Ha, I thought the opening was the actual explanation of what had happened and was sitting there being disappointed because it didn’t work at all, and then it was shown to just be that guy’s theory and I was like ‘Thank goodness.’ Clearly it’s not right, it had two major flaws (and many more minor ones). It required Moriarty’s death, which Sherlock didn’t know was going to happen, or at the very least couldn’t have ensured would happen even if he suspected it, and, as has been mentioned previously in this thread, it needed to have too many people in on it.
I found it very interesting that the theory was essentially every fan theory I’ve read put together into one master plan. I wonder if that scene was always there and the fans’ minds really ended up being that close to the writers’ or if the writers crafted that scene as an afterthought based on fan theories they read about as a kind of nod.
But here’s something I’m really confused about: how did he know about Moriarty’s body in the first place? It doesn’t make sense; there’s no way he could actually have that as part of his theory. The only way he could know Moriarty had died on the rooftop was if they discovered his body, which has only two ways of happening and neither one fits.
If they found it on the roof where he fell when he shot himself that means it
wasn’t switched for Sherlock, so he wouldn’t have claimed it was in his idea. But if it was discovered after, that means it was also discovered that the body on the ground
wasn’t Sherlock, meaning he was right, but we know he
isn’t because Lestrade said so.
This makes me wonder, again, if this scene was just thought up as a nod to the fans, because it has too glaring a continuity error to have been a fully formed idea that was in the show from the start.
Okay, good, Sherlock’s name is cleared. That was a necessary part of his return, I’m glad it happened. Though I don’t know why it happened. Why it took two years to happen anyway. And what finally did it.
Was Mycroft in on the fake suicide from the beginning then?
Their take on the Final Problem continues to be the exact opposite of the original story. As I went over previously, Moriarty’s death was the
conclusion of bringing down the network, the very last thing that needed done. That was why he was okay with sacrificing himself if that was what it took to bring it about. And also why discrediting him was such sacrilege, because the Fall was his ultimate act of glory, not an act of disgrace. But here, Moriarty’s death and what surrounded it was apparently just the beginning, and he
then went on to dismantle the network.
Well, that reunion went both worse and better than I expected in different ways. I get Sherlock’s reasoning, but I have to side with John. I would think after everything they’d been through he would trust him to keep the secret. I mean, in
two years there must have come a time when it was okay to let at least a couple more people in.
I hope they sort things out. I mean, I know they will, but I hope it happens sooner than later.
Who tried to kill Watson, and why? And why let Sherlock save him?
Woah, Sherlock and Mycroft’s parents. That was unexpected.
I almost figured this one out! Well, sort of. I needed Sherlock to start the sentence, but I finished it before he confirmed my thoughts. Does that count? Probably not because all the work was really done, everything that pieced together was already pointed out all I did was the actual piecing. I was still proud of myself though.
When Sherlock brought up that the disappearing guy was from parliament and then said the terrorists were underground, it clicked. I knew it was Bonfire Night because of the thing with John and that there was a parliament meeting because of Sherlock’s parents. But that guy isn’t at the meeting, he disappeared from the train. Only one reason for not going would be because the terrorists are going to carry out the Gunpowder Plot tonight.
For real? He seriously did just jump onto a mattress? And are you kidding me -
every person on the street was in on this? That is
ridiculous. No wonder people didn’t figure this out, we were misled! I had thought up
all of that in considering possibilities, the airbag, the fake body, the cyclist,
everything, but immediately dismissed it because the point of this was to be
secret so it was implied Sherlock and Molly were the only people who knew. If I knew he had
50 people helping then obviously I would have stuck with that line of thought!
- Oh; got me again! That’s just mean. But I should have known. I should have had enough faith in them to determine that when things started feeling wrong it was indeed wrong. I knew from the start it couldn’t be a massive plot with a ton of people helping, that was always established, but for some reason when it went to that here I allowed the possibility that they would go against it rather than sticking with that certainty and realizing it was just another fantasy.
Wait, they’re not going to explain who took John? Because it doesn’t make sense, if it hadn’t happened Sherlock wouldn’t have put all the pieces together and been able to find the bomb. So it wasn’t the terrorists. Was it someone who knew about all this and wanted to push Sherlock in the right direction? That would explain why they allowed him to save John after going through all the trouble of trying to kill him, because they didn’t really want him dead, it was just a veiled clue. But if that’s the case why did they go with something so drastic? Clearly it’s not a completely good guy, even though he apparently wanted to stop the bad guys.
Ah, it’s this guy. How mysterious. I don’t know who it is or why he’s doing whatever he’s doing, but please, please don’t be Moriarty. That would just be ridiculous.
I watched "His Last Vow" again, and it was even better the second time. The guy who played Magnussen is brilliant; (deerstalker) hats off to him.
