An internally consistent narrative is vital for successful suspension of disbelief in any fiction. As far as Sherlock goes, internal consistency dropped off more with every season

@beanzieobeanz2955 Yr reply got deleted dude, but I thought it was reasonable

Genuis how exactly ? They just didn't know how to end something they started

@@chattahsalsabila3019 no it’s literally up for speculation

if he didnt die his three friends would be killed

​@@snadowblackmillit was implied that mycroft was already involved but still i understand that the possibility of Moriarty having hired other people was strong so they had to dismantle everything

Restoring his reputation I think 🤔

Sherlock dismantled Moriarty's network behind the scenes. It took him two years. The whole network believed sherlock is dead and he took them all by surprise.

He was one of the people who were targeted to be shot so of his reaction was genuine then the shooters would know that Sherlock's death was real

He's what sells the whole thing to an outside observer.

@@sarathomas8499 Wow. So little faith in poor Watson's acting ability.

The thing is, the ending of the episode implies that this isn’t even how he faked his death. Anderson quickly questions just how precise everything needed to be and realizes Sherlock lied and will forever keep the actual method a secret. All the ideas Anderson came up with and this explanation Sherlock gives are more to poke fun at all the theories by never actually revealing how he pulled it off. It cleverly avoids actually writing an explanation that makes sense while having fun with the complicated ways that “could” have been the case

@@moviehermit5631 The problem with cliffhanger episodes nowadays is that if you give the Internet a few months to brainstorm plot ideas, they are certain to come up with something better than what you come up with.

He DID have to fool hitmen by first fooling John (so that his reaction would seem believable to hitmen)

I think it's more up to interpretation. It's entirely possible that Sherlock DID tell him the truth, knowing full well that he wouldn't believe it was true.

This version is true. Sherlock told Anderson as a way of saying he forgave him, since Anderson was seemingly one of the driving factors leading to Sherlock's "suicide". Which is why Anderson quit his job and started looking for all the theories that Sherlock was alive: Anderson felt guilty. So, Sherlock, who is not always a petty man, told Anderson how he survived to show that Sherlock never even contemplated suicide, therefore Anderson had nothing to feel guilty about.

@@Wesley_Peter_Redmond i dont actaully think that will be the reason. after sherlock told anderson on how he told , anderson rather started thinking why did sherlock tell him the truth and thaton camera. the fall of sherlock is one of the greater mysteries i suppose in show and novel . The show showed us 3 ways but the truth remains hidden as to how it really happened. Interpreation of the fall is paramount over here.

@@thatguy.0124 It only showed one way. The other two were theories by people who were never even there.🤨

If that's the case... What was the bloody point? The fake version wasn't real, the real version wasn't real. Why even watch the show if it keeps having stuff like this? There's regularly intrigue that never goes anywhere, and there are stupid plot twists which then untwist, then twist again. So, what's the point if even the writers can't give you a cohesive story?

Yeah, radial is usually preferred for conscious if I'm not mistaken? Just to see what kind of pulse they have. It's also less invasive on a conscious person than touching their neck

As it’s already implied in the scene, it’s very likely that Sherlock just lied to Anderson just to shut him up

After this scene, Anderson is shown noticing all of the inconsistencies, and it is, therefore, heavily implied that Sherlock completely made this up.

Bro got a head concussions give him some slack. But the show should have ended in s2 tbh

It's just lazy and stupid writing. From a post 4chan - _"Sherlock is a smart person written by a stupid person to whom smart people are indistinguishable from wizards."_ The problem is that the writers have no idea how smart people think. To them, intelligence is a magical power where knowledge just magically arrives in your brain. Since if you're stupid, it seems like that's how smart people think because stupid people are incapable of understanding their thought processes. In the Sherlock Holmes books and in better adaptations, Sherlock Holmes is working with the exact same information that you are given. He takes that information, applies his reasoning to it, and is able to solve the mystery based on that. Sherlock Holmes seems smart in the books because you know that he can see something that you can't, and you can see the "deductive reasoning" (he actually mostly uses inductive reasoning but w/e) he's so famous for in action. In the Sherlock TV show, you're not given many of the pieces of information that Sherlock has. Many important pieces of information are given off-screen, so you can't really believe that Sherlock is smart, since you're unable to see what you would think based on that information. He just seems to magically know things. It's so stupid.

True. It's like Moffat was constantly on tumblr looking at Sherlock theories, then decided to write the show based on trying to outsmart everyone's weird tumblr theories.

Maybe he would have left him

I expect he had 13 plans, one of it is lazarus

He was Moriarty, Moriarty was him. The devil in himself had to die, that's what this whole crisis was for.

He didn't care about himself, all he wanted was to win Sherlock 😂 obv that would have happened. As Sherlock provoked him that he still had a chance to lose. So, Moriarty sacrificed -THE ROOOOOOOOOOOOK- HIMSELF

@@daphenomenalz4100haha I see what you did with the Rook there 😂