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desperanceIt's easy enough to make one character smarter than the rest, that's just about comparison and degree.
What's harder is to convince an audience that the character is smarter than they are. You have to work at that.
There is a whole extra step yet - "this character is not only smarter than you, he's smarter than me who made him" - but sadly we don't even need to go that far, because Sherlock failed step two.
I wanted it to be clever; it wanted me to be stupid, so that I would think it was clever. It did keep saying how clever it was, but, y'know? That's not quite enough.
And then it set up an intellectual puzzle for the grand denouement, which we know can be solved because the villain has demonstrably solved it, and everything hangs on whether Sherlock can work it out too - and they just ducked it entirely, went for the bathetic cop-out instead and shrugged off the whole point & purpose of the story.
Bah, I say. Also, humbug.
What's harder is to convince an audience that the character is smarter than they are. You have to work at that.
There is a whole extra step yet - "this character is not only smarter than you, he's smarter than me who made him" - but sadly we don't even need to go that far, because Sherlock failed step two.
I wanted it to be clever; it wanted me to be stupid, so that I would think it was clever. It did keep saying how clever it was, but, y'know? That's not quite enough.
And then it set up an intellectual puzzle for the grand denouement, which we know can be solved because the villain has demonstrably solved it, and everything hangs on whether Sherlock can work it out too - and they just ducked it entirely, went for the bathetic cop-out instead and shrugged off the whole point & purpose of the story.
Bah, I say. Also, humbug.