![]() ![]() So Mycroft puts the most intelligent woman of her age, the most dangerous women he knows, alone in a room with the world’s most intelligent master criminal because… she asked? And Sherlock fails to realise what Mycroft did until he spells it out for him.Įuros took over the asylum, and forced Sherlock and co to solve some puzzles. Why do they walk in there like morons?īecause the writers are willing to make characters – even supposedly super intelligent ones – stupid when they need to. Hold on though – why do they believe Euros is in the prison? Why do they accept that she is still locked up? John saw her with his own eyes. An alternative plan, of course, would be for Mycroft to call in the SAS and storm the prison with gun-ships, but the James Bond plan allowed some twists, and everyone loves twists. Next, Sherlock, Mycroft and John snuck on board a fishing vessel, put on disguises, wrote a massive message in some sand for some reason, and broke into the super-prison. It’s more Pierce Bronson Bond, Roger Moore even. But not Daniel Craig James Bond, because those films are trying to be a bit smart. So twisty.Įnter a drone-mounted bomb, and Sherlock and John jumping out of a window like James Bond. Sherlock is like Scooby Doo at this point or a child offering you his hand and then pulling it away shouting ‘Sike! Sorry – but not really! Opposite Day!’īack at 221B Baker Street, Mycroft explained to Sherlock that he had a forgotten sister, locked up in an insane asylum for killing his dog as a child. It’s such a crazy length for the writers to go to for such a dumb twist. What if Mycroft had killed that clown Sherlock hired to scare him? Just stabbed him with a kitchen knife. Picture it: Sherlock the day before with a pin and some red paint-filled balloons, installing them behind three different paintings. Which included rigging his paintings up to cry blood from their eyes. ![]() Yes, this episode began with Sherlock and John playing a huge prank on Mycroft. A scary scene to start an episode? Oh, but wait, this is Sherlock, so here comes an insane twist. Bomb planted in Molly’s house? Don’t worry, this show is obsessed with twists so it’s probably not real. Why get invested in any character, in any dramatic scene, any emotional development, when it will all be reversed ten minutes later for the sake of a twist? Little girl trapped all alone on a pilotless plane? Well don’t worry, this is Sherlock so it’s probably not real. When a show treats a twist, a cliffhanger, as casually and flippantly as that then it loses all stakes. Oh, no! Cliffhanger! What will become of John? This episode resolved that cliffhanger with a throwaway line of dialogue from John about being shot with a tranquilizer. The previous episode had ended with Euros shooting a gun at John. The beginning of the episode illustrated Sherlock‘s huge problem with twists. There they were trapped, as said sister, Euros, tasked them with solving multiple problems. With the massive downturn in quality over the last two seasons, that may well be for the best.Įpisode three of season four saw Sherlock, Mycroft and John Watson take a trip to a secret super-prison to visit the Holmes brothers’ imprisoned, genius sister. The Final Problem could well be the last episode of Sherlock, as a result of Benedict Cumberbatch and Martin Freeman’s Hollywood careers. ![]() Unfortunately, with each subsequent episode, the show got closer and closer to a parody Sherlock Holmes, littered with incredulous twists, illogical plot developments and cringey, wacky hijinks. That description is exactly what you would expect from a clueless, modern update of Arthur Conan Doyle’s detective stories, and it was the defiance of this expectation that made Sherlock so refreshing, so incredible in its early episodes. Would the show have been as critically revered if this had been the first episode? A mind-controlling supervillian kidnaps Sherlock Holmes and puts him through a series of dastardly puzzles on her island lair, in an episode where action hero Sherlock and trusty sidekick John Watson jump out of a building as a fireball explodes behind them. Imagine a world where the first ever episode of Sherlock was like The Final Problem. ![]()
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