I have litteraly no words, What a master piece. One thing that gave me goosebumps about this final is the final reveal that redbeard wasn't a dog but the Sherlock's best friend, Victor...

The start, the middle, the end THE WHOLE SHOW, what a god damn masterpiece... If i could watch it another time like it was for the first time, that's what i WANT.

Weird to talk about the ending and then suddenly talk about the feeling of the whole show i know right, but i can't explain how much this show marked me.

Are we forgetting about Sherlock's best friend bones forgotten in the well? and where the child's parents?and why didn't anyone think to call the police? There's a child in danger guys.. and on top of that he died and was left for years and everyone moved on! and in the end Sherlock forgave her.? Because she's alone and the bullshit about the plane! PLEASE IT WAS SO RIDICULOUS! And they were being all nasty to Mycroft about it like he didn’t suffer SO MANY YEARS trying to keep this demon sister away and watching his little brother ON TOP OF THE WHOLE GOVERNMENT BRO…. justice for the real victims: Mycroft and the drowned bff (forgot his name) and John too cuz he was collateral damage. Sherlock is so much better than me cuz I’m definitely not hugging it out

In the very first episode, Study in Pink, every bottle of pills that we see prior to Sherlock and the cabbie has THREE pills in it. Obviously the final scenes Sherlock chooses between the two. Why?? And the cabbie says he takes whichever pill they don’t, so what he just chooses one of the other two?? It’s always bugged me.

Towards the end of S04E02, Sherlock tells John he doesn’t text Irene back, but in the very next scene he says he does text her sometimes.

So which is it?

I go to London often for work and pass Speedy’s about once a month! It’s a proper nostalgia kick whenever I see it, and this time I remembered to grab a photo to share 😁

I'm just rewatching s4, and I'm curious about a couple of things.

1. How did Mycroft learn about her ability to reprogram people and not himself be affected?
2. Why didn't she reprogram her brothers or parents?

Just feels weird. Also if anyone can be compromised just by speaking to her, why do they trust Watson who had spent several sessions with her?

This whole sister thing I just couldn’t understand? Was it all hallucinatio? What was real and what wasn’t?

when i started watching sherlock, when i saw the actors, i tought mycroft was actually moriarty lol

Did Sherlock fancy Irene?

Why did they make him look so old in season 4. I’m not sure why this bugged me so much, but it did. Martin Feeman is only 5 years older than Benedict Cumberbatch, so we know he was only in his 30’s when this was filmed. They made him look more like the grandpa than the dad to Rosie.

absolutely blown away by this show especially the first two seasons and i wish i had watched it sooner!! i already miss sherlock and john!!

andrew scott’s moriarty blew me away like every time he was on screen i was so excited ahhhh I can’t believe it’s over :,(

https://preview.redd.it/wnfkjljgf3xd1.png?width=3838&format=png&auto=webp&s=8acb73a1190b6c266a90979c6a21864a260374fe

Look at the poster

I cannot get over how young BC looks in the first season of this show. He looks like a baby!

why john watson acted like he was shot in the leg and not in the shoulder. it doesn't make sense

I’ve only watched the season 4 finale once so I might’ve missed something.

But how could Eurus be the girl on the plane the same time she was playing with Sherlock, Mycroft, and John with her psychopathic persona? Was one of the personas prerecorded? Or was she flip flopping every few seconds between them?

Edit: upon rewatch there was only one time (afaik) where Eurus was singing while Sherlock was talking to the girl. There was also a moment where the girl’s voice kinda blended into Eurus’. At the end, Eurus says that every time she closes her eyes she’s lost in the sky, which could explain why whenever we see Eurus in Sherrinford, she doesn’t blink

The argument is always

"Mycroft sold Sherlock out!"

"Sherlock never cared about Mycroft!"

No one ever looks at their parent. I think they are the source of their rivalry. Like, look at the last episode when they talk to Mycroft. You can sort of see that they told Mycroft stuff like

"Then he's very limited!" Mrs.Holmes talking to Sherlock, referring to Mycroft, her son.

"So? You're always the grown-up!" Mrs.Holmes to Sherlock. Which suggests she might be an absent parent (I know from personal experience.)

"She's our daughter!" The Holmes parent to Mycroft. If I hadn't watched the show myself, I wouldn't know it was a parent talking to their own child about their other child. (That they seem to prefer more)

It seems like they abandon some of their parenthood duties to Mycroft with how he worries about his siblings, always checking up on them.

You can see them trying to protect each other, mostly when it's a serious matter

When it's not serious:

They smoke and When Mrs.Holmes finds out,

Mycroft: "No!"

Sherlock: "It was Mycroft!"

When It's Serious:

Mycroft: "DO NOT FIRE, DO NOT GET A FIRE ON SHERLOCK HOLMES"

and

Sherlock: "Took them five minutes... To do all this to us*... No, not on my watch*"

and

Sherlock: "He tried his best."

Long post incoming, beware!

When I first watched this episode, I thought that the deal with ‘Sherlocked’ was quite stupid since her loving him has nothing to do with what she puts to the password. I mean no one makes their phone passwords the name of their loved ones?! Yeah, I realize this was kind of a metaphor for showing how sentiments make people lose and maybe it was a misogynistic take on how women care so much so they’re weak, yada yada yada I get that metaphor.

But on second watch, I realized that at the end Irene won because Sherlock acknowledged the affection between him and Irene. With him typing ‘Sher’ to the phone, he made her lose all the protection she could get from Mycroft and he appointed himself as the protector. I think this is all she wanted from the start, making him one of his men. She achieved that at the cost of losing the phone. She didn’t need the money anyways, she was never interested in blackmailing as Sherlock keeps iterating throughout the episode. Irene had a lot of victories. With those victories she lured Sherlock in and with that last defeat Sherlock got trapped. She played the ‘damsel in distress’ again.

I think the last scene where Sherlock protects her from the terrorists kind of demonstrates this. Steven Moffat, the writer of the show, says that he wrote a scene about what happened afterwards. He wrote that after Sherlock saves her, he says ‘I was passing and it was a night I thought I’d hack up some terrorists.. Oh, you’re here, I didn’t know’ then Irene says ‘Strip’ and Sherlock replies ‘Oh, it’s not fair I saved your life.’ Then she walks off wearing his clothes. These lines shows how Irene made Sherlock one of his men and she gets to have him come save here anywhere in the world whenever she needs.

I think Irene allied with Mycroft not to get the most out of the secrets she had but to establish contact with the Holmes boys. I mean she could have easily gotten a lot of money with simply using the photos. Her agenda has always been to get acquainted with Sherlock. So at the end, she won.

quick note if someone else has posted something like this i haven’t seen it because duh im not goin thru the sub of a show whose first episode im not even done with yet so yeah

ok so for the first time in a bit i’m genuinely excited to see a show but there’s something that irking me realll baddd. how on earth does THE sherlock holmes not figure out that it was the taxi driver. the millisecond that he said the whole “who blends in n takes people without us noticing” or whatever i knew it was a taxi. the fact that he thought that it was the dude from la was so fucking stupid to me like omg BROTHER thats a PASSENGER you think a serial killer doesn’t have his damn license!?(im sure it’s possible but whatever).

does this happen alot(don’t give examples js yea or nah) because if it does i might drop the show. if it was a show with a bunch of seasons like criminal minds,or supernatural(yes im getting to superwholock and skipping the who for now bcs i’m not watching 42 seasons right after 48 dw abt it)i wouldn’t mind it that much because if i solve one or two cases here and there it’s whatever they blend in with the ones that i didn’t get, but this is just three seasons with three episodes each and if i end up, figuring all the shit out before he does i might die.

also ppl called them gay like four times its funny asf lol. like i knew abt ppl shipping them but i didint know it was bootleg cannon js thought that was funny.

any who that’s my thing thx 4 reading plz answer n toodles<3

edit:spelling

I'm currently watching Season 3. I think it's brilliant, they got the XXI century thing right and the characters are great. What's your opinion?