{"id":249783,"date":"2013-10-20T15:00:52","date_gmt":"2013-10-20T15:00:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2013\/10\/20\/so-i-find-the-blind-baker-problematic-to-some\/"},"modified":"2013-10-20T15:00:52","modified_gmt":"2013-10-20T15:00:52","slug":"so-i-find-the-blind-baker-problematic-to-some","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2013\/10\/20\/so-i-find-the-blind-baker-problematic-to-some\/","title":{"rendered":"So I find the Blind Baker problematic to some extent as an episode and I feel bad that Sherlock abandoned John to the cops with the spray paint, but John’s the one that kicks the crossbow to the side while Sherlock’s all tied up (hah). And watching him in that interrogation scene is interesting. He’s pretty calm, considering, other then insisting he’s not Sherlock. And he does fight back once Sarah is in danger."},"content":{"rendered":"

willietheplaidjacket<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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The Blind Banker definitely has issues and I have issues with it. It\u2019s by far my least favourite episode for several reasons.\u00a0<\/p>\n

There are things I like, like the growing domesticity between John and Sherlock, the glimpse into Sherlock\u2019s uni days, John getting the job at the surgery and us getting to see a bit more of his womanising side.\u00a0<\/p>\n

But as a whole, it falls a bit flat. The scene in the tunnels always irritates me slightly because I don\u2019t think that is quite how John would react. He seems to flip between calm and panicky a bit too much (though I do like it when he smiles and says \u2018Did I really say that?\u2019 when General Shan is relaying what he said outside Soo Lin\u2019s flat). The thing is, in Pink it was established that John is calmest when he\u2019s in danger or others are, but we don\u2019t see that in Banker. When Sarah is threatened he becomes frantic. True, he is tied down and can\u2019t do much, but I still don\u2019t think he\u2019d react quite like that. I don\u2019t know if that\u2019s a fault with the writing or if Martin just didn\u2019t quite know how to play it there.<\/p>\n

The thing is, if this episode were in any other detective\/cop show, it would probably be really good, but in Sherlock it just doesn\u2019t live up to the standards of the others. It gets sidetracked by the case, which may sound silly because it is a crime drama, but Sherlock is really about the many relationships within it. And although we are introduced to Sarah and we get a glimpse of how John and Sherlock are living together, I don\u2019t feel like it adds all that much to their relationship. I also don\u2019t feel like what we see of John in Banker is a natural progression of a few weeks from what we saw of him in Pink.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Yeah, he does flip a bit from calm to panicky. Maybe we can all jut pretend this episode mostly doesn’t exist?<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

willietheplaidjacket: The Blind Banker definitely has issues and I have issues with it. It\u2019s by far my least favourite episode for several reasons.\u00a0 There are things I like, like the growing domesticity between John and Sherlock, the glimpse into Sherlock\u2019s uni days, John getting the job at the surgery and us getting to see a … <\/p>\n

Continue reading “So I find the Blind Baker problematic to some extent as an episode and I feel bad that Sherlock abandoned John to the cops with the spray paint, but John’s the one that kicks the crossbow to the side while Sherlock’s all tied up (hah). And watching him in that interrogation scene is interesting. He’s pretty calm, considering, other then insisting he’s not Sherlock. And he does fight back once Sarah is in danger.”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[16,15],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249783"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=249783"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249783\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=249783"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=249783"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=249783"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}