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This is going to be my Sherlock episode one video Benedict Cumberbatch.
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So everything seems like it's lost Sherlock and Watson are at odds it seems like there's
this rift between them there is ever going to be healed.
We have the grim specter of death in the form of Moriarty in the poem that they keep repeating
through the episode things that you can't outrun death is inevitable even though as
a child Sherlock tried to write in a different way the person went to a different city and
trach death.
So that's the idea of this new series will Sherlock be able to change the story so to
speak and defeat Moriarty of final time.
Even after his death because I don't think that they're trying to assert that he still
alive Sherlock's convinced that he's dead, but that he's left him a game post humorously
like there is one final game they will be the greatest game that Moriarty set in motion,
knowing that he was getting ready to died back in season two so that sort of like the
overarching storyline they really only touch on it at the beginning of the episode and
then again at the end of the episode like every once in a while you're reminded about
it through the poem but mostly this is a story about the six factors which is a reference
to the classic home story the adventure of the six Napoleons so there are like busts
of Napoleon the keep getting smashed six bus and all the people they get murdered along
the way were the names that they use in the episode so they almost did that exact same
storyline, but obviously the TV show weave that in with Mary's back story that was a
change from the classic home story and in the original story.
They were looking for a thumb drive.
Obviously your talk about like 1900s.
They were looking for the black pearl that was hidden in one of the Napoleon busts.
So in this episode.
Sherlock thinks that that is what Ajay is after he thinks that he is after the black
pearl and that's what he's going around to all these places trying to smashed all the
bus and killing the people, so the important thing about that is just to remember that
they did not solve the case of the black pearl it's still out there that might end up weaving
in with the larger Moriarty plot later on there always times in Sherlock episodes where
you think that the different cases all weave together.
Sometimes they seem like they're not connected, but that over the course of the three episodes
they make more sense.
Even though within each episode.
They might not necessarily be as connected as you think.
So what about Toby Jones the person that we saw in all the trailers we didn't see him
anywhere in this episode he's really like the new big bad of season four in the way
that Magnuson was the villain of season three and that Moriarty was the big villain before
that, though technically Moriarty is always going to be the biggest villain even when
he's dead, so we'll see how Toby Jones characters connected to that but we don't know who he's
playing yet they haven't revealed that will probably meet him in the second episode and
then in the third episode.
Just as is tradition with the series you get your final big mystery to connect all of the
episodes your technically each of the episodes is kind of stand alone, with like a loose
plot like this Moriarty plot to get strung out over the three and it really doesn't come
together till the third episode, so that whatever the plot is with Toby Jones that will have
something to do with Moriarty's final game as Sherlock believes that there was a 90 minute
episode so it was packed full of Easter eggs from all across the Sherlock Canon from the
TV movies from the classic home stories.
So I've already explained.
The six statures Easter egg the black pearl Easter egg, but when Sherlock says that he's
just going to wait for Moriarty's game to present itself to him like I was gonna start
solving cases just like a normally would.
So during that montage.
They flashed all that text of all the cases up on the screen.
Those are all Easter eggs for different home stories.
So the dusty death case is a reference to Sherlock Holmes and the jeweler of Florence
the dusty death, is aligned inside the book but the book itself is quoting Macbeth in
the line is all our yesterdays have lighted fools the way to dusty death so that in and
of itself sort of loops back around to the idea that you can't outrun your past their
consequences.
Mary's death was a consequence of the way she lived.
She wasn't able to out run death it's inevitable's were like inception third level deep Easter
eggs here thumb with a bag of ice and it is a reference to a short story called the adventure
of the engineers thumb.
In fact, most of these of the cases that are mentioned are probably from those Sherlock
Holmes short stories of the duplicate man I think is a reference to the adventure of
the dancing men which is one of the short stories.
The circus tour.
So I think is a reference to the adventure of the veil the Lodger which is another short
story the Canary trainer is actually a short story by Nicolas Meyer which is that action.
More recently, so that wasn't written by Conan Doyle, but the jellyfish case like where they
joke about trying to arrest a jellyfish is a reference to the adventure of the lion's
mane, which is another one of the short stories in which someone gets murdered and it turns
out the culprit is a lion's mane jellyfish in the elaborate case that he details when
he's talking to the man whose wife has left him on the little bit like Sherlock Holmes
and the voice of terror which is actually like a 1942 film based on the story his last
bow, which itself was used as inspiration for the title of Series III's finale is the
last bow which is also important in this episode two, so if you forgot the valve that was actually
Series III episode to his last bow was to protect Mary the baby and Watson like their
Trinity like the holy Trinity with his life.
So in his grief.
Watson now blames Holmes for breaking his vow allowing Mary to die.
So, as is the case in the past.
Sometimes though, have like a big time jump between episodes so like episode two might
not pick up in the moments at the end of this episode like we might be a couple months down
the road so of course we think that Watson Holmes will mend the rip somehow Sherlock
will find a way to uphold the terms of his vow to Mary in a promise me that you will
save Jon Watson but in doing so like we've seen in the trailer like you see Watson down
here in the well silence of the lambs style it puts the lotion on his skin is just going
to test the limits of what Sherlock is capable of, and it all comes back around to what Mycroft
was telling them about how sentiment is such a bad thing, how it's gonna get him in trouble
down the line he definitely came off like a real villain when he was trying to ask him
about Agro like what is this thumb drive was your involvement with them.
Did you use this assassins group for a little while during that scene.
I actually thought that Mycroft was going to be the one to have betray them until we
learned that it was actually the receptionist who is just upset about the life that she
chose not to lead.
So the whole metaphor here is that Watson is like slowly, turning into this old lady.
So Sherlock has to save him from his grief, so that he can come back out and live a full
normal life.
But as is the case with most Sherlock episodes is packed with Easter eggs.
It was amazing you can definitely tell they took their time building this script to just
like so packed with stuff you can watch is a couple times and find even more Easter eggs
that he was the dog.
The dog was great is kind of a metaphor for red beard which is sort of the change in Sherlock's
emotional armor just proving that is not a psychopath.
He is a human, with human emotions red beard was his dog as a child they flashback to it.
Whatever he got knocked out by Mary in the episode, so presumably something really bad
happened of the dog and it died and he just tore him apart.
Every time he remembers it.
Now he just goes a little bit nuts, but speaking of chinks in the armor.
So Mary's death very emotional now Sherlock is in therapy, just like Watson was in therapy
at the beginning of the series way back in season one.
So Watson we also have to talk about that WTF affair that he had during the episode.
I will understand if you think it was complete garbage, but I feel like they did that for
him just to make him feel like he did have the moral high ground like to complicate his
character so that he had his own secrets.
He was keeping from everyone else just like Mary had her secrets in Sherlock has his own
secrets.
So the only other like real big thing to remember for next week's episode is the sticky note
on Mycroft's fridge 13th he call someone we don't know who it is but it seems rather ominous
like he setting something in motion.
So that'll probably carry forward in the next week's episode, so he didn't know episode
two is going to air next week episode three the week after that.
So will be like one episode each Sunday after this so if you spotted any in the episode
that I didn't mention just write them below in the comments.
But what can happen is is episode two will air next week then episode three will air
the week after that.
So I will do a giveaway each week and then tomorrow was can happen is is all due like
a 2017 video for like all the big stuff that I'm in be doing videos for the next month
or to the exciting stuff is coming up that you guys should be really hype about, so it
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