Jim Moriarty may be back. Let's leave that discussion to another article. What's probably seen as a cheap trick to grab a couple of million extra viewers next series is actually though, a fabulous stroke of television genius. I mean, they've ended the third series with a parallel question to the one they ended the second series on, only this time, they've left far more to be excited about. At the end of 'The Reichenbach Fall', we all wondered how Sherlock would survive, because up to then, the show had revolved around the mastery of the writers' plots. Everything was so wonderfully, intricately woven, that we wanted an answer of exact value. We wanted Sherlock to remain just as clever as he had been. But by John claiming that he didn't care how, just why, Series 3 headed somewhere more character-based. Sherlock's not just clever these days, it's funny, it's sad, it's touching, it's dark, it's tense and it's shocking. When we look to Series 4 now, we wonder so many more questions, about the fear Sherlock will have, knowing the evil villain in his head is returning, about how John will protect his new family from Moriarty, whether Mycroft will have any part to play in this, and how Mary will react to Moriarty Series 3 has given us a massive cliffhanger, but we're not just wondering how Moriarty did it, but what effect it will have on everyone. That's possibly more exciting than Sherlock's "death", right?
