I remember watching this episode when it first aired all the way back in 2014, and I recall being bored while watching it........which is never a good thing.
This episode is very underwhelming; like the last episode, it focuses too much on the character's and not enough on the mystery.
This episode takes place during John and Mary's wedding. Mainly the whole episode is Sherlock's best man speech, with some flashback scenes.
During his best man speech, Sherlock recalls a case were a guardsmen was stabbed, and no one knew how it happened. Sherlock says that he was unable to solve the case.
Sherlock then recalls another case, where women think they are dating a ghost.
It turns out both cases are connected. The man who was stabbed, the guardsmen and the ghost man are one in the same, and he is also John and Mary's photographer.
He wants to kill Major Sholto an old friend of John's from the army. A mission Major Sholto lead went wrong, and he was the only one who survived. The photographer is the brother of one of the men that died.
He stabbed the guardsmen as a test run, in both uniforms they wear a tight belt around waist, he stabbed both the guard and the Major with a very fine blade.
When Sherlock sneaks into the base, were the guardsmen is, he sneaks on it by just wearing a guardsmen hat, and his regular clothes. Why would no one notice? None of the guards he was marching behind would arrest him, or kick him out? Where did he get the hat? Did he have it in his coat?
(https://theinsightfulpanda.com/2014/01/24/sherlock-explained-the-sign-of-three/)
The photographer was dating women who worked for Major Sholto, to find out things about him.
He does stab the Major, but Sherlock, John, and Mary are able to save him.
One thing this episode has over the last one, is that we know what the bad guy's motive is, and he actually has a few lines. However, he is also completely forgettable.
Like the last episode, I feel like the writers just throw a mystery into this episode because they remembered they were writing a Sherlock Holmes story.
This episode has to force it down our throats; basically shouting it in our faces that John and Sherlock are best friends. We get it, we know, you don't have to keep telling us.
(https://www.buzzfeed.com/tomphillips/the-sign-of-three-featuring-a-drunk-sherlock-took-a-lot-of-p)
John and Sherlock have some nice friendship moments, that show you they are friends.
(http://metro.co.uk/2014/01/06/sherlock-series-3-episode-2-the-sign-of-three-10-references-you-may-have-missed-4248142/)
(https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/originals/dd/10/a6/dd10a6c8a860d0ce3526977264de99e8.jpg)
(http://benedicked.tumblr.com/post/72575356117/benedics-did-i-do-it-wrong-no-you)
Of course in some of those moments one of them says they are friends. I really don't know why the writer's feel like they have to validate Sherlock and John's friendship. I feel like they tell us they are friends every chance they get.
(https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/originals/77/48/6d/77486d81133dd22ef504a15ad310fccb.jpg)
Martin Freeman's facial expressions alone make me laugh, and Benedict Cumberbatch gets some laughs out of me too.
I actually feel very sorry for Cumberbatch in this episode, because Sherlock's best man's speech is basically the episode. He really had to learn a long monologue with the occasional interruption. It must have been hard to learn.
I really didn't need to see John's Stag night aka his Bachelor party. I also didn't need to see a drunk John and Sherlock. I never needed to see this.
(https://www.dengeek.com/collections/all/sherlock-holmes)
I never needed to see a drunk Sherlock Holmes trying to solve a case. That scene of John and Sherlock trying to solve a case while drunk makes them look like fools. I know the writer's were trying to be funny, but it just seemed like they were trying too hard.
(https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/originals/09/10/39/091039c24c18eab05b224bbb36d4c345.jpg)
Sherlock composing the song that John and Mary dance to is very sweet. It shows us how much he cares for John and Mary.
After Sherlock is done playing John and Mary's song he makes one last speech. He promises that he will always be there for them, and he will protect them, in his words, "all three of you." Sherlock then tells Mary and John that he deduced Mary was pregnant, and of course he is right.
At the end of the episode, everyone starts dancing, and Sherlock is just standing there since he has no one to dance with. He could have joined in, he could've danced in a group, but he doesn't. He leaves.
(http://sherlock.boardhost.com/viewtopic.php?id=4117&p=5)
I like this scene, because I think everyone can relate to being in a room full of people but feeling alone.
Overall this episode is underwhelming and extremely boring. I actually had to stop watching the episode while reviewing it, because I was so bored. They focus too much on the character's and not enough on the mystery. However, this episode got some laughs out of me, which the last episode did not do.
I give "The Sign of Three" 3/10.
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