Sherlock 2/3 – The Blind Banker
August 6, 2010The middle installment of the Sherlock mini series – this time around… well there was a helluva lot going on in this episode, so let’s just say there were Chinese dudes, gangs, cryptic ciphers, smuggling, antiques, shooting, circuses, mistaken identity, murder…
Yup, there was lot going on this episode… more below.
My first thought at the end of the episode, was that this felt like a filler episode in a longer series – when 20+ episodes proves to be too much and the writers need an episode where our characters just do what they do without too much changing the status quo. Considering this is a 3 part series (though possibly with more mini-series to come), I expected it to be a lot tighter and less convoluted.
After all the flurry of activity, nothing much has progressed since the last episode, I expected more progression in terms of Moriaty (which we only got right at the end, that tiny teaser) and perhaps more of Sherlock and John’s relationship.
So which episode is this one based on? The first was very obviously based on the Sudy in Scarlet, this one was more vague… the symbols-cipher thing made me think of The Dancing Men, where threatening messages were being left in code for someone to figure out, and did I catch a glimpse of some dancing men whilst they were trying to decode the ancient chinese text? I also vaguely remember a story about there being a locked room…
They’ve updated Watson’s Blog and Sherlock’s Website accordingly after the last episode. I think the most interesting thing is reading the ‘comments’ the ‘readers’ leave. It’s really very meta and adds a whole new level of context to the show. We’ve never seen Harry Watson, John’s sister, but you already have a feel for what type of character she (yes, she, Harriet) is just from the commentary on the blog.
Ah well, hope the last episode is great! Will we finally get to see Moriaty? The great thing about the Sherlock-Moriaty battle was seeing the both of them outwitting each other, and the final climax with the Reinchenbach falls where they both go over the edge…
