Sherlock: The Reichenbach Fall

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A teeny bit later than the rest of the Interwebs, but never mind:

• Oh, hello Martin Freeman's emo face, you look VERY EMO. I assume Sherlock is dead already then. OH WELL. Maybe we can watch John's tears for the next hour and a half. THAT SHOULD BE FUN. There's even OH-SO SYMBOLIC rain, lols.
  
  
• "He means thank you." "Do I?" "Just say it." "Thank you." That made me happy. I mean it's not like the character development this season has been Vastly Unexpected or anything, but it has been done awfully well, and nicely. By which I mean it makes me HAPPY IN MY FACE.
  
  
• I LOVE LESTRADE AND HIS LOLARIOUS SARCASM. Note for next year: episode entirely about Lestrade and his lolarious sarcasm, THANK YOU.
  
  
• Heh, Anderson and Donovan! It's nice Lestrade still has His Team. More of them too, please.
  
  
• I would like fic with Sherlock and Eleventy talking about hats now.
  
  
• The Lestrade episode can have lots of him with his feet on the desk having cups of tea and biccies too. And driving. His driving face is great.
  
  
• It won't have any Moriarty though. I MAY have mentioned this, but I cannae stand this version of him. OH STOP TAKING UP VALUABLE SCREENTIME THAT COULD BE OF LESTRADE OMG.
  
  
• Heh, it's Ros from Bugs!
  
  
• So, despite my QUITE A LOT not enjoying this Moriarty, still think the scene with tea is dead nifty.
  
  
• Incidentally, I know this is an adaptation etc etc, but I am going to be incredibly annoyed if there isn't a bit where people fall down a whacking great waterfall.
  
  
• I LOVE MOLLY. She bored me last series, but this one every time she is onscreen it is GREAT; she has somehow acquired a bizarre sort of charm. And cause she's just such a massive underdog, anything that is even the tiniest sort of victory for her I want to cheer ridiculously.
  
  
• Apparently, I like Moriarty a lot better when he decides to make Lestrade king.
  
  
• I DON'T LIKE THE DUDE SHOUTING AT LESTRADE. He is the very worst of ALL THE PEOPLE.
  
  
• Oh, John hit the dude who yelled at Lestrade! Probably it was for insulting Sherlock and not because he magically psychically knew that he was an awful shouting-at-Lestrade sort of person BUT STILL.
  
  
• "We're going to need to co-ordinate." And that was when I accidently choked on my wine a bit.
  
  
• I am failing to make any comments due to being SLIGHTLY ENGROSSED, omg, this is awesome.
  
  
• Am becoming ever more convinced I'm not going to see anyone falling down a waterfall though. WOES.
  
  
• "You're insane." "You're just getting that now?" Stupid, amusing delivery trying to make me not hate on characters I don't like. I STILL THINK THIS MORIARTY'S RUB.
  
  
• Sherlock seems to believe REALLY EASILY that Moriarty will keep his word about not killing his friends if he jumps.
  
  
• Possibly I wasn't meant to burst out laughing when Moriarty shot himself? BUT YAY HE'S DEAD! Though, boo, not death by waterfall.
  
  
• Yeah, that's not a waterfall either, Sherlock.
  
  
• Argh! I totally managed not to cry until they turned the body over, dammit.
  
  
• Yeah, Sherlock, stop being dead already. There's only so much MartinFreeman!emo!face I can take.
  
  
• So did, like, Molly give him a corpse to hide under his scarf or something before he went up to the roof? THAT'S MY AWESOME GUESS.
  
  
• So, yes, that was rocking. One of that stories that often crops up in Sherlock apocrypha things that I, to put it lightly, fucking hate, is that Sherlock is Moriarty (or anything along those lines of it's all in Sherlock's head, he's actually insane or a villain etc) but that deconstruction of Sherlock being used as a villainous plot? Fair enough, and well done. All terribly exciting and such, and a really nice reveal in the reporter's flat.
  
  
• In conclusion, this series of Sherlock, I loved. It felt like it really built on the promise of A Study in Pink in a way that the first series mostly failed to live to (The Blind Banker was cack and racist; The Great Game was decent enough but not vastly compelling telly for me.) And A Scandal in Belgravia was utterly fantastic and ALL THE THINGS I wanted in an Adler story, so it gets to be my favourite.
  
  
• Next year, since I got my wishes of Adler and Hound last time, I would like An Episode Like That Is Mostly About How Great Lestrade Is, Possibly With Sunglasses, and another Adler episode. THANK YOU!

Comments

[airie-fairy.livejournal.com]

"I mean it's not like the character development this season has been Vastly Unexpected or anything, but it has been done awfully well"

Yeah! Sherlock himself and everyone else have at no point discussed his inclination to separate himself from Moriarty by being less of a dick, but it's just sort of...been there...the whole time, and almost seemingly by accident, because he certainly hasn't been not a dick.

"I would like fic with Sherlock and Eleventy talking about hats now."

Eleven trying on hats and Sherlock viciously skewering his every choice, I assume?

"I DON'T LIKE THE DUDE SHOUTING AT LESTRADE. He is the very worst of ALL THE PEOPLE."

I had this bizarre reaction of partly exactly that and partly OH DELICIOUS NORTHERN ACCENT. I am a sick foreigner, I apologize.

[sabra-n.livejournal.com]

because he certainly hasn't been not a dick.

I don't know why that made me sporfle, BUT IT DID.

[airie-fairy.livejournal.com]

I agonized over that wording, can you tell?

[calapine.livejournal.com]

Eleven trying on hats and Sherlock viciously skewering his every choice, I assume?

Yes. And full of rubbish jokes.

I had this bizarre reaction of partly exactly that and partly OH DELICIOUS NORTHERN ACCENT. I am a sick foreigner, I apologize.

Don't be fooled by their FRIENDLY SOUNDING VOWELS. It's all a trick! They're just as mean as everyone else.

[jigglykat.livejournal.com]

OH GOD, this episode. I went from OMGWTF!Moriarty at the end of the last series because he was so... goofy, to not minding him. AND THEN HE HAD TO GO BLOW HIS BRAINS OUT. Did you see it? There was a chunk of brain. And even though I knew what was going to happen, I had SO MANY EMOTIONS. And John being all soldiery at his tombstone. OH I AM RUINED.

I root for Molly too. And I wish that Lestrade would wear sunglasses all the time.

I have also loved seeing everyone's theories about how he faked it. WE ARE ALL DETECTIVES.

I was also good and went out and bought the Complete Sherlock Holmes to read between now and the next series. Halfway though Study in Scarlet!

[calapine.livejournal.com]

Did you see it? There was a chunk of brain.

No, I MISSED THAT. Rest assured I will be trying to MISS IT AGAIN on rewatch. ALl of the blood was BAD ENOUGH. It looked PRETTY CONVINCING and self is a wee bit squeamish.

And John being all soldiery at his tombstone.

HER'S GOING TO GET HIS MIRACLE AND IT WILL BE LOVELY. I just resent slightly having to wait FOREVER.

I was also good and went out and bought the Complete Sherlock Holmes to read between now and the next series. Halfway though Study in Scarlet!

Hurrah! And I saw a picture of your book, it is v beautiful, yes.

[chocolatepot.livejournal.com]

I'm really conflicted, because I love Lestrade but on the whole I've seen Rupert Graves play so many jerks that I look at his face and automatically go "he sucks, don't trust him." :/

[airie-fairy.livejournal.com]

Jolyon! And Robert from Death at a Funeral could be a slick ass, but was ultimately a decent guy.

[gritsinmisery.livejournal.com]

The Lestrade episode can have lots of him with his feet on the desk having cups of tea and biccies too. And driving. His driving face is great.

If you want to see more RG driving, dig up the second episode of the first series of Ashes to Ashes. Tanned RG, driving a Delorean and wearing neck chains. Oh, the Eighties. *flails*

Lots of flashing white toothy RG smiles. *iz ded*

[in-the-end.livejournal.com]

This entire series was ... yes, waaaay better than the first because the rubbish second episode was replaced by Hound this time. Also I discovered that I am quite partial to (well, more like OBSESSED) with Martin Freeman's emo face so the episode on Sunday was all sorts of win. Plus Molly Hooper. More Una would be my only wish. She was just as wonderful as Freeman in the end scene.

[londonesque.livejournal.com]

Man, I'm glad it's not just me, this Moriaty gets on my tits, everything about him.

[fyrdrakken]

I've never run across a version of Moriarty I enjoyed, either. He just seems so unnecessary, just brought in out of nowhere to create a villain of suitable import to kill off Holmes once Doyle was sick of writing him. The book that suggested he was just a harmless math professor that Holmes had fixated on out of drug-induced paranoia was distressingly plausible.

Molly and Lestrade were both excellent, yes.

I don't think it was a matter of Sherlock believing that Moriarty would keep his word about not killing his people if Sherlock offed himself as directed, so much as Sherlock believing that Moriarty would definitely kill them if he didn't, or at least didn't convince all the waiting gunmen that he had done so. I'm guessing that the hiatus is going to involve Sherlock dismantling Moriarty's organization with a particular eye towards finding and neutralizing not just those assassins and anyone in a position to hire more but also whatever other little traps Moriarty undoubtedly left behind to be sprung on Sherlock's people.

That was really interesting when Moriarty killed himself, and probably another of those things where Moffat and Gatiss wanted to do something that looked cool without really putting a lot of thought into why the character would do such a thing. I mean, yes, what a wonderfully distressing position to put Sherlock in -- with the only person capable of calling the assassins off short of Sherlock's death being definitively out of the picture, he seems to be in a bind with only one way out, except that he'd already been thinking about how the only end in sight was his own death and thus had been planning to stage it. The assassins just had to think he was dead, and with Moriarty having taken himself out of the picture he couldn't make any countermeasures against Sherlock that he hadn't already arranged in advance. (But WHY was Moriarty so willing to die himself? He wasn't himself trapped, he wasn't being forced to take the only escape he could control, he had Sherlock where he wanted him and if he'd been there on the roof watching he could have prevented Sherlock and Molly from pulling a fast one. Was he really willing to kill himself out of spite?)

[airie-fairy.livejournal.com]

Given (this) Moriarty's a psychopath, who tend to be willing to put themselves (as well as others) at risk for little reason without concern, it wasn't hard for me to believe that he just did it in aid of his victory over Sherlock.

[pedanther]

What I got from Moriarty's speech about the Final Problem was that he had a death wish: he and his big psychopathic brain were terminally bored and fighting Sherlock was all he had left. When he believed he'd beaten Sherlock, he had nothing left to live for.