Sherlock: Season Three (Blu-ray)

The Mad Professor
WATSON: Pray, Holmes, instead of puffing on that ridiculously large pipe and staring moodily out of the window, apprise me of the solution to the Case of the Missing Moving-Picture Show.

HOLMES: I'm cogitating, Watson.

WATSON: Indeed? Well, let us hope Mrs Hudson doesn't enter unexpectedly.

HOLMES: You are very droll.

WATSON: I confess, Holmes, that I grow vexed at your obfuscation. You speak mysteriously of products that are for sale, yet do not exist; which can be rated and ranked and judged for quality by their customers, yet the warehouses that supposedly store them are empty. You can buy them, but cannot hold them in your hands. You speak of dogs that didn't bark in the night, of cars that didn't park in the night, and ghosts that didn't give me a fright, but still I know no more than I did at the start.

HOLMES: Very well. I see that I have been remiss in not furnishing you with the fruits of my mental labours. Consider,...

PHENOMENAL!!! Surpasses Even Series One
*** FULL REVIEW PENDING ***

I will be reviewing each episode individually, but in short, after having watched the first with some hesitations about how the reunion was to be handled, this stodgy old Holmesian maintains the first episode alone, 'The Empty Hearse', was a phenomenal adaptation with writing, acting, and depth of character that surpassed my most hopeful expectations. For anyone with reservations about the direction this would take, set those fears aside and prepare for an amazing ride!

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Old review which I may keep up for sentimental reasons...

Imagine my shock and delight when, during my peregrinations within the depths of Amazon, I came across the most glorious sight a Sherlock starved mortal might ever dare to set her eyes upon - a DVD for series three! "O frabjous day! Callooh! Callay!' (s)he chortled in his (her) joy!"

An air date, thought I, *must* be impending! Oh, spoilery 'Last Vow' pics , how you tore the...

He's Only Mostly Dead...
After waiting with mounting impatience for Season 3, it was an absolute joy to review it early.
The first question on my mind was, of course, "How the heck did Sherlock survive the fall?!"
Well, if you're reading this, you don't mind spoilers: he didn't. He died, and was whisked away by Molly Hooper to a secret laboratory in the Sussex Downs (disguised as a branch of the Apiculturists' Association) There, he was reanimated via electricity using a technique Molly learned while studying in Ingolstadt; sharp-eyed viewers will remember this was foreshadowed in "The Hounds of Baskerville".
He then spent three years in Pakistan and Tibet under the alias of Sigerson Paget, taking out Moriarty's crime syndicate while avoiding suspicion with little more than contact lenses, various hair dyes, and a stoop-shouldered walk.
(How he could keep a low profile with an alias like that is another question entirely.) On his travels, he crossed paths with a truly ruthless sniper...

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