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  1. Let's not forget that at the pool Watson attempted to sacrifice his life for Sherlock by taking Moriarty hostage, telling Sherlock to "run" and thus escape. Upon seeing this, Moriarty informed John that he had shown his hand. Think about this statement by Moriarity....he had witnessed that Sherlock had a true friend with self-sacrificing agape love for Sherlock. Therefore Moriarty understood that the little amount of heart that Sherlock possessed could be touched by this friendship, and therefore could be a means by which Moraiarty could "burn the heart out of" Sherlock, by eventually making him choose between suicide and saving the life of his friends. But yes, I am still a bit puzzled by the death wish of Moriarty. But I wouldn't actually call it a death wish. I think Moriarty wasn't planning to kill himself initially. But as he pulled the trigger on the rooftop, I think he had become ambivalent about life or death. In fact, on the rooftop when he told Sherlock "you are me" and "bless you", I think Moriarty was revealing that he was self-deceived into some sort of euphoria about the heights of the cat-and-mouse game he was playing. In other words, his life had reached what he considered the highest possible life achievement: not just to have beaten Sherlock, but to finally fully realize exactly what kind of no-holds-barred genius Sherlock was. To realize that Sherlock was NOT boring or ordinary after all, but truly WAS extraordinary beyond anyone else alive...that Sherlock truly was his equal, and the only opponent worthy of the effort that Moriarty had made to trap him. Moriarty was standing on the top of the mountain, with the satisfaction of having put this person in checkmate who was truly greater than even he had known. He realized that the mouse he had caught was actually the only other cat like himself in existence. And this brought him to tears. I think this is why Moriarty says "you are me" and "bless you" to Sherlock. In a twisted way, Moriarty knew that he was finally understood...that there was someone else like him, who was his equal. And then because he had reached the highest possible height within his value system, nothing else in life would ever give him such a thrill again. Everything else would be pale in comparison, so he was ambivalent about taking his life. He had no problem sacrificing it all to cement the checkmate that he thought would cause Sherlock either to end his life or live the rest of his life in the guilt of having caused the deaths of his truest friends. But he underestimated Sherlock's rigorous planning for every contingency, and in truth ended up killing himself for nothing. It's interesting to consider that Moriarty overlooked that Sherlock's having set the venue of their showdown could mean that Sherlock was surrounded by accomplices and actors who could carry out a staged suicide.
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  2. Ok so today, I watched TEH again. After Moriarty kills himself.. Sherlocks refers back to the pool scene in TGG, & says "obvious, his death wish." It got me to thinking about when the cabby says you have a fan... Referring to Moriarty. It made me feel that in a since Moriarty sort of represents the Super fan. The ones who truly obsess. The stalker fans... They want to know every single detail about a person. They want to experience every bit of that persons life... Moriarty was the biggest fan of them all! To the point where he wanted to even share the same time & place of Sherlock's death. What do you all say to this?
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  3. We had recently moved from coastal southern California to Indiana. In order to keep our indoor-only cats reliably indoors, we learned to squeeze sideways through the front door, which generally worked very well. One day, however, our young California cat Daisy managed to squirt out, and heaven knows where she might have run off to. Quite fortunately, though, there was half an inch of snow on the porch. Daisy stopped dead in her tracks, clearly horrified, giving me plenty of time to scoop her up and take her back indoors. And she never ever tried that again.
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  4. I don't think a real answer is expected. It's just smalltalk. I find that difficult in general, I would rather have an authentic conversation.
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  6. If he did take it, he'd probably lie on all the questions.
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  7. Mary? Well, I'm a bit ambivalent about her. She shot Sherlock, but on the other hand she was trying to protect John from the truth about her. She didn't trust John to love her if ever he found out about her past -- I can understand that -- but that doesn't justify bashing Janine in the head, going to kill Magnussen, and shooting Sherlock. Maybe it was just a hardwired, Pavlovian response to the situation, shooting him and knocking out Magnussen. There could have been another way had circumstances allowed her to think it over more.
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  8. Okay. So I think Sherlock didn't have friends yet in SIP, but in TRF he had friends & life matters now. Sherlock death wish? Hmmm. I think for him is he can't stand being bored. He wants every moment in life to have blood pumping through his viens. He needs excitement If he's not doing adventurous things, he turns to the "recreational"
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  9. See. Made you think.
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  10. I'm not sure Moriarty had planned to kill himself on Bart's unless he was going to do it after Sherlock jumped. Moriarty did bring a gun along. The question is why...unless he carried one regularly. Or maybe if Sherlock didn't jump voluntarily he thought he could force the issue by flashing a gun around? But then Moriarty knew that Sherlock wasn't adverse to dying if the results warranted it as was shown at the pool.
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