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Oh, I would LOVE to be Mycroft (the original), liking my food and my creature comforts, rarely venturing out of my domain, easily beating Sherlock at the deduction game and having a special club catering to my idiosyncrasies to relax after a tough day at the office, playing at being a minor official!

Shouldn't that be 'flibbertygibbet' ? And we are definitely vegetating until the release of Thor Ragnarok and The Current Wars, at least!

After the train wreck that is TFP ( how appropriate of Moriarty to play the conductor! ), I wish they had stopped after S2. S3 tried to patch things up and went overboard with Mary and SoT, not to mention Sherlock Bl#%#% Holmes solving his problem by shooting it in the head, and S4 is, frankly, a Bond wannabe.

Why we had to go through all the Sturm und Drang of TFP to end up with Lestrade declaring that after all Sherlock Holmes is not only a great man but also a good man, thus coming full circle from SiP, shall remain a mystery to me. I particularly disliked the obviously contrived plot devices, not to mention the plot holes : deeply dissatisfying as the possible final episode.

Ladies and gentlemen, although the rosy-hued discussion above is charming, I have a serious question to put to you all: after the beating-up of Sherlock ( more than s bit of a domestic!) Dr Watson is taken away by DI Lestrade for questioning. During that session, he admits to a serving senior POLICE OFFICER that Sherlock actually shot Magnussen, but it was fun! And this admission was made on record, too, automatically necessitating DI Lestrade's commencing proceedings against one Sherlock Holmes for willful homicide, whatever noble motives underlay the act. And all this while in TST a special commission was set up to bury the event for a hundred years without the need of a royal pardon. Seriously, are the creators even talking to each other during script-writing? One reason in HLV that DI Lestrade was kept out of the picture after a point ( Sherlock getting shot) was because in his official capacity he would have had to arrest the consulting detective. One more major co#%+p by Mr Moffat, but why, when it was entirely avoidable?

Meanwhile, over at Sherlockshome.net, the voting for the Sherloscars is in progress. Whoever wants can pop over and vote for their favorite character, favorite villain etc.

Arcadia, that was a fine piece of reasoning, but we shall never be able to fill all the plot holes. I have no idea why they would say that Jim's brother was a station master, except to have Andrew Scott perform his various train noises. In the Final Problem, it is clearly stated that the late Professor Moriarty's brother is Colonel James Moriarty.

My personal favorites have become TIG, Star Trek, Parade's End ( a lot like Downton Abbey), Amazing Grace and Tinker, Tailor. Haven't watched Osage County, The War Horse and Third Star. But I definitely plan to see Ragnarok because I am a Thor fan, and The Current War, because it's such an important bit of late 19th century American history: Edison of the hundred patents, Westinghouse and Tesla: what more could one want? I just hope the script will do all of them justice!

That's interesting! Although the majority of the fans is made up of females, a male perspective helps to clarify matters. And by the way, the TFP actual viewing public was 5.9 million down from 8.1 !

Please remember that Love is Lady Smallwood, who first got Sherlock into the whole HLV mess ( admittedly out of love for her husband), who was quite willing to have Sherlock quietly executed at the end of it, finding Mycroft's solution not a merciful one, such as a quick death, who quite calculatedly tries to guilt-trip Mycroft into having an evening together. Her Love is manipulative and certainly not unconditional. In this indescribable mess of an episode, I would quite like to know HOW Evros knew about Molly as Sherlock's pressure point. Moriarty didn't know of it, we are assured in TEH, by Sherlock himself, in fact Moriarty overlooked her thus helping Sherlock survive the Fall. In his encounter with the Lady in Red they discussed her apparent problems as Faith Smith. Dr Watson had about a couple of sessions with her as the fake therapist, and he himself is not entirely in the know about Molly and Sherlock's complicated relationship. Mycroft was in the know as far as the Lazarus plan was concerned, if we take Sherlock's word for its being the definitive answer, but nothing more. When Sherlock himself plays Irene's song, it has nothing to do with Molly. So, HOW did she know about the little pathologist and her crush on Sherlock? Their one brief glimpse on the doorstep of the psychotherapist's house was enough to do the usual deducing trick of the Holmes tribe, but not enough to fathom sentiment.

Would that be the same writers who showed Sherlock jumping through his schizophrenic sister's hoops in his suit but was actually magically dropped back in Musgrave land in his Belstaff? Evros must have had some pretty serious muscle to help her transport three dead-weights back to the mainland and be considerate enough to wrap her brother in his coat. Wonder if it was done st Sherrinford, or before they dropped Dr Watson down the well, where he's apparently chained down, but then, miracle of miracles, is able to grab the rope Sherlock throws him and get back on dry land. Alice in Wonderland or Through The Looking Glass have a lot to be jealous of TFP!

In another photograph he is his own self, albeit in period costume, so this is apparently an older Edison. For once he will be on the losing side, although the US still suffer from the fallout of Edison protecting his patents against Westinghouse! I shall have to look it up in IMDb: whoever plays Westinghouse will have side whiskers that will put Lestrade's in TAB to shame!

The way things are going, this thread will quickly become the Euros Admiration Society! Really? For a terminally deranged schizoid personality that started as a joke, Sherlock's elder sister seems to be mind-controlling the thread! If they ever do a Special or even S5, I fervently hope that the governor is more resilient to suggestion and Mycroft engages deaf-mutes as her guards! And no more treats! Mrs Hudson was SO right about Mycroft not understanding his own family in TLD!

On the whole, I tend to agree with Janine Adler, Boton, Bedelia and Pamela, and definitely with Surelock about the problems of TFP. In the end, it's not even clear what The f#%#^%g problem is. It was a hugely disappointing, extremely camp and wimpy end to a series that started with such promise as to become a worldwide phenomenon. They couldn't please all fans, so they went for Sophie's Choice and Saw, and some other series, and to h%#% with smashing their fan base into as many splinters as Sherlock left the coffin.

Euros has many characteristics of severe schizophrenia and a schizoid personality, no redeeming features whatsoever and likes to toy with her food... Sorry, meant to say, her brothers! For me, Sherlock did the one impossible thing he talked to her about in TLD by showing Jesus-like powers of forgiveness, seeing as she had caused the death of his childhood friend out of spite and jealousy, a complete social misfit and a dangerous role-model for potential younger viewers, and she was created as a joke, both creators confessed, thereby adding insult to injury in a most antisocial way! Makes one wonder whether it was Mr Moffat or Mr Gatiss who liked pulling wings off flies and legs off spiders more as a child!