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eeeee, best not-spoiler evah! I wondered if/when it'd be making an appearance :) Patiently awaiting all the new picspams that will include violin sexiness so I can get my band nerd on. BC is still stupidly statuesque and I would not have him any other way.

and if ever there was a more pressing need for a crossover with Doctor Who, or at least something with BC and Matt Smithykins in the same room, it'd be this.

Matt Smith: “My mate Benedict [Cumberbatch] plays Holmes, so we have lovely mornings where we go, ‘Hi Sherlock! Hi Doctor!’ I think they should do an episode with him: these two great minds going, ‘Ding- ding-ding! Whatcha got?”

Make it happen, Moffat. Or else someone will write that crossover and you'll be very cross.

There's debate on whether this one was better or worse than ASIP, but fear not! I have the answer: it's both. What the show picks up in a more intricate plot, action, and branching its characters out it loses in wit, xenophobia, tropes, and a bit of characterization.

I liked that I couldn't guess IT WAS THE CABBIE about 30 minutes in this time, that's for sure, but there was a lot of othering going on with the Black Lotus business. Not every super secret smuggling ring needs to be foreign, guys :( I just felt like every shot of people in Chinatown was supposed to be ~mysterious and ~sneaky and the only kind of normalness we get is when our intrepid heroes sat down for a meal in a perfectly modern restaurant. It's probably some of the old Victorian attitudes of the books bleeding through, so I can forgive Show somewhat.

Sherlock and John weren't on the same wavelength much, but the push-pull was played very well, and fed in to the plot, so I can't complain all THAT much. Canonically Holmes IS a prat and dismissive and takes Watson for granted, but the conversation with Van Coon's secretary at the end made me think that the writer wanted to edge Sherlock to resonance. The lines about appreciation and being stood up (not that John is necessarily stood up, but Sherlock has left him alone at a crime scene with no idea where he was, ran away to let him get caught by a policeman, neglected to open the door to a locked apartment twice, goes and swans off at a moment's notice so John has to drop everything and follow) struck me as a parallel. Gatiss's episode is up next, and I trust him with character development, so we'll see, we'll see.

Domestic scenes were supremely FTW, and Sarah! Oh, I rather liked her :D Not to say I didn't have issues--how can the same badass chick who beat a gang member over the head with a wooden stick and noticed the code before even Sherlock did be the same person that goes out on a date with a dude she just hired & failed miserably on his first day at work and who sat there and cried while the Extremely Theatrical Machine of Death inched ever closer to kabobing her? Consistency is appreciated. But I loveloveloved her scenes; John gets to be outrageously adorable, Sherlock stews in jealousy and practically swoops down on the date yelling MINEMINEMINEMINE, and Sarah was funny and awesome for the most part. Would like to see her back again, but after seeing how traumatized she was, I'm not sure we will?

Other things that were awesome: insincere!Holmes being a manipulative bitch in general, random unexplained swordfight, shameless disregarding of John's privacy (Boundaries? What are those, Sherlock wonders while cracking John's laptop password), John being the source of two of Sherlock's "...oh." moments (also, Sherlock totally has a little face of revelation at the end of the railroad scene that speaks louder than clutching at your flatmate's face and telling him to close his eyes)

Boo hiss @ no Lestrade/Anderson/Donovan etc. Dimmock was alright, but I'd rather Sherlock butt heads with someone who knows how he operates and can fight back. Drug raid anyone?

And man. Some extremely amusing gifs to come out of this.

my god, epic bitchface ♥

and dumb parlor tricks

On the über positive side, David Arnold and Michael Price were killing it in the music department. Praying for an OST release *crosses fingers*

and for detail porn, a post concerning the layout of Baker Street, IloveIloveIlove.

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That would be a serious WIN DW ep there...hehe, but I did beat Moffat to it a bit ;) http://sherlockiangirl.livejournal.com/10964.html

*gleefully clicks linky for reading tiems*

THAT PICTURE WITH THE VIOLIN JUST MADE ME VIOLENTLY ORGASM IN MY PANTS IN THE MIDDLE OF WORK

JUST SAYING

NNGK

DIDN'T I BAN YOU FROM LOOKING AT PICTURES OF BENEDICT? IT'S BAD FOR YOUR HEALTH. AND UNDERWEAR.

SERIOUSLY, AT WORK AND SHIT.

I have saved that picture to my hard drive at work as "HNNGH!" and from now on will respond to every awkward customer by looking at that picture and DYING.

God, I can't wait for the next episode. I can't.

I wonder how many takes it took to catch that pen without looking.

As for Sarah - I liked her, too, but I can't help wondering if some of the callousness mentioned could be Sherlock's indifference to her body parts being blasted across London.

the next ep is going to be MAJA, by Moff's estimation too. oh man oh man oh man, violin. Appreciating what I'm reading in the Blogtor Who article too.

For a double blind? Probably a lot, though I can maybe see the use of off camera mirrors. It looks difficult with the use of mirrors, and as far as I know, Benedict is right handed, so that's another added level of diffculty.

Que? m'afraid I don't follow on that one.

Well, it says it displays his callousness. I wondered if perhaps we're going to see enormous anguish in John as his fancy woman is blown to smithereens and a completely unsypathetic Sherlock.

I have no idea what MAJA means.

oh, for The Great Game--reading comprehension failure on my part. I'd been considering the possibility of her getting blown to pieces too, and kind of hoping against it because the unnecessary killing of ladyfolk in media gets to me sometimes, but dramatically it'd make sense if John and Sherlock had a huge row over Sherlock's potential nonreaction to the news. It gives their relationship room to grow, which is definitely my main concern in the show.

MAJA = an exaggerated form of major. I get to being weirdly hyperbolic, as you've probably noticed.

Hahahaha.

It was capitalised, so I thought it was an acronymn.

I really think the last episode is going to be full of :O moments. I'm thinking about tying a scarf around my chin so as not to get jaw ache from all the gaping.

Also: I just read that article about Ben. LOLWHUT. How does that man even exist and how has he not been accosted by fangirls in his trunks at Hampstead Heath?

Live post filled with :O !!! and OMG comments? I can see that :) I can already tell I'll need to isolate myself because I get uh. Squealy. when I watch mind blowing episodes, haha.

The Sunday Times article right? He's so lovely, I can't even. He uses the time he was held up and carjacked as a dinner piece! Benny, what are you, you ridiculous man.

I'll tell you what he is, he's English. DEEPLY, OVERWHELMINGLY, LAUGHABLY ENGLISH.

It's like he's a caricature of a British actor as the rest of the world sees them.

I think ENGLISH is just about right--is he not fazed by anything? Has he got any idea how ridiculous he is? What size dress does he wear? So many questions.

You can bet he's been carjacked by a better class of bastard, too.

DW/Sherlock crossover NEEDS TO HAPPEN.

Also, right click+save as for every single .gif. And dropping this here as well:

SPINNYYY