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Lame rant about my lack of willpower

[(Anonymous)]

I am so fed up with my slow internet connection. I have been downloading for hours and am still hours away from Sherlock. I'm stuck watching the Golden Globes until it's finished. I swore up and down that this time I wouldn't read reactions and spoil the end for myself. My resolve weakens with each passing minute... must fight...

Re: Lame rant about my lack of willpower

[(Anonymous)]

Why don't you just find a uk ip address and then go on iplayer?

spoilers, ep3

[(Anonymous)]

Everybody's free to like or dislike any character, of course, but personally I really just can't dislike or hate Donovan and Anderson for seriously doubting Sherlock and unknowingly set Moriarty's final part of the plan in motion: if I put myself in their shoes it's really not that difficult to understand why they would think so.

There's this guy, this unbearably smug and arrogant guy who walks in your workplace, makes you feel like an idiot, spits out deductions like a magician takes a rabbit out of their top hat... I find it really not hard at all to try and understand why they feel bitter and why they'd start to doubt Sherlock in the end.

Re: spoilers, ep3

[(Anonymous)]

It's not even just bitterness. From their point of view, this man is dangerous - and they have plenty of evidence (if circumstantial) to back it up. A competent officer in their shoes would do exactly the same thing - and if they didn't, they should.

SPOIERLS

[(Anonymous)]

HELP ME GUISE. I AM DEPRESSED OVER MORIARTY'S DEATH.

WHY.

Re: SPOIERLS

[(Anonymous)]

Moriarty was actually born and bred in Baskerville, where the whole "experiment on glow-in-the-dark rabbits" is just a cover: what they actually do there, in the lower floors, is genetic mutation on human beings.

Moriarty is one of Baskerville's mutants with the ability of cellular regeneration. That bullet through his skull? Give it a few minutes, fifteen at most, and he'll be as good as new. Bad news for Sherlock, though.

a bit spoilery for Reichenbach

[(Anonymous)]

Did anybody notice that Moriarty's lawyer was portraied by Ian Hallard, Mark Gatiss' husband?

Maybe it's because I like both of them as actors and how they come across irl, but I definitely feel a new possibly rare OTP being born: Mycroft/Nameless Lawyer.

Actual rant: I wish Ian's character had more lines, dammit, he's a good actor and I don't see him often enough.

Non-Spoiler

[(Anonymous)]

People on tumblr are posting their reaction-faces to The Reichenbach Fall.

...the first thing this makes me think of? 2 Girls 1 Cup.

And now I'm loling all over my keyboard.

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Please warn for spoilers.

kind of spoilers

[(Anonymous)]

WWWWWWHHHHHHHHHYYYYYYYYYYYY NNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO MMMMMMMMMMMOOOOOOOOOOOOORRRRRRRRRRRRAAAAAAAAAAANNNNNNNNNN?

Seriously; why no Moran? Is there something wrong with having a gun faceoff between John and Moran?

Re: kind of spoilers

[(Anonymous)]

Moran is actually introduced face to face to Holmes and Watson only in The Empty House, which comes right after The Final Problem (aka Reichenbach). I guess the writer (Thompson or something?) wanted to be true to that and save Moran for s3.

Also, what with Moriarty being the focus of this episode and then being killed off the series it was probably a smart move to not introduce any other villain and save it for an eventual s3: that way we'll have the novely of an entirely never-seen-before villain instead of "oh that sniper we've already seen a bit last time, how boring, I wish Moriarty were still here".

[(Anonymous)]

Well, fuck.

I wasn't feeling sleepy at all so when after 11.30pm links started to shot up I decided to start downloading Reichenbach, I thought: "Might as well start on it while the laptop's on and I have time". The download finished pretty quickly, I finished watching the episode around 1.30am (holyshitsoamazing).

And now I'm still not sleepy.

Fuck monday mornings, I'll go find cookies: if I'm not sleeping I might as well get high on sugar and sod it all.

Mycroft

[(Anonymous)]

Season 2 has sort of stomped on how I used to see him as a character.

Re: Mycroft

[(Anonymous)]

I still stubbornly maintain my head canon about him

Spoilers a-hoy!

[(Anonymous)]

Seriously? You're going to hate Donovan and Anderson because they did their bloody job?

An unsufferable guy waltzes in a crime scene giggling because "yes, finally something FUNNY", shows no respect to the victim or its relatives, spouts nonsense saying that it's obvious because LOOK AT THE MUD... and when two victims start screaming the moment they see him and they're supposed to NOT suspect that something's weird?

No, it has nothing to do with them finding him annoying- though they do and they have good reason to. It's just the most logical answer and what every person with some sense of duty would have done.

Re: Spoilers a-hoy!

[(Anonymous)]

+10000

While this episode obviously left me wanting all sorts of S/J reunion fic, it left me with an equal desire to see more Donovan fic, because honestly? She was awesome. Wrong, but still determined to do the right, and most logical, thing.

Now I really desire fic where she and Sherlock end up working together and respecting each other -- from BOTH sides.

Seriously? SERIOUSLY? Fuck you forever21! Fuck you with something hard and sandpapery!

[(Anonymous)]

I was trying on some clothing and when I go to hand back the clothes I am not buying, like the sign says to, the attendant refuses to take them. Apparently she identified me as a lesbian because I was wearing a pride bracelet and she refused to touch the "contaminated" clothes. Told me since I had tried them on I had to buy them since she could not "in good conscience put them back on the rack." WHAT THE EVER LOVING HELL!

So I go and say I need to file a complaint with management. The manager says "I am so sorry that that happened to you. That is never acceptable, even though we typically cater to real women."

...

Re: Seriously? SERIOUSLY? Fuck you forever21! Fuck you with something hard and sandpapery!

[(Anonymous)]

Holy crap. All of that is COMPLETELY unacceptable.

[(Anonymous)]

A bit belated, but my live stream tonight waited until the last 20 minutes of the episode to cut out. UUUUUUGH.

Jesus Hamish Christ

[(Anonymous)]

MOFFAT DID NOT WRITE THIS EPISODE YOU STUPID LITTLE ANDERSONS! NOR DID GATISS! IT WAS THOMPSON! THOMPSON WHO WROTE TBB! GET IT RIGHT!

(See fandom? I told you Thompson could actually do it well, but did you believe me with TBB? Noooo. *smug*)

Re: Jesus Hamish Christ

[(Anonymous)]

Moffat wrote everything. Everything. Even this reply.




(Just joking: I feel your irritation, anon)

[(Anonymous)]

I watched the tumblr kids squee over their livestreams, but I told myself, just wait for the torrent. Better to have great quality. So I did, calmly, quietly amused at the tearful reactions from tumblr when I glanced at it.

Then I settled in to watch the episode, feeling smug about how mature I am.

.........

I SOBBED LIKE A TINY FUCKING CHILD. FOR LIKE. TEN FULL MINUTES.

SPOILERY FOR 2x03

[(Anonymous)]

SAME. I was like, 'LOL, I can't imagine crying about this. I know he'll be back.' And I suppose I didn't really cry about Sherlock; it was mostly for John and the Sherlock&John friendship. That freaking phone call... ;_;

I can't even look at a gif of John at the end without tearing up now.

Spoilery

[(Anonymous)]

I need fic. I need fic right now with Mycroft feeling really really really terribly horribly bad that he fucked up. And I don't want him to find out Sherlock is alive until after John does. And I want him to cry...both of them, Mycroft and John. But mostly Mycroft.

So yeah, can someone take care of this for me, please? I was going to prompt it, but I forgot about the freeze.

(Mycroft says, "So confunde." Yeah, I'm sorry you were confused, but you're supposed to be better than that!"

Re: Spoilery (cont)

[(Anonymous)]

And yeah, Okay, so I agree with the anon above, about him being cold and calculating and getting information from Moriarty pertaining to national security was more important than his brother's privacy, but that doesn't mean I have to like it!

(Now Mycroft's just talking gibberish.)

[(Anonymous)]

I want the prompt post to go as soon as the freeze is over.

I won't be satisfied with a BAM!, nor with a BANG!, and a simple KA-BLAM! won't do it. I want a BOOM!, nothing less. Or I will skin the meme and turn it into underpants.

[(Anonymous)]

Might chafe a bit.

[(Anonymous)]

Look, Moriarty is lovely. I agree with that totally. It's just that...

Gatiss. You're in the League of Gentlemen. You were in Psychoville. You owed him this.

WHY DIDN'T YOU CAST REECE SHEARSMITH AS MORIARTY?!

It would have been so awesome! So totally, incredibly AWESOME!

But it's okay. This Moriarty kicked ass.

...just PLEASE cast Reece Shearsmith as a villain, some villain, any kind of villain. Please. Please?

[(Anonymous)]

Oooh, yes. Yes yes yes. Reece would be magnificent, I just know it.

Perhaps as Moran? Charles Augustus Milverton?

This sort of thing happens to me more than it should

[(Anonymous)]

Okay, sometimes I get this thing in my head and I can't tell if it's an actual thing, something I read in a fan fic, or some sort of amalgamation of various things. The latest one of this happening is really bugging me.

So, anyone with a good grasp of psychology, help me out here.

Is it possible for people who have been through a trauma to be otherwise fine, but to have completely shut down on communication. Well, not completely shut down. But they will essentially go mute, and while they can understand what's being said they're ability to use language so they can't write anything comprehensible.

Only details of this that stick out in my mind.

So: real, fan fiction, or other?

Re: This sort of thing happens to me more than it should

[(Anonymous)]

Well, there's something called aphasia, but it's caused by brain damage rather than a psychological trauma.

But anyway... it sounds possible, kinda. Our brain works in mysterious ways and stress does weird things to people...

Half rant, half love for Reichenbach

[(Anonymous)]

This goes out to all the doubters and TBB-haters who kept moaning about how Thompson was going to mess up the season finale:

SUCK IT, HATERS. THOMPSON FUCKING DELIVERED.

Re: Half rant, half love for Reichenbach

[(Anonymous)]

plus fucking one
and actually, I commend all the references and sort of..."poetry" aspect of the dialogue. It might have been a bit repetitive/annoying to some, but I ate that straight up and loved every line of it.
Thompson, awesome job.

[(Anonymous)]

WHY CAN'T I WRITE?!

The idea is awesome. It's a crossover and everything would be perfect and yet I can't and yet it's basically meant to be!

"In the Loop" has Malcolm Tucker saying that they received some information by a man nicknamed "the Iceman". In s02e03 Jen is a journalist.
If they work in a reference to Black Books, they might as well be screaming at me "WE ARE IN THE SAME UNIVERSE, WHAT ELSE DO YOU NEED TO WRITE THIS STORY?!"

And yet I can't.

Fuck you, writer block.

[(Anonymous)]

People here ranting about Sally Donovan's role in the last ep or even on tumblr: okay to me, I don't mind, to each their own.
People who edit her wikipedia article with misogynistic bullshit: fuck you with a rake.

[(Anonymous)]

WHUT

*goes to check*

...no wait srsly, what? Did they take it down already? What did it say?

[(Anonymous)]

I just saw the first minute of the episode, just that. And I had to pause it. I have to say this, get this out:

Martin Freeman, you are fucking flawless. I can't deal with this, you wonder of an actor.

[(Anonymous)]

This.

Reaction to Reichenbach, no plot spoilers beyond ACD canon

[(Anonymous)]

I wanted to be in tears. I wanted to go to bed sobbing tonight.

I'm not.

I figured I knew how it would end more or less so maybe I had that against me.

The acting was superb. Wonderful. Martin Freeman, what is your face.

But I'm dry eyed.

And I'm bummed about that.

Re: Reaction to Reichenbach, no plot spoilers beyond ACD canon

[(Anonymous)]

I know how you feel. I loved it, and yet I was happily joking with my mate about the simply wonderful year John's going to have.

While my mate was crying.

...Felt a bit like a dick.

Moriarty (MAJOR SPOILERS FOR REICHENBACH)

[(Anonymous)]

Re: Moriarty (MAJOR SPOILERS FOR REICHENBACH)

[(Anonymous)]

It threw me. I felt a surge of pity. He seemed—in that second—so grateful. For what? I don't know what to think now.
I'm the OP of the phrase you quoted, hello like-minded anon! I felt some strange and unexpected pity too, maybe because he wasn't just a criminal doing it for the power and the money: he was a bored genius who wanted to have fun and finally found somebody similar to him in Sherlock, he had literally nothing to lose. After thinking Sherlock was sadly ordinary he seemed to feel grateful he wasn't so ordinary and more similar to him than he thought, that... really moved me in a strange way.

What a villain, what a villain.

SPOILERS

[(Anonymous)]

1. Jesus Christ, Moriarty, way to go all la la la Hannibal Lecter in white before breaking in the Crown Jewels.

2. If it wasn't for the fact that this is Sherlock Holmes canon, it would kind of work, his death. Fine. Good. Make sense. That being said,

3. I was kind of disappointed with his popping in at the very last second. Of course it was coming, but still. Throw in that shot in the teasers for the next season.

Re: SPOILERS

[(Anonymous)]

So, uh. Seeing as this isn't a rant or anything else that doesn't have another proper place, how about taking it to the spoilers post? Or using fucking spoiler space or something?