They ran through twenty minutes of faffing about how the murders could have worked, it was the climax of the episode and the whole point of the plot and the mystery, but it was dismissed with the comment that he "got lucky". It was quite obvious from about a third of the way in that the cabbie did it, and after that we just sat watching Holmes floundering about while, at the end, Mrs Hudson waved the solution as to the who under his nose.
So we went on to the method, and a giant build-up as to how it was done, but in the end, with a wave of the magic want, dismissed as pure luck and Holmes saved by GPS and an illegal handgun.
In the 30s, that would have got the writers drummed out of the Detective writers club (I forget what it was called) as cheating.
Furthermore, the whole of the way Holmes detected in canon is now part of the mainstream. You can watch The Mentalist doing the observation thing (and better than it was done last night) every week. Holmes was the first 'scientific detective' but scientific detection is now also part of the mainstream and there is nothing he can do that isn't done every week on CSI.
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Date: 2010-07-26 02:06 pm (UTC)So we went on to the method, and a giant build-up as to how it was done, but in the end, with a wave of the magic want, dismissed as pure luck and Holmes saved by GPS and an illegal handgun.
In the 30s, that would have got the writers drummed out of the Detective writers club (I forget what it was called) as cheating.
Furthermore, the whole of the way Holmes detected in canon is now part of the mainstream. You can watch The Mentalist doing the observation thing (and better than it was done last night) every week. Holmes was the first 'scientific detective' but scientific detection is now also part of the mainstream and there is nothing he can do that isn't done every week on CSI.