You might want to change the Baskerville title to 'Hounds'

I wanted to send you a PM but can't see how to do that.

Good poll BTW

It's hard to choose between ASIB and TRF, but I will give the very slight edge to ASIB because the writing is absolutely wonderful.  My husband and I were talking about it for days afterwards.  And I love that Sherlock got a taste of his own medicine.

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My all time favourite is Scandal in Belgravia, followed closely by Study in Pink.

-Beware! Sort-of rant about to commence! -
The Reichenbach Fall is my least favourite one, because the whole episode is -brilliantly- unsettling and already conveys a sense of foreboding that a lot of things are going to come to an end (I prefer a touch of domestic 221B bliss). I also hate the song they're playing while Sherlock and John are in the car on their way to Old Bailey, it's grating on my nerves. And I'm sorry to say this, but Katherine Parkinson, whom I love in "The IT Crowd" and "Doc Martin" is not the right person to play Kitty Riley in my opinion, because one is used to her having comedic roles; while watching the episode for the first time, I constantly waited for her to say or do something funny. Of course she deserves to play other characters too, but in this case I think it didn't work out.
-Rant over. Sorry. Needed to vent.-

In general, I'd be happy to get more background information on the characters in the new season.

I also think it fits perfectly, and the nerve-grating is possibly deliberate to emphasize the tension etc., but each time I watch the episode, I'm glad once that part's over.

I admittedly have never seen The Thomas Crown Affair.
 

At school my classmates and I sang Sinnerman for an assembly. I was always reminded of Sherlock when we sang that song. BTW thanks Sticks about the 'hounds' thing, so I tried to change it but it wouldn't let me. And my mom disabled the PM thing, sorry about that. Although she says I might be able to do it after a while though.

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I voted for Scandal because almost every frame looks beautiful and I like the Sherlocked-scene with its music and Sherlock's cool tapping of the code.
Nevertheless I like ASiP because of the instant connection between Sherlóck and John, TBB because of the tea ceremony, TGG because of the cases. They are just wonderfully constructed.
I love Hounds because of the "How to get John fetch me the cigarettes"-scene. Playful and funny.
TRF is interesting because of the way the writers manage to show Sherlock's strength, courage and vulnerability at the same time.

(I thought Sinnerman was a really good choice in that scene, the rythm was wonderful but each to their own, indeed!)

I'm surprised to see SIB getting the more voices because if I had to vote for the episode I like the least, I'd hesitate between this one and TBB.

Don't get me wrong, that doesn't mean I don't like it, just not as much as the others.

What I like in that episode are the funny scenes at the beginning (the "no pants" scene, the "punch me in the face" one, sulking Sherlock --when John tells him nobody's reading his website, that scene is absolutely priceless, that look on Sherlock's face, his mouth twitching and all, aww....), the Christmas scene, the John vs Irene scene ("I'm not gay" etc), the Sherlock-Mycroft scene at the morgue, and above all, the way it is filmed: the colours are amazing, it's full of poetry... BUT I don't like the plot which I find quite confusing (that's the only plot I didn't really get at the first watching) and not very interesting, and I hate Irene's character, so that doesn't help, obviously. Plus I don't know if it's like that in canon (have only read study in scarlet so far) but I find it quite weird and not really in character that Sherlock becomes that infatuated with Irene so quickly. Well, I don't know...

I love ASIP because it's where it all begins and I adore the developement of Sherlock/John relationship in this one. It contains in one episode everything Sherlock (the show) is: interesting plot, humour, suspense, originality... I was completely in awe the first time I watched it, and still am whenever I watch it again. And some of its quotes are just fantastic ("Anderson, don't talk out loud, you lower the IQ of the entire street", "I'm in shock, look, I've got a blanket" etc etc)

I'm not too fond of TBB but I like it nonetheless. The end was indeed a bit risible, but on the other hand, I really liked the idea of the ciphers through the books. And well, I like everything that revolves around tea ceremonies because my late husband was a tea lover, but not tea in teabags. It's like wine lovers. He had very expensive teas (some are more than 30 years old), a collection of beautiful hand made teapots, accessories and all, Chinese and Japanese. And he was exactly like Soo Lin Yao: obsessed by his teapots, taking great care of them daily, making tea ceremonies... I miss all that... I've kept everything, obviously, but I don't know enough about tea to use them myself. Each teapot is for a particular tea, the ceremonies have special rituals...etc.

I love TGG for the reasons I mentioned in my previous post.

I love THOB because I love the originality of the scenario, all the very funny moments (one of my fav' being "Is that why you're calling yourself Greg?" "That's his name" "is it?" ha ha haaaa!!), the way Sherlock "loses control" (the fireplace scene), Sherlock's experiment on John (Poor John! lol), and how their relationship is treated (being a Johnlocker, I obviously adore the "I don't have friends. i've just got one")

And finally, I both love and hate TRF. I love it because it's so powerful, the plot is absolutely brillant and such a brain torture (I mean, it left us over analyzing everything, trying to understand..), and like Be mentioned it before, it shows Sherlock's strenght and courage, and for someone who always said his work was the most important thing in his life and someone who cared that much about what people thought of his work and of his deduction capacities, he gives up everything to save the few people he cared about. On the other hand, I "hate" this episode because it makes me feel ill at ease (the way I felt reading Harry Potter 5 too) to see Sherlock's name dragged in the mud that way, I imagine what it must feel like and I find it so unfair and sad...

 

Yeah it's just a pity I can't do the ceremonies myself. Well I know I think I could manage the Gong fu cha  ceremony (I mean, the gestures and all), a chinese one,  but then I don't know which teapot to use for each tea, how many grams I should use, which temperature.. .because all this depends on each tea, and this has to be so very precise.

But he did everything Soo Lin does, with the kind of "paintbrush" and all... It created a very warm and peaceful atmosphere and I miss those moments. Well, of course his teapots are not as old as the Museum's ones in TBB, but they are all handmade teapots in specific China or Japan, some cost more than 500 euros. Well...

I don't know a word of Chinese, but I'm a bit familiar with Japanese (I don't speak it, only know about 20-30 words and a few kanas, because my husband's grandmother was Japanese, she died young so he never knew her but he had learnt Japanese and was quite fluent) and it's true that the symbols definitely looked asian, even if you don't know what it means.

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