Season 4 was a masterpiece
and TFP was honestly the best episode since S2. It was brilliant. Fantastic cinematography, stirring music, incredible quotes, and mind-boggling concepts. The only people I’ve seen who have things to say about it are people who:
are mad that their conspiracy based on over-analysation of tiny things that turned out to be insignificant didn’t come true, and/or
people who completely misunderstood pieces of the plot
This last group of people can be explained by the fact that this last season didn’t spoon-feed us. There was so much to fit in to the time-constraints of the show, that they had to pick and choose which parts they spent time on, and which parts they figured they could leave so audience could fill in the logical steps. Specifically, but not limitted to:
“How did the rope save him because of the chains???”
The explanation is obvious, though a few people here were clearly not paying much attention. There was a whole rescue team there to save John, that was obvious by the presence of a helicopter. The rope was likely there for someone to quickly get down there and remove the chains, most-likely with bolt cutters. The rope also probably would have helped John stabilise himself during this process and make it easier to keep his head above the water as he could hold onto it and shift his weight a little onto it as we saw the water was rising quite almost to head. The process involved with his full extrication would have taken a big chunk of film, so they left it out because they assumed the audience would have some common sense. Most did, but some didn’t, clearly.
“LMAO, I can’t believe a kid fucking ate from a dog bowl, this series has gone to the dogs”
I can’t believe this one needs explaining, but apparently it does, so here goes. Euros knew Sherlock had re-invented the memory of what happened to Victor, a very real coping mechanism seen in children who have experienced trauma, and made all the more believable that it carried on through to adulthood because of how powerful Sherlock’s mind has always been, as well as Mycroft’s helping that process and going along with it. How she knew, you can have your own theories about (Personally, I believe Mycroft probably mentioned it during his visits with Euros. She probably asked him at some point “Does Sherlock still talk about little Redbeard?” and Mycroft would have answered, probably to try and anger her a little by informing her that the memory had been altered and Victor reduced to the memory of a dog being put down or run away or whatever). Anyway, she knew and so to fuck with Sherlock further organised the placement of a dog bowl with Redbeard written on it for him to see in the room he was in. It’s that freaking simple. She took over an entire facility, you really think she couldn’t do something like that?
Obviously there’s more, but those are the main things that people are dismissing the whole show for as ‘massive plot holes’ when really it’s pretty obvious.
TL;DR This series didn’t spoon-feed us information so people who were already watching with tunnel vision and assumptions, or who were just not paying as much attention as they should have been, missed things.
