The episode starts off with a little girl waking up on a plane, and everyone else is knocked out. A phone starts ringing and the girl answers and then this happens.
(https://www.instagram.com/p/BPUI4GwjLgW/)
We then see Mycroft watching an old movie. While he is watching it however, scene's from home video's start playing instead. Then on the screen it says "I'm back." Then really crazy stuff starts happening like paintings bleeding out of their eyes.
(http://www.denofgeek.com/us/tv/sherlock/261522/sherlock-38-things-you-might-have-missed-in-the-final-problem)
Mycroft also starts being chased around his house by a creepy girl and a creepy clown.
Mycroft's umbrella/sword/gun is awesome.
(https://i.pinimg.com/originals/4c/e1/26/4ce126c30db3fd718cecda6e5da9f224.jpg)
However it feels out of place. I feel like it would be in a Doctor Who episode or in a James Bond film.
Anyways all of this was done by Sherlock.
(https://www.instagram.com/p/BPWOK_nDCsq/)
Remember how John was shot in the last episode? No need to worry, Euros just knocked him out! To me this just seems like a cheap cop out, like they could have had Euros shoot him in the shoulder or the arm.
John tells Mycroft that scaring him was his idea.
(https://www.instagram.com/p/BPZeAvujrEA/)
Then John tells him to come to Baker Street the next day.
The next day, Mycroft starts telling Sherlock and John about Euros. Basically Mycroft says that she was incredibly smart. She also drowned Sherlock dog Redbeard, which traumatized Sherlock so much, he erased her from his memory. Also she burnt down their house........yeah weird kid. So she was sent away to Sherrinford. A prison for dangerous and crazy people.
While they are talking a drone flies in with a motion censor grenade on it, sent by Euros. No I am not kidding. Anyways they all survive, but not before we get to see a really bad CGI explosion, that is so painful to look at. So painful.
(http://nerdist.com/sherlocks-the-final-problem-series-4-review/)
Sherlock, Mycroft and John break into Sherrinford. Mycroft and John talk to the Governor, the man in charge of Sherrinford. While they are talking with him we discover that Euros can "reprogram" people after talking to them for like five seconds, because she is just so smart.........so she has like super powers or she can use the Jedi mind trick? Ok I find that hard to believe, but moving on.
John realizes that the Governor has been reprogrammed by Euros. Then the Governor has Mycroft and John captured.
Meanwhile Sherlock has broken into Euros's cell and is talking to her. He tells Euros he doesn't remember her.
( http://www.telegraph.co.uk/tv/0/eurus-sherrinford-everything-need-know-sherlocks-brothers-sisters/amp/)
While they are talking Euros says some pretty disturbing stuff.
(https://www.instagram.com/p/BQ-_30ZBYza/)
Euros then tells Sherlock to come closer and touch the glass between them. Only there is no glass.
(https://www.instagram.com/p/BPWmagUB4yN/)
Ok, how does Sherlock not notice that there is no glass? This is the man who notices everything! Is he just focusing so much on what she is saying?
Then after this we get a scene of Moriarty landing in a helicopter outside of Sherrinford. Of course it isn't until two minutes into the scene that we learn this is a flashback that happened five years ago on Christmas day.
(https://pedro-martini.tumblr.com/post/155917193994/the-subtitle-that-broke-the-fandoms-heart)
Euros is so smart, Mycroft has been using her to predict when terrorist attacks are going to happen. However she doesn't do it for free, she wants presents. When this flashback is taking place she asked for five minutes alone with James Moriarty. So this is where he filmed all the clips for her that she uses throughout the episode. This is also where they planned this whole game to test Sherlock. They did all of that in five minutes...........I also find that hard to believe.
I never thought I would say this, but Moriarty is underwhelming in this episode. Which is something Moriarty should never be!
I did like it however when Moriarty and Euros first meet. Their reflections in the glass makes it look like they are becoming one, and their body movements remind me of snakes.
( https://www.instagram.com/p/BPUPGq4Ah9N/)
We then cut back to present day. Euros has trapped Sherlock, John, Mycroft, and the Governor in her cell, with the glass back on. Euros tells them that either John or Mycroft has to shoot the Governor, and if they don't then she will kill the Governor's wife.
I liked it that Mycroft refused to kill the Governor. It made him more human and relatable.
(https://www.instagram.com/p/BPV3WmqhEP9/)
I was wondering if they were going to have John murder an innocent man. I'm glad he didn't, but I also liked it that they kept you guessing.
Since neither of them can kill him, the Governor kills himself, trying to save his wife. However since neither John or Mycroft killed him, Euros still kills his wife.
Euros then opens a door and tells them to go to the next room. The next problem for Sherlock to solve is which brother, out of 3 of them, killed someone. To raise the stacks Euros has them dangling outside the window.
(https://sherlockshome.net/2017/01/21/5-most-interesting-easter-eggs-from-sherlock-the-final-problem/)
Sherlock figures out which one is the killer, and Euros kills the 2 innocent ones before she kills the guilty one.
Euros killing the two innocent brothers actually shocked me. I remember when I first watched this episode my mouth dropped open in shock. She also does end up killing the guilty one. However she says that killing the innocent didn't feel any different then killing the guilty. Euros is so messed up. Sain Brooke who played Euros does an incredibly good job at playing this character.
In the next room the gang finds a coffin. Euros wants them to figure out who's coffin it is. Sherlock starts deducing the coffin, but before he can get to far into his deductions, Mycroft goes over to the lid of the coffin, to see who's name is on the plate.
(https://i.pinimg.com/originals/cb/0b/3d/cb0b3d8e30efd98512acd96bb42fac64.jpg)
On the plate is written "I love you" When Sherlock see's that he knows right away that this is Molly Hooper's coffin. Euros says that she will blow up Molly's flat unless Sherlock can get Molly to say "I love you." Euros calls Molly on Sherlock's cellphone. He has three minutes to get her to say "I love you." However he can not tell her that she is under threat or Euros will kill her.
The first time Euros calls Molly she doesn't answer.
(https://www.instagram.com/p/BQIaKaHgo-V/)
Euros then try's again, and Molly answers. To summarize, Sherlock tells Molly to say "I love you", Molly says she can't because it is actually true. She then tells Sherlock to say it.
(https://scatteredquotes.com/40-best-sherlock-quotes-4x03/)
After Sherlock gets Molly to say it, with seconds to spare; he tells Euros that he won. Euros tells Sherlock that she wasn't going to kill Molly. She tells him that he lost, because he showed his emotions.
Sherlock having to make Molly say "I love you" to him, was a heartbreaking scene. Benedict Cumberbatch and Louise Brealey were amazing and had great chemistry as always. Wish we could have had more scenes with these characters together. Sherlock saying "I love you" twice is interesting. It does seem like he meant it, (or maybe he thought the first one didn't sound convincing enough, and Molly had told him to "say it, like he meant it"), the writers left it ambiguous on purpose, so that we the audience could imagine/decide what happened. I think he did mean it, whether it be romantic, friendship or familial, I don't know.
Euros tells them to go to the next room when they are ready. Sherlock puts the lid on the coffin, and then he starts destroying it.
(https://www.instagram.com/p/BPVOpWTj8Y4/)
Sherlock destroying Molly's coffin is fantastic! The frustration, hurt, and anger Cumberbatch put into it is great! I don't think Sherlock destroyed the coffin just because he had hurt Molly again, or even that he made himself vulnerable. I think it is all of that, but he also just failed to save five people from dying. Molly however was his breaking point.
In the next room Sherlock has to choose to either kill John or Mycroft. Mycroft starts saying how Sherlock doesn't need John, and how he would be more help to Sherlock. Sherlock knows that Mycroft is just trying to make it easy for him to kill his brother.
(https://www.facebook.com/simplysherlockfanpage/photos/ms.c.eJw9zcENxEAMQtGOImNjG~;pvbDUbTa5PXwBCtekVzFU~;eEFBDTi~_kEanoH1hPCG4kXkhdQpKF6LPhsgHDM04plUQ6w85JTujxx~_wD2ydl2C0ItPtAX9y6SJp.bps.a.754581941240562.1073741828.754576607907762/1418372978194785/?type=3&theater)
(https://www.instagram.com/p/BPT3FI4AGV8/)
(https://www.tumblr.com/search/final+problem+it+took+her+just+five+minutes)
Sherlock decides instead of killing his brother, he will kill himself.
(https://www.tumblr.com/search/sherlock)
Euros starts freaking out, so she knocks them all out.
(https://i.pinimg.com/originals/ae/49/f8/ae49f8141ba21ec1fb54d59497d2b656.jpg)
Sherlock wakes up at his old childhood home, and John wakes up chained to the bottom of a well. Mycroft is not there.
John and Sherlock still have the earpieces in, so they are still able to communicate.
John finds bones at the bottom of the well. Sherlock tells him that they are Redbeard's bones. John then explains to Sherlock that they are not dog bones, but the bones of a child.
(https://www.buzzfeed.com/scottybryan/that-episode-was-like-drinking-ten-cups-of-coffee?sub=4441597_10327029&utm_term=.btvn7wW0Y#.snRRpYbq3)
Euros tells Sherlock that they didn't have a dog. Sherlock then remember's his best friend.
(https://www.google.com/search?q=the+lying+detective+john&rlz=1C1AVNA_enUS572US572&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjHnMKCkuXVAhUM0mMKHV6cB8YQ_AUICygC&biw=1366&bih=662#imgrc=_)
Redbeard being Sherlock's best friend, who his crazy sister murdered, was an interesting twist. A good one? I'm not sure, but interesting none the less. I loved it though when Sherlock actually remembered what happened. He was reliving it. Mourning his best friend all over again, with tears streaming down his face.
The well that John is stuck in starts to fill with water. Before Sherlock can save him though, he has to figure out Euros's last problem. Which he does.
Sherlock goes up to Euros's old room and finds her there in her mind palace. Remember that girl on the plane? Yeah that was Euros in her mind palace.
All she wanted was her brother.
( https://www.instagram.com/p/BPaw9UohK1v/)
Euros being the little girl on the plane as her mind palace was stupid, and didn't make sense. She goes from being this creepy threat when her eyes are open, but when she closes her eyes she is a scared lonely girl, who wants her big brother to save her. Even though Sherlock comforting Euros is a touching scene, its still weird.
Oh, and don't worry about John, Sherlock is able to get him out of the well.
Euros is back at Sherrinford, but she is no longer talking. We see Sherlock visiting her on a regular basis. He plays the violin to her. She eventually starts playing back. This is a really beautiful scene. Even though they can't communicate through words they can still communicate through music.
(https://www.instagram.com/p/BPTt0Pkj8wo/)
We see a very forgiving/compassionate Sherlock, he is so nice to his sister. Though I don't know why we should feel sorry for Euros, since we just saw her kill five people, without batting an eye. Also I'm not going to feel sorry for someone who murdered a child! Because she was jealous, that like all big brothers, Sherlock would rather play with his best friend, then with his little sister!
I wish we could have seen a scene of Sherlock and Molly talking about the "I love you", but at the end of the episode during the montage, we see her walk happily over to where Sherlock's chair is.
(http://christyvourcos.tumblr.com/post/155936318722)
So, I assume she is walking toward Sherlock. At least we know they made up. whether they became a couple or they are still just friends.
Seeing John and Sherlock with baby Rosie is adorable.
(https://www.tvtime.com/en/show/176941/episode/5866007)
Mary sends John yet another DVD, seriously when did she make these and how she is sending them from beyond the grave? Her monologue is nice and sweet, but unnecessary.
(https://www.instagram.com/p/BPWDcKJBPOy/)
They could have easily replaced Mary with John, writing a blog entry. Since John is the narrator of Sherlock's life.
Then we see our heroes Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson running in all of their slow motion glory.
(https://www.instagram.com/p/BPTfa7WBman/)
The show leaves it so that if this is the last episode it is tied up, but they don't end it so that we could never revisit these character's again. Sherlock could end here and be a decent show, or we could get more episodes in the future. I don't see the show going back to its former glory from the first two seasons. So I hope this is the end of Sherlock.
I give "The Final Problem." 4/10, because it is hard to believe that anything in this episode actually happened.
We then see Mycroft watching an old movie. While he is watching it however, scene's from home video's start playing instead. Then on the screen it says "I'm back." Then really crazy stuff starts happening like paintings bleeding out of their eyes.
Mycroft also starts being chased around his house by a creepy girl and a creepy clown.
Mycroft's umbrella/sword/gun is awesome.
However it feels out of place. I feel like it would be in a Doctor Who episode or in a James Bond film.
Anyways all of this was done by Sherlock.
Remember how John was shot in the last episode? No need to worry, Euros just knocked him out! To me this just seems like a cheap cop out, like they could have had Euros shoot him in the shoulder or the arm.
John tells Mycroft that scaring him was his idea.
Then John tells him to come to Baker Street the next day.
The next day, Mycroft starts telling Sherlock and John about Euros. Basically Mycroft says that she was incredibly smart. She also drowned Sherlock dog Redbeard, which traumatized Sherlock so much, he erased her from his memory. Also she burnt down their house........yeah weird kid. So she was sent away to Sherrinford. A prison for dangerous and crazy people.
While they are talking a drone flies in with a motion censor grenade on it, sent by Euros. No I am not kidding. Anyways they all survive, but not before we get to see a really bad CGI explosion, that is so painful to look at. So painful.
Sherlock, Mycroft and John break into Sherrinford. Mycroft and John talk to the Governor, the man in charge of Sherrinford. While they are talking with him we discover that Euros can "reprogram" people after talking to them for like five seconds, because she is just so smart.........so she has like super powers or she can use the Jedi mind trick? Ok I find that hard to believe, but moving on.
John realizes that the Governor has been reprogrammed by Euros. Then the Governor has Mycroft and John captured.
Meanwhile Sherlock has broken into Euros's cell and is talking to her. He tells Euros he doesn't remember her.
While they are talking Euros says some pretty disturbing stuff.
Euros then tells Sherlock to come closer and touch the glass between them. Only there is no glass.
Ok, how does Sherlock not notice that there is no glass? This is the man who notices everything! Is he just focusing so much on what she is saying?
Then after this we get a scene of Moriarty landing in a helicopter outside of Sherrinford. Of course it isn't until two minutes into the scene that we learn this is a flashback that happened five years ago on Christmas day.
Euros is so smart, Mycroft has been using her to predict when terrorist attacks are going to happen. However she doesn't do it for free, she wants presents. When this flashback is taking place she asked for five minutes alone with James Moriarty. So this is where he filmed all the clips for her that she uses throughout the episode. This is also where they planned this whole game to test Sherlock. They did all of that in five minutes...........I also find that hard to believe.
I never thought I would say this, but Moriarty is underwhelming in this episode. Which is something Moriarty should never be!
I did like it however when Moriarty and Euros first meet. Their reflections in the glass makes it look like they are becoming one, and their body movements remind me of snakes.
We then cut back to present day. Euros has trapped Sherlock, John, Mycroft, and the Governor in her cell, with the glass back on. Euros tells them that either John or Mycroft has to shoot the Governor, and if they don't then she will kill the Governor's wife.
I liked it that Mycroft refused to kill the Governor. It made him more human and relatable.
I was wondering if they were going to have John murder an innocent man. I'm glad he didn't, but I also liked it that they kept you guessing.
Since neither of them can kill him, the Governor kills himself, trying to save his wife. However since neither John or Mycroft killed him, Euros still kills his wife.
Euros then opens a door and tells them to go to the next room. The next problem for Sherlock to solve is which brother, out of 3 of them, killed someone. To raise the stacks Euros has them dangling outside the window.
Sherlock figures out which one is the killer, and Euros kills the 2 innocent ones before she kills the guilty one.
Euros killing the two innocent brothers actually shocked me. I remember when I first watched this episode my mouth dropped open in shock. She also does end up killing the guilty one. However she says that killing the innocent didn't feel any different then killing the guilty. Euros is so messed up. Sain Brooke who played Euros does an incredibly good job at playing this character.
In the next room the gang finds a coffin. Euros wants them to figure out who's coffin it is. Sherlock starts deducing the coffin, but before he can get to far into his deductions, Mycroft goes over to the lid of the coffin, to see who's name is on the plate.
On the plate is written "I love you" When Sherlock see's that he knows right away that this is Molly Hooper's coffin. Euros says that she will blow up Molly's flat unless Sherlock can get Molly to say "I love you." Euros calls Molly on Sherlock's cellphone. He has three minutes to get her to say "I love you." However he can not tell her that she is under threat or Euros will kill her.
The first time Euros calls Molly she doesn't answer.
Euros then try's again, and Molly answers. To summarize, Sherlock tells Molly to say "I love you", Molly says she can't because it is actually true. She then tells Sherlock to say it.
After Sherlock gets Molly to say it, with seconds to spare; he tells Euros that he won. Euros tells Sherlock that she wasn't going to kill Molly. She tells him that he lost, because he showed his emotions.
Sherlock having to make Molly say "I love you" to him, was a heartbreaking scene. Benedict Cumberbatch and Louise Brealey were amazing and had great chemistry as always. Wish we could have had more scenes with these characters together. Sherlock saying "I love you" twice is interesting. It does seem like he meant it, (or maybe he thought the first one didn't sound convincing enough, and Molly had told him to "say it, like he meant it"), the writers left it ambiguous on purpose, so that we the audience could imagine/decide what happened. I think he did mean it, whether it be romantic, friendship or familial, I don't know.
Euros tells them to go to the next room when they are ready. Sherlock puts the lid on the coffin, and then he starts destroying it.
Sherlock destroying Molly's coffin is fantastic! The frustration, hurt, and anger Cumberbatch put into it is great! I don't think Sherlock destroyed the coffin just because he had hurt Molly again, or even that he made himself vulnerable. I think it is all of that, but he also just failed to save five people from dying. Molly however was his breaking point.
In the next room Sherlock has to choose to either kill John or Mycroft. Mycroft starts saying how Sherlock doesn't need John, and how he would be more help to Sherlock. Sherlock knows that Mycroft is just trying to make it easy for him to kill his brother.
Sherlock decides instead of killing his brother, he will kill himself.
Euros starts freaking out, so she knocks them all out.
Sherlock wakes up at his old childhood home, and John wakes up chained to the bottom of a well. Mycroft is not there.
John and Sherlock still have the earpieces in, so they are still able to communicate.
John finds bones at the bottom of the well. Sherlock tells him that they are Redbeard's bones. John then explains to Sherlock that they are not dog bones, but the bones of a child.
Euros tells Sherlock that they didn't have a dog. Sherlock then remember's his best friend.
Redbeard being Sherlock's best friend, who his crazy sister murdered, was an interesting twist. A good one? I'm not sure, but interesting none the less. I loved it though when Sherlock actually remembered what happened. He was reliving it. Mourning his best friend all over again, with tears streaming down his face.
The well that John is stuck in starts to fill with water. Before Sherlock can save him though, he has to figure out Euros's last problem. Which he does.
Sherlock goes up to Euros's old room and finds her there in her mind palace. Remember that girl on the plane? Yeah that was Euros in her mind palace.
All she wanted was her brother.
Euros being the little girl on the plane as her mind palace was stupid, and didn't make sense. She goes from being this creepy threat when her eyes are open, but when she closes her eyes she is a scared lonely girl, who wants her big brother to save her. Even though Sherlock comforting Euros is a touching scene, its still weird.
Oh, and don't worry about John, Sherlock is able to get him out of the well.
Euros is back at Sherrinford, but she is no longer talking. We see Sherlock visiting her on a regular basis. He plays the violin to her. She eventually starts playing back. This is a really beautiful scene. Even though they can't communicate through words they can still communicate through music.
We see a very forgiving/compassionate Sherlock, he is so nice to his sister. Though I don't know why we should feel sorry for Euros, since we just saw her kill five people, without batting an eye. Also I'm not going to feel sorry for someone who murdered a child! Because she was jealous, that like all big brothers, Sherlock would rather play with his best friend, then with his little sister!
I wish we could have seen a scene of Sherlock and Molly talking about the "I love you", but at the end of the episode during the montage, we see her walk happily over to where Sherlock's chair is.
So, I assume she is walking toward Sherlock. At least we know they made up. whether they became a couple or they are still just friends.
Seeing John and Sherlock with baby Rosie is adorable.
Mary sends John yet another DVD, seriously when did she make these and how she is sending them from beyond the grave? Her monologue is nice and sweet, but unnecessary.
They could have easily replaced Mary with John, writing a blog entry. Since John is the narrator of Sherlock's life.
Then we see our heroes Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson running in all of their slow motion glory.
The show leaves it so that if this is the last episode it is tied up, but they don't end it so that we could never revisit these character's again. Sherlock could end here and be a decent show, or we could get more episodes in the future. I don't see the show going back to its former glory from the first two seasons. So I hope this is the end of Sherlock.
I give "The Final Problem." 4/10, because it is hard to believe that anything in this episode actually happened.
