What aunt_zelda Thinks: The Reichenbach Fall
These are the sudden impulse thoughts that came to mind as I was watching. Not a full recap, just random yelling and squeeing and freaking out and blue-screening. It's incomprehensible at times.
After the episode I was crying and sobbing and hurting in my soul. Luckily I posted to Facebook about having just seen the episode and how I was crying, and one of my friends asked if I wanted to hang out and geek talk, so I went down and had hot chocolate with him and we talked about the episode and the season and Sherlock and Moriarity and John and Irene and the character of Moriarty in all kinds of things and Doctor Who and anime Boston and superheroes and villains and the Sandman comics and books we're going to trade to each other and relationships and friends and stuff. It was hours. And I felt much better, no longer upset or sobbing or hurting in my soul. Still a little freaked out about the episode, but the kind of freak out I can deal with. Until I see it again and talk to more people. I can use this as a conversation starter with That Girl I Like A Lot, because talking with people about stuff you both enjoy is a great way to warm up to the inevitable "so, do you like girls ...?" conversation.
So, yeah, my thoughts on the episode look pretty frantic, but don't worry, I'm fine now. I feel much better, I'm back at college, all unpacked, and ready for bed. Sleepy and exhausted.
Tomorrow I'll go for a walk, get things in order for classes on Tuesday, eat some food, and hopefully hang out with lots of my friends and talk about the episode some more. And maybe, just maybe, have a conversation with That Girl I Like A Lot.
Thoughts on the episode:
Last episode he psychologically tortured John for science.
Now Sherlock is going to make John believe he's dead.
Sherlock is a horrible horrible person!!!
That Hat will never get old. And LOL, Sally and Anderson and Lestrade smirking at each other about the Hat!
("The Adventures of Hat-Man and Robin" is my favorite show.)
"Confirmed Bachelor" oh John, just come out already, the world wants you to be out and proud!
When are we going to move away from the cliche of "only evil people crick their necks/hands/etc." It is getting really freaking old. Seriously. *cracks knuckles*
Ahahahahhahahahahahahahahahahahhahahahaaaaa!!!
Oh gods, Moriarty, WHY SO AWESOME? AND CAMP? AND WONDERFUL?
Oooooo, the montage to an awesome song that I watched constantly since yesterday. Sweetness!
Jewel Thief Moriarty and Neal Caffrey need to have hot prison sex right the fuck now.
Dude, I would kill to be the person who feeds Jim Moriarty gum.
I got wicked excited because I thought the fake fangirl in the bathroom was Sebastian Moran. And then she wasn't. *glares*
Bahahahaa, at least Sherlock lasted longer in court than Sheldon Cooper did!
Everything Moriarty says, and every silly face he makes … I love.
"I just love to watch them compete 'Daddy loves ME best' aren't ordinary people adorable?"
UNF …
"Oh, right, you've got John … I should get myself a live-in one …"
A million fanfics can't be wrong! (Also, don't you already have Sebastian? WHERE IS MORAN!??!?!?!??! I DEMAND MORAN!!!!!!!!)
Apples … symbolism … FoeYay … dying of joy …
Bahahahahhaaa, John babbling in the Diogenes Club!!! YAAAAAAAAAAAY!!!
Is one of the assassins Sebastian Moran? If not, I DON'T CARE!!!!!!!!!
Mycroft has a truly epic scowl. It is the fiercest thing ever. Srsly.
John, did you just open an envelope of anthrax? John, would you go for a large piece of cheese on a man-sized mousetrap too?
YAAAAAAAAAY, Molly!
… Sherlock, don't trivialize the fact that she and Jim kinda sorta dated for a while. She was USED by a PSYCHOPATH who BLEW PEOPLE UP. That will never be funny, not even when Molly is standing over Moriarty's bruised and bloody body holding a loaded gun and shooting him in the knees. Then it will only be mildly amusing.
Then we have a touching scene that almost brought me to tears and made me want to weep kittens. Molly notices that Sherlock "looks sad" when he thinks John can't see him looking sad, and said "I don't count" … and my heart broke. And then Sherlock won back all the points he lost from me by looking shocked and stunned at her saying "I don't count" and she offers to be there for him if he needs anything, even if he doesn't need anything, and I weep kittens and Sherlock looks pensive. You'd better give her more than a peck on the cheek this time, dude. Try hugging. It's what people who want to be nice do to people who are nice to them.
And maybe have her help you fake your death? [Edit: I did not know that was going to happen, I swear, I typed this as I was watching! Uncanny!]
Sherlock grinned and said "neat" about someone kidnapping two kids and poising them with mercury-laced candy. Excuse me while I hide under the bed right now. Forever.
Oh gods. Now the kid is screaming at Sherlock, and Sally thinks it's "unbelievable" that Sherlock was able to trace them from that footprint with his SCIENCE SENSE. Now everyone's gonna think Sherlock is evil and constructing crimes. His reputation will be gone. Moriarty will burn him by destroying his reputation. I could quote Othello right now, which is a play all about reputation and honor and stuff, but I'm too sleepy and I want to keep watching right now and not search for the exact quote. (Cassio says it, though.) [Edit: whoa, I'm too genre savvy for my own good …]
Sherlock wins more points by forcing John to take the next cab. "People might talk" … yeah, not about you two being gay, but about John being in on the kidnappings. Sherlock knows. Sherlock's trying to protect his friend. *wibbles*
Oh gods … I hate being right … I hate being right … Sherlock, you shouldn't have been such a dick to Donovan and Anderson and Lestrade all those times, then they wouldn't have believed you were EVIL so easily.
Oh great, now Sebastian just shot some random dude you were shaking hands with. AND WE DIDN'T GET TO SEE HIM!
We're fifty minutes in and all we've seen of Moran is bullets. MAYBE. FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUCK!
I love Mrs. Hudson's shrinking-shoulders reaction to being told there are cameras in the apartment. It's exactly how a normal person would react to that: "Oh gods, I've been naked in here, and I've danced around putting the dishes away to Ke$ha, AND SOME EVIL BASTARD HAS IT ALL ON TAPE! I NEED TO GO DIE NOW!!!"
Ooooooo, I love/hate this "watch Sherlock fall and his reputation erode" thing.
"This is my hostage!" *points gun at John*
BAHAHAHAHHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAAAA!
BHAHAHAHAHAHAAHHAHAAHAHHAAHHAHAHA!!!
*wheezes, sporfles, and dies*
They are handcuffed to each other, holding hands, and on the run from the law. Also, there were buckets of FoeYay this episode. Have I died and gone to fangirl heaven? *looks around for my boyfriend, the two girls I have crushes on, and that crazy guy I like* … nope, not heaven! Close enough for now, though! *basks*
What is it with Moriarty hanging around with women and being adorable with them? Mmmmm, looks like he just rolled outta bed, that hair … *swoons*
Oh, he's an actor Sherlock hired? Greeeeeeaaaaaaaat, add that to the list of many, many, MANY iterations the character of Moriarty has gone through, been rumored to have been, or has been. There's a great list as a footnote in "Professor Moriarty: the Hound of the D'Urbervilles" that made me laugh a lot.
Actor!Moriarty is on kid's tv? I'll bet his shows have HUGE followings outside the target demographic … mostly of the perverted teenage girl, gay men, and lonely mother crowds.
Loving Moriarty's subtle little smirks at Sherlock behind the journalist's back. And How Sherlock goes completely insane and animalistic and enraged. It's fantastic.
Sherlock, if you are playing Molly by saying "You do count. You've always counted. I've always trusted you. But you're right, I'm not ok" … you are the biggest asshole in modern media and I will have to punch through the Fourth Wall to kick your teeth in … to start with.
"Molly, I think I'm going to die." Yeah, your reputation is ruined, that's death of your personal character. You physically won't die, but metaphysically … oooooo, this is clever!
SHERLOCK IF YOU KILL MOLLY I WILL KILL YOU AND STEVEN MOFFAT AND MARK GATISS AND THE ENTIRE BBC NETWORK WITH MY BARE HANDS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Also, Mycroft is an asshole. And he fucked-up. What else is new? Didn't he learn his lesson from The Woman? I guess not … give him some good smacks tonight, Not!Anthea …
Can I just say that I love John in this episode? I always love him, but I love him especially right now, getting angry at Mycroft and protecting Sherlock because NOBODY ELSE WILL PROTECT THE MAN. AND HE HAS TO PROTECT SHERLOCK FROM HIMSELF LIKE ALL THE TIME.
Oh gods … Sherlock just used his Asshole Powers to get John safely away from the hospital so Moriarty can't get to him.
Jim is bored. A bored psychopath is the most dangerous thing ever. He is AMAZING in this scene, the voices, the movements, the LINES … adlkfjalfjaslfjaslfjaslfjalsjflasjflasj
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"My suicide."
Oh Jesus no …
John's face when he realizes that Sherlock drove him away with the fake Mrs. Hudson story is heartbreaking.
"Your only three friends will die."
You forgot someone Jim. Jim? Jimmy? You forgot someone. You fucked-up. You got stupid. YOU FORGOT ABOUT MOLLY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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I screamed. I screamed. I screamed. MORIARTY NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!
EVEN THE POTENTIAL SEBASTIAN MORAN DID NOT MAKE ME STOP SCREAMING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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And then my brain just … stopped. And I was crying a little. And mostly just feeling sick and not breathing. And then … he … and he was CRYING and … and … and John and … blood and so much blood and …
Molly did something. She must have. She did something for him and somehow he's not dead. He'd not dead.
I hurt in my soul.
John at the grave … I just broke down. I'm crying and sobbing and hurting in my soul and auuuuuuuuuuuuuugggghhhh ….
Oh, Sherlock is alive after all. Hurting too much from the emotional turmoil to care very much. Of course he was alive. Molly did … something. Somehow. Cloned him, made him a Time Lord or a zombie or immortal or something.
That doesn't take away the pain, the CRYING from SHERLOCK and JOHN and the lies and MORIARTY IS DEAD and there was no Sebastian Moran but I barely even care because I'm sobbing and hurting in my soul ...
After the episode I was crying and sobbing and hurting in my soul. Luckily I posted to Facebook about having just seen the episode and how I was crying, and one of my friends asked if I wanted to hang out and geek talk, so I went down and had hot chocolate with him and we talked about the episode and the season and Sherlock and Moriarity and John and Irene and the character of Moriarty in all kinds of things and Doctor Who and anime Boston and superheroes and villains and the Sandman comics and books we're going to trade to each other and relationships and friends and stuff. It was hours. And I felt much better, no longer upset or sobbing or hurting in my soul. Still a little freaked out about the episode, but the kind of freak out I can deal with. Until I see it again and talk to more people. I can use this as a conversation starter with That Girl I Like A Lot, because talking with people about stuff you both enjoy is a great way to warm up to the inevitable "so, do you like girls ...?" conversation.
So, yeah, my thoughts on the episode look pretty frantic, but don't worry, I'm fine now. I feel much better, I'm back at college, all unpacked, and ready for bed. Sleepy and exhausted.
Tomorrow I'll go for a walk, get things in order for classes on Tuesday, eat some food, and hopefully hang out with lots of my friends and talk about the episode some more. And maybe, just maybe, have a conversation with That Girl I Like A Lot.
Thoughts on the episode:
Last episode he psychologically tortured John for science.
Now Sherlock is going to make John believe he's dead.
Sherlock is a horrible horrible person!!!
That Hat will never get old. And LOL, Sally and Anderson and Lestrade smirking at each other about the Hat!
("The Adventures of Hat-Man and Robin" is my favorite show.)
"Confirmed Bachelor" oh John, just come out already, the world wants you to be out and proud!
When are we going to move away from the cliche of "only evil people crick their necks/hands/etc." It is getting really freaking old. Seriously. *cracks knuckles*
Ahahahahhahahahahahahahahahahahhahahahaaaaa!!!
Oh gods, Moriarty, WHY SO AWESOME? AND CAMP? AND WONDERFUL?
Oooooo, the montage to an awesome song that I watched constantly since yesterday. Sweetness!
Jewel Thief Moriarty and Neal Caffrey need to have hot prison sex right the fuck now.
Dude, I would kill to be the person who feeds Jim Moriarty gum.
I got wicked excited because I thought the fake fangirl in the bathroom was Sebastian Moran. And then she wasn't. *glares*
Bahahahaa, at least Sherlock lasted longer in court than Sheldon Cooper did!
Everything Moriarty says, and every silly face he makes … I love.
"I just love to watch them compete 'Daddy loves ME best' aren't ordinary people adorable?"
UNF …
"Oh, right, you've got John … I should get myself a live-in one …"
A million fanfics can't be wrong! (Also, don't you already have Sebastian? WHERE IS MORAN!??!?!?!??! I DEMAND MORAN!!!!!!!!)
Apples … symbolism … FoeYay … dying of joy …
Bahahahahhaaa, John babbling in the Diogenes Club!!! YAAAAAAAAAAAY!!!
Is one of the assassins Sebastian Moran? If not, I DON'T CARE!!!!!!!!!
Mycroft has a truly epic scowl. It is the fiercest thing ever. Srsly.
John, did you just open an envelope of anthrax? John, would you go for a large piece of cheese on a man-sized mousetrap too?
YAAAAAAAAAY, Molly!
… Sherlock, don't trivialize the fact that she and Jim kinda sorta dated for a while. She was USED by a PSYCHOPATH who BLEW PEOPLE UP. That will never be funny, not even when Molly is standing over Moriarty's bruised and bloody body holding a loaded gun and shooting him in the knees. Then it will only be mildly amusing.
Then we have a touching scene that almost brought me to tears and made me want to weep kittens. Molly notices that Sherlock "looks sad" when he thinks John can't see him looking sad, and said "I don't count" … and my heart broke. And then Sherlock won back all the points he lost from me by looking shocked and stunned at her saying "I don't count" and she offers to be there for him if he needs anything, even if he doesn't need anything, and I weep kittens and Sherlock looks pensive. You'd better give her more than a peck on the cheek this time, dude. Try hugging. It's what people who want to be nice do to people who are nice to them.
And maybe have her help you fake your death? [Edit: I did not know that was going to happen, I swear, I typed this as I was watching! Uncanny!]
Sherlock grinned and said "neat" about someone kidnapping two kids and poising them with mercury-laced candy. Excuse me while I hide under the bed right now. Forever.
Oh gods. Now the kid is screaming at Sherlock, and Sally thinks it's "unbelievable" that Sherlock was able to trace them from that footprint with his SCIENCE SENSE. Now everyone's gonna think Sherlock is evil and constructing crimes. His reputation will be gone. Moriarty will burn him by destroying his reputation. I could quote Othello right now, which is a play all about reputation and honor and stuff, but I'm too sleepy and I want to keep watching right now and not search for the exact quote. (Cassio says it, though.) [Edit: whoa, I'm too genre savvy for my own good …]
Sherlock wins more points by forcing John to take the next cab. "People might talk" … yeah, not about you two being gay, but about John being in on the kidnappings. Sherlock knows. Sherlock's trying to protect his friend. *wibbles*
Oh gods … I hate being right … I hate being right … Sherlock, you shouldn't have been such a dick to Donovan and Anderson and Lestrade all those times, then they wouldn't have believed you were EVIL so easily.
Oh great, now Sebastian just shot some random dude you were shaking hands with. AND WE DIDN'T GET TO SEE HIM!
We're fifty minutes in and all we've seen of Moran is bullets. MAYBE. FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUCK!
I love Mrs. Hudson's shrinking-shoulders reaction to being told there are cameras in the apartment. It's exactly how a normal person would react to that: "Oh gods, I've been naked in here, and I've danced around putting the dishes away to Ke$ha, AND SOME EVIL BASTARD HAS IT ALL ON TAPE! I NEED TO GO DIE NOW!!!"
Ooooooo, I love/hate this "watch Sherlock fall and his reputation erode" thing.
"This is my hostage!" *points gun at John*
BAHAHAHAHHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAAAA!
BHAHAHAHAHAHAAHHAHAAHAHHAAHHAHAHA!!!
*wheezes, sporfles, and dies*
They are handcuffed to each other, holding hands, and on the run from the law. Also, there were buckets of FoeYay this episode. Have I died and gone to fangirl heaven? *looks around for my boyfriend, the two girls I have crushes on, and that crazy guy I like* … nope, not heaven! Close enough for now, though! *basks*
What is it with Moriarty hanging around with women and being adorable with them? Mmmmm, looks like he just rolled outta bed, that hair … *swoons*
Oh, he's an actor Sherlock hired? Greeeeeeaaaaaaaat, add that to the list of many, many, MANY iterations the character of Moriarty has gone through, been rumored to have been, or has been. There's a great list as a footnote in "Professor Moriarty: the Hound of the D'Urbervilles" that made me laugh a lot.
Actor!Moriarty is on kid's tv? I'll bet his shows have HUGE followings outside the target demographic … mostly of the perverted teenage girl, gay men, and lonely mother crowds.
Loving Moriarty's subtle little smirks at Sherlock behind the journalist's back. And How Sherlock goes completely insane and animalistic and enraged. It's fantastic.
Sherlock, if you are playing Molly by saying "You do count. You've always counted. I've always trusted you. But you're right, I'm not ok" … you are the biggest asshole in modern media and I will have to punch through the Fourth Wall to kick your teeth in … to start with.
"Molly, I think I'm going to die." Yeah, your reputation is ruined, that's death of your personal character. You physically won't die, but metaphysically … oooooo, this is clever!
SHERLOCK IF YOU KILL MOLLY I WILL KILL YOU AND STEVEN MOFFAT AND MARK GATISS AND THE ENTIRE BBC NETWORK WITH MY BARE HANDS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Also, Mycroft is an asshole. And he fucked-up. What else is new? Didn't he learn his lesson from The Woman? I guess not … give him some good smacks tonight, Not!Anthea …
Can I just say that I love John in this episode? I always love him, but I love him especially right now, getting angry at Mycroft and protecting Sherlock because NOBODY ELSE WILL PROTECT THE MAN. AND HE HAS TO PROTECT SHERLOCK FROM HIMSELF LIKE ALL THE TIME.
Oh gods … Sherlock just used his Asshole Powers to get John safely away from the hospital so Moriarty can't get to him.
Jim is bored. A bored psychopath is the most dangerous thing ever. He is AMAZING in this scene, the voices, the movements, the LINES … adlkfjalfjaslfjaslfjaslfjalsjflasjflasj
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"My suicide."
Oh Jesus no …
John's face when he realizes that Sherlock drove him away with the fake Mrs. Hudson story is heartbreaking.
"Your only three friends will die."
You forgot someone Jim. Jim? Jimmy? You forgot someone. You fucked-up. You got stupid. YOU FORGOT ABOUT MOLLY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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I screamed. I screamed. I screamed. MORIARTY NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!
EVEN THE POTENTIAL SEBASTIAN MORAN DID NOT MAKE ME STOP SCREAMING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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And then my brain just … stopped. And I was crying a little. And mostly just feeling sick and not breathing. And then … he … and he was CRYING and … and … and John and … blood and so much blood and …
Molly did something. She must have. She did something for him and somehow he's not dead. He'd not dead.
I hurt in my soul.
John at the grave … I just broke down. I'm crying and sobbing and hurting in my soul and auuuuuuuuuuuuuugggghhhh ….
Oh, Sherlock is alive after all. Hurting too much from the emotional turmoil to care very much. Of course he was alive. Molly did … something. Somehow. Cloned him, made him a Time Lord or a zombie or immortal or something.
That doesn't take away the pain, the CRYING from SHERLOCK and JOHN and the lies and MORIARTY IS DEAD and there was no Sebastian Moran but I barely even care because I'm sobbing and hurting in my soul ...