John found the envelope, and just opened it, and I thought it was sawdust or something, but my first reaction was ANTHRAX!
Ahahah, IKR? that's exactly what I was thinking. I guess it makes it apparent where and when we've lived.
Molly was amazing. I don't know how fandom feels about her anymore, since I haven't been in fandom since S1, but I love her character(always have), because she has such potential that hasn't come out, until now.
Actually, while were on the subject...did anyone else find it a little weird that Sherlock and Mycroft weren't talking AT ALL?! I mean, geez...what happened between Hounds and now? Sherlock was able to call in a favour with Mycroft in Hounds, yet now Mycroft won't speak directly to him at all. Maybe just because he's guilty for what he did? I'm wondering if Mycroft made the classic mistake in this one...he gave John the information, thinking that John would tell Sherlock and give Sherlock a jump start at figuring out Moriarty's game. Only, Mycroft didn't realize that John doesn't actually tell Sherlock anything about their meetings...or anything at all unless Sherlock asks, or JOHN thinks it's important. So he tells about the assassins, but he doesn't give the name Rich Brook.
I'm betting that it was because Mycroft felt guilty, and knew if he actually talked to Sherlock, he would be able to dissect his guilt and get to the bottom of it. So, Mycroft was hoping that John would sterilize the information enough to be safely passed on, incorrectly assuming that John would just repeat what Mycroft had said.
When they get to the reporters house and Moriarty is there! MAN! THAT BLEW MY MIND. Also, it was REALLY TRIPPY...because you KNOW it's all lies, but there's absolutely nothing in Andrew Scott's performance that's inauthentic to THAT moment. He doesn't let Moriarty bleed back in...there are no secret evil looks to Sherlock...no, he's playing Rich Brook.
As much as I hate Moriarty, the actor is pretty skilled at making him exactly who he needs to be as the situation calls for it. So I can appreciate that.
Moriarty's suicide...I did NOT see coming. There's some joke I should make here about the look of surprise on my face or something...but, for some reason I think it'd be in poor taste.
Once he said that bit about it never being called off while he was alive, I knew he was going to end it himself to gain the ultimate upper hand. It all makes sense, though, looking back, because a lot of the rooftop scene was him moping that he had no challengers anymore, life was too boring, etc, typical signs of a person considering suicide.
A family member of mine once complained to me about her British upbringing - British Protestant - where you aren't supposed to feel emotions, and you certainly aren't supposed to show them. I was raised much the same way...so, on this blog, I like to joke and say, "that would have made me cry, if I had a soul" or "I would have cried, except my heart is nothing more than an engine formed from the remnants of a dead star"...but the truth of the matter is that I very seldom cry about anything...and for that reason, when I do show an emotion other than happiness, my friends tend to freak out. So, when I say off the top, that Martin Freeman and Benedict Cumberbatch made me cry - I mean that they made my throat tight, and perhaps I blinked more often. And the fact that Martin Freeman made my throat tight just by making his own throat tight is really saying something for how amazingly accurately the emotions in this episode were written and acted.
It's interesting that I often find myself in a similar situation. My lack of ability to show physical emotions is more because of my own internally created emotional shut-down I picked up thanks to childhood trauma and the fact that I don't like to make connections that are deep enough to make me cry, but this episode had my eyes watering and I was making whimpery noises. And like you said; the fact that they could elicit that kind of reaction from someone who doesn't do reactions, that makes it all the more amazing and heartbreaking.
But this episode was so gorgeous in that way that only excellently acted television can be. And I loved it for it.
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Date: 2012-01-16 07:32 pm (UTC)Ahahah, IKR? that's exactly what I was thinking. I guess it makes it apparent where and when we've lived.
Molly was amazing. I don't know how fandom feels about her anymore, since I haven't been in fandom since S1, but I love her character(always have), because she has such potential that hasn't come out, until now.
Actually, while were on the subject...did anyone else find it a little weird that Sherlock and Mycroft weren't talking AT ALL?! I mean, geez...what happened between Hounds and now? Sherlock was able to call in a favour with Mycroft in Hounds, yet now Mycroft won't speak directly to him at all. Maybe just because he's guilty for what he did? I'm wondering if Mycroft made the classic mistake in this one...he gave John the information, thinking that John would tell Sherlock and give Sherlock a jump start at figuring out Moriarty's game. Only, Mycroft didn't realize that John doesn't actually tell Sherlock anything about their meetings...or anything at all unless Sherlock asks, or JOHN thinks it's important. So he tells about the assassins, but he doesn't give the name Rich Brook.
I'm betting that it was because Mycroft felt guilty, and knew if he actually talked to Sherlock, he would be able to dissect his guilt and get to the bottom of it. So, Mycroft was hoping that John would sterilize the information enough to be safely passed on, incorrectly assuming that John would just repeat what Mycroft had said.
When they get to the reporters house and Moriarty is there! MAN! THAT BLEW MY MIND. Also, it was REALLY TRIPPY...because you KNOW it's all lies, but there's absolutely nothing in Andrew Scott's performance that's inauthentic to THAT moment. He doesn't let Moriarty bleed back in...there are no secret evil looks to Sherlock...no, he's playing Rich Brook.
As much as I hate Moriarty, the actor is pretty skilled at making him exactly who he needs to be as the situation calls for it. So I can appreciate that.
Moriarty's suicide...I did NOT see coming. There's some joke I should make here about the look of surprise on my face or something...but, for some reason I think it'd be in poor taste.
Once he said that bit about it never being called off while he was alive, I knew he was going to end it himself to gain the ultimate upper hand. It all makes sense, though, looking back, because a lot of the rooftop scene was him moping that he had no challengers anymore, life was too boring, etc, typical signs of a person considering suicide.
A family member of mine once complained to me about her British upbringing - British Protestant - where you aren't supposed to feel emotions, and you certainly aren't supposed to show them. I was raised much the same way...so, on this blog, I like to joke and say, "that would have made me cry, if I had a soul" or "I would have cried, except my heart is nothing more than an engine formed from the remnants of a dead star"...but the truth of the matter is that I very seldom cry about anything...and for that reason, when I do show an emotion other than happiness, my friends tend to freak out. So, when I say off the top, that Martin Freeman and Benedict Cumberbatch made me cry - I mean that they made my throat tight, and perhaps I blinked more often. And the fact that Martin Freeman made my throat tight just by making his own throat tight is really saying something for how amazingly accurately the emotions in this episode were written and acted.
It's interesting that I often find myself in a similar situation. My lack of ability to show physical emotions is more because of my own internally created emotional shut-down I picked up thanks to childhood trauma and the fact that I don't like to make connections that are deep enough to make me cry, but this episode had my eyes watering and I was making whimpery noises. And like you said; the fact that they could elicit that kind of reaction from someone who doesn't do reactions, that makes it all the more amazing and heartbreaking.
But this episode was so gorgeous in that way that only excellently acted television can be. And I loved it for it.