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Originally Posted by Anyong Bluth

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Anyone else wish there was a bit more lead up or screentime for Magnussen? Mikkelsen was superb, and while there is a callback to a character from the Doyle stories, this was really a fantastic original character they devised for the series, only to snuff him out so quickly - albeit in a thrilling and slackjawed manner.

He may not really of had the legs to carry on as a recurrent nemesis, because once his information "vault" secret is exposed I don't know what else he has to match continually trading barbs with Sherlock.

All in all, I guess I just wished that there was 1 more episode preceding the finale to further flesh out his character - a bit like how they did with Moriarty prior to his supposed "swan song" until the "Did you miss me?" bombshell.

C'est la vie... .

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Yeah, would have been nice. I guess they might have been able to use him more in that first episode when his plan was a subplot, but they were really focusing on the Sherlock/Watson relationship in that one (which is really what the show as a whole is all about). I guess they didn't want to take away from that.