All right, I may be in a minority of one here

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But I'm liking Sherlock less and less. This is meant to be a goddamn mystery show, isn't it? And they have a blankitty-blank Secret Government Military Conspiracy at the centre of it from moment one, thus giving away the culprit (mad scientist/bureaucrat in government service), the purpose (making secret super-weapons that mess with minds), and the method (said super-weapon, and, oh yes, they also turns out to be unreliable - double points for cliches) to anyone who has ever watched a thriller since 1945? Could anything be more stale, predictable and plain dumb? - except, perhaps, for the various gay jokes which seem to delight my female fellow fans for some reason? Moffatt needs to seriously debug his imagination; this sort of thing stopped being interesting about 1973, if it ever was.

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[arpad.livejournal.com]

Heh. Plausible motivation was thrown overboard from the beginning. Serial killer working for fun paid by Moriarty? WTF? Doyle invented Moriarty when he run out of ideas, Moffat used the name from the start.

Nothing disappointed me more than Sherlock lately. First 30 min of the first season were so great. And then - nothing.

[sabethea.livejournal.com]

I keep wondering whether he's going for trying to make the watchers work out how the original plot can be weaved into the new version. As if he's not actually GOING for mystery per se, because he's presuming that people KNOW what happens, so the interest lies rather in how he's going to link back to canon? (I have my own issues with some of the rapes of canon, but that's a different matter.)

As far as cliched is concerned - look, it's basically fanfic-on-screen, and let's face it, there's a hell of a lot of very cliched but very popular fanfic out in the world. Why does it surprise you that this one is popular?