I told a whopper on Facebook. I pretended that the reason
the cliffhanger on “The Reichenbach Fall” got to me was that I couldn’t figure
out how Sherlock survived. But that wasn’t the reason at all. I couldn’t care
less how he did it. And really, there’s only one reason I remember the
cliffhanger at all. (As I’ve stated before, normally I forget about a show between one
episode and the next, so all a cliffhanger does is to make me feel dissatisfied
with a show.)
Since I have far fewer readers here, I’ll confess that the
reason it got to me was that it left John Watson feeling so sad. I’ve never
seen grief done that well in a movie before, and it stuck with me. I thought,
“I can’t believe I have to wait a whole year before he feels better!”
(And yes, I realize that by the time I saw it, they’d
written and possibly filmed the scene where he finds out Sherlock’s alive. But
it didn’t make me feel any better. I’m a sap. Which is why I didn’t post this
on Facebook.)
I really hate cliffhangers.
No comments:
Post a Comment