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Sherlock - stone me!
For the first 45 minutes, I thought this series was going to end with a whimper, managing to be both dull and OTT at the same time. Half way through, someone flicked a switch. Suddenly the programme was exciting and profoundly moving, finishing in a completely fitting manner (very much in keeping with canon). Some lovely lines for Watson (who is the star of this show, folks) - including his outrage at being described as a "confirmed bachelor" (newspaper code for gay).
So, in conclusion:
- Keep with canon, boys. The closer the two series have kept to canon-type storylines and charaterisations, the stronger they've been. Conan Doyle knew his stuff.
- A light touch works best. The last two episodes have been brilliant in re the "are they a couple?" thing, as opposed to the clunkiness of the first one, with all its heart to heart stuff.
- Martin Freeman continues to give a masterclass in acting. Never OTT or histrionic, just all his inmner feelings shining through by body langauge or vocal intonation. The end of this episode broke my heart.
And, now for a theory or two. Behind cut.
Molly and Mycroft helped Holmes engineer it. Is Holmes needed to do espionage work or something else which requires that he's deep in cover - and you can't get deeper than very publically dead. Holmes didn't go off the building, Mycroft did - the bodies were switched when John was so conveniently knocked out. Must watch on iplayer with this in mind.
So, in conclusion:
- Keep with canon, boys. The closer the two series have kept to canon-type storylines and charaterisations, the stronger they've been. Conan Doyle knew his stuff.
- A light touch works best. The last two episodes have been brilliant in re the "are they a couple?" thing, as opposed to the clunkiness of the first one, with all its heart to heart stuff.
- Martin Freeman continues to give a masterclass in acting. Never OTT or histrionic, just all his inmner feelings shining through by body langauge or vocal intonation. The end of this episode broke my heart.
And, now for a theory or two. Behind cut.
Molly and Mycroft helped Holmes engineer it. Is Holmes needed to do espionage work or something else which requires that he's deep in cover - and you can't get deeper than very publically dead. Holmes didn't go off the building, Mycroft did - the bodies were switched when John was so conveniently knocked out. Must watch on iplayer with this in mind.
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Don't agree about the faces. Moriarty's was still recognisable in shot and so was Sherlock's on the ground. I think there was a body switch on the pavement when Watson was 'conveniently' out for the count after being 'accidently' knocked down. So he did see Sherlock, close up, but the guy wasn't dead. His hand got taken away pretty soon after he tried to take the pulse.
Interesting theory in re masks. Will go think about that...
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Not sure who or what took the fall though. :D I'm going to go check it on the iPlayer to see the exact sequence again and what John (and us) could and couldn't see through the sequence of events and where a switch could have occured on the roof. I keep thinking about that dummy that was hanging up in the flat earlier. Not that I'm saying the dummy was used, but that was about an apparent suicide that wasn't really one too, so it was setting us up for something.
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OK - left field theory. Moriarty wasn't dead (easy enough to fake that with a blank bullet and a blood bag - we never got to see the back of his head). He's the one pushed over - still alive!
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Yeah, I'm not sure if the fall could have been with the dummy - it's actually quite hard to make them fall like people (you must have seen plenty with flappy arms and legs in movies.) But there had to be a reason for it, even if it was only to put the idea of faked suicide into Sherlock's mind.
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