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Sherlock- No Spoilers, I Promise

I just wanted to say that- and this is my opinion, which I am entitled to have- I think this series of Sherlock has been the best yet, and I bloody loved the finale.

I cried, I gasped, I really started to question my life choices.

And I thought it was amazing.

So, Moffat, Gatiss. Whatever else anyone says, whatever it did or didn’t have, however glaring the continuity may have been- I didn’t notice. I was too caught up in an excellent story, one that I hope to God you’ll keep telling.

God job, boys. Whether it’s the truly final problem or not… good job.

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Eurus Killed Redbeard

In the trailer for The Final Problem, Mycroft tells Sherlock “Every choice you’ve ever made, every path you’ve ever taken, the man you are today is your memory of Eurus.” 

Mycroft sees his brother as someone, who, like him, disregards sentiment in favor of cold, calculated reason. Because of the innate human need to connect, abandoning sentiment completely is likely the result of a traumatic end to a sentimental relationship. 

The fact that Mycroft always says “Redbeard” to warn Sherlock about getting too emotionally close suggests that this was the initial trauma. 

The flashbacks we’ve been seeing are likely just before Redbeard was killed by his sister–it’s Sherlock’s last memory of being unafraid to love someone (a dog, but still). 

Mycroft’s discussion of Eurus suggests she is extremely dangerous: 

”It didn’t the last time” directly follows this, suggesting Euros is the same “legitimate security concern.” 

“Sherrinford” here likely suggests a mental asylum or prison, and a very high security one (this could very well be where all of the tortuous mind palace looking scenes we’ve seen could be, but that’s a whole different meta). 

Murderous tendencies are obviously a security risk, and if Eurus has the psychopathy of a serial killer, that would necessitate the high security Mycroft suggests is necessary. 

One of the first behaviors serial killers demonstrate is animal torture.

Mummy and Daddy Holmes would know this, and there would likely be signs that she was in danger of becoming a serial killer throughout her childhood. They likely tried many therapies, but nothing was working. And then Euros killed Redbeard, and they insitituonalized their daughter before she could move onto humans. 

In those flashbacks, Sherlock is young, which explains why he wouldn’t recognize her (even with his drug-addled state, he should have recognized her slightly if he had seen her at all recently). They Holmes family never talked about her. It’s why Sherlock is basing his behavior on her “memory,” not her presence. 

The depth of Sherlock’s fear of attachment, stemming from Redbeard, suggests this wasn’t an ordinary “dog grows old and dies” story. There was trauma involved. 

And nothing says trauma like watching your older (I’m headcanoning that she’s in between the brothers) sister kill your dog–two destroyed relationships at once. 

Sherlock loved his sister and his dog, and because he let sentiment blind him (or Mycroft and the Holmes parents hid the signs from him), he lost both in one event. To protect himself, he built emotional barriers. 

It’s the path he chose–because of his traumatic memory of Eurus. 

(Eurus spelling taken from BBC subtitles.) 

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Miss Me?

So “Miss me?” isn’t a message from Moriarty, it’s a message from Euros.  “Do you miss me, your own sister who you pretend doesn’t even exist?”  I’ll admit, I love that – it’s a very reasonable question for her to be asking.  At the very least, she’s manipulating Moriarty’s image, but I’m inclined to believe she’s done more than that - her handling of Culverton Smith is precisely in line with Moriarty’s MO: find a baddie, pretend to help them, actually use them to mess with Sherlock, and let them die/get arrested when Sherlock defeats them.  

So, questions:

- Was she involved with Moriarty before his death, or is she just using his image now?  Hell, maybe she is Moriarty, and the Andrew Scott character really was just Richard Brook.  I don’t love retconning “everything was really the work of this character we’ve introduced at the last minute” but at least they’ve laid a bit of the groundwork.

- I really can’t tell what’s up with Mary, her characterization and arc is so damn incoherent, but I’m inclined to believe she was working for/with Euros too.  The writers have given themselves an out by having Mary say ‘thought that’d get your attention’ w/r/t the “Miss me?” on her post-mortem dvd but a conspiracy of women fits well with TAB-as-decoder-ring – maybe with the twist that none of the women in the TAB conspiracy are part of the actual conspiracy.  (So: Euros, Mary, and oh let’s go with Lady Smallwood.)

- How long ago were Sherlock and Euros separated?  Presumably childhood, because of the beach and “I’m not a child anymore, Mycroft” but also Sherlock not recognizing his own sister.  Even high as a kite, he’s the most observant man in the world and he had a whole evening with her.  But: was Euros a part of Sherlock’s life when Carl Powers died and Moriarty and Sherlock’s paths first crossed?  How young was she when she was locked away?

- Speaking of… why does Euros seem to have it out for Sherlock in particular? Especially when she says he’s nicer than “anyone”?  It makes sense for her to be going after Mycroft, and it makes sense for her to go after Sherlock to get to Mycroft, but shooting John Watson seems like “burn the heart out of you” territory.

I am eagerly looking forward to the fandom meta machine’s input on this one.

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While watching the new episode of Sherlock, my dad comes up with an interesting theory.

He thinks that Mary is alive somehow, and John knows.

His reasoning behind this theory is when they are at the aquarium, Ms. Norbury keeps saying that she wants to disappear. Another thing is, Mary just wanted to keep everyone safe, and she can’t do that alive. Right after Mary is shot, John comes in. John is a good doctor who was in the army, and has dealt with bullet wounds before; however, he barely does anything about her wound while she is “dying”.

In Mary's video, she emphasizes the word IF before the word gone. It's just a theory and there are many other explanations, but this is what my family is thinking.