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Schuyler wrote:I personally loved the finale. Even with its flaws, it might just be my favorite episode. I got my hands on the DVD the other day so I could watch it again and see if my opinion would be any different the second time around. Still love it! ^^ I think what others have already posted covers most of what I'd say about it, but to add some of my own thoughts concerning the flaws:
(Spoiler warning, of course)- Sherlock not noticing the glass missing honestly doesn't seem out of place to me at all, given what we know about his character. While he can be extremely attentive to certain details, he can also be surprisingly blind to others. He doesn't always notice when John leaves the flat, for instance, and just goes on talking to no-one. He's also at his most human and most fallible when he's pushed into emotional situations, and I'd expect that confronting his sister and his forgotten past would bring up quite a few emotions for him. All his focus at that moment was on Eurus; he'd have considered it a given that the glass was there and would never have thought he should divert some of his attention to double-check.
- Nobody said Victor ate from the dog bowl, or that the bowl was ever used at all. The fake room was something Eurus set up to put Sherlock in and toy with him; presumably the bowl was just an extra detail added to go along with what she knew Sherlock thought he remembered and to connect what happened to Redbeard with what he had to do next.
- About the shackles and the well I kinda agree, but I also thought it could be like what Dizzy socks said above, that the shackles might have had some sort of an automatic release mechanism that wasn't shown. With all the other stuff we see Eurus able to set up and control, it's not too farfetched to imagine that there could have been a remote control for the shackles as well. It still bothers me a bit, though.
- Even though Eurus ended up back in the same place she was before, the circumstances are a little different. Everything she did leading up to that point was her ... odd way of "asking" Sherlock to save her by giving her attention and being there as her friend and brother. Now he and the rest of the family come to visit and interact with her. Maybe she'll be content with how things are now that she's not so isolated anymore.
At the same time, Mycroft and the people running security at Sherrinford have hopefully learned something from what happened and know to take greater care around Eurus in the future. She's still a danger, of course, but if there's no death penalty in Britain, probably there's not much more they can legally do besides keeping her imprisoned for life, and if Sherrinford is supposed to be where they lock away the absolute most dangerous criminals, where else are they going to send her?
Has there been any news about whether they're planning a 5th series? I have my fingers crossed for another one, but the way they wrapped thing up at the end of this last episode and how it's the first finale not to end on a cliffhanger (not to mention that it's called "The Final Problem") strongly suggests that they're thinking to stop there, or at least that they haven't decided anything yet and didn't want the show to feel unfinished if nothing else was made.
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