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Holmes can't be in two places at once, so either way, Moriarty wins. If Holmes had immediately deduced the truth and gone to the hotel to stop the bomb, he would've stopped the bomb, but Moran would still be on the roof to assassinate Meinhard. Not only did he outmaneuver Holmes (by leaving a trail of false breadcrumbs to trick him into going to the opera instead of the hotel), he had a backup plan in case Holmes caught on. It's just one more example of Moriarty's Chess Master tendencies.He deliberately left little clues to draw Holmes on. But Moriarty wanted to play his game with Holmes and match wits with him. He could have easily - very easily - had Moran set up outside the university and just shot Holmes in the face when he showed up to the university to chat. For Moriarty, its the game of shadows he and Holmes are playing. Also keep in mind that for Moriarty, its not just about his criminal empire or starting World War I.

Moriarty was simply doubling up on his killing to make sure that his target went down.

There is a possibility that the bombing might fail to kill the target.

It makes sense for the order to be shooting first, explosives second, seeing as Lord Blackwood tried the same thing on Holmes and failed. The shooting was always how Meinhard was to die, with the explosion making extra sure. Thanks to timing, the pop of the gunshot would've been mistaken by witnesses as being related to the explosion that happened a second or two later.

For the bullet to enter Meinhard so cleanly, he would've had to have been standing up when he was shot. Hoffmanstahl, Moran was essentially a backup plan to guarantee that the target was eliminated if the bomb didn't work out.

Because the entire reason why Moriarty is such a threatening villain is due to his attention to detail and his need to be absolutely thorough.

Was there any logic to that scene beyond "Give Sherlock more to deduce?" Combining a shooting and a bombing doesn't reduce the amount of evidence, it increases it. and then decides to blow up the hotel to hide evidence of the shooting? The bomb was plenty strong enough to be lethal - as we saw, it killed everyone in the room easily. Moriarty hires the best marksman in Europe to shoot a man from an almost impossible distance.

The assassination in the Hotel de Triomphe makes no sense.

Plus, he has Moran to do all his dirty work now.

Because he considers Holmes a Worthy Opponent, and wouldn't use such an underhanded method to defeat him.

In "The Game of Shadows", where is Moriarty's sleeve-gun? You'd think he'd pull it at least once.

The moment where Holmes and Watson glance at each other was probably shorter than it is depicted in the film in "reality", it's just slowed down a bit (if not actual slow-motion, then at least lingered on a bit longer than it probably lasted as a "real" moment) to enable the audience to fully absorb the intended emotional effect of the scene.

Also, Rule of Drama probably applies here.The only reason we don't get this information explicitly in the film is because Watson assumes the role of the viewpoint character from that point, and he hasn't pieced it all together. If Holmes is believed dead, there's nobody to get back at for Moriarty's death, so he's simply playing the long game until he can be sure Moriarty's network is sufficiently dismantled. Seeing Watson reminds Holmes that Moriarty is willing to harm his loved ones just to get to him, and has agents throughout Britain (hell, throughout Europe). Frankly, I think the explanation from the novels still works.I know it follows how it goes down usually in the books and other works but when Sherlock pulls Moriarty down the falls with him, of note is that Watson enters the balcony as Sherlock has Moriarty in a hold, apart from causing an adaptional variance (for once), what was stopping him holding Moriarty for a few seconds so Watson could take him down, remember watson was a soldier, who is behind Moriarty, the only excuse I can find is that if Moriarty survives he may be able to hurt Mr and Mrs Watson, so Sherlock Takes a Third Option.Per wiki policy, Spoilers Off applies here and all spoilers are unmarked.