It was good. Interesting. I don’t think it’s ever going to be my favourite adaptation though…
I dunno, I just can’t warm up to Martin Freeman’s Watson. Or Cumberbatch’s Holmes, for that matter. He’s just too cold, too inhuman, and the Holmes of the books wasn’t. It’s actually been the minor characters who’ve won me over the most, Lestrade especially. They did a really good job with him.
Guessed who Moriarty was, pretty much, from the moment ‘Jim’ showed up. (Jim = James, see?) When he wasn’t mentioned again I thought maybe the name was a red herring, but no, there he was at the end. Was the swimming pool the Reichenbach pool? Because it totally should have been.
So, yes. Also, the guy standing in the middle of the street very obviously wearing a bomb and looking terrified and holding a phone- didn’t anyone notice that? Londoners aren’t that apathetic!