Mattlocked wrote:

Hanka wrote:

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To those who wondered why I'm trying so hard to like it - don't you know that feeling of being the only one among hunreds who doesn't like something all the others seem to love? It's not the nicest feeling. I thought maybe there was something I missed or... you know, something wrong with my way of thinking....

 
Hm. In the office I'm sitting with colleagues who could be my children. They like the usual radio program (boring), the usual tv shows(boring).
And you ask me if I know that feeling???
And then again I love Sherlock which nobody near to me even knows. And if, they don't understand me.

I guess I have to live with that! And I guess I actually CAN.

Reading this left me smiling - I'm only 17, too, and despite everything I said about HLV I do love Sherlock. Maybe you should open up to your colleagues about Sherlock, you never know
Luckily, I have a friend whom I could convince to watch Sherlock and who's just as fond as me now. We haven't talked much about HLV, maybe I should do that?

Mary Me, I don't blame Louise either! I think she did a wonderful job, you know, acting. I just don't like what Moftiss did there with having her slap Sherlock.

Thanks Mrs. Wenceslas, that did help
 

Weirdness wrote:

In reference to "I know everybody else is very happy about this, however, I am not. It seems very "Yeah, he did kill someone, but it's okay, since, you know, Magnussen was a bad guy." Not really my way of thinking.", in the canon it was very much the same. Even though Sherlock was not the one who killed him, he condoned it enough to hold John back and they did nothing to stop it.

Just curious, did you feel the same about John killing the cabbie in the first episode?

Interesting question. I do remember finding it wrong (as I already implied, I am opposed to murder in every situation), but it was at the very beginning of Sherlock - as you said, the first episode - and I did not yet care about the characters as much as I do now. Also, John killing the cabbie can quite easily be classified as self-defense (through a third party), especially if one begins to like the characters and everything. The cabbie was kind of threatening Sherlock's life (again, not the clearest case of self-defence, but it's possible to get away with that if you want to). With Magnussen, the case is completely different. He's not threatining anyone's life.
Also, I know about the canon reference, but that doesn't change that I find it wrong. They altered lots of stuff in the adaptation, why not that?
To those who wondered why I'm trying so hard to like it - don't you know that feeling of being the only one among hunreds who doesn't like something all the others seem to love? It's not the nicest feeling. I thought maybe there was something I missed or... you know, something wrong with my way of thinking.
I never said I was sure of Moriarty being alive. I just said that I hoped he wasn't. But for some reason I think he might be - you know, Andrew Scott being at this event (someone in the HLV forum wrote about, forgot the name, sorry) for HLV/series 3, and Mycoft being all "It's impossible" and "We need Sherlock back" and Moriarty's "Miss me?". I know it's not a fact, it

Same here. Though I guess they had to do it like that, don't think we could've dealt with one more big thing after everything that happened in HLV^^ And Moftiss probably knew that :D

The_Gun_Flip wrote:

Just a thought but I think, in the book, Mary's Father was Captain Arthur Morstan? Another CAM. So it may have been a nod to that and just coincidence that they're the same initials as the new baddie.

But she's an orphan, isn't she? Wouldn't she have grown up in a children's home or something???

I like your overall theory, but really, do you think John's and Sherlock's relationship would survive that? Sounds horrible to me! :'( I really do hope that somebody almost gets killed.

The last scene was so sad I'm kinda on the verge of tears and I never ever cry because of a movie or a TV series like... URGH. Also, Sherlock, drunk.

After watching the episode for the third time, it occured to me that Sherlock has changed a lot more than I originally thought. Especially the scene with him and Mycroft analysing the hat made me realise this. Suddenly, Sherlock cares about other people's secret feelings. He thinks that Mycroft is lonely and more or less states that it is strange that Mycroft has never tried to make friends with 'normal people', implying that he has. It almost seems like he's worried about Mycroft - this seems to strange to me, but I think I like it. There had to be a development at some point and I guess it's this - Sherlock realising that normal people aren't THAT bad, I mean, he does decide to spend most of his time with them instead of the only person he knows who's as intelligent as him - Mycroft.