Sunday, January 5, 2014

Series Three, OMG!


Oh my god guys, I can't even right now. I'm barely containing myself here. It's currently  taking all my self control to not flip out and start bashing my fingers on the keyboard. Excessive fangirling! aaaaahahhhhhhhhahhhhhhahahhahah he jko wqijoAW23 PREMNKL C3 ORK
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         Sorry about that. If you can't tell, I'm a bit excited. Series Three of Sherlock is finally here! If you don't know (you probably don't), the Sherlock fandom is widely regarded as the craziest one out there. The show is amazing, but the tragedy is that it has two series (British speak for seasons), each of which are three episodes long. That's right; the whole show is only six episodes. (And to be fair, they are 88 min each, but still, it's only SIX EPISODES!) To make matters worse, the show is written by the biggest trolls in the world, Steven Moffat and Mark Gatiss. Moffat also writes Doctor Who, and he has a habit of killing main caracters only to bring them back. He is known for making us afraid of ordinary objects such as a crack in the wall or a stone statue, and fans have been known to shout his name in distress when bad things happen. 
          But I digress. As I was saying, these trolls have tortured the entire fandom by ending Series Two with and insane cliffhanger. (Spoiler) In a battle of wits with Moriarty, Sherlock was forced to kill himself in order to save the lives of everyone he loves (admittedly, not many people.) So he jumps off a building, in front of his best friend John Watson. The final scene was John, in the graveyard, pleading with Sherlock's grave. ("Please, there's just one more thing. One more thing. One more miracle, Sherlock, for me. Don't be... dead.") At which point, everyone everywhere is not crying, we just have something in our eye, and we feel so bad for poor John Watson because of reasons. That is, until the camera pans around to show Sherlock, standing all mysterious with his cheekbones and his coat collar popped up, watching John from a distance and very much alive. Which is precisely when the entire fandom exploded, and when those great trolls decided it would be a perfect time for a two year hiatus. 
           So there have been no new episodes of Sherlock for two years, and in that time the fandom has been trying to figure out how Sherlock managed to fake his own death, creating gifs, analyzing every single detail of the show, drawing amazing fanart, and collectively losing their minds. But it's back now, and hopefully the fandom will regain some of it's sanity! Hopefully...


Freeman and Cumberbatch
          The show really is amazing. In case you hadn't deduced it, it's based on Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes, but it takes place in modern-day London. It stars Benedict Cumberbatch (the most British and ridiculous name, though the actor himself is amazing) as Sherlock and Martin Freeman (also amazing) as John. Now, I feel like I'm overusing the word amazing, but that's the only way I can describe the acting on this show. Cumberbatch and Freeman really bring these characters to life in such a creative way that makes them both (at least in my opinion) much more interesting than in the original books. Their offscreen friendship mirrors Sherlock and John's friendship, and you truly get the sense that they're are a perfect team. The writing on the show is spectacular, and the cinematography is breathtaking. (There. I found some other adjectives.) The way it is filmed, there are times when it feels like you are looking into Sherlock's brilliant mind as he solves the case. 
          Currently, as I write this, the second episode of Series Three is airing in the UK. Because of reasons, I have to wait to see it online, but it's better than waiting until the 19th for episode one to air on TV in the US. The first episode was completely crazy, and the fandom all agrees that the writers spent the last two years on Tumblr, reading fanfics and theories about how Sherlock faked his death and incorporating them into the show. The sad news is that by tomorrow Series Three will be 2/3 over, and soon we'll be back to waiting. Whatever is left in store for Series Three, I'm sure it will be awesome, just as I'm sure it will end in another cliffhanger and year-and-a-half hiatus.

1 comment:

  1. How is the tv show different from the movie?Because I love the movies

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