Cliff-hanger or question?
I may be a little slow but I've just realised that only
series one of Sherlock has so far ended on a cliff-hanger – well a cliff-hanger
in my terms.
At the end of series one we had a genuine “how does he get
out this?” situation. Sherlock, John , Jim, swimming pool, gun, bomb and
sniper. The pieces were all on the chessboard. How did Sherlock get out of
check? We knew he probably would but there was no guarantee.
We've not had that since. Series 2 ended not so much with a cliff-hanger
than a question. We knew Sherlock was alive but how he was going to come back
was a question not a cliff-hanger. If the series had ended with him on the roof
of Bart's, Moriarty dead and John in the sniper’s sights that would have been a cliff-hanger.
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The same occurred with series three. The series concluded
with us knowing that Sherlock was not going on a suicide mission in Eastern
Europe and that he was coming back to deal with the possible return of
Moriarty. No cliff-hanger only the question “is Moriarty alive and, if not, who
is behind this?”
More cliff-hangers please!
Written by Alistair Duncan
The only challenge with a cliff hanger is we have a very fanatic fandom that struggle to cope with not knowing stuff.
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