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shallownessSherlock - 4.1 The Six Thatchers
This did feel a little bitty, although most of it got pulled together in the end – I hope we’re going to go somewhere with Moriarty’s fellow conspirators.
Yes, I’m sad about Mary and the impact her death will have, especially as we’d got a bit of her spying, which was cool, but I’m not devastated (if they killed Molly, I would be).
I did pause to pay a little attention to the secretary, although it was mainly of the ‘Shouldn’t Sherlock be able to deduce what her favourite lolly variety?’
Shipping-wise I enjoyed reading too much into Molly having to try to manage Sherlock at the christening. Also I may have vague wanting fic feelings about Molly as little Rosie’s godmother – however torn she was, she had to put being in Rosie’s life and thus sucking up to John first. I’ve had those feelings for a few days, though, and not written anything.
We had a mere two scenes of Amanda ‘my Anne Elliot’ Root. The son’s death was really tragic.
But the beginning involved a lot of snickering at Sherlock and at Lestrade and John moaning at him. I presume Gatiss got the idea of smashing a bust of Thatcher and ran with it.
Things started to coalesce, and the audience was granted Sherlock’s eureka moment over the pearl Interpol were after so we could be a step ahead of Greg. I wouldn’t have got there otherwise, although I did manage to work out that Mary had given her daughter her name.
About time that we got a flashback to Mary’s past catching up with her. I assumed ‘the Englishwoman’ was the ambassador rather than Mary and so didn’t think it could be anyone else. Off Mary tore on her own, mainly to the coast and a series of wigs. It was good that they acknowledged that the montage must have taken some time.
Oh, John. I do think you’re quite lovely, but I’m fairly sure that vampire E was up to no good, because with the sleep deprivation and all, he’s not the type to be picked up like that. Of course, it added another layer of guilt to losing Mary who thought the best of him (and sure, let’s pretend she wouldn’t have noticed he was acting furtively because of the lack of sleep. I think there were a few other moments where the characters weren’t as clever as the show wants them to be and because it’s such a clever-clever show, it’s begging us to notice them.)
I also didn’t fully buy Mary saying that she never wanted more than a normal life and to be Mrs John Watson. I mean, it was a nice thing to say to the man she loved as she was dying, but she chose to sacrifice herself for Sherlock and was restless in this episode as in many others.
Yes, Sherlock was arrogant, and I expect Mrs H will have to drop that surname quite a lot.
The story about death was laboured. I liked the Holmes brothers’ dynamic, though it was a little bit more to the background than in the last two episodes, but there was a lot of sneering older brother from Mycroft, although he did follow Sherlock’s claims, even when they led to Lady Smallwood defending herself rigorously and him looking foolish. And I liked that neither likes loose ends.
And now John is a mess, Sherlock-John is a mess…I spotted the poster of Toby Jones in the background, we had a flashback to Sherlock’s childhood, which involved dogs, and Mycroft was referencing the other brother.
Sherlock’s early freneticism was also about playing with death a little, but maybe that will tie into Sherlock’s arrogance and his having to learn his fallibility some more.
This did feel a little bitty, although most of it got pulled together in the end – I hope we’re going to go somewhere with Moriarty’s fellow conspirators.
Yes, I’m sad about Mary and the impact her death will have, especially as we’d got a bit of her spying, which was cool, but I’m not devastated (if they killed Molly, I would be).
I did pause to pay a little attention to the secretary, although it was mainly of the ‘Shouldn’t Sherlock be able to deduce what her favourite lolly variety?’
Shipping-wise I enjoyed reading too much into Molly having to try to manage Sherlock at the christening. Also I may have vague wanting fic feelings about Molly as little Rosie’s godmother – however torn she was, she had to put being in Rosie’s life and thus sucking up to John first. I’ve had those feelings for a few days, though, and not written anything.
We had a mere two scenes of Amanda ‘my Anne Elliot’ Root. The son’s death was really tragic.
But the beginning involved a lot of snickering at Sherlock and at Lestrade and John moaning at him. I presume Gatiss got the idea of smashing a bust of Thatcher and ran with it.
Things started to coalesce, and the audience was granted Sherlock’s eureka moment over the pearl Interpol were after so we could be a step ahead of Greg. I wouldn’t have got there otherwise, although I did manage to work out that Mary had given her daughter her name.
About time that we got a flashback to Mary’s past catching up with her. I assumed ‘the Englishwoman’ was the ambassador rather than Mary and so didn’t think it could be anyone else. Off Mary tore on her own, mainly to the coast and a series of wigs. It was good that they acknowledged that the montage must have taken some time.
Oh, John. I do think you’re quite lovely, but I’m fairly sure that vampire E was up to no good, because with the sleep deprivation and all, he’s not the type to be picked up like that. Of course, it added another layer of guilt to losing Mary who thought the best of him (and sure, let’s pretend she wouldn’t have noticed he was acting furtively because of the lack of sleep. I think there were a few other moments where the characters weren’t as clever as the show wants them to be and because it’s such a clever-clever show, it’s begging us to notice them.)
I also didn’t fully buy Mary saying that she never wanted more than a normal life and to be Mrs John Watson. I mean, it was a nice thing to say to the man she loved as she was dying, but she chose to sacrifice herself for Sherlock and was restless in this episode as in many others.
Yes, Sherlock was arrogant, and I expect Mrs H will have to drop that surname quite a lot.
The story about death was laboured. I liked the Holmes brothers’ dynamic, though it was a little bit more to the background than in the last two episodes, but there was a lot of sneering older brother from Mycroft, although he did follow Sherlock’s claims, even when they led to Lady Smallwood defending herself rigorously and him looking foolish. And I liked that neither likes loose ends.
And now John is a mess, Sherlock-John is a mess…I spotted the poster of Toby Jones in the background, we had a flashback to Sherlock’s childhood, which involved dogs, and Mycroft was referencing the other brother.
Sherlock’s early freneticism was also about playing with death a little, but maybe that will tie into Sherlock’s arrogance and his having to learn his fallibility some more.
