NaNo Day 8, etc

[jaunthie]

Words today: 2,701
Words total: 16,260
Days remaining: 22

1/3 of the way up the mountain. A long ways to go yet, but at least I'm ahead of the curve now, with a little bit more of a cushion.

I also watched the third episode of Sherlock tonight.



ON the one hand, the writing was MUCH better than the second episode. It wasn't quite as good as the first, but damn near close. And OMG, the chemistry between the two leads was just amazing. Great stuff.

On the other hand... Well, there's that ending. Or rather, the unresolved cliffhanger at the pool (water, not falls, but still). Which is bad enough. But unfortunately in the rush to melodrama and angst, the writers forgot to do due dilligence on their homework. Not only is the setup completely ridiculous, the basic premise of the very end has one really fundamental flaw:

C-4 cannot be detonated by a gunshot.

And I believe that's what they said the vests had in them earlier in the episode. So Sherlock's threat? Completely and utterly empty, and pretty much everyone there would have known it. Which just takes the wind out of the whole "stalemate" ending.

Which is a shame, because the acting was *superb*. C'mon, writers. You can do better. And those two deserve the best you can give them. (Yowza!)


Let's just say that I'm VERY glad there's a Series 2 order already in, as that ending would have been unconscionable as the actual, y'know, END. I hold out hopes that Series 2 will be even stronger than Series 1.

Comments

[belfrynotes.livejournal.com]

Actually LeStrade said it was semtex, which is related to C-4, but not the same thing. Can it be detonated by gunshot? I don't know, but they did set up, or at least imply, throughout the episode that that was how it was going to be set off.

[jaunthie.livejournal.com]

Ah, I must have misheard. Semtex is indeed a plastic explosive but is quite different from C-4, chemically speaking. Like most of the plastics, I think (but have no real idea) that it's supposed to be relatively stable and difficult to set off without a proper detonator, but who knows?

However, I thought the whole point of the laser scopes was to keep the victims in the episode under control (i.e., not take off the bomb), not detonate the bombs themselves. That was on the timed detonator.