Ok so they are bumblebee sized. And stay up for only minutes at a time. Still not sure that small of an exaggeration takes it into boxed set territory.
Except that packing in long range telemetry and the ability to also carry a video signal, and a dose of quick-acting poison able to kill a man, as well as guidance and power source, are incredible hurdles that will have to be overcome before anything near the mechanical mosquito will be practical.
We are talking on major advances in power storage and consumption that are still years away.
I'm neither here nor there, but does handwavium and bad/fake science count as Boxed Set material? Or is it actually legit fake science that is the stuff of science fiction that is forming the backbone of the show, or is at least a consistent element.? I'm also thinking of Due South where ghost dads were the extent of Boxed Set material.
Castle had one episode that left you pretty certain it was for real time travel. So I'd say unless it is a consistent element, it can stay here. On the other hand, there has been enough science fantasy in multiple eps that maybe DCJ has a point.
And I want him to just be...not so offputting.
1 out of 2 isn't bad.
SO OFFPUTTING. Man, just go back to being The Lizard.
Steph calls it!
Totally!
I can't say I loved that reveal. Sherlock is a savant when it comes to noticing when people are lying/hiding things and yet he does not know that his brother is actually a smooth operator pretending to be less-than?
Humph.
Also, I'd like to smack the director/editor of this episode for setting it up that two people were about to be shot but the bad guys take the longest, least meaningful pause in history to contemplate the mortality of not themselves, such that a code word can be uttered with lugubrious gravity?
Threw me right out of the story and rendered the reveal painfully eyerolly.
Be better, Show! I like you. You can be awesome when the camera isn't actually on Sherlock, can't you?
This episode was directed by Lucy Liu.
Sad face.
Even worse. I would have hoped for better, given how much experience she has and how many actors turned director do a pretty good job.
Maybe it was the writing.
I doubt Lucy Liu had much input on the script. Though actors often have different perspectives on scripts than viewers do.
Hannibal: This is one of the trippiest episodes yet, but the lighting is driving me nuts -- I can't *see* some of it well enough.
And every once in a while, Mads Mikkelson's accent is tough to parse, especially if he's speaking softly or quickly.
