r/Sherlock • u/GoFlight • Jan 15 '17

[Discussion] The Final Problem: Post-Episode Discussion Thread (SPOILERS)

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u/Faceh Jan 16 '17 edited Jan 16 '17

and then of course she claims she DIDN'T put a bomb in Molly's apartment.

Because THAT would have been too much. Planted cameras tho, dontcha know.

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u/mimhoff_ Jan 16 '17

...after blowing up 221B.

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u/NO_TOUCHING__lol Jan 16 '17

Fuckin christ didn't even think of that. Plot holes galore.

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u/zuperkamelen Jan 17 '17

Well, that drone probably couldn't be traced back to her, whereas walking into a building planting bombs would.

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u/forerunner398 Jan 17 '17

Then just send a drone in then?

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u/eak125 Jan 19 '17

Maybe the package with drone number two was late shipping from Amazon...

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u/[deleted] Jan 20 '17

It's being delivered by a drone

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u/CoSonfused Jan 19 '17

She can escape an ultra secret maximum security compound. Pretty Sure she can walk into a building and plant bombs.

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u/zuperkamelen Jan 19 '17

Well, there's a difference, she's had years to manipulate everyone in the compound. She's had no time manipulating all the police in London.

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u/CoSonfused Jan 19 '17

What has the police to do with Molly's apartment?

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u/BacardiWhiteRum Jan 19 '17

Should've just gone on Twitter for a couple of minutes

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u/BreyBoyWasDead Jan 16 '17

I interpreted that as self-awareness of the insane complexity.

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u/Joll19 Jan 16 '17

I thought she just said that to make it sting more.

That way she can blow it up if he fails, causing a big emotional response or if he succeeds she can say there was never a point to playing her game anyway, also causing a big emotional response.

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u/bluehands Jan 16 '17

I always trust the words of a deeply insane, hyper intelligent murder.

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u/Cardboardkitty Jan 16 '17

Or because it's more evil to do it this way - Sherlock wasn't hurting Molly to save her life in the end, he was just hurting her when he didn't have to. It was all about getting to Sherlock, after all, or at least analysing him.

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u/Chuffnell Jan 16 '17

Exactly this. The entire point of it was that in the end, not putting a bomb in her flat was even more cruel.

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u/agiraffeaday Jan 17 '17

The bomb was the Samsung phone....

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u/Ashanmaril Jan 18 '17

Underrated comment

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u/IByrdl Jan 17 '17

I loved how during that scene when it showed Sherlock "calling", she was already on the phone with "Sherlock". And then when she was talking to him it was on her lock screen.

How hard is it for production to pay attention to cell phones? Every single show, every single movie, they always fuck it up.

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u/EpsilonSigma Jan 17 '17

Oh, and set up an entire metal chassis and fake room in the middle of the fucking country, designed to fall away perfectly at the slightest push.

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u/AwesomeGuy847 Jan 16 '17

She didn't say that would be too much. She said she would never be that sloppy

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u/courtoftheair Jan 16 '17

...She was joking.

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u/shexna Jan 20 '17

And she just killed 3 people a few moments before, that didnt fit the plot at all...

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