I thought it was the best episode yet, and - as I said on my LJ - that MF and BC both deserve BAFTAs. So much to love, and so much to weep over for all the main characters.
I'm not so sure that Mycroft was fooled, really. He's so complex, and so Machiavellian, that it's impossible to say at this point what he was really up to.
Lestrade, though... I wish we'd seen some reaction from him at the end. He really was between a rock and a hard place, and I don't think he ever really believed that Sherlock was a fraud. He's stood beside him too many times at crime scenes to believe that it was all faked.
This, though: The journalist had plenty to say about her counterpart on screen, and how true investigative journalism involves research, not taking the word and the paperwork of the guy you're boffing.
Remember that the "journalist" in question works for, or sold her story to, the Sun. There's a huge difference, in the UK, between the tabloid press and the serious broadsheets, and it's been getting worse. Have you seen any of the fallout of the phone-hacking scandal in the UK? The public enquiry into the behaviour of the press?
Yes, the serious press should have done more investigation, but you know how it is: today's scoop is tomorrow's fish-wrapping. With Sherlock apparently dead, the story's old news.
Anyway. Wasn't that graveside scene magnificent and heartwrenching? Sherlock's 'suicide phone call' was heartwrenching too, but John at the graveside is what will stick in my mind. And Sherlock's face, watching.
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Date: 2012-01-16 04:12 am (UTC)I'm not so sure that Mycroft was fooled, really. He's so complex, and so Machiavellian, that it's impossible to say at this point what he was really up to.
Lestrade, though... I wish we'd seen some reaction from him at the end. He really was between a rock and a hard place, and I don't think he ever really believed that Sherlock was a fraud. He's stood beside him too many times at crime scenes to believe that it was all faked.
This, though:
The journalist had plenty to say about her counterpart on screen, and how true investigative journalism involves research, not taking the word and the paperwork of the guy you're boffing.
Remember that the "journalist" in question works for, or sold her story to, the Sun. There's a huge difference, in the UK, between the tabloid press and the serious broadsheets, and it's been getting worse. Have you seen any of the fallout of the phone-hacking scandal in the UK? The public enquiry into the behaviour of the press?
Yes, the serious press should have done more investigation, but you know how it is: today's scoop is tomorrow's fish-wrapping. With Sherlock apparently dead, the story's old news.
Anyway. Wasn't that graveside scene magnificent and heartwrenching? Sherlock's 'suicide phone call' was heartwrenching too, but John at the graveside is what will stick in my mind. And Sherlock's face, watching.
Is it time for S3 yet????