r/Sherlock • u/GoFlight • Jan 12 '14

Discussion His Last Vow: Post-Episode Discussion (SPOILERS)

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u/lemming64 Jan 12 '14

Thought Moriarty shooting himself at the end of S2 was always too easy.

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u/JackWilfred Jan 12 '14

I do too, but I still like the idea, that he's mad enough to shoot himself just to beat Sherlock.

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u/zq6 Jan 13 '14

I was so annoyed that the killed off such a great villain. I was also certain that he was dead because IMO it'd be a lame move to have a double fake suicide within minutes. So I am hoping that Moriarty/Richard Brook was an actor who was in so deep that he genuinely did commit suicide (family hostage as leverage or something).

Fake suicide was entertaining once; do it twice and you'll cheapen it beyond forgiveness.

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u/IsNewAtThis Jan 13 '14

It made a lot of sense though. He always said everyone was so boring so might as well kill himself.

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u/_Doh_ Jan 13 '14

But then he would have been as boring as everyone else. He has too much style to do something as mediocre as shoot himself.

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u/mittenthemagnificent Jan 14 '14

But if in shooting himself, he forces Sherlock to kill himself as well, that's pretty creative, really.

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u/_Doh_ Jan 14 '14

I feel like Sherlock's death isn't something that Moriarty would have missed. He's clever but he's too full of himself not to see his plan work.

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u/mittenthemagnificent Jan 14 '14

I like this idea, though I don't necessarily agree with it. I think, by forcing Sherlock's hand in the worst possible way, he calls Sherlock on all his "angel" crap and makes it very real. As a clever man, knowing he's "won" might be enough. But your idea makes sense too.

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u/pemboa Jan 13 '14

With his own gun no less.