Evil Rapid Rob

Thanks Carol Glad you found it interesting it's the first thing I ever wrote. Just a bit of fun really, always full of ideas but never get round to putting them down, partly down to being severely dyslexic. Honestly iv'e been enjoying the whole series, even the wedding! I just thought Sherlock shooting Charles was a bit clunky and thought, there must be some other way. Cheers, Rob

After feeling let down by Sherlock shooting Charles instead of outwitting him, I let my feeling be known on facebook. Some say there was no alternative, that Sherlock was backed into a corner and there was no other way. I refuse to believe it was an impossible situation, for Sherlock as he has a natural talent for getting out of situations that appear impossible. To prove this I rewrote the scene I was unhappy with and posted it as well. It then transpired that it maybe because they are trying to humanize him, I make my feelings clear on this too. Here is both my original post, my alternative ending and feelings on humanizing Sherlock. look forward to reading your reply's. (Post 1) No way would Sherlock Holmes execute someone! Especially not because they outwitted him and backed him into a corner. Poor script writing resulting in Sherlock crossing a bridge he never would have done traditionally. He's a highly functioning sociopath not an assassin! Now that doors been opened surely he can just blow away his rivals every time instead of outwitting them, its gonna make for some very short future episode's. A sad day in Sherlock history:( (Post 2) After my utter dismay at last night's Sherlock episode I decided to rewrite one of the scenes. Starting from the point where Watson's being flicked in the face by the villain (Charles Augustus Magnussen). Throughout the episode Charles was using personal information about people to find there "pressure point's" and then manipulating them, this was illustrated with scrolling scripts behind his eyes. I think Sherlock would have used this same technique to defeat him. The problem being Sherlock was struggling to read him due to his calm impregnable exterior giving so little away. Charles was highly intelligent and used the same mind palace technique as Sherlock to recall information. Therefore Sherlock would have an in-depth knowledge of how it works and It's flaws. This is illustrated earlier in the episode on a recap at the wedding, when he forgets the hotel room number. Watson questions his memory mind palace and Sherlock replies "something's have to go". This proves the mind palace concept is not infallible, It's simply impossible for even highly functioning individuals to use all of there brain capacity. Reflect this reasoning now on to Charles. He has hundreds of life's filed in his memory, but as we see in the episode only the ability to access one at a time. His pressure point is his cool smugness at his own ability, and his week point is only being able to process One file from his vault at a time. Sherlock can then exploit this making it a battle if wit rather than a pointless execution. That's the premise. Now cut to the scene where Watson's getting his face flicked and both him and Sherlock appear powerless and defeated. At this point Sherlock scans Charles up and down, illustrated in the same scrolling formula Charles uses and comes up with pressure point smugness! Sherlock then starts playing with Charles, getting him to show off (the game is on). Charles is enjoying the opportunity after all what's he got to lose in his mind he's won already. Sherlock starts quizzing him on his greatest achievements of manipulations and Charles revels in his bragging. Sherlock indulges him further continuing quiz him and appearing to be impressed. He then starts cross linking the information; people, events and consequences of Charles influence over events. He continues to quiz him in detail about these multiple scenarios. Charles is trying to access more than one memory file in his mind palace at once. This is illustrated by a brief flash of the information behind his eyes appearing in more than one column, he starts to show slight signs of being under pressure. Sherlock asks more and more questions, constantly cross linking the information, he manages to use his observational skills to analyse Charles now that he's showing weakness. Sherlock's now holding court, there is a shift of power as Charles starts losing his composure as Sherlock starts integrating questions about his own past (Sherlock is looking for ways to touch a nerve). Charles starts seeing in his minds eye his lists starting to become jumbled and merging with a pulsating feeling in his temples. He now showing signs of irritation, becoming angry with Sherlock and starts trying to get him to shut up. Instead Sherlock cranks it up a notch pushing him further and overloading him more and more. Charles is still facing Watson his mind flashes 'pressure point Watson'. He grabs Watson's gun points it back at him and yells at Sherlock to stop. At this point the helicopter and snipers enter adding to his addled pulsating confusion. Sherlock keeps at it, even tho he's clearly putting Watson at risk, he talks about coping strategies like Mind Palace. About how Charles must have used it to help overcome his mental illness a way of organizing and memorizing to avoid becoming overloaded by an over active mind. How people with low latent inhibition if combined with a high level IQ can become genius, but conversely with low IQ suffer from mental illness. Sherlock: "you were in a mental institution were you not? what does that say about your IQ? yes you mastered a good coping strategy with mind palace, clearly isn't working now tho is it? you learnt how to control peoples lives with your memory, but don't fool yourself your no genius, your just a lunatic with a flawed coping strategy that's now broken, your finished!" We see the words in Charles minds eye jumble and pulsate to the point of literally seeing red and then he pulls the trigger..... Charles is hit by sniper fire he's wounded and knocked of balance a fraction of a second before the bullet leaves his gun and he misses Watson. Watson turns on Sherlock for nearly getting him killed. Sherlock calmly explains a theory that a good sniper instinctively knows the point a trigger will be pulled and they can remove the target marginally before it will happen. Watson's unimpressed and tells Sherlock there's no way he could of known the outcome for certain. Sherlock reply's:"nothings ever a certainty but every theory needs testing." Watson:" i'd prefer if it wasn't tested on me." Sherlock:"oh come now, we discussed how your attracted to dangerous situations." Watson:"Oh so that's a given now is it? You've always got a bloody answer, well answer me this; how did you know you could break Charles in the first place?" Sherlock:"Moriarty!" Watson:"What? How? He's dead" Sherlock: "Obviously, you've got to admit tho he was a a higher class of villain. Anyway I remembered him breaking the glass safe housing the crown jewels. This made me realise my problem was one of physics. The stronger something becomes the more brittle it can become and therefore more fragile, then it's simply a case of applying the correct amount of pressure at the right point. This was true of Charles." Watson:" You sound as if your actually missing Moriarty!" Sherlock:"Don't be so ridiculous Watson, although you have to admit the worlds a bit duller without him." Watson:"your unbelievable! ok, well what about the eye flicking, couldn't you have stopped that sooner?" Sherlock:"of course, but it amused me, your face (Sherlock does a mocking facial expression of Watson then laughs') Watson still looks suitably unimpressed. This version of events gives continuity to Sherlock's character, he is still a sociopath who puts Watson in unnecessary danger. Partly to indulge his own sociopathic tendency, observing with intrigue as Watson is being mocked by Charles. This would feed his sociological interests, and is far more in character than some grand self sacrificing gesture forcing him to kill a man in cold blood because of his a affection towards Watson. Sherlock's full of grand gestures, but he only uses them for showing off. All of this would only take a couple of minutes on screen and the rest could then stay pretty much the same. Mycroft would still be annoyed at losing an asset. Sherlock would therefore still undergo his four minute exile. Charles ends up a gibbering wreck in an asylum, after Sherlock breaking his mind palace. The mind palace Charles thought to be impregnable and flawless and was the one thing that kept him sane. This way they get keep a convincing bad guy they could always resurrect for future episodes. And fundamentally you get to keep the continuity of Sherlock and Watson's characters. It's not that i'm a Sherlock geek I just have an over active imagination:) (Post 3) He's a sociopath, its not a grumpy phase he's being going through for the last 120 year's of compelling entertainment, and I like him that way. He's supposed to be slightly detestable and frustrating, that's his character. Why try and make him a fluffy lovable slightly eccentric doctor who stylized character for any other reason than being a lazy un-imaginative script writer. The same guy that writes doctor who is clearly merging the two main characters, but we don't need two doctor who series. And I don't want to see Sherlock and Watson's relationship turn into something from beauty and the beast. STOP Humanizing your ruining it!