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HA! I knew it!
A friend has seen Sherlock and was telling me a bit about it. I'd talked it up for them, but they said..."It seemed very shallow. Like the writer was just showing off how 'cool' the character was supposed to be. Mostly, I thought Sherlock was boring and childish."
And I said, "Hmmm! I usually love it. I wonder if Moff wrote that one, because he certainly has that problem when writing The Doctor."
So, I toddled off to Wikipedia...and sure enough...Stephen Moffatt tackles Irene Adler (probably poorly, I bet, making her super sexy and yet not very clever in the end). I doubt the fanbase will notice, of course, because we are all very excited by this return. But there it is from the lips of someone not at all invested in any of this...the Moff-Muppet syndrome strikes again. Trying to be too cute, too clever and putting people off his characters. I will let you all know what I think of it soon as I watch it.
I see Gatiss is tackling Hound of the Baskervilles, a personal fave. I'm glad to see that. Gives me something to look forward to if Scandal truly is a bust.
And I said, "Hmmm! I usually love it. I wonder if Moff wrote that one, because he certainly has that problem when writing The Doctor."
So, I toddled off to Wikipedia...and sure enough...Stephen Moffatt tackles Irene Adler (probably poorly, I bet, making her super sexy and yet not very clever in the end). I doubt the fanbase will notice, of course, because we are all very excited by this return. But there it is from the lips of someone not at all invested in any of this...the Moff-Muppet syndrome strikes again. Trying to be too cute, too clever and putting people off his characters. I will let you all know what I think of it soon as I watch it.
I see Gatiss is tackling Hound of the Baskervilles, a personal fave. I'm glad to see that. Gives me something to look forward to if Scandal truly is a bust.
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I admit, as much as I find it very, very interesting and important, I've never been good at recognizing different writers' styles within shows. So I didn't give it any thought. And haven't talked to anybody who hadn't seen the first season.
But (No spoilers! apart from speculation on what you mentioned) I do see what that critique is about in this ep. I mostly enjoyed it, apart from a few major details, but if I think about how it would be if the whole show had been along the same lines... Yeah, I probably wouldn't have fallen so much in love with it. Childish is the key word, I think. Or maybe immature for the subject matter and audience?. ('Childish' always makes me think 'WTF is inherently wrong with children? :) )
Hm, I want to make another comment, but that might be going into spoiler territory. I'm sure you'll lol at certain points when you get to watch it, though.