e. Even professional writers, journalists, and (obviously) editors seem to forget the proper use of the subjunctive case these days. It's a sad world. /rant
Ha! I'm much prouder than I should be, probably, that I can do it right just by the odd school-English and picking up things via books and movies later.
I'm awesome! ;-)
-Also, why don't any of the neighbours call the cops? The walls can't be THAT thick in those old row houses. Geez.
Maybe because they died when he shot through the wall? Probably not, but... it's severely possible. British walls are atrocious!
I mean, you could pass off the 'hellish' comment as a joke, but there's always truth in jokes.
Well, for someone like Mycroft, with his carefully ordered world... it WOULD be hellish. He might not mean it as anything worse than how he'd perceive living with his brother and having his mood-swings around and all that. If - as you theorized and I agree - he is the more psychotic of the two and by that, formed Sherlock's character through his detachment when they were children, he'd have a lot of problems with all those pesky emotions around him. It would be hell for Mycroft, and hell for Sherlock.
And I do think that's sibling-rivalry at it's finest... wanting to be better than the other, besting them in some way (preferably in their own field) - that's exactly it.
I've already watched all of the available episodes, so know a bit from further along about Mycroft, but even then, I never thought that Mycroft didn't like Sherlock. I think he honestly doesn't understand him, never did. Maybe because of his psychotic tendencies (Mycroft's, not Sherlock's) or because of the way they were always too smart for other children and must have grown up similar and yet coped differently.
Mycroft called himself "Ice man" once, and I think he likes being Ice. Sherlock doesn't, and I can just see in my head how older brother tried to make his little brother a little like himself. He knew he was smart, maybe even smarter than him? But he knew, and maybe he wanted him to be his copy, his mini-Me. Somewhere along the show, it's said that Mycroft always told Sherlock to not get attached. Maybe as precaution for not getting hurt? for not being ridiculed? I don't know, really. But I think he faired well with isolating himself from others and even rejoiced in his reputation as cold. Except Sherlock is NOT like him. He's not emotionless - he WANTS attachments, he wants friends. He might not know what to do with them, but he's lonely and he doesn't want to be. I guess that's one reason he has a history with drugs- he's not emotionless and cold, he just doesn't know emotions. Maybe he wanted his brother to be his friend, but Mycroft... he really doesn't have friends. And the most he can muster is the fondness for his little smart brother, who he still teases and angers just because he can and maybe because he doesn't want him to LIKE him. Mycroft isn't likeable. But he doesn't even want to be.
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Date: 2014-02-20 05:19 pm (UTC)Ha!
I'm much prouder than I should be, probably, that I can do it right just by the odd school-English and picking up things via books and movies later.
I'm awesome! ;-)
-Also, why don't any of the neighbours call the cops? The walls can't be THAT thick in those old row houses. Geez.
Maybe because they died when he shot through the wall? Probably not, but... it's severely possible. British walls are atrocious!
I mean, you could pass off the 'hellish' comment as a joke, but there's always truth in jokes.
Well, for someone like Mycroft, with his carefully ordered world... it WOULD be hellish. He might not mean it as anything worse than how he'd perceive living with his brother and having his mood-swings around and all that. If - as you theorized and I agree - he is the more psychotic of the two and by that, formed Sherlock's character through his detachment when they were children, he'd have a lot of problems with all those pesky emotions around him.
It would be hell for Mycroft, and hell for Sherlock.
And I do think that's sibling-rivalry at it's finest... wanting to be better than the other, besting them in some way (preferably in their own field) - that's exactly it.
I've already watched all of the available episodes, so know a bit from further along about Mycroft, but even then, I never thought that Mycroft didn't like Sherlock.
I think he honestly doesn't understand him, never did. Maybe because of his psychotic tendencies (Mycroft's, not Sherlock's) or because of the way they were always too smart for other children and must have grown up similar and yet coped differently.
Mycroft called himself "Ice man" once, and I think he likes being Ice. Sherlock doesn't, and I can just see in my head how older brother tried to make his little brother a little like himself. He knew he was smart, maybe even smarter than him? But he knew, and maybe he wanted him to be his copy, his mini-Me. Somewhere along the show, it's said that Mycroft always told Sherlock to not get attached. Maybe as precaution for not getting hurt? for not being ridiculed? I don't know, really. But I think he faired well with isolating himself from others and even rejoiced in his reputation as cold.
Except Sherlock is NOT like him. He's not emotionless - he WANTS attachments, he wants friends.
He might not know what to do with them, but he's lonely and he doesn't want to be. I guess that's one reason he has a history with drugs- he's not emotionless and cold, he just doesn't know emotions.
Maybe he wanted his brother to be his friend, but Mycroft... he really doesn't have friends. And the most he can muster is the fondness for his little smart brother, who he still teases and angers just because he can and maybe because he doesn't want him to LIKE him. Mycroft isn't likeable. But he doesn't even want to be.
tbc