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God please let the final problem not be the last episode of sherlock and co . Praying fr🙏

I still don't understand "The Final Problem"

My mom: (idk what she was talking about here) “is tHAT IT?!” Me: Mother, you have just summed up my feelings for last night’s Sherlock episode (the final problem) in a sentence.

I am struggling to see how Sherlock and Co would do a final problem situation bc there’s no way John is going to sit down and make a disclaimer like “hey everyone trigger warnings for this episode, Sherlock dies.” And also edit it all together. So either it has to be a John is uploading parts live as they happen, which would break the whole structure of the show, or we just get hints throughout the regular episode and then an announcement and hiatus. Or they just won’t do it at all and continue making silly little case episodes.

At the end of the day Goalhanger is a business and the podcast is less than a year old and doing well so it wouldn’t make sense for them to be away long.

I think i’ll be ok

i think i’ll be ok if sherlock ended with the tfp. I wasn’t like there was a big cliffhanger at the end like in the great game. it was like a fairytail ending.

star wars? i don’t know her, happy “moriarty got yeeted down the reichenbach falls” anniversary!

Happy May 4th, Everyone! No faked deaths today sorry

After Sherlock jumped, John didn’t get a shock blanket, he got a shock coat, Sherlock’s coat.

Moriarty was real!

Season 4 was not...

“Mrs Hudson, Professor Moriarty is a master criminal!”

“Oh, well, you two will have lots to talk about, then...”

That first, fateful meeting between Holmes and Moriarty, with a few details that Watson left out of the official version.

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Enola Holmes VS. Sherlock

The Holmes' Siblings

Sherlock

William Sherlock Scott

Enola Eudoria Heddassa

Eurus

Mycroft

Mycroft

The Holmes' Parents

Eudoria Holmes

Mrs.

Mr.

Honorary Holmes'

John Watson &

Martha Louise Hudson

Rip Una you will be missed very much💜💙

Only real ones understand 💯

I wanna ad to Chekovs's SD card, that we also had Sherlock admitting to using his and John's private WhatsApp messages as a note-pad. In FINA Holmes leaves his last on a piece of paper torn from his notebook. 👀

🕰️🕷️🌩️ for the ask game!

🌩️ - Unpopular headcanon?

I'm taking this to mean what's an unpopular headcanon I hold: Sherlock is a sex neutral to positive ace-spec character in this adaption. I think he would have sex and enjoy it in the moment if it was with someone whom he really enjoyed being around, but doesn't actively feel a drive/need/attraction to fulfill. Don't think he'd do anything with his mouth though (which valid).

🕷️ - What are your thoughts about The Final Problem getting adapted?

MANY. I keep flopping back in forth between it's going to be a silly adaption or extremely serious.

If it's silly it's going to be like Sherlock falling off a short height or Moriarty being a rival podcaster and both Sherlock and John are like, "Who??"

But in the most recent adventure, Silver Blaze, we were introduced to Chekov's SD card: An SD card that randomly cuts out and loses data. One that could maybe cut out during the waterfall fight with Moriarty and so John doesn't get to hear whether or not Sherlock survives the fight and subsequent fall. So I'm leaning much more heavily towards serious adaption these days.

🕰️ - When did you first start listening to s&c?

December 19th, 2023. I saw @voilaammayi post about the Blue Carbuncle on my other blog and I was like, "I adore Blue Carbuncle, I need to check this out since it doesn't always get adapted." and fell in love, obviously. *gestures to this blog*

Very angsty! Love it!! But I think you're confusing canon FINA with the BBC adaptation? Sherlock Holmes doesn't jump. He walks into a trap knowingly, let's Watson go so he won't be in danger. And then he kills to keep Watson and the rest of the world safe. Isolating himself for years, traveling as another man, waiting for Moran to make a mistake so he may come home to his Watson. His dear Watson who loves him so much that he would accidentally betray Holmes' secret, and bring them both in danger. Yet Holmes picks up his pen again and again. Almost betraying the secret himself.

Because Sherlock Holmes loves John Watson as much as he is loved by him.

Sherlock Holmes loves John Watson.

That is my main takeaway from the last episode. Whether this love is romantic, platonic or an entirely separate thing altogether. The fact still remains.

Looking at the whole ordeal from Sherlock's perspective reveals something interesting. To Sherlock, John is one of his extremely few friends, his best friend even. Sherlock hasn't had many friends. Sure Mariana is his friend, and once, so was Victor. But none of them have been a friend to him in the way that John has.

No one else had taken the time to dig deep into who he was. No one else had put themselves in genuine danger for him. No one else has followed him into murders, and kidnappings, and all the other horrors he deals with, and stays by side throughout it all. He can count on John to always be there. He can trust John with his fears. He can be vulnerable around him, and believes that John can do the same.

He has, in his own way, fallen in love with him. He has grown attached. He cares about John in a way he hasn't cared for anyone before... He nearly killed for John Watson... He'd very willingly die for him as well...

That's what takes me to The Final Problem. Where, at the threat of John getting hurt, Sherlock would back down. He'd call John, tell him everything, how much he cares. He'd ask, plead, beg, John to forgive for what he's about to do... Then he'd jump. Spending the next few years, still protecting John. And when he has to come back, he'll be afraid. Not of the press, or that he won't be accepted. That John, his John Watson will not forgive him...

After all, there is no universe, where Sherlock doesn't love his Watson.

This scene was so beautifully performed. The way John stepped next to Mycroft, as if it were an important game choice. Oh wait.

Eurus and Moriarty made that plan together 3 years before the fall, so Moriarty knew Sherlock would be alive for it to happen. That he would survive whatever he would put him through. So why did he kill himself and make the fall happen, on impulse? He planted the hitmen after knowing about the plan he made with Eurus, so he knew John and Sherlock would survive so why did he checkmate himself? The name Moriarty means to die is an art, maybe it was for the act of ruining Sherlock. After all, he really devoted his life to destroying Sherlock. Him killing himself closes off some of Sherlocks options so that he has to either save his friends or himself. But if he knew it wasn't going to work, why try? Maybe he wanted Sherlock to suffer with the Reichenbach fall before that plan he and Eurus made were to happen. For his relationship with John to suffer to see if he would still pick John. But how could Moriarty see that if he died, what would the point of that whole plan be? Ruin Sherlock? I think it would make much more sense if Moriarty did live. But Moffat said that his death is confirmed.

 Jim Moriarty + Queen || I Want To Break Free

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