Oh yes of course.

I thought it added some interesting plot twists, but as others have said she gets in the way of developing the Holmes-Watson relationship.

Would you have felt the same if it had been Sherlock repeatedly slapping Molly around the head?

I think I must have been in Mary rage mode at that point and didn't take everything in.

Just a suggestion - it might be better to read what people have actually posted then you might be able to make more accurate posts yourself. Hope that helps.

That's exactly how I saw it too.

Good job that unlike most blackmailers Magnusson hadn't thought to have back ups ready to be sent out at a minutes notice.

In fact it was rather a silly admission by Magnusson..once Mycroft knew he would have just spirited him away and nobody would ever see him again.

Or if Mycroft wasn't willing then publicly telling everybody that it was all in Magnussons head would have left him in a rather precarious position.


Magnusson didn't outplay Holmes, he showed his rather weak hand in the stupidest way possible.

'For the first time in Sherlock'....'there's yet another....'?

How does that work then?

Not bothered enough to send armed officers in helicopters to Magnusson's residence?

I watched it a few times and hated it and please could someone tell me what trolling is? Whenever I read it I think of a Scandinavian gnome. Is it making lots of posts?

Missed some of the plot of this episode as some of the cast talk very fast, and there was all that writing in the screen and I am of course watching in a foreign language. However, despite that I enjoyed it greatly.

Can you elaborate on which elements in this episode you have an issue with?

I felt the same. It seemed very off bu... OH LOOK, IT'S MORIARTY!!!

But isn't that kind of the point? Not necessarily to get in the way of but to change the Watson-Holmes relationships a little. I think perhaps people forget that Sherlock was supposed to have been dead for two years. Of course Watson moved on and it would have been fairly ridiculous for him to abandon the new life he'd built when Sherlock walked back through the door.

Also on the subject of Watson and Mary its not as if Watson just forgave Mary. We didn't see the ins and outs of it but that was hinted at and suggested in the episode itself. I'd have thought that people would have been happy to skip over that since it would have been 'too soapy' and distract from the mystery of the week.

Still not as good as Reichenbach for me, but very very good television. I liked it. A lot. The case was there from the start and it also had the Sherlock humour. See? The two things can co-exist.

Are we all just simply believing that Moriarty is back and alive? I can't buy into it.

And Sherlock kept his vow that he made last week in shooting Magnussen and protecting John and Mary. I honestly thought John was going to do it.

It would have been easy for Sherlock to send a signal to Mycroft that the archives were not as secure as assumed. Magnusson was stupid in revealing what the archives actually were.

Whatever do you mean? That 'The Moff' doesn't know whether you watched the episode or not?

Yep precisely the only sensible....OH LOOK ITS MORIARTY !!!

The point of a story is always to make sure your audience understands the story otherwise it is ultimately pointless.

Non-linear story telling is usually used as a hook. That makes it effective - you show, for example, something dramatic happening to make you think 'omg how did they get here?' and you flashback and sometimes forward to resolve that. It's a way of grabbing an audience because often the start of the story isn't the most grabbing part. I didn't think it was at all necessary here because it didn't add anything. It was trying to be clever for the sake of it imo and the story would've worked just as well without it and wouldn't have confused the audience. It added confusion for some with absolutely no gain imo.


Very. Miller is SUPERB as Holmes and the writing for his character is particularly excellent. Very nuanced, a lot of thought has gone into how to make him Holmes in the modern world. There's a great relationship between him and Watson.

There is no plot hole, you just don't understand it.

Maybe he does.


Quite. Every series has finished with a big cliffhanger.


They didn't send them for him though did they. They were there to retrieve Mycroft's laptop. That was explained in the episode.

Mycroft didn't care, he'd already made that clear. The authorities, (ie Mycroft), didn't see Magnusson as a threat, he was a threat to Mary, her unborn child and Watson but not anybody important to the state.

That's why Sherlock had to do the deed.

Mr Holmes , you've been accused of the murder of one of the most prominent business men in the world and so..OH LOOK ITS MORIARTY !!!

I suppose when the tracker device activated on Mycroft's super secret information lap top a few alarms would go off.

The case didn't warrant 90 minutes of television. It was too thin. Mary was revealed to have a dark past but after that nothing much happened until the end.

Magnusson was never presented as being 'evil' enough to warrant his execution. Robert Hardy was much more convincing in this respect in ITV's iffy 'Master Blackmailer'. In that it is someone who is being directly blackmailed who kills Milverton, not Sherlock, and the consequences of the blackmail on individuals is shown to be much more severe than in tonight's episode.

As I said before, the 'twists' were too predictable.

There was a lot of what might be called padding. All the stuff at the Holmes house at Christmas I could've done without. Same goes for the endless sequence after Sherlock is shot.

Sherlock, again, doesn't have to use his powers of deduction. He just shoots someone.

Little sense of the characters being in jeopardy.

Then explain to me how Magnusson revealing where the archive was did not put his life at risk.