Wny I liked the Sherlock Season finale

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Spoiler alert! And a note, you can watch Sherlock on the Masterpiece Theatre website if you missed it on TV. I know a lot of folks haven't liked this season of Sherlock and everyone seems to have really disliked the last episode. It was definitely dark, and over the top, but somehow I couldn't help but love it, and want to go watch the entire series from beginning to end. I felt like through this episode the writers were trying to show just how far Sherlock has come over the years. His relationships with John, Molly, Mrs Hudson, Mary, all have transformed him into the person he is today. There is a sense in which, due to his genius and lack of emotion, he could always have been a step away from the criminal. Had he been just a little more "intelligent," perhaps he would have been like Eurus. Yet over the years, that cold demeanor has changed. He cares more. He wants to help that little girl on the plane rather than just solve the case, far different from his reaction, I believe, in the first season in some similar instances. There is no awkwardness as he hugs John to comfort him, just true caring. And in all this, because of the things that have changed him, he is really the only one who can bring Eurus "home." He can do what Mycroft cannot imagine happening and begin to bring her to a place where she can reconnect with her family at the end of the movie. I left the episode happy to feel Mary's influence still working in the lives of John and Sherlock, to see them back together again caring for each other, and to see Sherlock's family back together. I do hope they will do one last season to give us a few fun episodes of Sherlock and John running about, but I thought this was a great way to end the story that the writers seem to have been weaving from the beginning. What were your thoughts? Love it? Hate it? I'd love to discuss more.