It seemed to be fairly immediately after Victor's disappearance that the fire occurred.
I think people do care about Victor: as I said before, obviously his family do.  We are just not shown their side of the story. 
Possibly the Holmes chose not to tell Mr and Mrs Trevor what actually happened: possibly they were told. "oh he told us he was going home.  We waved him off and never saw him again." I don't know and I honestly don't care.
Eurus is a psychopath and was as a child.  She allowed another child to die, that for me is the pertinent information.
Sherlock also cared and because he couldn't deal with the loss of Victor, he invented the dog as protective amnesia.
Mr and Mrs Holmes did care, as we hear them shriek:  she won't tell us where he is.
I agree in the real world, the situation would and should have been dealt with differently.
Having said that, presumably a police search was mounted: the only bit the police wouldn't have been told was that Eurus knew where Victor was.
 Personally I don't need to be shown images of police conducting a finger tip search...I can imagine that for myself.
Incidentally, this isn't real: it's a TV show. My favourite show and it works for me and other fans, too.
It has to be a child and not a dog, for the emotional impact:  John recognises this and states so in his :  "a child doesn't get locked up over a missing dog", line.
EDIT:  I've also just remembered, the Holmes actually helped in the search for Victor: "We looked everywhere, but couldn't find him."
 

Last edited by besleybean (July 5, 2017 1:47 pm)

Well perhaps if the police had known she was guilty, it would have been a different story.

I agree that she was.
 

Liberty wrote:

Most of TAB was in Sherlock's head, but that was made quite clear, I think.  Whereas we've been told that Victor was Sherlock's childhood friend, and not actually been given anything to discount it.  If the big reveal was that Eurus was deceiving Sherlock and Victor didn't exist, then I think that would have to be revealed within TFP.  Especially as S5 might be years later, if at all.
 

Well, for me, the whole TFP looks very unreal, from the very first scene in Mycroft´s house. TAB has nothing on it.

It was kinda revealed when Eurus was introduced as the mind-manipulator to us.

Also, I don´t think Mofftiss really care for settling some plot points for the fans at the end of any series. Look how they let fans hanging with the pool scene at the end of S1, how they didn´t explain Reichenbach in TEH, etc. etc.
 

besleybean wrote:

S 1 was a bit different, because they didn't know if they were going to get an S 2.

That exactly was my point. They did not know if they ever get series 2, they still left the pool scene hanging without explanation.

I think the difference is that S1 was left obviously hanging, whereas S4 seemed to be all tied up.   You'd expect people at the end of S1 to be asking "how are they going to get out of that one?", and you'd hopefully expect that to be resolved in S2 (as it was).   However, whether Redbeard was a boy or a dog, isn't left hanging: it was resolved in S4 that he was a boy.   They could go back to that same story in S5 and explain that he was a dog, but as it stands, I don't think it's something that needs to be resolved - it has been resolved within the story.  It doesn't need to be explained, as it stands. 

I could say that Eurus killed Sherlock and the rest of the episode is his dying dream, and that might be a fair interpretation, but it's very unlikely, given that they haven't left that hanging - that explanation isn't needed. 

 

I have another question about this episode:

http://gosherlocked.tumblr.com/post/163020507461/the-eurus-image

I suppose the memory of Eurus is still there in his subconscious: he just doesn't recognise it.   However, I'm not sure the dress and the hair are that similar (the hair on the wig is much longer).   Maybe typical for a little girl from that era.   Bunches are fairly archetypically a little girl's hairstyle.  People always seem to wear them up when dressing up as schoolgirls for fancy dress! 

(Also, maybe the disguise was a little bit like Eurus for the benefit of us, the audience).

Last edited by Liberty (July 15, 2017 5:12 pm)

I think there is one big issue that has not been sufficiently explained or addressed: the relationship between Sherlock and Mycroft. From the very beginning there have been hints to a feud, to resentment, to one of them upsetting their mother, but so far this difficult relationship has not been explained. And, no, Eurus is not an explanation for why they have behaved the way they did since ASiP. This is something I would really like to know and which would leave me very dissatisfied if it was not addressed in the future. 
 

I'd have liked to have seen more too, but I'm glad that we at least got more of Mycroft in TFP.   I do think that a lot is explained on screen though.   TAB in particular shows Sherlock desperately competing as the younger, and less bright brother, to beat Mycroft on his own terms (the "murderous jealousy"!).  Mycroft, meanwhile, is very protective of Sherlock, but it becomes clear that Sherlock is seen as the golden boy in the family (and the grown-up), whereas Mycroft is chided despite being the one who takes his parents to the theatre.   Intellectually, he's also stuck in the middle - he may be cleverer than Sherlock but he's not as clever as Eurus.   And because he sometimes takes a kind of parental role, he has to deal with Sherlock acting up like a teenager at times - and we don't really see a lot of reciprocal love and protectiveness from Sherlock (although I'm sure he must feel it).  In TFP it turns out that he was always hoping for Sherlock's approval too (Lady Bracknell - "I always wondered").  I suspect that Mycroft might even be a wee bit envious of Sherlock's ability to form rewarding relationships with goldfish. 

I think sibling rivalry is so common that we probably don't need a reason for it.  Sherlock is shown as being childishly jealous (about John's previous best friend, in TSOT), and Mycroft is not just a brother but a parental figure whom he rebels against. 

Who upset mother ... wasn't there some hint about a backstory that was cut, something to do with Daddy Holmes having an affair and Sherlock deducing it?  Or did I imagine that, or read it in fanfiction?