Well how does anybody grow up to be a demented psychopath?
If you're wanting a full medical answer, I am unqualified.
But there is a psychopathic gene, they have identified.
Not all people who carry it turn out to be crazy murderers...but some do.

SharonH58 wrote:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-4122872/After-enduring-shocking-self-indulgent-hyped-Sherlock-finale-exasperated-TV-critic-asks-BBC-bigwigs-fig-viewers.html
this guy shares my views.  his other reviews on this season too   

 
Ouch.

Well... it's dailyfail... though I'm also not convienced of that episode I prefer my own point of view. It's not that harsh.

CarlPowers wrote:

SharonH58 wrote:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-4122872/After-enduring-shocking-self-indulgent-hyped-Sherlock-finale-exasperated-TV-critic-asks-BBC-bigwigs-fig-viewers.html
this guy shares my views.  his other reviews on this season too   

 
Ouch.

besleybean wrote:

I decided not to even click!

I stopped reading at: "Suddenly, there was a man standing on their cabin roof. 'I'm Sherlock Holmes the pirate,' he cried and pointed a gun at them. How he got there, nobody even attempted to decipher."
That's just bad research and shows that the author wasn't paying attention and was just too lazy to use his own brain. It was clearly explained even before we saw Sherlock on the fisherboat that he had gotten there by helicopter (and we've seen in TLD that Mycroft has helicopters at his disposal: "Big brother is watching you"). I realize there are things you can criticize about this episode, but I can't take a review seriously that was written by someone who doesn't even get the things that were clearly explained in the episode.




 

Last edited by Kae Em (January 19, 2017 7:37 am)

Somewhere I read that the journalist who wrote that article had been excluded from a press screening or event. Might have been the screening of TST. I definitely remember that a DM writer was not invited to a S4 press event which might explain the bias and the disregard even for things that are explained in the episode. 

I enjoyed both the episode and the season. I just recently remembered one thing I am not OK with. I didn't like the fact that Sherlock, the Great Sherlock Holmes, pointed a gun at his brother Mycroft. And was seriously dwelling on the idea of killing his brotherfor several seconds. I was a bit uncomfortable or even disgusted by that. I would feel much better if that had never happened. I would have much more respect for Sherlock as character if he had pointed a gun at himself and started the countdown without the previus semi readiness to shoot his own brother. This fly in the ointment took something from the Sherlock character for me.

Last edited by Bankomas (January 19, 2017 7:55 pm)

besleybean wrote:

I don't know if he really was willing to do it, well, as we know- he wasn't.

 I clearly remember him aiming. And remember his finger starting to pull the trigger before he changed his mind

besleybean wrote:

I don't think he changed his mind...he just couldn't do it.

 I am not even sure what's worse

For me it's a plus for Mycroft. Not Shelock.

I have to strongly disagee. For me the result is not the only thing that is impotant. Which seems to be obvious. In my view it also matters how it was achieved. Otherwise they could have just shown us the outcomes without the plotlines - at the end of the day sherlock is friends with John, they are living on Baker Street, Mycroft is alive, Mrs. Hudson is alive - this is all that matters. In my opinion everything that happend and how it happened is significant. If not than why bother at all. For me it undermines the character.

Last edited by Bankomas (January 19, 2017 8:30 pm)