reichenbach

[kaydeefalls]

Honestly, up till about the halfway point, that episode was kind of pedestrian. AND THEN IT GOT AWESOME. John's confrontation with Mycroft was A++++, give Martin Freeman all the awards now please.

Endnotes:

1. Clicked right around the end of the Moriarty/Sherlock exchange that Sherlock had asked Molly to do something for him -- but we didn't ever see what. Molly works in a morgue. Gee, I wonder what she did.
2. THAT PHONE CALL. OH MY SWEET SHIPPER HEART. THEY LOVE EACH OTHER SO MUCH OKAY.
3. Was all, "wait! no! if John gets too close he'll confirm Sherlock's dead and then my heart will break!" and then he got knocked in the head by the biker and I was like, yup, I see what you did there, writers.
4. John's monologue at the grave made me tear up a bit anyway. OH JOHN OH MY HEART. One more miracle, indeed.
5. OH HI THERE SHERLOCK. <3 <3 <3 Jeez, you'd think he'd at least have dressed all incognito.
6. Is it time for series 3 yet? Because I really want to get the rundown of how he and Molly pulled that little switcheroo.

Best line might still be - "You're insane!" "...you're just getting that now?" OH MORIARTY, I KIND OF LOVE YOU. The suicide caught me off guard, though. I really thought they'd both go over the edge together. Sneaky little canon departures, always fucking my head. I'll miss Moriarty, he was a fun sort of crazycakes.

So series 1 gave us endless iterations on how they got out of the pool. BRING ON THE "EMPTY HOUSE" REMAKES, SHERLOCK FANDOM. I give it another six hours before the first one gets posted to the comms.