![]() John spends an awful lot of time grief-stricken, doesn’t he? Remember the hissy fit he pulled when he thought Sherlock had died? Well this time, he is refusing to talk to Sherlock and has closed himself off emotionally, unable even to look after his daughter. Meanwhile, a grief-stricken John is receiving therapy and being visited by Mary. Mycroft doesn’t have too much else to do here, except get hit on by Lady Smallwood and make more references to Sherrinford, his no-longer-very-secret sibling. He takes Faith, who he believes to be suicidal, out for chips and agrees to tackle her case (although he also has a bit of fun telling Mycroft, who is tracking him via drone, to “fuck off”, by spelling out the letters in the walking route they take). Perhaps because he is feeling analytically rusty, Sherlock suddenly seems able to feel pity. Somehow, she retrieves it and brings it to Sherlock, who, following Mary’s death, is in the midst of a bout of extreme drug abuse, his powers of observation partly blinkered. At the start of the episode, we see Smith’s daughter try to scrawl what she can remember of the confession before her father prises the paper from her hands. This was the only part of the episode that felt hammy to me, a bit of sci-fi trickery that doesn’t make sense if you think about it too much. Unlike Savile, Smith regularly confesses to his crimes, deriving pleasure from doing so, but after he divulges his sins he wipes the memories of his confidants, administering them with a drug that causes anterograde amnesia. Photograph: BBC/Hartswood Films/Robert Viglasky I miss you Steve Thompson, I'll always enjoy your episodes and I really hope you come back and save the show.A picture of yellow-toothed mendacity … Toby Jones as Culverton Smith. What happened to Steve Thompson? He wrote on the show for the first three seasons for some of the best episodes (The Blind Banker, Reichenbach Fall and The Sign of Three) This poor guy never received any credit for his great work and now with him gone, the show has devolved into pure chaos. John being shot by Eurus at close rage with no injury to show for it or John, Sherlock and Mycroft surviving a large explosion with no injuries or the brief mention of Sherlock's organ failures due to his drug abuse in "The Lying Detective") Which brings me to the title of this review. They constantly paint themselves into corners and just say "screw it" look at this next scene! (i.e. Complete creative control is not always a good thing. Someone needs to save Moffat and Gatiss from turning into the next George Lucas. Again, I stress that the ending was very rushed. I also can't even imagine why they threw in that whole emotional "Make Molly tell Sherlock she loves him and vice versa" scene if they weren't going to follow up on it later. Hudson driving an Aston Martin all of the secondary characters (Molly, Lestrade, etc.) were completely neglected this season. I love that Mary was smart and could keep Sherlock on his toes, but making her an international super spy/soldier? Really? And aside from a funny moment in "The Lying Detective" with Mrs. ![]() Instead of focusing on interesting crimes, we get character plot twists that belong in a soap opera. Sherlock has always been strongest when it puts the mystery and the crime-solving up front and I feel like this was completely lost this season. But with ten minutes left they just decide "She just wanted Sherlock's love!" And with a nice hug everything stops, John gets saved from the well and we get a quick montage that shows everything is okay, the end! If this is potentially the last episode of the entire series, what a complete let-down. Children killing children is the creepiest thing I can imagine and I really cannot sympathize for her just because she's Sherlock's sister. Which, don't get me wrong, she was terrible almost too terrible for this show. They spent so much time on these crazy (and wildly unbelievable) torture scenarios to set up Eurus as a terrible villain. ![]() *****Spoilers Below***** Unfulfilling is the very first word that comes to mind when I think of this episode. Sentiment for Sherlock prevents me from rating below a 7, and I must say that "Six Thatchers" is by far the worst episode this series has ever had, "The Final Problem" comes in at a close second.
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