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tankgirl73

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  1. I'm quite sure he said "mortal", not "boring".
  2. I think that's what the reminders about River were about. It took me awhile to make the connection -- I couldn't understand what the framing Missy story had to do with the simulation story, why thinking about what was said at the execution would help sim-Doctor figure out to send himself an email via the glasses. He pulled out River's diary, quoted it, and emailed himself from inside a simulation. How could he do that? The simulation was "too good", as he said, and dealing with Time Lord tech can have unforeseen consequences, where even the simulated version can have real capabilities. Just like simulated River, in her after-death virtual state. She could still reach out to the real world and communicate with him... so he thought just maybe he could do the same thing, and communicate with himself. It was very clearly answered, though it's more clear on re-watch. At the start of the episode, he gets the email in his glasses. There's a pixel-y dissolve to the credits. After the credits, it's a pixel-y dissolve again, to the scene where he's at the lecture podium and the pope comes in. This is what he is "watching" in the email he just received. The rest of the episode is what he is 'watching' from his glasses, basically we're just watching it with him -- until the end of course, when we go back to reality. He said it was a psychic recording, which is - presumably - why we could see stuff that the Doctor himself didn't... like when sim-Bill and sim-Nardole were at sim-Cern... Yes we know why he made the oath. He swore to protect the body for a thousand years (whether or not that 'body' was actually 'dead'). He used the very words "I give my oath" or "I make this oath" or whatever. That's the oath. My own question is: why would these bad guys, in making a simulation of earth/humanity as real and accurate as possible, include a book that tells the sim-humans that they're not real?
  3. At least at one point, the computer voice thing said "average breaths". I think when they made the oxygen purchase. So that makes perfect sense. Not only will different people breathe differently under the same conditions, but one person will breathe differently under different conditions. So they talk about typical, average, usually-expected breaths. It's not intended to be an exact count, but a good estimate. There's certainly an algorithm that one standard breath = so many cc's of oxygen, but they just don't refer to it by those measurements because the breath count is more useful. Presumably if an individual has a breath usage which is quite far off the average, they'll be aware of that and adjust for that. That, I agree, is the part that didn't make sense.
  4. That's what took me out of it. The Doctor said something like, he saw that her suit was low on energy and thus wouldn't be able to give her a strong enough zap to kill her. But energy doesn't necessarily work like that. It doesn't mean that it will continue to do all functions, but each function at lower power. It can also mean doing each function at full power, but fewer times... until it runs out completely. The suit could just as easily have given her the full power shock knowing it would run down after that sooner. Because if it actually didn't have enough power to fully zap her to death... then after it zapped her, it wouldn't have had any power left for, you know, walking itself around. Since it did have power to walk itself around, then it didn't use up all its power, thus it could have killed her. Bleah.
  5. Yes, this. It's completely believable, she's a toddler throwing a tantrum because she doesn't have the experience and knowledge to deal with the emotion of rejection. Every emotion she's feeling is HUGE and overwhelming. I was brought to tears by her joy when she saved Mac... that feeling of having done good, someone called it nobility but it's also pride and generosity, also being welcomed and appreciated by those she loves (Fitz praising her for it) -- that rush of utter joy on her face was magnificent. So, yes, you could empathize with her. She was *trying* to be a good human. Empathy instead of fear. Regret over the pain she had caused others, and the desire to atone for that. But the raging emotions inside her, good and bad, were just too overwhelming. She was this close to the edge of insanity at every moment. If she had had a calm introduction to life as a human -- carefully controlled, gently guided through her emotions like we guide children, until she had the emotional maturity to cope on her own -- she could have become a 'good person'. The potential was there. But instead, she was thrust into this chaotic and confusing environment and forced too quickly to deal with things she wasn't ready for. And when she got shot... and shot, again and again... for a moment I thought she would actually be killed. And I started crying again, because it was a true tragedy. Gorgeous show. Amazing.
  6. All the commenters saying "why not just send her to another Earth" etc obviously didn't watch the latest season of Sherlock. ;)
  7. ruby24 has it right, I believe. It's NOT future flash, like, post-2024, who went crazy and turned into Savitar later. It happened after Iris' death but before Emo-flash. As explained last ep (and in Barry's eureka flashback moment tonight), flash and savitar had a big battle after her death where he created time remnants and savitar killed them all.. mostly. Thus, one of them was left alive, and -- for reasons as yet unexplained -- HE went crazy and became Savitar. So, Savitar saying he 'created himself' is true. Barry created the time remnant in order to defeat Savitar because Savitar had killed Iris. Savitar deliberately doesn't kill one of the time remnants, knowing that would become him. The time remnant becomes Savitar, and kills Iris in order to bring about the causation that makes Barry battle Savitar by creating time remnants... etc. As to what caused this time remnant to go crazy... that's where the speculation should be happening now IMO.
  8. You're not the only one who noticed, because as they were reading off the vibed headlines to be written down, someone (I think I recall that it was HR) said "way to go, Joe!"
  9. I mostly liked the episode, but I kept being pulled out of it by Barry's "is it possible to change the future" constant ponderings. Well duh, dude... you KNOW it is. Ever since your first experience with time travel, you've known, been told, and seen for yourself, how actions in previous times change events in future times. It's not theoretical, it's not a philosophical quandary, in your universe it's cold and hard fact, a resolved question, a known quantity. The notion of changing the future a bit at a time by changing these events that aren't directly related to the death in question? Cool. Awesome. Fine. But using them as a test to see IF it's possible to change the future? Aghhh... hasn't he been paying attention at ALL?
  10. Completely shallow note: I could watch -- or rather, listen to -- Fitz and Radcliffe talking to each other all day long. Oh, those glorious, glorious Scottish accents!!!
  11. My understanding was that her riddle was 30+ years old, it was a challenge for him to solve and she basically said it was a doozy. He never figured out until present day that the dates were the cypher. I don't think she planned to use it as an adult -- she wanted him to solve it right then, when they were kids... but he never did.
  12. I'm pretty sure it's just that she used the (pre-existing) dates in order to create the cypher code for her riddle. Cumberbatch does have experience breaking unbreakable codes, after all. ;)
  13. It's their father who was allergic to dogs. That's why they weren't allowed to have one. I think the graves had been there for ages and ages, it's one of the reasons they all loved the house. Weirdness seems to run in the family. I'm not sure that the gravestones themselves were fake, just that the dates were (deliberately, for whatever reason) wrong. But, yeah, Sherlock should have at least suspected the plane was fake. A girl that age not knowing at all where they were travelling to and from? (Okay she was traumatized but still). And many other "but how" oddities...
  14. How did Mary know ahead of time to get that video to them exactly then? And how was it pulled off, that they wouldn't discover it until now? A fair bit of time has passed since she died. If they'd found this video when they were estranged, it wouldn't have had at all the same meaning. Who sits there and records sappy monologues like that just in case some day they die?
  15. Here's another horrible thing that just occurred to me... All the psychological torture that our boys endured was in order to save the girl on the airplane -- or, even more accurately, save the people on the ground that she was going to crash into. Mycroft made the point, and the others seemed to eventually agree, they had to convince her that they could save her in order that she crash the plane into the water instead of the city. She would die but it would save countless others. Which was already a horrible decision to have to make. But then in order to accomplish that, they had to make several other decisions that led to needless deaths. There was no way through the situation without death, so they were trying to at least minimize it, again for the sake of saving the people from a plane crash which would be even worse. But... the plane was never real. However weird that whole aspect of the plot might be, the fact is, it didn't exist. Never did. So... they didn't have to do ANY of the stuff they did. Watson recognized the dude's voice on the recording right away. If only he'd recognized just as easily that it was always Eurus talking as the girl, they would have been spared ALL OF IT. They'd just refuse to play. Maybe she'd kill them, but that would be it. Or they'd just leave the room without doing her challenges, secure in the knowledge that it doesn't matter what happens to the three hanging guys, she's going to kill them no matter what, so they may as well try to find her and stop her sooner rather than later -- *that* would be the right way to minimize the deaths. But all the psychological torture.... "I need to do this horrible thing in order to save this plane"... needless. Pointless. It would not have made a difference if they didn't do it at all. And if that's not bad enough... the show didn't even acknowledge that. The reveal that she was the girl all along was played like a victory - this was how they finally found her, reached her, rescued her, yay everything's great now. Where was anyone (maybe John) saying "wait... you mean... there was no plane? Everything we did to try to save the plane... all those deaths... and there was NO PLANE? Sherlock this girl is NUTS why are you hugging her??!?"
  16. From the article. Which is incorrect. She was shipped off to a mental hospital and the parents knew. She then burned down that hospital and THAT is where the parents think she died. The article also has the mistaken interpretation of Victor being another brother rather than a best friend. I made the same mistake (and I see this as vindication that I'm not alone in the error) but quickly accepted the correction and realized my error. So I guess the article writer doesn't read this forum... or watch the episode more than once before writing?
  17. From the article: "...and as far as Mr. & Mrs. Holmes know, Eurus herself died in that fire...but she actually didn't! Uncle Rudy (who presumably had the same kind of shadowy government job Mycroft now holds) stepped in and shipped Eurus off to a place that was deemed suitable for her particular needs. " No, she was taken away to a hospital, which she also burned down, and THAT's where the parents thought she died. The article writer also mistakenly interpreted it to mean Victor was a brother rather than a friend. I made that mistake but soon accepted the correction. Clearly the article writer doesn't read the forum comments. Or watch the episode more than once before writing?
  18. PaulaO -- she was helping British Intelligence. She'd look at tweets to find patterns and predict terrorist attacks because she's that smart, that sort of thing. In exchange, she requested "treats" apparently once a year. One year it was the violin. The next, 5 minutes with Moriarty. He was compelled to acquiesce in order to keep her cooperation for future Intelligence needs. And yes, he was exceptionally dumb about that.
  19. I'm pretty sure that Sherlock did the memory changes himself. Mycroft explained that over time, Sherlock appeared to gradually forget and/or replace existing memories with modified ones... Redbeard becomes a dog, forgetting about Eurus entirely. Mental defence mechanism in order to deal with the trauma. What Mycroft was doing was *testing* Sherlock, to see if the memories were still in that state or if he was starting to remember. It was torturous but it was in order to keep an eye on things. So he was "taking care" of Sherlock by keeping tabs on the state of his memories, not by actually shaping and modifying them.
  20. Mari that's another point I wish they'd at least *mentioned*... Sherlock mentions to John, "you know, you really can't blame yourself for that texting thing now... "
  21. Oooohhh, that would explain why he had a simple name and two names from what I could tell. That does make much more sense. It's just odd to think of the Holmes' having friends outside of the family, they were so insular and isolated. I think you're probably correct... but that wasn't clear at all. Or at least it was ambiguous. They never did say "omg another brother" but the setting -- the emotional context, as it were -- was all about secret siblings. So the audience interpretation could easily fall this way even though there's no actual evidence that it was a brother at all! Our bias colours our interpretations. I assumed it was a brother, so everything Sherlock said after that, I fit into my narrative of it being a brother. "He was my best friend" still can be a sibling -- he had one brother he didn't get along with, or was just too much older to play with. And he had a sister who was left out. But the brother who was close in age, they had a lot in common, they were best friends. So how old was Sherlock supposed to be when this happened? He had a sister who killed his best friend, and he was so traumatized that he remembered it as a dog instead of a person and forgot about the sister completely. Would have to be pretty darn young to transform the memory that much. But okay, I'll buy it. But how did he, as an older adult with astonishing deductive skills, never ever ever come across a newspaper report from his home town about a young child who disappeared and another sent away for the crime, the body never found (seriously, they didn't look in the well?) and have it ring a teensy little bell?
  22. I liked the first 70 minutes of it. Many great things. But then it just kind of... ended... It's like they had to finish so they threw a bunch of things together and called it an ending even though it wasn't. Why was she suddenly sobbing and acquiescent? How was the song and the cypher of the dates a clue to find her in her bedroom, when she created that song when she was a little kid and it was supposed to be a hint to the location of the murdered dog/brother? John's ankle was chained to the well. How would a rope help with that? If it weren't for the chain, all he'd have to do would be have the stamina to tread water until the top... not drown within minutes. And what happened with Molly? After that heart wrenching conversation... it sure looked like he realized, while saying it, that he actually meant it. But... followup? In all the cut scenes in the closing montage, I think there was ONE of Molly coming into the flat, smiling... but... what more? Did they just say "oh it was a pressure situation, still friends, that's all" and forget it ever happened? Ugh. I do have to take a moment to accept my accolades for the theory I posted last week that Redbeard was never a dog. I suspected it might actually be an altered memory of Eurus, though I wasn't certain of that. I knew Eurus had something to do with it, at any rate. And also, kudos to all those last week who correctly interpreted "they always stop at 3" to mean there was in fact a 4th sibling. What was his name? I could never grasp it as Sherlock spoke it. Victor? Can't just be Victor, that name is far too ordinary.
  23. Genetics isn't a guarantee. If their genetic lineage was from, say, their father's side, it's possible that she got their mother's copy of that particular gene and so she doesn't have the inhuman genetics. But even if she does, as blackwing says, they also need to be exposed to the terrigen. As for not shooting him on sight... technically they said "if you get the disease" not "if you are an inhuman". While he was cocooned, she was telling him to 'fight it'. She wanted to give him a chance to fight it off. It seems to be her weakness, she loves her brother so she keeps giving him another chance to prove he's okay -- he was exposed, but maybe he wouldn't actually come down with 'the disease'. Once he revealed once and for all though that he did have powers, she shot him without hesitation.
  24. Oooh putting those thoughts together.... what if Eurus has a twin sister (making 4 Holmes siblings) named Zephyrus? (That's the west wind god) Maybe they're both being held at Sherrinford... which is totally a place, not a person, on rewatch it's plain as day... and being twins, they're able to trick the staff into thinking they're both there when it's really just one at a time, so that the other could escape and hatch this Cunning Plan to reconnect with her long lost baby brother? Mayhaps I should head over to the speculation thread...
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