at some point i WILL be able to talk about other things; not today
TO ANYONE WHO'S NOT TIRED OF TALKING ABOUT SHERLOCK YET:
I keep trying to talk to people about this season of Sherlock in the hopes that it will make sense of the billion and one threads of meta running rampant in my brain. I was an English major; I used to be able to make sense of all the themes and parallels and interactions and symbols and everything, but now it's just jumbles of feelings and words like UGH and FUCK and HOW and STOP. I try to make sense of it and nothing comes out right, because I also have a lot of feelings about Sherlock and Mycroft and their interactions this season. I think in 2.01 you get the sense that Mycroft certainly knows Sherlock better than John does, and understands him better as well while still not understanding him entirely. ("What might we deduce about his heart?" "I don't know." "Neither do I, but initially he wanted to be a pirate.") And when they're in the palace and the Government Man says, "Apologizing for your brother must be a full-time occupation," Sherlock pulls this face, this vaguely chastised, a little bit heartbreaking face, and I just wonder how many times Mycroft HAS had to clean up after Sherlock. How many times this very straight-laced shadowy government man has had to chase after his drug-addicted, rule-breaking, socially inept brother and fix everything. The first time we meet Mycroft he says, "I worry about [Sherlock] constantly," and he's not lying or exaggerating; he worries about Sherlock all the time, for I think both altruistic and selfish reasons. And when he calls John and says, "Tonight's a danger night, you need to watch out for him," isn't that love? And yet he says it just after telling Sherlock "Caring isn't an advantage." Is Mycroft as deluded as Sherlock is? As emotionally repressed? ("Do you ever think there might be something wrong with us?") And it breaks my heart to know that if John worked out that Mycroft was Richard Brooks' leak in TRF then you KNOW Sherlock knew where all that information came from, and that Moriarty didn't even THINK about threatening Mycroft to get to Sherlock is so ... IDK, it makes me die inside. I want to know more about their relationship and I want to talk about the bits we DO know for literally the rest of my life. (There's a bit of commentary from the Gatiss/Cumberbatch/Freeman thing for TGG where Gatiss talks about how they'd cut something from the script that revealed that Sherlock had kind of destroyed his family life at a young age by deducting that their father had been having an affair, and I know they're keeping that in the backs of their minds, so I just wonder about it and how it colors Sherlock's relationship with Mycroft. It says so much about Sherlock too, about the way he views his "gift" and the way other people traditionally view his "gift" and I hope they come back and use it later.)
I keep trying to talk to people about this season of Sherlock in the hopes that it will make sense of the billion and one threads of meta running rampant in my brain. I was an English major; I used to be able to make sense of all the themes and parallels and interactions and symbols and everything, but now it's just jumbles of feelings and words like UGH and FUCK and HOW and STOP. I try to make sense of it and nothing comes out right, because I also have a lot of feelings about Sherlock and Mycroft and their interactions this season. I think in 2.01 you get the sense that Mycroft certainly knows Sherlock better than John does, and understands him better as well while still not understanding him entirely. ("What might we deduce about his heart?" "I don't know." "Neither do I, but initially he wanted to be a pirate.") And when they're in the palace and the Government Man says, "Apologizing for your brother must be a full-time occupation," Sherlock pulls this face, this vaguely chastised, a little bit heartbreaking face, and I just wonder how many times Mycroft HAS had to clean up after Sherlock. How many times this very straight-laced shadowy government man has had to chase after his drug-addicted, rule-breaking, socially inept brother and fix everything. The first time we meet Mycroft he says, "I worry about [Sherlock] constantly," and he's not lying or exaggerating; he worries about Sherlock all the time, for I think both altruistic and selfish reasons. And when he calls John and says, "Tonight's a danger night, you need to watch out for him," isn't that love? And yet he says it just after telling Sherlock "Caring isn't an advantage." Is Mycroft as deluded as Sherlock is? As emotionally repressed? ("Do you ever think there might be something wrong with us?") And it breaks my heart to know that if John worked out that Mycroft was Richard Brooks' leak in TRF then you KNOW Sherlock knew where all that information came from, and that Moriarty didn't even THINK about threatening Mycroft to get to Sherlock is so ... IDK, it makes me die inside. I want to know more about their relationship and I want to talk about the bits we DO know for literally the rest of my life. (There's a bit of commentary from the Gatiss/Cumberbatch/Freeman thing for TGG where Gatiss talks about how they'd cut something from the script that revealed that Sherlock had kind of destroyed his family life at a young age by deducting that their father had been having an affair, and I know they're keeping that in the backs of their minds, so I just wonder about it and how it colors Sherlock's relationship with Mycroft. It says so much about Sherlock too, about the way he views his "gift" and the way other people traditionally view his "gift" and I hope they come back and use it later.)