There might have slipped through some spoilers.
This episode takes place in Victorian London, which was in the first place something weird, because we are used that this series takes place in present day. In Victorian Londen we see how Watson and Sherlock would have met if the whole series took place in Victorian London. Then we get a speed forward and we get to know the case of this episode. There was this bride that suddenly started to kill people and thereafter kills herself, but the weird part has yet to come. The bride kills her own husband after she died... Now Sherlock and Watson are put on to this case, to explain the mystery.
The directing and cinematography of this episode was nice, as always with this series. I loved every shot, . The editing was cool to, you had some nice transitions between scenes. Like when Watson and Sherlock are waiting for the 'gohst' to appear, there is this spinning the camera movement, and while the camera is spinning the time goes by. And by this you can see the camera spinning as a clock, which was a fun thing, in my opinion. The make-up was good too, the blown out brains etcetera. The set design was amazing, I just can't understand how they could have changed the city like that, the BBC has done this earlier with 'Peaky Blinders' a less good show, again in my opinion. I loved that they took the apartment where they filmed the original show in, and made it look like it was from the 19the century. The costumes as well were cool. They gave Sherlock his stereotypical hat back, where they made fun of in the rest of the show. The music was nice as always. They took the original theme song, but did a thing different, which I can't really explain.
The acting of this special was very good as always. Sherlock was played by Bennedict Cumberbatch. I think that he is the best person that they could have chosen to play Sherlock. He was a bit stiff in the beginning of the episode (a bit more about this later on), but overall he was good. Martin Freeman played Doctor John Watson. He was good as well, he had some great chemistry with Sherlock, this can also be seen in the rest of the series. Mark Gatis, the writer of the show, and also the actor of Mycroft Holmes, came back as well. I didn't really like what they did with his character. They made him fat. Really, really fat. It was meant as a joke, but for me it wasn't really funny. In the present day he was back as his normal self, and there he acted well. The 'fat-suit' they put him in looked also fake. The actress who played the bride was scary, and acted good.
The script was very nicely written. As I have said earlier, I taught that everything was a bit stubborn, and stiff in the beginning, maybe this was like this, because I haven't seen a Sherlock episode in a while, huh, BBC?, but after a couple of minutes it loosened up and everything went back to normal. What I very much liked is the way why everything is now in Victorian London. It fitted the theme well. The only thing that botterd me is that they left us with a cliffhanger... AGAIN. The jokes they put in there were almost always funny, but the fat Mark Gatis, just didn't feel right for me. The references put in there were fun to spot, and I am not going to spoil them, so you can go find them yourself :).
Anyway, this was a fun and scary episode. Finally we got back a Sherlock episode, and I am glad that that happened.
This episode takes place in Victorian London, which was in the first place something weird, because we are used that this series takes place in present day. In Victorian Londen we see how Watson and Sherlock would have met if the whole series took place in Victorian London. Then we get a speed forward and we get to know the case of this episode. There was this bride that suddenly started to kill people and thereafter kills herself, but the weird part has yet to come. The bride kills her own husband after she died... Now Sherlock and Watson are put on to this case, to explain the mystery.
The directing and cinematography of this episode was nice, as always with this series. I loved every shot, . The editing was cool to, you had some nice transitions between scenes. Like when Watson and Sherlock are waiting for the 'gohst' to appear, there is this spinning the camera movement, and while the camera is spinning the time goes by. And by this you can see the camera spinning as a clock, which was a fun thing, in my opinion. The make-up was good too, the blown out brains etcetera. The set design was amazing, I just can't understand how they could have changed the city like that, the BBC has done this earlier with 'Peaky Blinders' a less good show, again in my opinion. I loved that they took the apartment where they filmed the original show in, and made it look like it was from the 19the century. The costumes as well were cool. They gave Sherlock his stereotypical hat back, where they made fun of in the rest of the show. The music was nice as always. They took the original theme song, but did a thing different, which I can't really explain.
The acting of this special was very good as always. Sherlock was played by Bennedict Cumberbatch. I think that he is the best person that they could have chosen to play Sherlock. He was a bit stiff in the beginning of the episode (a bit more about this later on), but overall he was good. Martin Freeman played Doctor John Watson. He was good as well, he had some great chemistry with Sherlock, this can also be seen in the rest of the series. Mark Gatis, the writer of the show, and also the actor of Mycroft Holmes, came back as well. I didn't really like what they did with his character. They made him fat. Really, really fat. It was meant as a joke, but for me it wasn't really funny. In the present day he was back as his normal self, and there he acted well. The 'fat-suit' they put him in looked also fake. The actress who played the bride was scary, and acted good.
The script was very nicely written. As I have said earlier, I taught that everything was a bit stubborn, and stiff in the beginning, maybe this was like this, because I haven't seen a Sherlock episode in a while, huh, BBC?, but after a couple of minutes it loosened up and everything went back to normal. What I very much liked is the way why everything is now in Victorian London. It fitted the theme well. The only thing that botterd me is that they left us with a cliffhanger... AGAIN. The jokes they put in there were almost always funny, but the fat Mark Gatis, just didn't feel right for me. The references put in there were fun to spot, and I am not going to spoil them, so you can go find them yourself :).
Anyway, this was a fun and scary episode. Finally we got back a Sherlock episode, and I am glad that that happened.