I love being pregnant, and I am so looking forward to having a baby boy.

I do mind, though, when baby stretches his feet and pins them right under my ribs. Ouch!

OUCH!

Okay, I will stop complaining about little John-Sherlock making me feel a bit uncomfortable instantly. Well, very unfomfortable, right now, but at least I did not get hurt yet.

Ir's funnier when they kick your partner, if you're lying close to them!

Sorry but I simply have to vent this - I am a bit sad about the current climate in here. Criticism is fine but many things are just over the top. The smallest details are shot down in flames, reading many threads you would think the whole series is total rubbish.
But tbh, I feared something like that would happen in the fandom. Expectations were so incredibly high that nothing would have satisfied some people.  

Maybe it's "just" splitted into halfs from S3.
A friend of mine also just told me if the next episode isn't absolutely brilliant she will stop watching Sherlock.
QE just wrote in the other thread she especially loved everything about friendship - which is what others especially hate.
Seems to me just a thing we have to accept.

Which I truly appreciate. Please note my new title. 

P.S. Yours is a TEH quote but series 3 is series 3. 

Last edited by SusiGo (January 15, 2014 5:12 pm)

SusiGo wrote:

Sorry but I simply have to vent this - I am a bit sad about the current climate in here. Criticism is fine but many things are just over the top. The smallest details are shot down in flames, reading many threads you would think the whole series is total rubbish.
But tbh, I feared something like that would happen in the fandom. Expectations were so incredibly high that nothing would have satisfied some people.  

For me it's not that criticism only creates the current climate. HLV has obviously been such a great deal that people tend to have their very own view on the matter. Which is generally fine but with Reichenbach we could all come together and share our grief. Disagreements were mostly about logic when discussing how he faked his death and how he will return etc. Disagreements now are about whether a character deserves something or not, whether you should empathize or not, morally condemnable or not and this is all getting too personal for me.

I feel the same way.  I don't mind people debating plot elements or discussing the characters' actions.  But when people start making statements about the writers, that's when it crosses the line for me.  They have their vision of the show and it won't always conform to ours...but what fun would that be if they did?  I don't want something exactly like the stories...I can read those any time.  I want what this show has always provided...a great story with great writing played by great actors.

Swanpride wrote:

In my experience, those people who scream the loudest that something isn't like in the stories are the ones who barely know canon and have instead a very idealized idea of it.

I honestly think (hope) that is only a matter of time. Those people who want to stick with the series will stay, the others will go. I am more worried that the "Moriarty is alive or not" discussion might end up in a big fight.

I am with you there, Swanpride. Until then ... is "Close yor eyes and hit it!" the right proverb? (I am looking for the english version of ""Augen zu und durch" ... )

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I find it very interesting to read all those different opinions and viewpoints on S3, especially because I still haven't made up my mind about how much I like it - and please note, that implies that I do indeed like it.
What's important though is that everyone should be respectful towards other opinions. In some threads it really seems as if people were trying to defend their opinion to the marrow. Do discussions really have to be that grim? I thought what unites us all is our love for the show, but sometimes it seems that people are only here to nit-pick. There certainly are things in S3 which offer good material for further debate, but there already were several occasions on which I initially wanted to write something and then just thought 'oh, what's the use?'. My problem, I know, but still...

(Oh, and please note: I do indeed like S3 so much that I changed my avatar! And my sig(s)! )
 

Last edited by SolarSystem (January 16, 2014 9:48 am)