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Warning, there will be spoilers:
So, what are everyone's thoughts on the finale?
(Bare in mind all of my Sherlock Holmes knowledge comes from this show and the RDJ movies. I've not read the books.)
I watched the episode with high hopes, after a lot of my friends were saying how it was mind blowing and the best thing they've ever seen, amazing, etc. In my opinion, the episode was good but in no way amazing.
I have mixed feelings about Magnussen's death. On the one hand, it was interesting to see Sherlock utterly defeated (properly this time, rather than him being on top the whole time but faking it, like against Moriarty.) On the other hand, it was disappointing. I was waiting to see what Sherlock would do, and he just shot him. Like, anybody could have done that. I'm here to watch a detective with brilliant deductive skills. I wanted to see him find a way out, not just shoot.
On Moriarty's return? I liked how it was done. The theme song playing, then cutting out into static was great, I thought. However, I don't like that Moriarty is supposedly coming back. Here's why:
Okay, so if he faked his death, that means either Sherlock knew, or Sherlock for some reason didn't realise that he wasn't actually dead. Why would this man, with such great deductive skills, not notice that the man in front of him was actually alive? That's just contrived, and a case of Sherlock only deducing when the writers need him to. If he did know Moriarty was alive, then okay...but I personally don't like that. Moriarty's main goal was to just mess with Sherlock, so why would Moriarty pretend to die to everyone but Sherlock, and let Sherlock go on and destroy his criminal network? Unless he wasn't actually destroying it, but either way, I'm not too happy with that.
And if he is dead, then that means that the message was prerecorded. Now, who played it? Mycroft or Sherlock, to get Sherlock back out of exile, or Moriarty's brother (or sister, and if so, I'm betting it's Janine, Sherlock's "girlfriend.") And so, if it is prerecorded, then I'm going to be disappointed because I'm now awaiting Moriarty's return, and will only find out after a year or more of waiting that Moriarty is not returning. Or maybe Moriarty had this set to record before his death, and has a series of stuff to happen to mess with England 2 years after his death. (I don't know, terrorist attacks or criminal "mastermind" stuff.)
And no, Moriarty, I didn't miss you. I actually didn't feel the character was too well done in his run from S1-2, but I did enjoy him enough.
Well, that's my opinion, what about you?
So, what are everyone's thoughts on the finale?
(Bare in mind all of my Sherlock Holmes knowledge comes from this show and the RDJ movies. I've not read the books.)
I watched the episode with high hopes, after a lot of my friends were saying how it was mind blowing and the best thing they've ever seen, amazing, etc. In my opinion, the episode was good but in no way amazing.
I have mixed feelings about Magnussen's death. On the one hand, it was interesting to see Sherlock utterly defeated (properly this time, rather than him being on top the whole time but faking it, like against Moriarty.) On the other hand, it was disappointing. I was waiting to see what Sherlock would do, and he just shot him. Like, anybody could have done that. I'm here to watch a detective with brilliant deductive skills. I wanted to see him find a way out, not just shoot.
On Moriarty's return? I liked how it was done. The theme song playing, then cutting out into static was great, I thought. However, I don't like that Moriarty is supposedly coming back. Here's why:
Okay, so if he faked his death, that means either Sherlock knew, or Sherlock for some reason didn't realise that he wasn't actually dead. Why would this man, with such great deductive skills, not notice that the man in front of him was actually alive? That's just contrived, and a case of Sherlock only deducing when the writers need him to. If he did know Moriarty was alive, then okay...but I personally don't like that. Moriarty's main goal was to just mess with Sherlock, so why would Moriarty pretend to die to everyone but Sherlock, and let Sherlock go on and destroy his criminal network? Unless he wasn't actually destroying it, but either way, I'm not too happy with that.
And if he is dead, then that means that the message was prerecorded. Now, who played it? Mycroft or Sherlock, to get Sherlock back out of exile, or Moriarty's brother (or sister, and if so, I'm betting it's Janine, Sherlock's "girlfriend.") And so, if it is prerecorded, then I'm going to be disappointed because I'm now awaiting Moriarty's return, and will only find out after a year or more of waiting that Moriarty is not returning. Or maybe Moriarty had this set to record before his death, and has a series of stuff to happen to mess with England 2 years after his death. (I don't know, terrorist attacks or criminal "mastermind" stuff.)
And no, Moriarty, I didn't miss you. I actually didn't feel the character was too well done in his run from S1-2, but I did enjoy him enough.
Well, that's my opinion, what about you?