Comments | zolac_no_miko: So it's that time again.

zolac_no_miko

So it's that time again.

Jan 16, 2012 02:24

Sherlock, "The Reichenbach Fall".

First I'd like to take a moment to say KATHERINE PARKINSON.

Okay, now that that's out of the way....

-JIM MORIARTY, HOW IS IT ACTUALLY POSSIBLE TO BE SO FUCKING SEXY, I JUST CAN'T EVEN. AS;LKGHALSKFJFSGHJDSK.

-MYCROFT. HOLMES'. FACE.

-MARTIN FREEMAN YOU AMAZE ME. He will be the best hobbit ever. Just by, ( Read more... )

jim moriarty take me now, sherlock, sherlock holmes, capslock is shorthand for cool, geekery, flailflailflail, excuse me while i flip the fuck out, i heart the bbc, fangirling, omfg, television, sherlock holmes is a time lord

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b_c_draygon January 16 2012, 12:36:15 UTC

I think maybe all the acting on the rooftop wasn't acting, but him desperately trying to think of any other possible way that didn't involve him faking his death and really hurting his friends (especially John). Because yes, hurt and grieving is better than dead; but if there was a way to prevent both of those things, I think he'd have gone for it.

... I feel terrible for finding Jim sexy when he is such a dicking bastard. BUT HE SO IS OMFG.

Molly. Molly fucking Hooper. I just want to hug her forever, she owned this episode. (And actually, her character development has been awesome this series. I know we haven't seen much of her, but to go from mindless adoration of Sherlock, to admitting that she 'doesn't count' and still offering him help, wow. ALL THE HEARTS FOR YOU MOLLY ( ... )

zolac_no_miko January 16 2012, 12:49:25 UTC

Ooooh that's a good point, yes, because Sherlock does actually care, that's what this whole season is about, and he's really trying to avoid dying and he's really trying to avoid having to pretend to die, and failing at the second one is better than failing at the first but it's still VERY NOT GOOD.

It's okay, Sherlock is a dicking bastard too, and he's sexy. (Which is about right because they're the same person. :D)

I DON'T WANT TO GO THE LONG WAY. TTT_TTT

sirona_gs January 16 2012, 18:58:20 UTC

JIM FUCKING MORIARTY. I swear. He is just so, so clever. And I agree -- the only way Sherlock could have won is by losing. He went up there prepared to die. And as for your question in re: the stuff on the phone on the roof, I think it was actually for the benefit of the shooters. They had to be convinced he was okay with dying. That he wasn't trying to trick them (even though he did in the end), so that a) they would leave John and the others alone, and b) so that Sherlock could track them all down and dispose of them (probably at the same time as Moriarty's network).

Bloody brilliant episode, all round. Mycroft, oh, god. Kind of broke my heart. What must it feel like, to fail so spectacularly, to someone who has very rarely failed at all?

Also I'm convinced he knew straight away that it was all a trick, Sherlock's death. He knows his brother. I am completely positive he knew ( ... )

zolac_no_miko January 16 2012, 20:13:19 UTC

Re: Sherlock's note, yeah, that and clearly it's important for his plan for John to believe he's dead, and John knows him, so he would be harder to convince... Sherlock needed him to believe in the suicide, to see him die ("keep your eyes on me")... faking his death only works if John thinks it can't possibly be fake.