The Great Game
Finally watched the last bit of Sherlock tonight. And honestly...I was a little bit underwhelmed? I liked the set-up, I liked a lot of little moments, and it just kept getting gayer, but as an episode I feel like it didn't hang together quite well enough?
Also, this might be an unpopular opinion, but I really didn't like Moriarty. His entrance was so built up to, maybe I was just expecting someone...colder. Like....this might be something that's a trend in (especially british) TV lately? Where like. The villains are never the kind of crazy that chills because they're so icy, so still, so controlled. They're always...they follow the pattern of the Master in Doctor Who, who was scary because he was a maniac, because he was violently bipolar, because he danced pretty much literally on the graves of the entire human race. (I'm speaking of Simm!Master in The Sound of Drums, and ignoring The End of Time entirely because it was horrible and utterly ruined him.) And the reason that that Master worked so well was because that's what Ten's Doctor was like, too. He was an utterly crazy bastard with too much energy who licked walls and paced like he was sprinting. The Master was a dark reflection of that, a warning for what the Doctor could become if he forgets to slow down and care when things matter.
And the thing is, I see Moriarty and Sherlock in a very, very similar relationship to that of the Master and the Doctor. Very, very similar. Two people who are the only ones who can really, truly understand each other, one of them working for "good", the other for "evil", but the lines sometimes get a little blurred. And so when I imagined a Moriarty for Cucumberbitch's Holmes, who is himself refreshingly not manic, but very much a still man, a composed man, without ever really being stiff (::golf claps to that::), I imagined...
...well, a different sort of sociopath. This Moriarty and Holmes don't connect. Hold up a mirror to this Moriarty and you don't get Holmes. You get pieces of Holmes - he's smart, incredibly so, and he's very gay, and has good taste in clothes, and has the same...feeling of inevitability, about death. But he's so very manic. His line - I don't remember it, quite, and I'm too lazy to rewatch the end of the episode - about how he's changed his mind and come back to kill them anyway (...and the fact that he did so at all) may as well have been him shouting "BECAUSE I'M JUST SO VERY WACKY!"
I don't know, I don't know. I apologize if you liked him and perhaps I'm being too judgmental and I certainly don't judge you if you enjoyed the interpretation. Just. Tell me why? I love interesting discussion.
And what on earth was he doing with his voice?
IN OTHER NEWS: I watched Lost and Delirious with Chiara this morning, which, if you don't know, is a very pretty Canadian film about girls in love. It is sort of a gender-swapped Bare but with a few details changed, to steal my girlfriend's description. And it was so good. Made me cry all over the place. I'm getting emotional in my old age, I guess. I now have a lot of lovely gifs from it, too! Yesss.
In other, other news, you maybe noticed that something has gone horribly wrong with my layout. Chiara's done all she can to figure it out and I certainly have no idea, so I'm going to give it a few days and if it doesn't fix itself I'll have to find a new one. Which is a shame, because I really like this one.
Anyways. Off to write. ♥
Also, this might be an unpopular opinion, but I really didn't like Moriarty. His entrance was so built up to, maybe I was just expecting someone...colder. Like....this might be something that's a trend in (especially british) TV lately? Where like. The villains are never the kind of crazy that chills because they're so icy, so still, so controlled. They're always...they follow the pattern of the Master in Doctor Who, who was scary because he was a maniac, because he was violently bipolar, because he danced pretty much literally on the graves of the entire human race. (I'm speaking of Simm!Master in The Sound of Drums, and ignoring The End of Time entirely because it was horrible and utterly ruined him.) And the reason that that Master worked so well was because that's what Ten's Doctor was like, too. He was an utterly crazy bastard with too much energy who licked walls and paced like he was sprinting. The Master was a dark reflection of that, a warning for what the Doctor could become if he forgets to slow down and care when things matter.
And the thing is, I see Moriarty and Sherlock in a very, very similar relationship to that of the Master and the Doctor. Very, very similar. Two people who are the only ones who can really, truly understand each other, one of them working for "good", the other for "evil", but the lines sometimes get a little blurred. And so when I imagined a Moriarty for Cucumberbitch's Holmes, who is himself refreshingly not manic, but very much a still man, a composed man, without ever really being stiff (::golf claps to that::), I imagined...
...well, a different sort of sociopath. This Moriarty and Holmes don't connect. Hold up a mirror to this Moriarty and you don't get Holmes. You get pieces of Holmes - he's smart, incredibly so, and he's very gay, and has good taste in clothes, and has the same...feeling of inevitability, about death. But he's so very manic. His line - I don't remember it, quite, and I'm too lazy to rewatch the end of the episode - about how he's changed his mind and come back to kill them anyway (...and the fact that he did so at all) may as well have been him shouting "BECAUSE I'M JUST SO VERY WACKY!"
I don't know, I don't know. I apologize if you liked him and perhaps I'm being too judgmental and I certainly don't judge you if you enjoyed the interpretation. Just. Tell me why? I love interesting discussion.
And what on earth was he doing with his voice?
IN OTHER NEWS: I watched Lost and Delirious with Chiara this morning, which, if you don't know, is a very pretty Canadian film about girls in love. It is sort of a gender-swapped Bare but with a few details changed, to steal my girlfriend's description. And it was so good. Made me cry all over the place. I'm getting emotional in my old age, I guess. I now have a lot of lovely gifs from it, too! Yesss.
In other, other news, you maybe noticed that something has gone horribly wrong with my layout. Chiara's done all she can to figure it out and I certainly have no idea, so I'm going to give it a few days and if it doesn't fix itself I'll have to find a new one. Which is a shame, because I really like this one.
Anyways. Off to write. ♥