So I suppose I should go through what I thought of this episode and blah de blah de blah...
OKAY. So this episode was brilliant and clever for the first half really (up until Christmas day for me). I really enjoyed Mary's story line and how she was a trained assassin, and Amanda played it brilliantly (along with both Benedict and Martin with the reactions). I really have to praise her for that one because it couldn't have been easy to carry off, but she did, and she made it look so effortless.
Also, I was heartbroken (no, really guys, I started sobbing) when we discovered Redbeard was Sherlock's childhood pet, because we can all relate to this as most of us have lost a pet we loved throughout our life, which I'm sure left most of us sobbing for two hours. It also showed us that he is capable of strong compassion and love, enough love in fact to still be effected by the death years later, decades later... Completely erasing any doubts on Sherlock's ability to love, and it proves to us maybe we don't know the consulting detective as well as we think we do; that maybe he is capable of showing and giving more love than any of us will ever be.
As well as all this, we got to see Sherlock's mind palace again, which was probably my favourite thing about the whole episode, it was like we got to explore it. But to top this all of, we saw that Sherlock had excepted that a part of him was like Moriarty, but, he had locked that part himself away. That's character development guys. In season 1 and 2 we got to see how similar they are, but this season we got to the see the differences, and how Sherlock is changing BECAUSE OF JOHN.
Now, let's get onto the Johnlock in this episode. Surprisingly, it was very disappointing. I picked up on so many moments where Sherlock displayed affection to John , e.g coming back to life for John (which caused me to cry even more), crying on the plane, and even after he said "Sherlock is a girls name" (or something along those lines) because the look on his face was ugh.... it was no. But John, John I was so disappointed with. I mean, he got bak with his wife who SHOT HIS BEST FRIEND AND LIED TO HIM ABOUT EVERYTHING. There whole relationship was a lie. How can John trust her? How can even put up with her? If my partner shot my best friend, hell, I would have filed for a divorce before Sherlock could finish his deductions on my reactions.
The THING THAT REALLY TICKED ME OFF THOUGH, was that Sherlock shot a man. Sherlock shot a man. No. It's so out of character. I know it was to protect John and Mary, but even so, I mean, come on Sherlock; where's your brilliance now? The whole plot made him seem so naive after Christmas Day and I hated it, because Sherlock's not naive, he's: brilliant, cunning, funny, witty and always a surprise; I never thought he would take the obvious way out. As well as the shooting, Sherlock should have considered that all the files were in his head after the glasses incident, even I guessed after that that Augustus had a mind palace too. To be honest, that just kinda dragged the whole episode down for me, which has landed it in my least favoruite of the series (even though everything up to Christmas day was brilliant and I loved it, and it had the potential to be my favourite.)
NOW we have to talk about Jim Moriarty. I forgot to breathe for a good ten second after the fist "did you miss me?", I then proceede to have a mini heart attack... I think... All in front of my family as well, so thanks BBC, they know think I'm mental, so really, thank you for that. But, what a brilliant plot twist, it was the perfect way to end the series, and will give us fangirls another whole bout of Reichenbach theories to work on (but just hurry up with season 4, please?)
So overall, a great episode up until... yep, you guessed it.... CHRISTMAS DAY (even the dinner was pretty funny though with Mr and Mrs Holmes), and the cliffhanger at the end really did save it in so many ways. I'm just left scared for John now, I have a feeling we can't trust Mary.... (maybe a part of the Moriarty's network that Sherlock missed? Nah, too obvious.)
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So, season three was brilliant, and probably may favourite by far because of the character development from pretty much EVERYONE. But, mainly because we learned more about Sherlock as a person, and we can now relate to him so easily (which was really hard before); also, I know feel like if I was in the same room as Sherlock that I wouldn't punch him after five minuted, but I would hug him or comfort him or befriend him,a nd try to reassure him that John won't leave him fully, ever.
See you with another one of these reviews in 84 years Sherlockians!
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