Comments | krabapple: i got really distracted in places. unfortunately.

krabapple

i got really distracted in places. unfortunately.

Jan 16, 2012 20:20

Apparently I'm not done talking about Sherlock yet, at least for today. This was inspired by magnetic_pole's thoughts on TRF and is mostly me thinking out loud, as it were.

( the theology of a sherlockian fall )

Comments 6

magnetic_pole January 17 2012, 02:12:52 UTC

As I said earlier, I think the Richard Brooks/Moriarty being found out scene and plot point there was really about trying to convince John, and it failed (because John Watson is AWESOME, by the way).

And the bit with Lestrade failed, because he was clearly reluctant and prodded by Donovan and Anderson and reluctant to act (and, to be honest, the show hasn't done a good job of showing how he got into the Christmas party inner circle anyway). And Mrs Hudson was never even addressed. (Women can clearly be counted on to come through for you.) And then in the end, alone there with Moriarty, Sherlock was shown to be triumphant anyway (somehow he's on the side of the angels but not one of them?).

*sigh* I agree with you about John, by the way. He was just great to watch, the whole episode.

The question is whether or not Sherlock did fall and let go of the sin of pride. I have a feeling we won't know a lot of the answer until the next series. And no one -- especially Sherlock Holmes -- lets go of pride completely (at least not without ( ... )

krabapple January 17 2012, 22:03:08 UTC

Tried to post from email and LJ failed me -- augh. So we'll see if I can piece together what I said before with any sign of coherence ( ... )

shehasathree January 17 2012, 05:29:24 UTC

This is an AWESOME post; thank-you so much for sharing!!

krabapple January 17 2012, 22:03:35 UTC

Thank you for reading! :)

numberthescars May 28 2012, 15:13:04 UTC

This post was so interesting to read! Makes me miss studying theology ( ... )

azureavian February 23 2014, 06:19:41 UTC

I'm sticking my two cents in here, excuse.. I think Moriarty killing himself was (in addition to making Sherlock kill himself) a fit of pique. He thought himself special and, finding Sherlock (and, by extension, Mycroft), realized he wasn't as unique as all that. TV also wants us to believe that all people want to be good. Following that, if Moriarty somehow considered being a criminal his only option of exercising his intellect, yet Sherlock (and Mycroft) can be good, and *powerful* then perhaps he'd been wrong all this time. Humbling for someone who, by this point, takes his massively high intelligence for granted.

So actually taunting Sherlock by saying he's on the side of angels is really a gibe at himself.

Found this post by following links in amongst fic. This post was very cool, always good to hear what people think on the behind-the-scenes.