuff with Moriarty was just nonsensical. Quite funny reading the patronising fan comments elsewhere that if you didn't enjoy it you simply didn't understand it. 😆

If it was one episode within a weekly run of 12 or more and they made a special quirky episode for the festive season then it would have been ok. But when a series consists of a precious few episodes and the time between series can be measured in years rather than months then it feels like a wasted opportunity.

It was amusing but so irritatingly self-referential. (AKA up its own arse)
However it did spur me & Mrs M to visit Tyntesfield the next morning, which was fun. They're having a Sherlock theme there from this week onwards.

I really enjoyed it, because it was a one-off special, and was self-referential, I just enjoyed all the little jokes in the dialogue.
It took me a little while to get to grips with the fact it was all going on in Sherlock's head, but the continual jokes concerning Watson and his wife made me chuckle, as did the references to Mrs Hudson never saying anything.
Terrific fun.
Nice to see Bath being used, Queen Street is where the Bride shot herself. Rather appropriately there's a gin bar along there.

I liked it. Camp, good fun and intelligent.