I guess I have thoughts on Sherlock??? I sent 
mrv3000 a few emails and everything. So here you go:
I thought this was okay, probably emotional if you're invested in the characters which I'm not. I am definitely loling at people on Tumblr who are like OMG HE'S ALIVE??? because lol, NOT LIKE IT'S (PROBABLY) THE MOST FAMOUS FAKE-DEATH IN LITERATURE OR ANYTHING. I really like Benedict Cumberbatch as Sherlock even if I don't like Sherlock himself so much, idk it's like I'll be watching a scene and thinking "well I'm not super into this but you're talented". It was nice that Molly got to like, do stuff without being derided for it. The Richard Brooke thing was kind of fun but didn't ultimately go very far so it felt a bit pointless -- I mean I guess it gave me the great headline SUICIDE OF FAKE GENIUS but it would've been more interesting I guess if it had called anything into question for the characters. When Moriarty was all I WILL KILL ALL 3 OF YOUR FRIENDS we were all like "Sherlock has 3 friends?"
MOSTLY THOUGH I spent the whole episode thinking about how much I hate the way ...Andrew Scott (thanks google!) played Moriarty. He seemed like he was probably talented (I did really like his performance in the Richard Brooke scene) but managed to make about a dozen acting choices in the role that just did not work for me at all. I assume it was direction as well. The zany off-the-wall ~omg I'm sooooooo unpredictable!! haha~ stuff really fell flat for me, it was irritating and not in a love-to-hate-you way, in a cringing-while-watching way.
I think the problem is that Moriarty should ideally be this perfect foil for Sherlock, but with Moriarty the way he was that never really happened. I think this Sherlock would've been better suited with a colder, subtler performance from Moriarty. Like, in general Moriarty felt a bit like a knock-off of John Simm's Master, but John Simm's Master and his hyperactive craziness works because it acts as a perversion of Ten's hyperactivity and over-the-top cheerfulness and energy. When you have Benedict Cumberbatch's Sherlock so controlled almost all the time and so closed off, putting him opposite this big... troll (for want of a better phrase)... felt unnatural and I always felt like Sherlock/Cumberbatch was well outmatching Moriarty/Scott even when Moriarty was meant to be having the upper hand. It never felt like ~two sides of the same coin~ or "this is what you could be", it just felt like Sherlock vs a troll motivated by nothing beyond their own insanity.
ANYWAY, there are more feelings than I thought I would have on Sherlock, at least ones unrelated to its treatment of women. Here is a gif of the best Holmes adaptation ever:
mrv3000 a few emails and everything. So here you go:I thought this was okay, probably emotional if you're invested in the characters which I'm not. I am definitely loling at people on Tumblr who are like OMG HE'S ALIVE??? because lol, NOT LIKE IT'S (PROBABLY) THE MOST FAMOUS FAKE-DEATH IN LITERATURE OR ANYTHING. I really like Benedict Cumberbatch as Sherlock even if I don't like Sherlock himself so much, idk it's like I'll be watching a scene and thinking "well I'm not super into this but you're talented". It was nice that Molly got to like, do stuff without being derided for it. The Richard Brooke thing was kind of fun but didn't ultimately go very far so it felt a bit pointless -- I mean I guess it gave me the great headline SUICIDE OF FAKE GENIUS but it would've been more interesting I guess if it had called anything into question for the characters. When Moriarty was all I WILL KILL ALL 3 OF YOUR FRIENDS we were all like "Sherlock has 3 friends?"
MOSTLY THOUGH I spent the whole episode thinking about how much I hate the way ...Andrew Scott (thanks google!) played Moriarty. He seemed like he was probably talented (I did really like his performance in the Richard Brooke scene) but managed to make about a dozen acting choices in the role that just did not work for me at all. I assume it was direction as well. The zany off-the-wall ~omg I'm sooooooo unpredictable!! haha~ stuff really fell flat for me, it was irritating and not in a love-to-hate-you way, in a cringing-while-watching way.
I think the problem is that Moriarty should ideally be this perfect foil for Sherlock, but with Moriarty the way he was that never really happened. I think this Sherlock would've been better suited with a colder, subtler performance from Moriarty. Like, in general Moriarty felt a bit like a knock-off of John Simm's Master, but John Simm's Master and his hyperactive craziness works because it acts as a perversion of Ten's hyperactivity and over-the-top cheerfulness and energy. When you have Benedict Cumberbatch's Sherlock so controlled almost all the time and so closed off, putting him opposite this big... troll (for want of a better phrase)... felt unnatural and I always felt like Sherlock/Cumberbatch was well outmatching Moriarty/Scott even when Moriarty was meant to be having the upper hand. It never felt like ~two sides of the same coin~ or "this is what you could be", it just felt like Sherlock vs a troll motivated by nothing beyond their own insanity.
ANYWAY, there are more feelings than I thought I would have on Sherlock, at least ones unrelated to its treatment of women. Here is a gif of the best Holmes adaptation ever:
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