![]() However, the tension in that moment also stemmed from the anticipation of what is to come. The performances by both Benedict Cumberbatch and Louise Brealey deserve praise for bringing out the tense situation and the utter tragedy of it all so perfectly. While my frustration with the episode is incredible indeed, I must accept that the part where Sherlock makes Molly say ‘I love you’ to him by lying to her was one of the finest moments of the season. (BBC)Īnd then there is the sorry story of Molly Hooper. He can vogue all he wants to Queen but those videos cancel it all out. Just to imagine him in a room, recording himself imitating a ticking clock, makes me cringe. They even brought back Andrew Scott and managed to do what we didn’t think was possible: Ruin Moriarty. ![]() What’s worse that they didn’t stop with the bad villains here itself. Decades of planning to kill him and all it took was a hug? Like everyone else on this show, all she needed was just a bit of Sherlock in her life to make it all ok. In the last 10 minutes, she very conveniently turns into mush when Sherlock gives her a hug. The blame of it doesn’t lie on actor Sian Brooks, who did her job perfectly, but on the writer who wrote her as a heartless murderer the entire length of the episode except in the last 10 minutes when it was finally time to wrap up. While the build-up to her was inviting, the actual picture was no fireworks. This season, Culveton Smith (the one defeated by a recording device) was followed by Euros Holmes, Sherlock’s own psychopathic sister. (BBC)Įver since Moriarty shot himself on that terrace all those years ago, Sherlock has struggled to create a new villain who could match his diabolical mania and also his intelligence. It has all been a downhill ride ever since the third season began and has ended (hopefully) at this very sorry episode. No matter your love for the series as a whole, you owe it to yourself as a lover of television before anything else to accept that Sherlock jumped the shark a long time ago. The characters changed their entire personalities in the name of a twist, plots that had been left hanging through the entire series are taken up only to be discarded again seconds later and melodrama is played as the biggest piece of the puzzle in a show that never previously had to depend on it. The episode - with all its over-the-top explosions, pirates appearing out of thin air, painting crying tears of blood and detectives who cannot spot an entire missing wall of glass - felt like being given a heavy dose of one of Sherlock’s infamous drug cocktails and made to solve a murder mystery. ![]() No Penny, ‘not knowing’ is no fun at all. Like Sheldon, a lot of us have been left searching for answers after the sheer disappointment that was Sherlock’s probable last episode, The Final Problem. ‘What’s that? The motto of your community college?,’ he spat back at her, visibly frustrated at not having an answer. ‘Not knowing is part of the fun,’ said Penny once when Sheldon struggled to find out how Howard pulled off a magic trick.
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