1. Sherlock Doesn't Tell Us How He Survived Sherlock
It was a mystery that gripped the internet like other, and it took on a life of its own: Sherlock Holmes, the genius detective, threw himself off the roof of a hospital in a standoff with arch-nemesis Moriarty. But as best friend John wept by his graveside, he stood in the trees, watching from afar. Sherlock fans went into overload. Theories were churned out by the hundred, from the brilliant some noticed the use of a bouncy ball, that Sherlock could've stopped his pulse to the ridiculous, with some claiming he had an identical twin. A two-year hiatus only prolonged the excitement, as Steven Moffat and Mark Gatiss sat nervously writing Series 3, and attempting to solve an almost impossible task. I mean, how exactly do you end the biggest mystery to grip British drama for years? Let's just clear something up first though: Moffat and Gatiss did the right thing. It was a monumentally big event, and by making references to the fans in the real world and fooling us all with a tongue-in-cheek opening featuring Derren Brown, they were creative and playful. And that's a whole lot better than becoming over-serious with the burden of explaining how Sherlock did it. But is it not a massive cop-out that we still don't know how Sherlock survived the fall? Was a definitive explanation really too much to ask for, after two years of waiting? It might have easier to blur the reality of the reveal, as to avoid plotholes, but it's a bit unfair. Now we'll never know for sure how Sherlock did it, because unlike the entire fanbase, John doesn't seem to care.
