#and THREE i think this adds onto that bc thats WHY you recognize him when he dances

[dashiellqvverty]

im so excited about being specs its like perfect for me because he really doesnt have that many lines (possibly the fewest of the named newsies?? but im not actually sure lmao) but i still get a COUPLE of lines including some tiny little singing solo lines. so its not overwhelming for me but i still feel like im Playing A Character

[frances-janvier]

@pwoperfangirl

it’s okay :) many people have stated these things in much better ways since i’m bad with words, but i’ll try to summarize it

there are countless plotholes: this is bbc sherlock, a show in which things used to fit together perfectly. now, there are many major plotholes. for example, how did john and sherlock survive jumped out of the windows of 221b baker street while it was on fire? how could john have escaped the well with the rope when he said that he was chained to the wall? how could Dr. John Watson MD not recognize that the bones were human until he saw the skull? the whole weird plane thing? moriarty tormenting sherlock and john bc of eurus apparenlty BUT the christmas five years ago would have been after tgg? there’s much more than this, too.

lack of cohesion to the rest of the season and the rest of the show: the showrunners had said before tfp aired that season four was going to be the most connected narratively, that loose ends would be tied up, that tfp would be very related to tld, that tfp would be a culmination of the whole series, etc. however, this episode did not explain any of the weird inconsistencies and weird plots and weird elements of the last two episodes, nor did it have much connection to the rest of the show, opting instead to have the plot be based around sherlock’s secret sister who we found out about in the last few minutes of tld.

sloppy writing in general: so many things were set up and then just written off with one line. for example, eurus shooting john at the end of tld. one throwaway line of her actually just shooting him with a tranquilizer. and then why did eurus need to be three people?? there was literally no need for her to be the bus lady, the therapist, and faith.

awful messages: first of all, demonizing mental illness is not okay!!!! eurus was suicidal and had some other mental illness for sure and then they show her as an insane demon. wtf. secondly, having everything that sherlock is today be bc of eurus?? no. your trauma does not define you and that’s an awful message to send. finally, the message at the end about who you really are not mattering?? that’s terrible. who you really are DOES matter, and nobody should tell you otherwise.

queercoding the villains: literally every villain in this show has been proven to be either explicitly or subtextually queer and that’s just wrong and i should even have to explain why. oh, and eurus is also a rapist. the only queer character we have is harry, john’s alcoholic and lonely lesbian sister who doesn’t even show up once.

sexism: bbc sherlock has treated its women disgustingly throughout this entire show but it just adds onto that all during tfp. first of all, eurus. not even going to say anything on that. irene was a lesbian dominatrix and was sexualized so much and i hate hate hate that the writers made her fall for sherlock. i mean i guess that isn’t tfp but the whole show, really. anyway!! the scene with molly was absolutely awful. they used her as a complete plot device, they didn’t need to do that to her at all and it was completely unnecessary. she’s a 40-something-year-old woman who knows that sherlock at the very least only thinks of her as a friend. and to force her to say i love you to sherlock was just seriously cruel and i feel so sorry for the sh*rlolly shippers who feel happy after that scene... ALSO this wasn’t in the episode itself but was one of the only official comments from the creators afterwards was moffat saying that “she got over it and then just shagged somebody. thats what people do, they get over it.” and i think that is 100% awful. and the treatment of mary!! they started to flesh her out into a nice, 3d character, but then they threw it all away, gave her a super fake redemption arc all in one episode, and then almost forgot aboit her for the rest of the show

regressing back past the beginning of the show: we’ve quite literally gone back to the relationship status of john and sherlock in the very first episode, except not even that, since they’re not even living in 221b together. and like,, the whole point of s3 and s4 was that sherlock had become a good man.

and then there’s the queerbaiting by a gay man but that’s more about johnlock, so this was what i hated about the episode disregarding ships for the most part.

this list is in no way complete so feel free to add onto this, anybody