"Sherlock’s Eternal Tease (spoiler)." Topic

"…The long-awaited return of Sherlock, which premiered in the United States earlier this week on PBS, was full of Easter eggs for fans. The most prominent was a cut-away scene in which Sherlock and his rival Moriarty nearly kiss; it was a scenario imagined by a minor character, a meta-fangirl of sorts, about what might have happened when Sherlock supposedly threw himself from a hospital roof, seemingly to his death, in the final scene of last season.

The episode made the show seem chummier than ever with its fans, but Zubernis and Larsen say Sherlock's onscreen acknowledgment of fandom is little more than lip service.

"There's a real difference between a fan-producer relationship where you see fundamental changes made or actual things happening in the show that are because of fandom, and fan service," says Larsen, who teaches English at George Washington University. "They were never going to allow that kiss actually happen, but they were like, ‘Oh, yeah, we know that you're talking about this online, so here, we'll dangle this carrot in front of you.'"…"
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A very -um – different – set of three episodes this time round, and to my mind, a massive plot hole in the last one. Won't spoil it though.

I missed the kiss with Moriarty. I saw Sherlock kiss the medical examiner after bursting through the window in one of the speculative endings.

I was a big fan of Sherlock up until this last series. Although I can't say that I hate the last series, I had too many big issues with it to jump on the media band-wagon and proclaim it's brilliance. Most critics seem to have completely ignored all the problems.

I'll list a few of the biggies, which will entail SPOILERS;

- Is it too much to ask for Moffat to actually explain how Sherlock pulled off his impossible death defying leap? Showing us two silly speculative ways that it *could* have been done is a bit of a cheap cop-out from the point of view of the fans who waited all that time for an answer.

- The writer now seems to be going for a series of shocks and big plot-twists rather than concentrating on what Sherlock is actually supposed to be about; solving crimes. How many more characters are going to be brought back from the dead, rather than actually bothering to write good story-lines? This cheap new approach is insulting the viewers intelligence.

- Sherlock is supposed to be a genius right? Yet in the final episode he is beaten at every single turn by his adversary. Then, just when you think Sherlock is going to have the last word, what does he resort to? He puts a bullet in his un-armed adversaries head in cold blood. No cleverness, no subtlety, just cold-blooded murder from the so-called hero. And then he gets let off by the authorities. Hmmm, Sherlock pretty much killed itself as intelligent television with that moment, and the hero lost the moral and intellectual high-ground for ever.
Unless I am missing something?

I think its a case of TV being so bad these days, that the critics will gush shamefully over something that is beeter than the rest of the field, but really not that great when you look at it objectively.