I agree - s2 seems at a loss to know what to do with itself. There are scattered episodes and scenes dealing with Sherlock making amends, overlapping with a set of him invested in not being 'nice', and a third group of season-hijacking blips with Mycroft, Lestrade, and Moriarty.
Watson doesn't seem to have an arc at all. Two separate episodes months apart about guilt, one with a subplot about having a life outside of the brownstone, and one with her staking claim to building her expertise, none of which had any connection with the others.
I wonder if there's network pressure to be episodic rather than serial. (it seems clear that the CBS promotion department wants the show to be The Wacky Adventures of That Crazy Sherlock when they can't play up some dark romance angle.) I much prefer serial and have been almost as disappointed by the lack of season-long narrative structure as I am by their squandering Watson as a fully developed lead. The slow, deep build of character and context was what I fell in love with originally, and I've missed that in the confusion of s2.
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Watson doesn't seem to have an arc at all. Two separate episodes months apart about guilt, one with a subplot about having a life outside of the brownstone, and one with her staking claim to building her expertise, none of which had any connection with the others.
I wonder if there's network pressure to be episodic rather than serial. (it seems clear that the CBS promotion department wants the show to be The Wacky Adventures of That Crazy Sherlock when they can't play up some dark romance angle.) I much prefer serial and have been almost as disappointed by the lack of season-long narrative structure as I am by their squandering Watson as a fully developed lead. The slow, deep build of character and context was what I fell in love with originally, and I've missed that in the confusion of s2.