I'm about to break it down for some of y'all.
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An extremely tense scene that was ruined by really bad CG. They should have just had an explosion and left it ambiguous until the following scene. I foresee that window jump gif getting some mileage around here.
You guys complain about bad CGI. Even though this is like a movie length, you guys seem to forget that this is still a tv show. The budget aren't going to be like blockbuster movies, so the CGI aren't going to be amazing. An average budget for a Sherlock episode is about 2.7 millions. In comparison, House of Cards is about 4.5 millions. Daredevil is about 4 millions and Games of Thrones is about 8 millions.
But what was Sherlock supposed to do as a kid? Go to her room and ask her? Or acknowledge that she was lonely and help her? Because if it's the latter what does the room have to do with anything. There's no indication that she stayed in her room all the time or anything.
For most people, your room is often the safest place in the world. If she was lonely as a child, most likely she probably did spend most of her time in that room. You could also look at it as metaphorically, her room being her 'mind'. This whole time on the island Sherlock was looking at her as the villain, an enemy and when he was a kid, he was more obsessed with finding Redbeard that he didn't truly see the puzzle in her song. The song that she kept singing to him, it was her way of calling for help.
That's rich considering how cheesy that final shot of them running is.
Sometimes there can be too much cheese.
The sheer concept of Euros planning it in five minutes is so palpably absurd. If they hadn't mentioned it, there would be easy to rationalise but they explicitly reference it.
Plus this episode felt very. There was the very flat and weak looking destruction of 221b - quickly forgotten and later fixed in less than a minute. The shot of John looking out from the island was very odd. The ending scene, corny. Plus ANOTHER Mary video. John's disappearing chains. It had none of the pizzazz of the previous episode.
She didnt plan it in 5 minutes, you misheard. Chances are she probably planned this for a long time now. Sherlock said (paraphrasing) "She did this to us in 5 minutes." Meaning that in such a short amount of time, she managed to get them to this point where Sherlock, John and Mycroft are extremely stressed and emotional. In a short amount of time, she broke them.
Have to say these people are losers. Why can't characters just be friends? This was never going to happen and rightly so.
Same thing could be said about people foolishly hoping for MollyxSherlock. He was never attracted to her, but then again his attraction is more different than most. The only person he feel any sort of attraction to is the Woman.
So Moriarty used Eurus as a big contingency to his plan if he failed to beat Sherlock... but she took that as an opportunity to work out some personal issues instead... sure. Ok. She had a lot of great build up... but turned out to be ordinary. Jim would be disappointed.
She wasn't his contigency plan like you think it was. It was more like she gave him a proposition. That if things were to go wrong, she would step in. So obviously when Sherlock defeated Moriarty on the top of that roof, and he killed himself. Moriarty was completely fine with that. As Eurussaid, Moriarty was more interested in causing trouble than being alive. So as long as there is some way of truly fucking up Sherlock, he wouldn't mind dying for it.
Eurus is clearly a demented person, a psychopath. Most people who are like that has some deep rooted personal issues. (obviously) So I don't see the problem with her revelation being what it is. It's not like most psychopath just wakes up one day and want to kill people or cause mayhem.
Wtf was with that cheap plane part. Oh turns out it's just the crazy sister acting?? I wanted to like this ep. and I'm all for strange things but this just had me sitting there going "wtf is this" several times. I liked the sister being like an evil mastermind though, pretty cool start. Interesting character, really creepy. So many weird twists, and then it ends so abruptly with Sherlock and Watson in a freeze-frame all cheesy. Considering that people were killed and what happened during the episode, it just felt so out of place. I don't know, it was just weird
I was ok with the super spy Mary stuff in the other episode but the not-real Mary following Watson around and the message she left "ohhh save him Sherlock, but to save him you have to make him save you~~~~" It was really stupid. I don't know. Ugh. Now the more I think about it the less I like the whole thing. I think I enjoyed the earlier seasons more.[/SPOILER]
See immediately above for your first paragraph. People die all the time in Sherlock, emotional stuff happens all the time. Quite a few episodes ended on a happy note with some cheese. I don't know why this is out of the ordinary. Though I do agree that they seem to be in a hurry to wrap it up, making it a bit anticlimactic.
Mary loves John, so even in her death (or before her death) she knew how badly it would affect John. The only person that John is close to is Sherlock. She probably made those tapes either because she knew someone from her past was going to kill her or right after Sherlock told her that there is an assassin's coming after her. Either way, she knew that Sherlock would promise John that he would protect her and that if anything happens to her, John being emotional would blame Sherlock. So it makes sense the line "You have to save John Watson, by letting him save you."
She knew the fallout that would happen if she were to die that way, and that the only way to mend the relationship is to create that feeling that Sherlock was truly in danger, cause she knows that if John knew the danger was real. There was no way, John would not save him.
I still don't understand why Eurus even had to be a prisoner? And they never really touched on how she traveled freely to visit Sherlock that one night (or were we just meant to infer that she basically had the entire facility under her spell so she could do whatever she wanted?)
They actually did touch upon it in the episode. The governor said he lets several people talked to Eurus alone. Probably professionals to try and study her. The on the tape recording, it was revealed that even the governor did at some point. It would make sense that at some point she systematically infected key personnel inside the prison. The governor, the doctors, a guard here and there. She was outside the prison, all those moments with Sherlock and Watson. She had complete control the moment the boys step foot on the island. They walked into her trap.
After seeing some of the reaction and conclusions from Reddit, there are so many emotional through lines in this episode that highlight serious and intentional character growth since the very start of the series. Sherlock becoming a great man like Greg wished for, John developing his moral compass after the passing of Mary, Sherlock learning how to "save the life" instead of always just "solving the crime" when he helped Euros. (John taught him that.)
So many chickens come to the roost. And capping it off with "The junkie who solves crimes to get high and the doctor who never came home from the war". Just spectacular.
Yeah, I love it. A lot of things went full circles.
I like how they were completely unharmed after jumping out of those windows.
You means, the scene at the end when you see Sherlock and Watson in the room and they were trying to put everything back together? (worst attempt ever)
I think that was AFTER they got back from the island, rescuing John, saving Eurus and all that. I don't think that scene was right after the explosion. After the explosion, we obviously got a small time skip to where Sherlock and John landed on the boat. Presumably they take a bit of time to recuperate and then headed straight to the island to confront Eurus. Which would explain why they didn't look visibly injured during that last scene.
Can't even show Sherlock taking Molly out on one date or something?
That poor woman.
He gave her a Christmas kiss on the cheek. That's probably the best Sherlock can muster up.