Whisky wrote:

@SolarSystem: I am actually relieved to hear this. I thought I'd be alone with this feeling.

At points I felt so disappointed it hurt. I loved the second episode, and I was hoping so much for the final, and after ten minutes into the episode, I realised: this is not it. That felt quite bitter.

Again, same here. I don't really like T6T, but TLD was brilliant, for me the best episode since TRF. But today was just... not convincing. It even felt a bit boring to me at times, especially the whole playing games part at Sherrinford. Moriarty... I have always loved him, but today he was really getting on my nerves. And the game Eurus played with the boys... well, not exactly new, I have seen stuff like that in so many movies.
It just didn't feel like the show I fell in love with anymore. TLD actually did, but TFP... I don't know what to make of this, quite frankly.
 

WhoIWantToBe wrote:

We basically just watched Shutter Island. Just.... NO. 

They swerved quite far off from the detective story, that´s true. Probably because Mark Gatiss is the horror buff, I guess.
 

I loved the line "a prisoner of your own meat". 

I love that Uncle Rudi got a mention!

The music was fantastic, for instance in the shooting Mycroft scene. 

Mummy Holmes holding Mycroft's hand (aww!).

Them bounding out of "Rathbone Place" at the end.

He played a small piece of Irene's music and her name is never even mentioned.  Why are we talking about IRENE!!!

The scenes of them putting 221b back together made me cry.  They put the smiley back on the wall!!!!!!!

I had a few dissapointments but they are nothing I can't live with.  Over all, after a lot of the drama on tumblr, I expected so much worse.

In the end it will always be about the two of them.  John and Sherlock in 221b.

 

Last edited by tonnaree (January 15, 2017 11:07 pm)

My hands are still shaking as I'm typing those words and my brain doesn't think properly anymore.

​Errr... Was that Tom Hiddleston after the credits? Even if it sounded very final, all hopes are not lost, then? Please tell I haven't imagined things!!!

​First thing that crosses my mind right now is that I am in Mycroft's Heaven! He's always been my favourite character and he was wonderful in that episode! I could write a whole essay! But not right now! When he started provoking Sherlock and saying all those bads things about John, I was sure he was only doing that to make Sherlock shoot him. That was so terribly touching! Of course, you have a heart underneath all that, Mycroft!

And he showed it more than once! (he was disgusted by all those killings. When he's not supposed to do sentiments!)

​And Sherlock who'd rather kill himself than kill his brother...

​That episode was brotherly love at its best! I LOVED ALL OF IT!!! And I love Mycroft even more than I've ever had!!!

​(I felt bad when Mummy Holmes was --understandably-- mad at Mycroft, but at the end, I think I saw her put her hand on his lap??? )

​The whole episode was intense, my heart has been beating way too fast for the last couple of hours.

The end was really well done. Of course, being a Johnlocker, I wouldn't have minded a kiss, but come to think of it, I think the end is perfect as it is. Just like in the Private life of SH. You can interpret it the way you want.

​Of course, I see Johnlock/Parentlock. John moves back to Baker street and they raise Rosie together. I can't see that as a platonic friendship.

​But those who want to see it as a profound friendship can interpret it that way.

​The text Sherlock sends at the end could refer to Irene Adler for those who like to ship him with her.

​There was a light hint of Mystrade for whose who wanted to see it too.

​The only ones who are left out are the Sherlolly shippers. Yes, they said I love you to each other, but that was really painful to watch and even if I have never been particularly attached to Molly (I really like her character, don't get me wrong, I just don't care very much about her) I felt really bad for her, seeing her so depressed and having Sherlock say I love you to her when she knows it's not true will only make things worse. Poor thing.

​Sian Brooke is a really good actress but her character did annoy me more than once.

​I was afraid they were bringing Moriarty back from the dead and felt relieved when I realised it was a scene that had happened five years ago. It was good seeing him on screen again, though it got on my nerves at times.

​I loved the canon references.

​Well, that's all I am able to say right now because my thoughts are a real mess.

​All in all, I really enjoyed that episode. Maybe not as good as The Lying Detective, but still one of the best épisodes I think.

​Of course, I have a few nitpicks (maybe a lot, once I will have been given enough time to think about them), of course there are still so many questions left unanswered and that is really frustrating, of course I would have loved to see more Johnlock because there is never enough of this  (but Mycroft's brotherly love, which I love even more than Johnlock, really counterbalances this!)​...

​But you know what?

​If this is the end, then I am not bitter. I'm only grateful to all those people who worked on that show and brought so many good things into my life without even being aware of it...

When they played "I want to break free" by Queen I though "oh wow now they've lost it." but it was nice to see Andrew.

Although I like to see a series 5 in some years when Rosie is a 5 or so, I wonder about the influence Sherlock will have on her. Hopefully she'll be a little smartass.

Liberty wrote:

The music was fantastic, for instance in the shooting Mycroft scene. 

You noticed there was music in that?
I was so caught in that psychological torture, I didn´t hear anything.... 

Hi everyone. I don't post too much these days - sorry for that - I didn't know whether to share my thoughts or not, but because I so loved the show I want to just say what I feel somewhere before I draw a line under it.
I didn't like season 4 at all - in fact it's left me feeling like I don't really have the energy to fully explain why.
And this finale. For me it was messy, ridiculous, full of holes - I feel like I have to make it up to myself somehow by reading the ACD stories again so that I can erase all this from my mind.
Mofftiss are clever - we know that. But I find myself wishing they'd called this show something else; I wish they'd made their own characters and given them different names in the way that the creators of House did.
I'm too tired to articulate properly so I'll just finish by saying that this felt like the end, but even if they did more, I'm out now.

Ivy wrote:

When they played "I want to break free" by Queen I though "oh wow now they've lost it." but it was nice to see Andrew.

I LOVED it! Moriarty has always been over the top, it couldn't have fitted any better!
 

ewige wrote:

So John still has his ring what, one, one and a half years later?

​I think it is usual for widowers to keep their ring. Unless they meet someone new, and still...

​I've been a widow for four years and a half and I still wear my ring (i haven't rebuilt my life so far), I would feel like I'd betray my late husband if i took it off... I don't want to, anyway.