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Post by Deleted on Feb 27, 2017 2:00:28 GMT
A tension fuelled emotional rollercoaster & it did feel like closure to the series. I found the solution that giving Eurus a hug was a very anticlimactic solution that jarred a otherwise amazingly tense episode, Eurus murdered & manipulated people for her own personal gains to try undo that & humanize her fell flat to me. No doubt I'm missing the point somewhere but that's my summary
Eh, we've had plenty of nasty unrepentable mustache twirling villians, it worked for me and was a good parallel for Sherlock's own arc across the series, particularly with a story so personal for Sherlock.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 27, 2017 2:47:54 GMT
Looking back over some of the earlier episodes, his treatment of Molly was no different - in fact at least he acknowledged he didn't want to do it. By comparison look at his treatment of her at Christmas (the Belgravia episode). Absolutely shocking! The deaths were graphic and uncalled for but I can understand why they were done by a Psychopath. They just didn't fit with her at the end (little girl lost who just wanted a friend to play with). Redbeard is an odd one. Surely Mycroft kept the secret as much for his parents as Sherlock. They either didn't know what happened and he just disappeared or were the ones who covered up the crime - Mycroft wouldn't have been old enough to do it but it wasn't really explained. A similar child/dog scene happened in Survivors with the shocking reveal at the end. I enjoyed the finale, and can see how they ended up there (after rewatching the earlier ones). I didn't like the Fantasy aspect (the plane, the gravestones, the house-set and her mind-controlling skills). And what was the Moriarty thing about. 5 minutes and he did all that? Was he the pawn or her accomplice? Too many threads and not enough explanation. They made it too complex. Take out all that "bobbins" and it would have been fantastic (psychopathic sister, locked away, escapes to psychologically play with Sherlock and Mycroft, fails and is caught or killed, everyone goes back to normal, the end). Cheers Tony Thanks for summing up your thoughts about it. I agree with some of what you said. I just found myself being more and more horrified as the episode went on, and the most horrific was the realization that Redbeard was a child, not a dog. (Not that it would be great if it was a dog, but I think you can get what I mean). True that he never treated Molly Hooper well, but this was just the final straw, for me.
I don't think Mama and Papa Holmes covered up anything. I think they were deep in denial, especially Sherlock's Mother. Remember, this is a woman who put her career on hold to raise her children and was completly sure of herself. This would have shattered her and only came to grips with it when things were approaching ground zero. To me, it seems that the Holmes family never fully recovered afterwards.
I do take issue though, that they never sought help in getting their boys through it, though. Mycroft was left to manage his younger brother's trauma in place of his own and Sherlock, an incredibly emotional sensitive child was left to deal with the murder of his best (and perhaps only) friend. For Mycroft, it placed an incredibly unfair burden upon him which he's never been able to let go of and stunting his development even further then Sherlock's and unable to form connections outside his little brother. And it left Sherlock to repress his emotions enterily and forced to follow his older brother's more 'logical' lead (and remember pre-trauma Sherlock very much tried to bring Mycroft out of himself), leaving both boys into the broken dysfunctional adults we encounter in the series . I love Mama and Papa Holmes, but I find this indefensiable, grief or not. Both boys deserved a much happier and fufilling life then the lives they were forced to carve out for themselves. Neither of them were going to be exactly normal given their upbringing, but functional and happy.
Oh God, I'm tearing up just thinking about this.
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