Tuesday, 22 October 2013

Sherlock Series 1 Ep 3 The Great Game

Identify those narrative elements contained within this episode?

The great game follows the 3 act structure being the set up- the audience establishing that sherlock is desperate for a case, the development sherlock gets two cases, the resolution- the cases are solved.In this episode the main enigma is solved Who is Moriarty? we are shown him at the very end and suddenly everything makes sense.
This episode also has many lines of action there is one main case being the people strapped with bombs and Moriarty being the person behind it but also there is the man with the missile plans who jumped the train tracks as well as the gallery man found at sea.All of these cases however are related to Moriarty, the man who jumped the tracks being the distraction as Moriarty knew sherlock wouldn't be interested in a case from his brother, setting up other cases for him whilst he solved the case as he wanted the missile plans or so it seemed. I don't think the theory of TODOROV could be applied to this episode because it is left as a cliffhanger and with more enigmas a raised. Did sherlock shoot the bomb?

Identify those elements developed from episode 1 STUDY IN PINK?

The study in pink also follows the 3 act structure the setup being the introduction to Dr Watson the development being the case and the resolution being the conclusion to what happened to these people. However in this episode the enigma of who is Moriarty is first started but to sherlock old fans they are already informed who Moriarty is Moriarty being Sherlocks arch enemy. I could also say that the TODOROV theory could be applied to this episode as equilibrium is resolved at the end that being the case is solved. This episode follows a slightly non linear make up as in the setup we are shown flashbacks to days in afghanistan supposed to be John Watsons dreams, we are also showed flashbacks to what the people were doing before they died and they all seem to be taking this strange pill.

1 comment:

  1. Good understanding shown for The Great Game episode, in its use of several narrative lines, and open-ended cliffhanger. You link it to Study in Pink via the Moriarty character, but don't forget Molly too. Some confident use of media studies terms, but others like protagonist, antagonist and binary oppositions could be added for higher grade. Don't forget to use capitals for episode titles, and full strops where needed/ Grade C

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