You don’t get to have that kind of media coverage and then not be judged on how you stick the landing. That The Empty Hearse was going to be read largely in terms of how well it resolved the cliffhanger was, of course, a foregone conclusion.
She, at least, is in on her own joke, which Anderson never gets to be.Īnd it is, ultimately, the joke that’s at issue, which is where this episode’s boldness comes in. The only person to really mock them is Anderson, and Laura’s observation that her Sherlock/Moriarty slash is no more ludicrous than some of Anderson’s own theories is, in the context of the story’s larger attitude towards the idea of “solving” Sherlock’s survival, significant. And yet it’s difficult to quite articulate what about the portrayal of slash fans is offensive here. First and most interesting were those who felt that The Empty Hearse was mean-spirited in its treatment of fandom, a criticism that focused especially on the depiction of slash fiction within the episode. And the reactions at the time are worth recalling, even if it is only a year on. To call this a bold response to one’s own iconic pop culture moment seems an understatement. Indeed, The Empty Hearse is in effect a ninety minute exercise in arguing that the question of how Sherlock survived The Reichenbach Fall is irrelevant, or at least largely uninteresting.
Just a magic trick.” And so, of course, it was. It had, in the tradition of fair lies, told as much well in advance. “We’re going to lie to you,” Sherlock announced to ring in 2014, and then it went on to do just that.
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