Can anyone help me out here? The abominable bride episode really confused me thoroughly. What was the point of going into his mind palace to solve a 100 year old mystery? Did it directly relate to Moriarty's apparent suicide? Like if he solved the Ricoletti case he'd know if Moriarty was alive or not? If someone could give me a synopsis of their take on this episode I'd greatly appreciate it. Thanks!
shareYou've basically already got it. Sherlock wanted to know if there was a way to fake a suicide, so he could know whether Moriarty was still alive or not. Entering his mind palace and solving a similar case helped Sherlock figure out that Moriarty was indeed dead.
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Why don't you take a pill, bake a cake, go read the encyclopaedia.
Also it was fun. You don't want to take anything this team does too seriously - they certainly don't.
http://www.sherlock-holmes.org.uk/
Well Emilia Ricolleti supposedly died of the same cause as Moriarty (a suicide with a bullet to the brain, with lots of witnesses), so he wanted to discover how can someone fake a suicide with a bulket to the head.
shareI saw it as Sherlock's attempt to trick his logical mind, because he suspected the riddle couldn't be solved with logic. By entering a trance state (boosted by drugs) he tried to make his unconscious work the problem out.
So far it seems that the way the Bride "came back" by being replaced by friends, might also be the key to Moriarty "return".
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The creators are burned out, as one could already see in the last season, and so they decided to do some wishy-washy montage thingy for the fans, which is vague enough to be entirely unimportant in case they accidentally come up with a good story in the distant future. Which they won't.
shareI don't know what you were watching, but TAB isn't a montage, nor is it vague and unimportant. It very clearly ties series three and four together.
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Why don't you take a pill, bake a cake, go read the encyclopaedia.
Yes, in the same way not explaining how Sherlock survived the fall tied series two and three together: Lazy and without any kind of commitment to a realistic solution in sadly overdone quirkiness.
shareThe clues are all there. Perhaps you missed them? Anyhow, I'm really not sure how those two things are at all related. TAB is a clear bridge. Seriously, did you really watch it?
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Why don't you take a pill, bake a cake, go read the encyclopaedia.
Maybe I just saw the clues and were a lot less impressed by their supposed niftiness than the average fanboy.
shareI'm just a fan, and certainly not a boy. I can recognise faults in all of my favourite television series and films. I've never actually rated anything a ten. You're just being incredibly vague with your responses to the point where it makes me question your credibility.
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Why don't you take a pill, bake a cake, go read the encyclopaedia.
I don't want to sound like I'm biting into you - but maybe the explanation of the fall is the end of the story arc - John and Sherlock's relationship hasn't been the same as it was before Reichenbach. It could lead to them opening up to each other about the problems in their friendship?? I dunno just a thought.
shareDo you know that line from the Matrix? - "There is no spoon" -
well, there is no Emilia Ricoletti. That was Sherlock working through stuff in his mind.
http://tinyurl.com/ricolettiwasinS2E3