I hated it. Absolutely the worst episode of Sherlock, period.
Did nothing for the story, and the mystery reveal was utter nonsense.
The actors are so busy and that delays the shooting, and if they are going to waste their time into making episodes like these, then there is no point.
Yeah my feelings exactly. It was fun to watch, but I wish it had really been its own thing. I could really do without the whole drugged out trip/mind palace/dream sequence meta shit.I enjoyed it but I do kind of wish it was just 100% Victorian. It didn't need to tie into what is coming next.
Oh well, only a billion more years until the next season.
I haven't read the story but I know about that. It still felt out of place and I did not quite understand why that scene was there and what it actually told us.
Maybe it becomes clearer for me during a rewatch.
I haven't read the story but I know about that. It still felt out of place and I did not quite understand why that scene was there and what it actually told us.
Maybe it becomes clearer for me during a rewatch.
Eh, Dr. Strange will probably be better than this.doing shitty hollywood movies.
Glad to hear some people liked it.
First impressions in here were pretty bleak so that got me worried.
I enjoyed the episode. I thought it would be filler and it wasn't. Then again, I could watch Cumberbatch and Freeman eat breakfast for 90 minutes.
I'm going to see the movie this week (in a cinema ) so I've just want to ask: do I need to watch season 3 first to get everything from the movie and to not get season 3 spoiled by it?
Filming for season 4 starts in April. I'm optimistic we'll be watching Series 4 a year from now.
Holy SHIT is that Molly?!
Why did Sherlock have toOD to realise of course you can't shoot yourself in the head and survive?!
I wouldn't worry about it- the Beeb would just put it on the shelf until New Year's next year. That's Sherlock's slot by this point.What in the fuck. It starts in April? God damn. I know each episode is feature film length but the slow pace of production on this show is astonishing.
Becausein the back of his mind, Sherlock was aware of one unsolved case where a woman shot herself in the head and conclusively died (she got an autopsy and everything), and yet she conclusively rose from the grave to kill someone (personally ID'd by her husband, with information only she would know), before returning to her grave (100% dead), and popping up occasionally to kill others (which could be dismissed as copycat crimes, if only the original crime didn't defy the laws of nature). He knows that's impossible, but he doesn't have an answer for how she did it.
Then Moriarty shot himself in the head, and now apparently rose from the grave. Sherlock knows Moriarty can't do that, but... Sherlock faked his own death on that same day with The Fall. And Moriarty is Sherlock's equal. Does Moriarty know something Sherlock doesn't? Does Moriarty know how the woman did it? Did Sherlock and Moriarty both fake their own deaths, and Sherlock was simply too slow to see Moriarty's trick?
Moriarty has literally gotten inside Sherlock's head.
What if Moriarty isn't just one person, but is actually an organisation?
What if Moriarty isn't just one person, but is actually an organisation?
Moffat did put a lot of emphasis on the twin bit.Watch it be a twin since Sherlock said it was never a twin.
Additionally, I thinkBecausein the back of his mind, Sherlock was aware of one unsolved case where a woman shot herself in the head and conclusively died (she got an autopsy and everything), and yet she conclusively rose from the grave to kill someone (personally ID'd by her husband, with information only she would know), before returning to her grave (100% dead), and popping up occasionally to kill others (which could be dismissed as copycat crimes, if only the original crime didn't defy the laws of nature). He knows that's impossible, but he doesn't have an answer for how she did it.
Then Moriarty shot himself in the head, and now apparently rose from the grave. Sherlock knows Moriarty can't do that, but... Sherlock faked his own death on that same day with The Fall. And Moriarty is Sherlock's equal. Does Moriarty know something Sherlock doesn't? Does Moriarty know how the woman did it? Did Sherlock and Moriarty both fake their own deaths, and Sherlock was simply too slow to see Moriarty's trick?
Moriarty has literally gotten inside Sherlock's head.
You... You think MoriartyGreat episode. The last 30 minutes were a bit jarring and a bit too meta to be cheeky, but I thought it was still fun.
Pretty obvious why this all ties into Sherlock.That's something we've all suspected since even Season 1.He realizes Moriarty is more than just one person. It's a group of people.
You... You think Moriartyhas a twin ???
Brilliant episode, partner and I loved it. The concept of Sherlock attempting to reconstruct a similar faked death to Moriarty's in his head as a means to solving Moriarty's mystery was very clever, and a good way to segue into the Victorian sphere. Freeman really pulled off the change with aplomb, too.
I like it conceptually, and I had fun with the episode, but I kind of feel like the one big thing it missed out on was the actual payoff to what it did. Reconstructing a similar faked death in his mind in order to solve the present problem is brilliantly fun but it's hard to see it as a compelling narrative arc if you don't actually see him solve the present problem. I think that's partially why there was a bit of backlash against the episode as a whole. The other thing adding to that is that it purported to be very self contained with the victorian era stuff and then ended up being even less contained than some other episodes (because of lack of payoff at the end).
I like it conceptually, and I had fun with the episode, but I kind of feel like the one big thing it missed out on was the actual payoff to what it did. Reconstructing a similar faked death in his mind in order to solve the present problem is brilliantly fun but it's hard to see it as a compelling narrative arc if you don't actually see him solve the present problem. I think that's partially why there was a bit of backlash against the episode as a whole. The other thing adding to that is that it purported to be very self contained with the victorian era stuff and then ended up being even less contained than some other episodes (because of lack of payoff at the end).
I enjoyed it. It's not a pantheon episode but it's a perfect cheeky way to tie seasons 3 and 4 together. I wish Sherlock had gone in to more detail on how he faked his death.