A little unconventional view of Ever Holmes, her relationship with Sherlock and thoughts of the "Final Problem"
You know, I guess I'm getting to the bottom of it very slowly, but the idea came to my mind only when I looked at the whole series twice - a duplicate version and a version in the original, without translation.
But I'm going to start from a distance. I loved very much the stories about Sherlock Holmes, which I read in my high school years. I admired the genius detective and dreamed of visiting Baker Street. And when I decided to watch the BBC series, the first two episodes I hardly got used to TACOM Sherlock Holmes, so little like my book, canonical prototype.
And only recently, after watching the whole series (which I liked very much and very much), it hit me: this series wasn't about genius detective Sherlock Holmes, as it was in the AKD books. No, it was about a man, Sherlock. It obviously follows from the name, but it is especially sharp and brightly comes to the fore only in the last episodes of 4 seasons.
In the vast network I once met the opinion that, they say, in the final series of Sherlock was stupid. So, from this position (which I will now talk about in more detail), such a change is easy to explain, understand and even logical. But I'll make a reservation, in this article, besides Sherlock, I think a lot and write about Ever, because I consider her a very important actor, one of the key ones.
So, many fans of the series scold Ever for the lack of genius, which prepared us for the words of Mycroft, for excessive cruelty, lack of motivation for her actions (why, they say, sent a bomb to Baker Street, if no one has a scratch from it). Someone asks global questions, such as why the heroine in the show was needed at all, what she gave him?
On closer and closer examination, I came to the following thoughts (I do not pretend to the truth in the last instance, but I believe that my point of view has the right to be):
1. Ever is really brilliant (or at least she is smarter than both of her older brothers)
Banal, how else could she explain that she managed to subjugate the whole prison, where she was imprisoned, to leave her periodically without the knowledge of Mycroft? How else would she have set up the whole game we saw in the "final problem"? And it was she who decided who would play it, where and when. She has calculated everything in advance. And sending a drone with explosives to Baker Street was just a trigger. Some signal to the beginning, after which the brothers went to meet her.
Yes, I believe that she had calculated everything in advance. Just as Sherlock, who knew where to pick him up two weeks before going to Smith, so she heard the footsteps in the hallway and knew exactly who they belonged to.
2. Since her appearance on the show, we've seen her genuine interest in Sherlock's work (and so has Mycroft!) and attention to him, her beloved brother.
Little Ever wanted to play with her weather brother Sherlock, but he had a problem - he had a best friend with whom he spent time and did not take her to his games. And the brilliant girl coped with it as she could - took and "hid" Redbert, giving a clue to her brother. However, he was not clever enough, and instead of his laughing, her efforts were rewarded with his tears and her separation from her family.
Over time, however, the desire to play anywhere is not lost, but only strengthened and somewhat transformed. And what's curious - I'm pretty sure that from the very first episode, almost everything Sherlock was involved in - it was a game of Ever by Moriarty. We remember the first episode: Sherlock makes the taxi driver confess who ordered it, and the latter says, "Moriarty! John's question is who Moriarty Sherlock is answering: "I can't imagine. However, Moriarty apparently knows him, and for some reason started this dangerous game. Or maybe it wasn't him? Maybe it's her? Ever Holmes, to whom the elder brother gave five minutes of unsupervised communication with Jim for Christmas?
Do you want, do not want - you will play her games. I think there were a few of them, but they only show us one game - in Sherryford.
3. Contrary to the first impression of this last episode, Ever has no goal to hurt Sherlock, she loves him. Yes, a little peculiar, let's be honest... But imagine a person who has no idea how to express feelings correctly, socially acceptable. Ever says that good and evil are fairy tales, notions invented by people and having no rational basis...
But let's go back a little bit to make sure she really cares about her brother that way.
It is Ever who is throwing Sherlock the problem of serial maniac, appearing on Baker Street in the image of his daughter, stirring up interest in the case in the detective, urging him to finally leave the apartment and start thinking. The fact that he was almost killed in the end is no longer her fault, but an "emotional context" as she likes to say. But he wasn't planted by her, but by Mary with her last assignment.
Ever talked to her brother and realized that he needed to be rescued immediately.We remember that after Mary's death, Sherlock's life is completely broken: his best friend accuses him of killing his wife and of breaking his promise.