7. The Show Still Feels Grounded By The Same Ideas
Whilst the show is ever-changing, evolving and moving with the characters - find a parallel there with Moffat's other big show - Sherlock still feels, at heart, the very same drama that captured our imagination with the very first episode. Sherlock is still the distant and detached detective that shouted at Anderson to face the other way; he was ready to propose to a woman just to get into her boss's office, after all. John is still the loyal, much more human antithesis that compliments Sherlock's otherworldliness. But more importantly, the villains haven't got bigger and better. The locations haven't stretched to Hollywood, and the motivations haven't wavered. Sherlock Holmes is still a quasi-famous detective, but he's not yet the good man that Lestrade once hoped he could become. Luckily, ambition hasn't got the better of the writers. Series 3 may feel a world away from Series 2, but it's been two years: of course things will be different. What made the show so fundamentally gripping hasn't changed.
