![]() How many people have we seen kill themselves, shoot someone, die from being shot, or be involved in a crime with a gun this season? (Even Eurus’ crime-game with Sherlock hinged on a rifle). ![]() Sherlock, like so many dramas before it, has continued to mistake violence, torture, and grief as the only kind of drama, and does so with a love affair for guns. Whatever happened to Molly and Lestrade? Why isn’t anyone ever allowed to be happy on this show? That phone call was awful, but then there was never any follow-up. “The Final Problem” was full of indignities, though, not the least of which endured by poor Molly Hooper, who exists at this point to just be emotionally abused by Sherlock. Victor even gets replaced as a dog in Sherlock’s mind palace. Even his poor childhood best friend Victor - a child his sister brutally murdered - exists only as a point of manipulation, which John Watson gets subbed in for (of course, the Holmeses love torturing him). Mostly it’s because Sherlock wouldn’t play with her when she wanted him to, which again makes all of her brilliance (detailed by Mycroft) unimportant, as everything only matters or has meaning in relation to Sherlock. “The Final Problem” gave us the “missing” Holmes sibling Eurus, who is apparently the very soul of evil. There, from beyond the grave (again), Mary calls Sherlock and Watson her “Baker Street Boys” and details the legends, the stories, and the adventures of “the junky who solves crimes to get high, and the doctor who never came home from the war.” Oh would that it were anymore, Mary, would that it were! But now, Sherlock has become twisted, torturous, and emotionally manipulative in a way that, to quote Sherlock himself, is akin to vivisection. The most striking moment of Sherlock’s Season 4 finale, “The Final Problem,” came in its final moments.
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