Great twist with the mind palace being where Magnussen had his info; that was unexpected.
I'm even glad that at the very end, it was a happier ending.
Ah. I agree it was different, but I don't think it was weird. at least, not in a negative way.bookworm wrote:No, I wasn’t referring to Magnussen (although he was certainly weird as well) it was the episode in its entirety that was weird. The story, the development, the whole thing.
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Shennifer wrote:Aeva wrote:bookworm wrote:Spoiler tags fixed. -Marvinsaur
Ah. I get what you're saying a little better now. It's either brilliant or stupid to spend two years saying we'll all find out exactly what happened, and then in turn show us a few different scenarios (I'll bet they read the theories and decided to include pieces of a few of them)bookworm wrote:No no, I totally get that. The series had other focuses and addressed them fine. What I’m saying is if they knew that was going to be their focus, and weren’t going to pay off the fall, then they shouldn’t have spent the entire break bragging about how well they planned it out, because without explaining it they have no proof of that.
I wouldn’t mind either - if they hadn’t been bragging, as I said. If they hadn’t said anything about how they planned it, and instead just dropped the fall on us and then gave us this ‘explanation’ I would also be fine with it, because it didn’t lay everything out for certain but it at least gave a few ideas and the rest is up to us. I would have no problem with that approach. But again, because they did go on and on about how they worked it out, that is why it’s absurd to not explain it now.Shennifer wrote:I say brilliant or stupid because they could've said exactly how he did it, once and for all, but I almost like the idea of us never finding out exactly because we have an idea of what happened. And I don't entirely mind that
Maybe they realized a little too late that they shouldn't have bragged about how we'd find out every detail if they weren't going to show us. I would like to know exactly Sherlock did it, even if the fandom could probably find flaws in it, given that we had two years to analyze everything to death.bookworm wrote:I wouldn’t mind either - if they hadn’t been bragging, as I said. If they hadn’t said anything about how they planned it, and instead just dropped the fall on us and then gave us this ‘explanation’ I would also be fine with it, because it didn’t lay everything out for certain but it at least gave a few ideas and the rest is up to us. I would have no problem with that approach. But again, because they did go on and on about how they worked it out, that is why it’s absurd to not explain it now.Shennifer wrote:I say brilliant or stupid because they could've said exactly how he did it, once and for all, but I almost like the idea of us never finding out exactly because we have an idea of what happened. And I don't entirely mind that
What they essentially said was ‘This is so awesome, we planned every detail out, I promise it makes sense, it’s going to totally blow your mind when we explain it to you! You’re going to love it!’ and then ‘Sike! We’re not going to tell you! We know what happened, because like we said we planned every part out and it all makes sense, really, but you don’t get to know what it is!’
So it’s not that we don’t know; it’s that we weren’t told, if you get my distinction. We were pretty much promised the explanation. If that wasn’t what they were implying, then there would have been no reason to assure everyone that it was all worked out. Because if they weren’t going to tell us, it didn’t have to be all worked out.
yep. I think that's awesomebookworm wrote:Did you know Sherlock and Mycroft’s parents are actually Benedict Cumberbatch’s real parents?