For me, Sherlock alone after the wedding felt bittersweet...and eeewww Magnussen licking the lady's face!  I look away when that's happening!
But am I the only one who feels that Sherlock's "speech" at the wedding was a bit awkward?.  I mean, it looked bizarre with him suddenly shouting & rapidly talking about matters unrelated to the wedding while wildly gestering and staring off into space...
Funny, when Mrs. Hudson cracked the comment that he could be a candidate for being shot...she knew that his demeanor was somewhat disconcerting, yes?   No?  Offended anyone?  I'll humbly apologize here now, but glad to be able to "vent" about that!  
 

besleybean wrote:

I think the wedding speech encapsulates Sherlock in a nutshell.

Indeed! (Albeit a rather large nutshell! )
 

It's the best wedding speech I've ever heard!

I don't think there's anything I can't rewatch.  I know I went on and on about being disturbed by John hitting Sherlock, but I did rewatch that several times.   I'm probably not as gripped by supposedly exciting action scenes as I am by the more emotional scenes.  If I was going to fast forward or skip anything it would probably be the action or comedy scenes in favour of more intense emotional scenes or "Sherlock being clever" scenes.

Last edited by Liberty (August 20, 2014 8:44 pm)

I hate weddings and everything about them,...so Sherlock summed up my sentiments rather nicely!

I usually fastforward the moment when Magnussen licks Lady Smallwood's face. It's disgusting. Also, I couldn't rewatch the scene when Magnussen peed in the fireplace in 221b for about two months. Finally, I did but I still don't feel well when I watch it. 

Marta wrote:

I usually fastforward the moment when Magnussen licks Lady Smallwood's face. It's disgusting. Also, I couldn't rewatch the scene when Magnussen peed in the fireplace in 221b for about two months. Finally, I did but I still don't feel well when I watch it. 

Well said, my dear!  That fireplace scene...SO so very horrible!!  It makes me angry & wish that SOMEONE would strike him!!!  Somebody STOP him for crying out loud!  Arrugh!!
 

I actually think Magnussen was both written and played brilliantly. Which is part of why he disgusts me so much... he is too 'good' at being a villain.

Lars Mikkelsen has a great talent like that... I completely forgot about the humble man I saw live some years ago. Gosh. Totally off topic. But him reciting Casanova was so swoon worthy. 

Last edited by This Is The Phantom Lady (August 20, 2014 9:57 pm)

Liberty wrote:

I think I'm going to be the odd one out, but I love all the creepy Magnusson bits!  I loved that he did those tiny and fairly innocuous things that were deeply repulsive and controlling.  It was a great way to make a point, and to establish what kind of villain he was. 

Kinda hate to agree with you, but you make a great point!  He IS a worthy opponent & perfectly villanous.  Yep. The guy's good, but I still want to slap him...oh, wait...Sherlock already did that...with a BULLET ~ cue evil maniacle laughter, now fading in the distance as I walk away smiling ~

Well the scene that I absolutely hate with a vengeance and can’t bear to watch (but do anyways) is Sherlock and John’s reunion scene in the TEH. I mean it couldn’t have gone any worse than that.
 
Well we all know how Sherlock’s suicide devastated John. And personally I have reasons to believe that John thinks he was responsible for his suicide. If we view things from his perspective it would appear that Sherlock did a 180 from I’m being set up to I’m a fake  -which John knows for a fact being not the case- and committed suicide because John, his only supporter at the time accused him of being a heartless machine and left.
 
So all these years he has carrying around this massive pain and guilt and right when he was trying to let it all go and move on in comes Sherlock like nothing happened and it was all a big joke (experiment?)!!
 
John: Two years… Two years… I thought… I thought ... you were dead! Now, you let me grieve, hmm? How could you do that? How?
 
And Sherlock couldn’t have picked a worse way to approach him. I mean I could see he was practically shaking with nervousness and using jokes as a defense mechanism but it went over John and Mary’s head. And then later he said that John was overreacting and made him think keeping him out of the loop was for his own good. And let’s not forget how he inappropriately tried to appeal to john’s danger loving side. It was all a complete train wreck and all the time I was cursing Moffitson and Co. for their brilliant writing, acting cinematography and whatnot. Sherlock rushed to meet John hours after he was being beaten to a pulp but I doubt John knows about it. And he did mention that he was almost in contact with John so many times but of course the writers make John latch on to it meaning he isn’t trustworthy. And look at what John concludes from all this on his blog:
 
… He'd gone into hiding, happy to leave me and everyone else thinking he was dead. He'd done it to save us but he hadn't trusted us enough to tell us what was really going on….
 
…Sherlock and my girlfriend turned up in the nick of time and saved me. It was probably Sherlock himself. Set it all up just so he could save my life so I'd forgive him about what he did…
 
…I mean I know he's a psychopath and I've accepted that but what he did this time, it was too much…
 
My head still hurts when I watch that scene but you got to admit it was good TV.