Sherlock

[Babycakes]

I didn't see Moriarty blowing his brains out coming either.

Didn't see the need for the shot of Sherlock standing there alive and well at the end either. It was well telegraphed that Molly was going to help him pull off a save somehow. Should have ended it with John's shadow weeping at Sherlock's grave. That was a beautiful shot. And I really want to know Sherlock's lifestory/backstory. Didn't see how Jim could be a working actor (on a kid's show no less!) and that not being part of the narrative of his trial. Lots of nits to be picked on this one. I don't think this season was as good as the first. And the first episode of this season, was the best of this season's three IMO.

[Malle Babbe]

Have to admit, even after knowing that there was going to be a third season, I was still sitting with my jaw in my lap when Moriarty ate a bullet.

Do they not do open casket funerals in the UK? Or was the burial really hasty since it was presumed that Sherlock was in disgrace and a suicide at the time?

Still, if John isn't in on it, I hope he does way more than faint when Sherlock comes back... I expect some neck-wringing.

[kostgard]

Jan 16, 2012 1:02:28 GMT -4 Malle Babbe said:

Have to admit, even after knowing that there was going to be a third season, I was still sitting with my jaw in my lap when Moriarty ate a bullet.

Do they not do open casket funerals in the UK? Or was the burial really hasty since it was presumed that Sherlock was in disgrace and a suicide at the time?

Still, if John isn't in on it, I hope he does way more than faint when Sherlock comes back... I expect some neck-wringing.

I guess it would all depend on what Sherlock wanted (I'm sure through Molly he could have set something up). No one in my family ever does open casket -- we just get cremated and get on with it. Molly could have arranged something similar.

And It's all why Molly is the perfect accomplice -- she's the coroner so she'd examine the body and she could officially verify that it was indeed Sherlock Holmes. If Sherlock needed a body to throw off the roof (if he didn't throw Moriarty), she could supply that too. And she was never in danger because no one believed that she was important to Sherlock.

I'm interested to see how Sherlock pulled it off. He was definitely directing John's attention (just like the magician he said he was), and it was probably a member of his homeless network who knocked John over, keeping him from getting too close to the body, where he'd either see that it wasn't actually Sherlock or he's be able to tell that he was alive (if it really was Sherlock there). Someone else pointed out that there may be a Sherlock mask out there somewhere used by the person who kidnapped the kids (making the little girl terrified of Sherlock). Maybe Sherlock managed to land somewhere soft while Molly set up a body with the Sherlock mask. The EMTs would see that there were no life signs and take the body to the morgue where Molly would take over.

[Malle Babbe]

Gah, I didn't mean open casket funeral, I meant a viewing. All of the funerals I have been to had a viewing beforehand, but they were for family and we're Catholic (ish).

Also notice that he jumped in order to land face down on the pavement. Still, I thought that a fall from 3 stories up or higher was fatal.

Re: the confession between Mycroft and John. In the real world, governments make deals with the morally dubious all the time to get things done under the table. Did Mycroft take a chance with grooming Moriarty as such a person, and it bit him on the ass? Or is Moriarty an agent for someone even bigger?

John also seemed rather calm after being told that The Legion of Doom was moving into the neighborhood... That and he knows where is towel is...

[Witchie]

So, we got trolled by Gatiss & Moffat. Season 3 was commissioned at the same time as S2. They always knew there'd be a 3rd series. Bastards!

ONTD[/color]

There's also a new blog entry, but I can't watch it right now. John killed me last night.

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What. An. Amazing. Episode.

How crappy is it that we're halfway through Month One of 2012 and the best television we'll see is over! I didn't mind seeing Holmes at the very end, at all, because the difference between the way Moriarty's corpse and Holmes' corpse were filmed made it pretty obvious there was some monkey-business going on, not to mention Sherlock's magician's-misdirect prior to the jump.

[Malle Babbe]

While I figured that they'd have a third season due to the enthusiastic response to Sherlock, I also was thinking that it wouldn't be totally out there for Moffat and Gatiss to be nervy enough to end it with a final bang, especially since the two leads careers have really taken off since season one.

It is a testament to the writing of this episode and Martin Freeman's acting chops that even after knowing that there was a third season and that ACD wrote "The Empty House", I was still gutted by the end of the episode. John's grief, and the moment where he puts his soldier face on at Sherlock's grave in order to face life without his dear friend just cut me.

That, and Molly talking to Sherlock and his phone conversation with John on the roof of St. Bart's showed how Sherlock was likely aware of how grim things were going to be, he pain he was going to cause John, and how he was going to have to take down Moriarty's network utterly alone. He wouldn't have John to save him when his thrill of the case overrode his common sense.

[Witchie]

When Sherlock made the decision to jump, I was hoping it was a ruse, but then they panned down and there was nothing but the ground below. I was gutted thinking this was it. Then he started talking to John & I got caught up in the misdirection.

I think he fell into the truck that pulled off as John was staggering to his feet. We know Molly helped (and how I squeed at their moments), but I also think the homeless network assisted him as well. I wonder if Mycroft knows. I felt sorry for him when he admitted he had given Moriarty the information to destroy his brother.

I can't believe we have to wait another freaking year for this show.

[Malle Babbe]

I wonder if John will have married Mary Morstan in the time that Sherlock is in hiding. That would be quite a development, if only to have john blurt that out when Sherlock shows up again.

[Augustus]

I can't believe that it's still January 2012 and Sherlock is already over! Crap!

Martin Freeman really played it so, so well. I really felt for him by the grave, especially when he had to leave. So yes, I'm so glad a 3d series will be made, but damn, that's going to be a loooong wait.

I'm ignoring the huge and glaring plothole surrounding Moriarty/Richard Brook, and am still in the Yay, Molly!-mode. Finally, after the callous treatment she'd gotten from Sherlock he saw she isn't as useless or dimwitted as he had thought. But yes, I am really curious as to how they pulled it off.