You're fairly on topic for me because the whole of that episode was(in theory) a complete disservice to this fan.
I hate weddings and donl't drink...
Yet I still managed to enjoy it.

Thanks besleybean. I am new to that forum and i don't wanna be a nuisance. Posting my first topic and then solidly flying off the rails, i was just not sure if people might be annoyed. So thanks!

Mattlocked, get your point now, thanks! And indeed you have a point here. agreed, a party with a gazillion guests would have been much more disturbing 

Thank you! See, i was really browsing the forum left, right and centre but for a newbie there is so much stuff here and so many topics, i totally did not find this one. will check it out! Danke 

Last edited by Lilith (June 26, 2014 10:23 pm)

I will check it out for sure.
Apart from the fact that i really didn't find the one topic you linked here, it is also a bit tricky in general for newbies in forums cause in some forums it is not welcomed when you start several topics about the same thing (which i understand), in other forums it is frowned upon when you bump up an old thread (which i don't understand), so i am basically just feeling my way through here. 

Just a use of words thing: a bucks party and a stag party are exactly the same thing. The  former is American the latter British. 

I also thought season 3 was quite different from the first two seasons and I actually like all seasons equally, but I don´t think the writers tried to please the fans with the scripts and concept of season 3.
I think they had a clear vision from the beginning how they want to do the series and which themes they want to cover. After all Mark Gatiss had said in an interview it´s a show about a detective and not a detective series, so for me it means the show is mainly focussed on the characters and their development and the cases and crimes are one way to portray these characters.
And Steven Moffat had said he always imagined Sherlock being John´s best man at the wedding after reading the novels as a teenager and he always wondered what kind of speech Sherlock would have given. So in a way I think he used the series to write his own kind of fanfiction and in my opinion he did it brilliantly. For me season 3 has been the perfect mixture of heartfelt emotion, clever wordplay, funny silliness, surprising drama and nervewracking suspense and I wonder what the writers will have in store for season 4.

Thank you all for your input, it is interesting to me even though i clearly see it a bit different. 

besleybean wrote:

What a fantastic post.
Thank you.

Thank YOU very much for such a nice compliment!!
 

Yeah, that´s what I like about this forum too. Coming from other fandoms I have seen how insulting and offensive people can get, so it´s really nice to see how civil, tolerant and friendly discussions can be even if there are totally different opinions on the same subject.