The Final Problem, or, Sherlock's Last Bow...

[autumnatmidnite]

Last night, I finally found the time to give TFP a proper watch. From the fragments I saw when it originally aired, it made me angry over what this once great program had devolved into, but I think, having genuinely given it a chance, can say it was not half as torturous as was TST, and I am not angry with it anymore. Just sad. Grieving, really.

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[ellieet]

I felt very emotional at the episode ending. I don't want to disavow the entire series but it is hard watching TRF, knowing where it's going to lead, you know? Because it leads to all of THIS.

I'm sorry you're feeling the way you are right now; it was quite a ride, yes? I think Eurus' arrival, all the events, were too late in the day; too late to introduce another sibling, too much in a single setting. Personally I found her to be a massive Mary-Sue who made the previous series seem utterly pointless.

[kcscribbler]

Thank you for this, because now I realize exactly just why has bothered me just so much about the series and why exactly I've been so bothered by it. As someone who just recently got out of a relationship involving mind games (among other types of emotional and mental abuse), Sherlock's relationship with John has always just been too borderline not-okay for me, and then they flipped that completely by adding physical abuse this series from John's end - in no universe is any of that okay. I was the child who was given a bound copy of STUD, SIGN, and the short stories up through FINA, and plowed through them eagerly while on vacation one year - only to reach that last and have the rest of my vacation ruined because I had no idea there was an EMPT. As you said, it feels like that, grieving a loss of what could have been.

And yes, the backstory being all shoved in our faces like that is just so unnecessary, and just disappointingly dull. It's also been done to death in so many adaptations before, both in media and in fan fiction; I

1/2 Because I can't control myself when I'm ranting

[lauand]

I don't feel as betrayed as you because Sherlock Holmes hasn't been such an important character for my childhood. I mean, I liked Basil Rathbone's movies for some reason when I was a really small kid and I utterly, utterly loved Miyazaki's cartoons. Miyazaki is the best portraying villains as endearing human beings, by the way, even if it clashes with Sir ACD's canon and, well, they were actually dogs. But I tried reading A Study in Scarlet and the Hound of the Baskervilles when I was a teenager and I didn't really like them. So the canon is not as important to me as it is to you

2/2 Because I can't control myself when I'm ranting

[lauand]

If I'm into fandom it's because I'm interested in the slash. But, for me, that's what fandom, and not canon, is for. I already knew there would be no Jonhlock resolution, that's perfectly fine. I'm not disappointed in it. I'm actually much more disappointed by the "okay, have a consolation prize with this Mary-conducted epilogue depicting their lives together after all this mess". No. That was patronizing and unnecesary (pretty much like the whole The Abominable Bride episode: patronizing and unnecesary). Because I don't ask of this show or, actually, any show, to give me what I want because I want it. What I ask of any professional show is A MINIMUM OF CONSISTENCY. I've seen second rate soap operas more faithful to their characters than this season. Okay, no, I haven't because I can't stand second rate soap operas (which is the whole point of comparing this show to them), but still. So, like you, it's not about me being bitter about not getting my Johnlock, because I don't need any Johnlock in canon. But I do need a certain bond