I know that the episode was ages ago now, but I have a lot I want to say, as will become apparent. I believe the primary problem with the episode to be arrogance, resulting both in a flippant approach to comedy and to the plot, and a misjudged belief that the show can play with concepts it simply isn’t equipped for. It isn’t an absolute travesty the cinematography is still largely lovely (apart some very questionable scene transitions), and while they still feel the need to shove Sherlock’s character in our face by having him be spontaneously violent for no reason and interrupt people literally constantly, that’s fine, that’s pretty much a hallmark of the show and it’s what we came for. For the purposes of this post however, I will focus on the aforementioned Christmas Special. Season 3 was, for me, the beginning of the descent into the arrogance-fuelled, they’ll-like-it-anyway screenwriting platitudes that I believe Sherlock currently finds itself in, and I may return to rant about it, particularly episode 3 of that season, at another time. Unfortunately, the same cannot be said of the more recent episodes, chiefly the most-recently-aired Abominable Bride. They were also, most importantly, easy to follow and fun. They were well-shot, well-acted, mostly well-written and cleverly updated the Conan Doyle originals to fit the modern day setting in a way that very rarely felt tacky or forced. I want to quickly say that I really loved seasons 1 and 2 of the BBC’s Sherlock.
A (perhaps a little too much) in-depth discussion of the problems of the Sherlock Christmas special: The Abominable Bride.
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