18 unanswered questions from Sherlock finale - let the nitpicking begin

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4. Alright, so we didn't believe for a second that Eurus had really shot John dead – but all the same, her shooting him with a tranquilliser makes zero sense. You could argue that her scary sign-off ("He's making a funny face – I think I'll put a hole in it") was just intended to scare him... but given that one of her objectives was to kill Watson anyway, why not shoot him when she had the chance?

In retrospect, I quite liked that. It has pretty much become a Sherlock trope by now that cliffhangers don't actually mean anything haha. I mean the pool scene cliffie in The Great Game was solved by one phone call in the beginning of A Scandal in Belgravia, the Fall was never explained (which I actually like) etc etc. I think maybe the "how did John get out of that pickle?" was a bit of meta, Moftiss poking fun at their own endless cliffhangers. At least it wasn't at the end of a series this time!


Do you even know what honor is?
- A horse.

I don't think her objective was to kill him, but to use him in her puzzles. She wouldn't have really shot him before that.

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Wonderful answers Delorb!

Let me add a couple to help out -

12. It could have been put in there as a red herring (to ramp up speculation - and it did just that in reality) but it could be looked at as giving the fans an opportunity to fill in their own ideas as to what the note said. I think it was just a further justification on John's part to explain to Sherlock why he didn't want him coming around - to emphasize it in no uncertain terms, so it couldn't be said that Molly conveyed the message wrong. So I never felt I actually had to see that - it was good enough to see it being passed to Sherlock.

17. She was the other detective who was interested in the theft of the Black Pearl and kept trying to interest Sherlock in that case in T6T episode. As to why she was introduced and then dropped as a character... it was a bit part, whose sole purpose was to insert the facts of the Black Pear case and when that was discovered to be an error on Sherlock's part both her and the case she introduced served no other function in the story so they both went by the wayside. No mystery at all. Just a classic storytelling device.

Hope this helps out.

:-))


"You're going into the water... short-arse!"
- Sherlock

I'm actually a bit curious about the "13th" on Mycroft's fridge. And also the scene in TAB when Mycroft dropped his notebook on the plane, and we got a glimpse of a page with some numbers, I think. Does anyone remember what it said and whether it ties in to S4? I guess I could just watch TAB again and see it for myself . . .

I'm actually a bit curious about the "13th" on Mycroft's fridge.

The 13th I've seen people interpret as a couple of different things. Two theories:

- the Final Problem is the 13th episode, so it just could be a nod to that (for a while I was concerned that meant he had an 'appointment' with death in the 13th episode, but phew!)

- the 13th is the actual date of Sherlock's birthday (we get a hint at it in TLD, when Irene and John both wish him happy birthday. Although there are conflicting clues about when that episode was set, some indications it's around the airdate, in early-mid January, but others that it is in July). Mycroft's reminding himself to a) check that Sherrinford is secure and b) keep closer tabs on Sherlock, because it is a potential danger night, or a time when inconvenient memories might start surfacing.



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