My thoughts on Moriarty are two-fold. I'm not 100% sure he's dead (I think he might've done a fake death think himself, and may return next season), but if he is, it might just be because he'll never surpass what he did right then. He's pulled one over on Mycroft, on Sherlock, on the government, on the press, and on the entire underworld itself. All of them believed the lie he fed them--that there was a keycode, that there never was a Jim Moriarty, etc.--and so he's basically beated everyone on the planet. How is he ever going to top that? I guess he can't, so he decides not to bother with the boredom that will follow, and decides to f*ck Sherlock over one last time for sh*ts and giggles. Ergo the shooting of himself, and the forcing of Sherlock's hand.
That's kind of my thinking on the matter now, although it took me a couple of hours to synthesize everything. Immediately following the episode, I didn't get it either, and I was just as confused and dubious about it as you.
And yeah, how *did* Sherlock stage his death? I mean, he looked pretty dead--there was blood everywhere. Although I'm thinking Molly is really, really involved somehow, and that Sherlock took a page from Irene Adler's book... whatever that page may be. I think there might be something in the fact that we didn't actually see Sherlock hit the ground, maybe? That might just be cinematography, but it might have something to do with it. In the last few yards of his fall, we don't see anything. But who knows?
And yeah, Martin Freeman was pretty amazing for the reasons you detailed above. :)
That's kind of my thinking on the matter now, although it took me a couple of hours to synthesize everything. Immediately following the episode, I didn't get it either, and I was just as confused and dubious about it as you.
And yeah, how *did* Sherlock stage his death? I mean, he looked pretty dead--there was blood everywhere. Although I'm thinking Molly is really, really involved somehow, and that Sherlock took a page from Irene Adler's book... whatever that page may be. I think there might be something in the fact that we didn't actually see Sherlock hit the ground, maybe? That might just be cinematography, but it might have something to do with it. In the last few yards of his fall, we don't see anything. But who knows?
And yeah, Martin Freeman was pretty amazing for the reasons you detailed above. :)
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