If at any point we felt ill at ease with how things were progressing, that's because we were meant to feel that way. It was the visible clue that something was amiss. Of course, in many respects the episode was s upposed to be disjointed. His 'You're going in the water, Short-arse' had me tittering into my New Year's sherry. Mrs Hudson in particular was given some great lines ('I never say anything, do I?') Even Sherlock was afforded the rare opportunity of being funny outside of his usual withering put-downs. In fact, after watching 'The Sign of Three' I remember thinking that I'd just witnessed the show at its comedic best, yet 'The Abominable Bride' surely gave it a run for its money. (Or should that be holmages?) Not that I'm complaining, some of them were seriously funny. From that moment onwards, it became more about the in-jokes, the one-liners, and the homages. Which made the whole episode suddenly feel like an elaborate story clothes-horse over to which to hang some rather worn comedy underpants. Yes, there were some fairly interesting psychological ponderings in there, but was the whole purpose of the episode simply to confirm that Moriarty is dead? Didn't we more or less know this already? But when the façade finally came crashing down, and the focus shifted to Moriarty, I was suddenly left wondering what the point was.
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While I was under the delusion that the Ricoletti narrative was true, I enjoyed it immensely-it was a prime period romp, full of great visuals, cracking dialogue, and more fake facial hair than you could shake a stick at. Not only were there stories within stories, there were also mind palaces within mind palaces-and for me, this is where the episode faltered. In fact, it was so meta that I almost had a meta-crisis and regenerated into Idris Elba. Secondly, I did not expect the episode to be so meta. The episode would have worked just as well as an alternate-universe story. Yes, we now know that Moriarty is both 'dead' and yet somehow 'back', but they're obviously saving any further elucidation for next season-which did feel like something of a cheat.
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Did the present-day tie-in offer anything worthwhile to the story? Obviously it was something of a shock to see modern-day Sherlock suddenly appear-and I love it when the writers try to mess with us-but they really didn't offer any explanation as to Moriarty's return in the series proper. All of the pre-episode build-up suggested a purely Victorian-era yarn. Still, with the festive season still in full swing, that was probably the effect they were hoping for-and it kind of worked.įirstly, I did not expect tonight's episode to have a modern-day component. Half of tonight's episode played like a Victorian chiller, the other half was like watching panto. Despite being cut from the same cloth as a regular season, there's just so much more space to muck about in. I suspect we're going to have to start viewing Sherlock specials in the same way we view Doctor Who Christmas specials.
Moriarty: 'It doesn't make sense, Sherlock, because it's not real.
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