Reichenbach innit

[petronia]

And so Sherlock wins because he had one more friend Jim didn't account for (who, frankly, by all rights should not be his friend at all, except she is a genuinely Nice Person apparently). Well done on theme, there. XD

...I went to see Wim Wenders' Pina a couple of times over the past few weeks. Haven't scribbled up a review, but the long and short of it is that the choreographies really impressed me - the dancers' body language is so fine-tuned that one's hindbrain reacts in empathy long before the forebrain can even get its act together to name the emotion, let alone construct a narrative in which it belongs. That's sort of how I felt watching Martin Freeman in this, too. I mean, I'm not sad because Holmes is dead, I've known since I was four that he wouldn't be, the giant tosser. XD;;; (This was more The Dying Detective than Reichenbach in sheer wrongness, even.) I'm sad because John Watson is sad, and the chemical-producing bit in my head is impervious to logic.

Andrew Scott really brought his A-game. I mean, the weird thing about this series always was that Moriarty had zero apparent relationship to the canon Moriarty, so I was reserving judgment at the end of S1, but they made good on it with a vengeance. And was that last fellow there supposed to be Moran? He is kind of a hottie, if so. XD;

Plot ridiculousness: for a second there I thought Mycroft'd confess that he'd told Moriarty all about his little brother when they'd had a torrid sexual relationship in their early twenties. ...I mean, no, lol j/k, but that would've made as much sense as the explanation we were actually given. (And frankly, it's not like Mycroft would have told John that.) I'm of two minds about the tabloid smear job setup: firstly, as a Libertines fandom vet this shiz is TRIGGERY for me. I saw it coming in the first five minutes of the ep and was like, "ngl this is excellent justification for faking one's death". Secondly - no, they wouldn't actually be able to convict Sherlock for anything he hasn't done, and if push really came to shove Moriarty's fake identity would be dodgy as fuck. But the meme would go on forever regardless. That's the idea. Triggery, like I said.

Someone else will tease out the equivalences with The Dark Knight shortly, one supposes. With GIFs.

Comments

[gnine.livejournal.com]

I'm sad because John Watson is sad, and the chemical-producing bit in my head is impervious to logic.

LOL, homg but that does sum it up PERFECTLY!! Thank you! ^___^

[petronia.livejournal.com]

And then I read fic produced by my lovely flist, and it just makes me sadder and sadder. XD;

[coloredink.livejournal.com]

You are, as usual, 100% correct.

[ampersandals.livejournal.com]

And was that last fellow there supposed to be Moran? He is kind of a hottie, if so. XD;
I THINK SO, and yes, my heart-eyes. It means so much to me that he was the one assigned to John. I didn't know how much I wanted a Moran VS Watson showdown till I watched Game of Shadows, ahaha.

'm sad because John Watson is sad, and the chemical-producing bit in my head is impervious to logic.
Again, YES. The best part was John reverting to military behavior.

[petronia.livejournal.com]

I found it interesting that the movie and BBC continuities picked different supporting characters to focus on - Moran and Mary in the movie, Lestrade and Mycroft in the TV series. Of course, if this continues everyone will have to appear in everything. XD I have always wanted a Moran vs Watson showdown! And tbh, snipers have been so much of this Moriarty's modus operandi, too.

[flemmings.livejournal.com]

The thing I don't understand, actually, is how, at the age of *four*, you knew enough Chinese hanzi, or English words, whichever, to read ACD?

[petronia.livejournal.com]

You have actually already asked me this question. XDD

It was in Chinese, and I just... did, I guess. It left a really vivid impression. XD; My family taught me how to read when I was two (I have no memory of it, so as far as I'm concerned I've always been able to read). At the same age I had 100 classic quatrains memorized, but that's all gone now.

[flemmings.livejournal.com]

I thought I might have, but clearly 'I just did' doesn't satisfy my intellectual curiosity.

[petronia.livejournal.com]

It just felt like when I started reading Japanese light novels in my 20s, as far as I remember - I probably had the equivalent vocabulary level (my grandparents had me read them the newspaper front page out loud every day). At first it was hard and I was picking out words and guessing from context and skipping parts of sentences, then it naturally got faster.

I taught my sister how to read when she was 3 and I was 10, using phonics (bless 80s educational fads), and it took all of two weeks. So this is a replicable experiment. XD I had a catechism teacher in high school who'd taught his toddler to recite big chunks of La Fontaine's fables.

[pere-chan.livejournal.com]

Huh. I learned to read at 2 as well, and yes, have no memory of not being able to. (In English, though.) So it's really up to the kid? Probably in the same way that they have the mental file cabinets full of scientific names of dinosaurs, or all the modes of Pokemon, or the constellations. That was my mania; I have sadly forgotten many of them now.

[xparrot.livejournal.com]

for a second there I thought Mycroft'd confess that he'd told Moriarty all about his little brother when they'd had a torrid sexual relationship in their early twenties. ...I mean, no, lol j/k, but that would've made as much sense as the explanation we were actually given. (And frankly, it's not like Mycroft would have told John that.)

This is now my headcanon.

...Damn you!

[petronia.livejournal.com]

...FWIW, my for-reals head canon is that Mycroft Knows(tm), as he did in ACD canon, and that's really why he apologized to John. XD Whether or not the leaking of Sherlock's personal info to Moriarty was planned depends on how Xanatos gambit you want to go with this.

Basically, the fact that Sherlock was refusing throughout this ep to apply for Mycroft's help probably meant THEY WERE WORKING IN TANDEM ALL ALONG.

[xparrot.livejournal.com]

I was assuming that Mycroft was in on the faked death (his reaction to reading the paper is so very ambiguous) but didn't extend that to plotting together all along - I like it! Though am not quite convinced (if they could put together such a XGambit then I question them not being able to see through Moriarty's original ruse with the supposed super-program. Unless pretending to fall for that was part of the gambit to draw out the terrorists etc, having failed to get them in the Scandal in Belgravia? Ahhh the joy of fractal scheming, always wheels within the wheels the wheels are in...)

[incandescens]

That idea actually makes a lot of sense to me.

That is, that Mycroft knew the supposed super-program was a fake, but was letting Moriarty run on a leash in order to draw out and trace all his contacts. I'm not sure that Sherlock knew the super-program was a fake. He seems to have been genuinely surprised there. But then again, Sherlock is the "I only bother to know about things if I think they'll be useful", so one can excuse knowledge holes.

I can see him feeling that he owed Mycroft a little bit of help with drawing out Moriarty's contacts, after Belgravia, but not expecting the lengths that Moriarty would go to. Until Moriarty did.

i have nothing to contribute to this discussion

[arboretum]

because i want/need to see the ep again

but i actually had the EXACT SAME THOUGHT at that scene

like, "wait john are you accusing mycroft of....

of....

oh

oh wait a second ok no lmao."

Re: i have nothing to contribute to this discussion

[petronia.livejournal.com]

INORITE it just seemed... so... plausible....

........

I think it's because Moriarty's nicknames for the Holmes sibs were so axed on their sexualities??? Which, my gawd, what is YOUR sexuality dude let's see if you have a leg to stand on.