YMMV / Sherlock S3 E3 "His Last Vow"

• Awesome Ego: Charles Augustus Magnussen. He's a disgusting sociopath, but if you had a mind capable of storing countless facts in your head and could easily recite them from memory, and could do a Sherlock Scan as well as the great man himself, wouldn't you also find it hard not to brag? Deconstructed as his having no backups allows Sherlock to easily shoot him in the head.
• Catharsis Factor: Admit it, you cheered when Sherlock shot Magnusson in the head.
• Creepy Awesome: Magnussen, owing to his cunning moments coupled with him being an absolute creep.
• Hilarious in Hindsight: Lars Mikkelsen's role as an opponent of Sherlock Holmes becomes this after his casting as Grand Admiral Thrawn, considered by many Star Wars fans to be that franchise's equivalent of Holmes (albeit evil, and an alien). The same year Thrawn debuted on that show, Mads Mikkelsen appeared in both Doctor Strange (2016) and Rogue One, so now both brothers have battled Benedict Cumberbatch, and both have appeared in Star Wars.
• Moral Event Horizon: Magnussen crosses it by threatening Mary Morstan with blackmail, that would doubtless be catastrophic for the Watsons. How bad is this? It's so bad that Sherlock outright murders him, something that he didn't even come close to doing with Moriarty. This is assuming he didn't cross it by driving a man to suicide or trying to burn John Watson alive.
• Narm: Two glorious examples: First is Sherlock dramatically crawling up the stairs back to his mind palace complete with infinitely swelling music, second is Magnussen enjoying himself just a little too much while going through the files in his own mind palace.
• Shocking Moments: Sherlock leaves by plane after murdering Charles Magnussen, the villain of the season. Cue a fake-out cut to the "credits". But wait! A threatening message spreads through the country! Who could it be for? Who's it from? It's from Moriarty.
• Special Effect Failure: After being shot, Sherlock falls backwards in stylistic slow motion as the room tilts along with him. While otherwise being very well done, in the background, a large flower vase begins to slide across the floor as the room tilts out from under it.
• Squick: The entire sequence between Magnussen and Elizabeth Smallwood. He touches her hand, fights her attempts to break away and describes the underage girl her husband exchanged illicit letters with as "delicious," "yummy" and "yum yum." He even licks her face.

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