Sherlock wrote:*spoilers*
okay yeah so basically i did not like the finale because there are about 50 plot holes, loose ends, and discontinuities and i just can't believe these writers would be so sloppy (just to name a few: sherlock apparently forgot that glass is reflective and can't tell when it's 3 inches in front of his face, john climbed out of the well on a rope despite being chained to the bottom, victor trevor ate out of a dog bowl, no one bothered looking for a missing human child in the well and eurus was allowed to keep living as normal after kidnapping/murdering another PERSON, not a dog, that entire repulsive scene with molly where they undid her last 6 years of character development... i could go on)
as a finale that got so much hype i definitely don't think it lived up to expectations but knowing it could possibly be the last episode of sherlock ever is just... sad
like it wasn't even about sherlock and john. it was about a new character that no one really cared about and for some reason got forgiveness at the end despite multiple unforgivable crimes.
at least it ended in a place that i can live with and i can easily believe that they end up in a way i'd be happy with. but i am just disappointed in the writing of this episode.
I don't actually think most of those were plot holes. The glass yes, could be considered that way, however I think it's less likely to doubt those things that you assume to be true - throughout the series sherlock has become more 'human' and the first sighting of the sister he never knew he had would lessen that chance even more; his focus would be on her, not the glass. John and the well, I think Euros freed him - when Sherlock convinced her, she pressed some button somewhere which undid the manacles, and then he was able to climb out. Considering the other things which she achieved in the episode, I think it's in no way beyond the realms of possibility. Victor Trevor didn't eat out of a dog bowl, Redbeard the red setter did, in Sherlock's subconscious. If he's imagined a whole alternative reality, then a dog bowl doesn't seem to be stretching it. Missing human child - I don't doubt they looked, I think the well was supposed to be so hard to find that it never was, no matter the looking. 'living as normal'? She was institutionalised, I don't think that's normal, or safe.
However I also think there are a number of plot holes, and general dislikes - as there is with anything, and I still enjoyed it. For me, the biggest dislike is Mary. She died - let her be dead and gone, I didn't even like her when alive, much less on a never ending series of sick making DVDs. I thought the whole returning of Euros to the same place afterwards was ridiculous, what she's done once she can do again, nothing seemed to have changed. The idea that Sherlock as a boy would have completely erased a part of his memory seems inconceivable - he was always too smart, always. The bit with Molly was left so unresolved, it seemed to have no part at all in the plot.