Our Division

If I ever met Aris in person, I probably wouldn't stop talking about dinosaur shippings and would spend the whole time elbowing him in a very Monty-Python way until he hit me in the face with a phone-book or something. Rupert Graves rocks my socks, but I'd end up hiding behind a coat-rack if I actually ended up within seventy bajillion miles of him. I am not as vocal IRL, unless it's making fun of Aris.

Jess, the soundtrack was one of my favorite things about the movie series, and the Sherlock music was so similar in tone, the transition was made so much easier for me.

I think Sherlock would go just to troll everyone. "The gymnast's sleeping with the soccer player! And the ref is secretly a Scientologist!" It would be awesome.

The Wholockers have moved in, I see. ^_^ David Tennant - FULL SUPPORT, BRO. Tom Hiddleston would be a FABULOUS Moran. The fangirls have already started shipping Moranarty, and this would completely floor them. They'd die of joy. Not particularly well-known, but Louis Ozawa Changchien's pretty awesome. I'd be happy even if he just kind of randomly popped in, said hi, and left.

Insanity is operating in a different set of morals and even a different set of logical precepts than the rest of society. To us, certain things seem totally logical, and we look at them without understanding how there could ever be another way of seeing things, because they're just that cut-and-dry. I don't think Moriarty looks at things like that. Yeah, he's nuts, but... I don't think they'll bring Moriarty back, but that might just be wishful thinking. There are so many other things they could do with this series. Sherly supposedly needs things to be clever. According to canon, he needs there to be an arch-nemesis. Does he really? And if there isn't one, then what? Is is just a steady slide into the kind of boredom that drives him to drugs, only slower and more lasting? If a lack of a case affects him one way, how will a lack of a mastermind affect him? The boredom will still be there, but it'll be steadier and inevitably deadlier. I like looking at things first from a meta point of view, as a viewer and not part of the canon, and then the way that things would make sense to the characters and in the story itself. Like others have said, a gunshot wound to the head is a lot to fake, and maybe he's more like Sherly than Sherly cares to admit. Sherlock was going to take the pill in A Study In Pink because he wanted to prove he was smarter. He later (presumably) didn't get Greg to analyze to the pills for him, because that would be cheating, and the point was to stake his life on his intellect. Maybe that's what Moriarty was doing - staking his life on the fact that he'd won, that there was now no way that Sherlock could beat him. It was Moriarty's own sort of pill, in a way.

I felt like Sherlock sticks a little closer to Sherlock's original personality, and that the RDJ version was more RDJ as RDJ than RDJ as Sherlock. It totally worked in Iron Man, as Tony Stark doesn't have much of a personality in the comic books and Downey was the best thing that happened to that franchise, but Sherlock's pretty established already. That being said, I loved the movie. I loved the soundtrack, I loved the acting, I loved Downey drinking eye surgery fluid as a subtle reference to the original morphine, I loved the dog, I loved Mary Morstan. I LOVED IT. IT ROCKED.

'S truth, Carol. I dislike The Woman, just because she's kind of a jerk, but yeah - she's got great timing. Edit: I just thought of something, if we're assuming the vest is a fake. I was wondering if Sherly might be able to deduce that it was fake if it was, what with his attention to minutiae, but after he tears the vest off of John, he's visibly shaken, right? He'd be too distracted to focus properly, like he was distracted by Irene in A Scandal In Belgravia. You could totally be right. From an in-universe POV, the vest could very well be fake. Whoa. Trippy.

Analyzing John Watson is so much fun because Moffat and Gatiss add so many subtle little details, and then encourage us, as the fandom, to pick them apart as they laugh deviously from the sidelines. Moving on to my favoritest (I love him so much I'll invent words for him) character, Lestrade: Do you guys think he got fired? If you look at the whole situation from a very meta point of view, it's unlikely that they'd be able to bring Sherlock back in a crime-solving capacity without a Friend on the Force, who has, up until this point, been Lestrade. If they fire Lestrade, Sherlock won't be able to get any juicy details for any cases unless Lestrade gets re-hired, or they find someone else to bring Sherly in on things. On the other hand, removing Lestrade from the police force would give Sherlock a nice obstacle he'd have to overcome if he'd want to keep catching criminals. In-universe, it really kind of differs. The Chief Super is a humongous jerk, and Anderson and Donovan do what they're best at - making things worse. If Anderson and Donovan, who are all too eager to confess, choose to spin things to make it look like Lestrade is the only one to blame, then I doubt it Lestrade would continue being Detective Inspector, if he didn't just get kicked off the force entirely. Or, people start talking about Dimmock and the other DI assigned to the dead hitchhiker case, and how they also accepted Sherlock's help. This could mean one of three things; 1) Everyone involved is fired and they have to recruit a new police force pretty much from scratch, which is unlikely 2) Few people or no people are fired or penalized, because it would be too much of a hassle/scandal 3) Everyone starts thinking logically, realize that there's no way Sherlock could have been lying about his deductive abilities, realize how stupid they are, and all go to mourn his untimely death which ended up being partly their fault. I'm hoping for option 3, but I kind of doubt it'll happen.

I'd be pretty pissed if I was John. "You faked your own death? And then you listened to my heartfelt graveside confession? And you still decided I didn't need to know you were still alive? YOU INSENSITIVE BASTARD." I think it's probably more likely that he refuses to speak to Sherlock. People keep talking about the Sherlock-free months and years, which have got to be tough on John, as he's regressed to exactly the way he was before he met Sherlock, during the worst parts of his PTSD. At the same time, though, it's gotta be rough for Sherlock, knowing how much John wants the world to know what a wonderful person Sherlock is. John set up his blog as a kind of homage to Sherlock. Even if that's not what was intended, that's what it's become. The blog being twisted and contorted to service a silly, make-believe scandal has got to be terrible painful, and I'm guessing that Sherlock knows this, at least in part. Sherlock's always been a lonely guy, and now he's got to lie to his best friend. I'd be pissed if I were John, yeah, but John will probably punch him in the face or kick him in the shin or something, and then give him a hug. Sherlock did it to save John, after all.

Carol, the fridge thing? It's got a tropes page as Fridge Logic. There's also Fridge Brilliance, which is where you don't realize how fabulously intelligent a plot point was until later, and Fridge Horror (I am still of the opinion that "I had bad days," is Watson-code for "I was a bad doctor and let them die, thereby killing people OH MY GOD SHERLOCK I'M A MURDERER HOLD ME,"), which is when something becomes chilling only after contemplation. It doesn't really make too much sense, but it's slightly (SLIGHTLY) justifiable inasmuch as if Sherly chooses to shoot the bomb, he chooses. He knows when it's going to happen, maybe he can shield John, maybe he can dive into the pool - whatever the case, he knows exactly when it's going down. If he decides he's just gonna shoot Moriarty in the face and be done with it, he'll be shot by the sniper, and if he decides he's not gonna shoot Moriarty UNLESS the sniper takes the shot, it's unlikely he'd find the time between hearing the gunshot and, you know, being shot to pull the trigger on his own gun. At least with the bomb there's a larger chance that he gets Moriarty in the end. The fact he's even aiming at the bomb at all pretty much signals that he's accepted that John and himself probably aren't getting out of this alive anymore, and at this point he just wants the surest way to take Moriarty with him.

I borrowed the DVDs from my friend (who introduced me to the series), and have yet to return them, because I'm just that DEEEEVIOUS **cackles** Thank you for all the warm welcomes You guys are so nice it makes me want to build a summer home here. I've been lurking in the topics a little bit, and I think it's very nice here. It gives me a chance to make wild, ludicrous guesses concerning future episodes, and maybe do some really far-fetched crack shipping. ...I ship Anderson/dinosaur. Shhh, it's a secret.

I think it was Lestrade's assassin that made the girl scream. It would make total sense for Moriarty to have a spy in the police department, someone who wouldn't just help him if he wanted to off everyone's favorite Detective Inspector, but who'd also get his hands dirty by kidnapping kids if Moriarty didn't want to bother or maybe was feeling a bit ill that day.

As far as John Watson's psyche goes, did you guys notice the whole "I killed people!" "You were a doctor!" "I HAD BAD DAYS!"? Maybe I'm reading too much into it, but I don't think Watson technically means killing people... conventionally. If he was a doctor, and he had a bad day, this might mean a risk to his patient. Maybe he's talking about times when he failed to save people, where he blames himself. Yeah, I'm definitely reading too much into it, but it's fun to think about.

Lestrade. Just... Lestrade. I have no idea how poor Greg puts up with Sherlock, but the fact that he does (and still respects him despite his obnoxiousness) means he automatically earns a spot in my favorite characters. That, and the fact that he had the guts to leave his wife after Sherlock was all "Yeah, by the way, she's sleeping with a PE teacher, Merry Christmas good buddy," means he's got a good deal of self-respect. Someone who risks their job for a suspected psychopath is probably a good person.

The biker obviously's got something to do with it - it's too perfect of a distraction for it not to have been staged. Everything John saw after he was knocked over by the biker is no longer reliable, because it affected the location where he was viewing the events from, and he got conked on the head, meaning that whatever it was he thinks he saw, he might have been imagining. I also think the garbage truck that pulls up in front of Sherly's dead body is significant in some way, but of course, I could be wrong. The rubber-ball trick, I think, has something to do with it. I doubt it's a red herring because I doubt that they'd choose to discard a vital detail that the casual viewers might have missed. Going to all the effort of stumping the hard-core fans who've been paying attention to details (the Make Believe on Kitty's wall, Lestrade's conspicuous ring tan, the similarity of the juror and her kids who Moriarty threatened to the cabbie from A Study In Pink) doesn't seem worth it if it provides a plausible and entertaining conclusion. It makes sense. I definitely think Molly and Mycroft were involved in some way. We see Moriarty locked up in an earlier episode, before he's even committed the crimes. Even if he didn't help Sherlock fake his death, there's something Mycroft isn't telling us.

**rolls about the forum** I just got into the Sherlock series, and I've spent the last three days watching and rewatching all of them. There's so much subtle Fridge Brilliance in this, it makes me want to cry. So, on that note, hi there.