After thinking and talking to b_c_draygon and lurking about fandom and watching bits MANY TIMES....

[zolac_no_miko]

Are you tired of Sherlock spam yet? ^_^;;

THIS IS MY THEORY. (Such as it is, I admit it needs work.)

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[zolac_no_miko]

"The Final Problem" was ACD's attempt to kill off Sherlock Holmes so he could go back to writing higher literature. He introduces Professor James Moriarty as Holmes' opposite and equal, and their conflict ends with the two of them struggling on a ledge above the Reichenbach Falls and tumbling to their deaths in the gorge below. ACD wasn't quite expecting the extent to which his fans just WOULD NOT SHUT UP and eventually he gave in to the pressure, writing "The Hound of the Baskervilles" (set before "The Final Problem"), and then resurrecting Holmes in "The Adventure of the Empty House", where he retconned it so that Holmes defeated Moriarty with his canon bad-ass baritsu martial arts skills, and then faked his death to protect himself from Moriarty's confederates; there were enough gaps in the eyewitness accounts in "The Final Problem" that he was able to get away with this... nobody actually saw the struggle and fall.

So yeah, with the ep named "The Reichenbach Fall", I knew what was coming and I was EXCITED because I didn't know exactly how it was going to play out, but basically Jim and Sherlock would have their final battle, and Jim would die, and everyone would be made to think Sherlock died too, but it would be all part of his devious plan. (Had trouble feeling too anxious about the second RDJ Sherlock Holmes movie for the same reason.)

[look_alive]

Ohhhhh okay. Actually I meant to ask you if Sherlock Holmes gets killed off ever in canon, so. Hey, interesting. Man, though. HIM AND JOHN. UGH I CANNOT TAKE IT, JUST. THEM. ♥

And I really have no intention of reading the books, but at the same time I like, from what little I'm aware, how pieces of the original canon are reinterpreted in this retelling. Like, the Reichenbach Falls painting thing was clever.

Mannnn, I need to see the new Guy Ritchie one. Argh.

[zolac_no_miko]

GOD I KNOW, SHERLOCK AND JOHN. SO MUCH LOVE.

Oh man yeah, I love all of their little nods to canon, "The Speckled Blonde" and Vatican cameos and the Baskerville hound glowing, <3 <3 <3.

The movie's super fun. AND SO VERY VERY GAY.

...Yeah so apparently it's possible to stop your wrist pulse by squeezing a rubber ball in your armpit, you know, LIKE THE ONE HE WAS PLAYING WITH AT THE MORGUE. So there goes my body-double theory, ffffff.