Humans are predictable, Generic Poster, it was elementary, really.

Uuuggggh you've just made me realize how similar this episode is to Heavy Rain, my least favorite game of all time.

It's funny. I was madly in love with the show for the first two seasons but people kept telling me that Moffat would mess it up. Having never seen Doctor Who, I had no idea what they were talking about.

Absolutely! I love it! You've inspired me to try and do the same thing with the Series of Unfortunate Events show.

That's fair. I'm inclined to nitpick things on detective shows, but when anyone tries to explain Star Wars plot holes to me I just roll my eyes, because for me it's not the point, and I don't want to be cynical about it.

For me it's because, as the reviewer pointed out, it's hard to care too much if you know everything will automatically be fine. It'd be more dramatically interesting if Sherlock actually had to confront this horribly manipulative thing he had to do.

It's sort of like Peggy's funeral in Civil War, the eulogy of which is directed entirely at Captain America and what he's struggling with, but doesn't feel like an actual eulogy that's being delivered to a church full of 200 people.

On the contrary. I think everyone working on it loves it so much that they're unable to step back and realize how misguided it's become. The actors are still wonderful, if not better than ever. The writing is often quite good—just not good *for a Sherlock show*, IMO.

Here's the problem with your opening sentiment: that is every work of detective fiction. If the mystery doesn't appear to be more clever than we can solve, than it won't be particularly astonishing when the detective solved the case. We're supposed to be in awe of Sherlock's cleverness, but also, once he explains it,…

This is a complete tangent, but thank you for posting this. I've spent a number of years working on a novel and I had started to think the main character simply wasn't working. I had an idea to replace him and go a different direction, but I wasn't sure I was ready to throw away all that work. But the twist of his…

I agree. For me, the fact that Moriarty's "miss me?" stuff was a complete ruse to benefit only the audience was the unacceptable aspect of the episode. But emotionally it worked, and I thought Eurus was actually quite a clever character. The one policewoman in the first season of Sherlock commented that Sherlock was…

Not so much that as the fact that Mary was like, OK, I'm going to sit down and make two videos, both making wild assumptions about how these men will feel after my HYPOTHETICAL death, and also space them apart so they presumably arrive at exactly the right points in their character arc. And I had better make the…

It was my post on Reddit

It's a fine ending to the show Sherlock became, but not necessarily the ending I was wanting. I was wanting a grand mystery. Instead, I got Sherlock Asylum and a plot that made absolutely no sense whatsoever. I'm not a person who typically notices plot holes/contrivances, but I noticed it here.

This and there being ANOTHER post-mortem DVD are the two truly unacceptable aspects of the episode. Without a resolution to the Molly scene it goes from being emotionally resonant to emotionally manipulative. And I don't think I need to explain why the DVD bit is utter horseshit.

Eurus: I have a master plan to finally break Sherlock!

Yeah, for sure. And considering what ends up happening with his character in the books, the casting is going to really pay off.

Yes, with presumably the 3rd season being slightly longer

I'm a heterosexual man, but after seeing Gustav in this and Ryan Gosling in La La Land I'm really just not sure anymore.

Yes, exactly. Let's not forget that this is a show intended, at its heart, for children, though it's certainly enjoyable for all ages.