No one has died, nothing bad has really happened. “I mean, who leaves early at a wedding?” I don’t know what it is, but I feel like these last two episodes are leading up to something bad happening. Mrs Hudson talking about what happened to her and her best friend, Mycroft saying it’s the end of an era and Sherlock leaving a wedding early. The whole episode seems to be about how John marrying Mary is going to split them up. “You hardly gonna need me around now you got a real baby on the way” I feel like the whole episode was telling us one thing that can be summed up in one of Sherlock’s quotes
The Sign of Three , of course, meaning that the family of John and Mary was going to have a baby added. A wedding began, and a wedding ended, with not many altogether life-changing events occurring.īut then, of course, they were the more subtle things that the episode implied. I’m not necessarily saying this as a negative, I just found it interesting how, although so much appeared to happen in the episode, at the end of the day not much happened at all. There was a recap of some old cases, a stag night, a wedding and an attempted murder, but nothing really seemed to chang. Now, for what I thought of the actual story. The wedding was the main event, but that fact did not take away from all of the little stories that came together in The Sign of Three.
The way they moulded smaller stories of cases and stag nights and conversations into the very essence of the wedding. And I really loved the way they did that. The story wrapped itself neatly and subtlety around the wedding of John Watson and Mary morstan in a way that showed off the brilliant cinematography that was used in the episode. I didn’t expect to be based around the wedding, I expected the wedding to just play a small part in the story, but I was wrong. What can I say, other than this was the wedding of the year.
SPOILERS AHEAD (this includes the images as well) Of course, it ticked both boxes because it made me cry as well, making it a well-rounded and brilliant episode which is typical of Sherlock. This episode was single-handedly the funniest episode of Sherlock aired to date, and I found myself laughing out loud more than once while watching. Being slower-paced than The Empty Hearse it was still exciting, emotion-filled, but most of all, hilarious. Thompson’s previous middle episode being my least favourite, I was a little worried about how The Sign of Three but it turned out that I had no reason to be.
Thompson was the same person who wrote my least favourite episode The Blind Banker but also my favourite pre season three episode The Reichenbach Fall, an episode whose credit is mostly given to the two co-creators Mark Gatiss and Steven Moffat. The Sign of Three was written by a Sherlock writer who we hear very little about Stephen Thompson as well as Steven Moffat and Mark Gatiss. However, The Sign of Three turned out a lot better than I thought it would. The first paragraph will be a spoiler-free review for those who are still waiting to see the episode, until I say “SPOILERS BELOW” where it will be filled with many a-spoiler. The middle episode in the previous episodes has usually been my least favourite of the three, so I was expected the same of this episode as well.