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!

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[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.