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I think one of Mofftiss big problems is that they think the success of Sherlock is due to them. When actually the success of Sherlock is mostly due to Ben and Martin as Sherlock and John and their fantastic chemistry and great acting.
You separate John and Sherlock or have a chaperone there the whole time, as was done in S4, and their pretty lackluster writing really starts to shine through.
Another big problem they have is that they think Benedict and Martin are stars because of their writing. Impossible to say, of course, but they failed at repeating the star-making with Amanda and Sian. Even though they tried very hard.
POINT.
I think that given the divide in show quality, we also have to give a fair bit of credit to Paul McGuigan, especially for the consistencies of s1-2. It was s3 when they switched to the Doctor Who model of a different director for each ep—and directors who admittedly were out to put their own spin on things and top each other—that the show seemed to begin sinking under its own weight. What works for the “top this!” episodic style of Doctor Who, where the narrative has fluctuated and tied itself in knots regularly, is not what works for the relatively short arc the writers attempted with Sherlock BBC and its sequel, Mary BBC. Such consistency as the latter had does build on the work of the actors, but it’s clear that they were receiving different direction by then as well as being indulged more in their favorite “bits” (BC’s waiter in s3 and drugged Shakespeare in s4; MF’s asshole hair and demeanor that he’s been playing a lot recently in things like Startup or Civil War). The lack of cohesiveness may have been there from the beginning, but I don’t think that the writing alone held it in check until s3.
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