Favorite Scenes -- open ended

[Carol the Dabbler]

Unfortunately all of my bilingual relatives that I know of have passed. The last one was 98 & technically not a relative as her sister married into the family.

 

But at least you had the opportunity to know those people.  When I was a kid, I really wanted to know somebody who wasn't just like everyone else in the area.  (Things have changed in the interim, so now I do.)

 

[T.o.b.y]

It would definitely be fun to try to play, but I know my emotional expressions well enough that I'd probably be rubbish as well. I'd do better as Sherlock or Molly. Possibly even as Irene even though I wouldn't really care to play her part.

 

I can't act at all, but if I had the talent and the looks, I think I'd love playing Irene in A Scandal in Belgravia. Her part looks like so much fun, and there is quite a wide range of emotions, and her personality is complex enough, and there's the "not good but not truly evil" thing, and the strange mixture of strength and vulnerability. Irene must have been one hell of a role. I hope Lara Pulver enjoyed herself as much as it seems she did from her performance.

[Bendydoodle Cantaloupe]

I would love playing John (except I'm a girl, and I have black hair, and no way of putting on a convincing British accent) just so I could sass people and deliver dry humour.

[Carol the Dabbler]

You could be a black-haired female American Watson -- Lucy Liu manages pretty well.  Or you could just be your own sassy self!

[SherlockedCAMPer]

I 2nd carol.

[jesskayding]

I don't think Khan is evil, exactly, but I do think he is the villain. A somewhat sympathetic villain, perhaps, given his cause, but unlike the Terminator, he does not learn the value of human life and therefore loses his chance at redemption.

 

Welcome back, Jess! Where you been! And did you LIKE Into Darkness?

Sorry. I keep disappearing... Didn't like STID, I think I hated it. I've just been making my way in the world. What have you been up to?

[Arcadia]

I've been up to this forum, mostly. I'm so ashamed... :D

[Bendydoodle Cantaloupe]

Join the club -- oh wait, you're already here! :P

[sittything]

This is a really hard thing to narrow down.  I keep opening this thread, then wandering off, then coming back... you get the idea....  but I'm gonna try to do this.  

 

Series 1...

 

ASIP:

Probably my favorite scene of the episode is the end scene.  So many great moments from "I'm in shock. Look, I've got a blanket!"  From discovering Mycroft's identity and the banter between Sherlock and Mycroft, to the iconic (for me) moment with Sherlock and John walking away from the scene smiling and laughing.  It's my "I think this is the beginning of a beautiful friendship moment" for this show.

 

TGG:

Definitely the end scene at the pool with Moriarty.  He's fantastically creepy, more than a bit unhinged.  Basically meeting Moriarty makes that entire scene for me.

 

Sherlock: People have died.

 

 

 

 

[T.o.b.y]

I am really afraid of Moriarty. My reaction to his face showing up at the end of His Last Vow was kind of like Mrs Hudson's and Molly's.

[sittything]

I am really afraid of Moriarty. My reaction to his face showing up at the end of His Last Vow was kind of like Mrs Hudson's and Molly's.

 

So if you had the choice of being locked in a room with CAM or Moriarty... CAM?   

[sittything]

Series 2... 

 

ASIB:

 

This episode is tough because visually it's just beautiful, and so many good moments.  But for me it is probably the scene in the morgue between Mycroft and Sherlock.  Beautiful, heartbreaking dialogue.

 

 

HOTB:

Hands down the lab scene.  Hilarious.

 

 

TRF:

This is tough for me, it boils down to one of the two scenes between Molly and Sherlock, but in the end I have to go with:

You're wrong, you know. You do count. You've always counted and I've always trusted you. But you were right. I'm not okay. 

 

 

[sittything]

Series 3....

 

TEH:

Oh geez...this is hard, probably worse than ASIB or TRF.  But definitely the entire conversation between Mycroft and Sherlock in 221B.  So many great moments in that scene.

 

 

 

TSOT:

I guess the best man's speech, but more specifically the flashbacks to John asking Sherlock to be his best man.

 

 

 

HLV:

The scene between Mycroft and Sherlock on Christmas Day while having a smoke.  Love the family interactions of not just Mycroft and Sherlock, but also their mum. 

 

 

[Bendydoodle Cantaloupe]

 

I am really afraid of Moriarty. My reaction to his face showing up at the end of His Last Vow was kind of like Mrs Hudson's and Molly's.

 

So if you had the choice of being locked in a room with CAM or Moriarty... CAM?  

 

I pick Moriarty! Moriartyyyyyyyy!!

 

[sittything]

I'd take Moriarty any day just because he won't lick my face.  lol

[Boton]

This is tough; I'll try to think of a favorite scene from each too, although sometimes it varies according to my mood:

 

Season 1:

 

SiP:  The scene with the guys standing in the foyer of 221B, laughing, John having forgotten his cane and not needing it.  Just an open, honest laugh between the two, and part of that start of a beautiful friendship.

 

TBB:  The scene in Seb's office where he tells John how much everyone in uni hated Sherlock; I don't like the scene per se, but I love the flash of embarrassment and pain that goes across Sherlock's face before the mask comes back down.  

 

TGG:  The entire pool scene, of course.  The look of agreement that passes between John and Sherlock before Sherlock targets the explosives.  Also, the scene much earlier where Sherlock triumphantly declares, "I am on fire!" when he solves one of the crimes.

 

Season 2:

SiB:  The little scene where Irene is walking into her house, scrolling through pictures of Sherlock, and she looks so much like a woman who controls her ability to be accepted anywhere with the right outfit, the right make-up, and the right demeanor.  Also, the scene at Christmas when Sherlock retreats to his bedroom to open Irene's "gift" and realizes this means she's dead.  Not an emotion akin to love, Mr. Holmes?   I beg to differ.

 

HoB:  The "conductor of light" exchange, because it's so satisfying to me to have John realize he's been insulted and to protest indignantly.  I always feel like ACD Watson really takes that comment way too well, and this was a nice little rewrite of the reaction.

 

TRF:  Sherlock angrily playing with that squash ball before he texts Moriarty and puts the events in motion.  Moreso than the tears on the rooftop, this is, for me, the raw emotion of what he is likely to have to confront once he gets up there.

 

Season 3:

TEH:  Another "canon rewrite:" John's entire reaction sequence to Sherlock's return, especially the moment when he goes flying at Sherlock's throat in the fine restaurant as the salsa music kicks in.  And then them ultimately winding up in a kebob shop.  If I could have just one "deleted scene" added to the existing episode, it would be one more move, to leave the trio standing outside a food cart with Sherlock bleeding from basically everywhere and John reiterating that he's "got all night" to keep discussing this.

 

TSoT:  Agree about the scene where John asks Sherlock to be his best man, and Sherlock goes catatonic.  

 

HLV:  What, you want me to pick one thing about this episode?  I almost daily watch it from the drug den up to the meeting with Magnussen in the restaurant, so basically the middle 45-50 minutes.  If I have to pick one thing, I think it's that moment in 221B during "addicted to a certain lifestyle" where Sherlock collapses and leaves John and Mary basically facing one another in anger and fear.  Just the look on John's and Mary's faces while Sherlock groans in pain is...not pleasant...but somehow the right resolution after all that emotional wind-up.

 

[sittything]

Is it bad I'm so meh about TBB I couldn't even come up with a scene I really loved?

[sittything]

 

SiP:  The scene with the guys standing in the foyer of 221B, laughing, John having forgotten his cane and not needing it.  Just an open, honest laugh between the two, and part of that start of a beautiful friendship.

 

 

This was definitely my runner-up to the final scene.

[Bendydoodle Cantaloupe]

Is it bad I'm so meh about TBB I couldn't even come up with a scene I really loved?

 

Everyone thinks TBB is meh. And I agree. I don't really have a favourite scene for that.

[sittything]

Him glancing around the office was pretty funny, I guess?  So maybe that?  

 

[Boton]

 

 

HLV:

The scene between Mycroft and Sherlock on Christmas Day while having a smoke.  Love the family interactions of not just Mycroft and Sherlock, but also their mum. 

 

Isn't this a beautiful scene?  Smoking is not a great habit in real life, but on the screen it can be fabulous to look at and can be such a great excuse for two characters to talk.

[Bendydoodle Cantaloupe]

And also, Mummy.

 

[Carol the Dabbler]

HOTB:

Hands down the lab scene.  Hilarious.

 

Heavens, it never occurred to me to think of that scene as funny.  Sherlock is clearly having a good laugh (and I do find that part funny) -- but poor John!  I know it's hard to explain humor, but could you at least tell me which specific parts or aspects of the scene you find humorous?

 

TEH:  Another "canon rewrite:" John's entire reaction sequence to Sherlock's return, especially the moment when he goes flying at Sherlock's throat in the fine restaurant as the salsa music kicks in.  And then them ultimately winding up in a kebob shop.  If I could have just one "deleted scene" added to the existing episode, it would be one more move, to leave the trio standing outside a food cart with Sherlock bleeding from basically everywhere and John reiterating that he's "got all night" to keep discussing this.

 

:D

 

Is it bad I'm so meh about TBB I couldn't even come up with a scene I really loved?

 

Everyone thinks TBB is meh. And I agree. I don't really have a favourite scene for that.

Like most people, I'm pretty meh about the episode as a whole, but I do have a number of favorite scenes -- just off the top of my head, Sherlock's fight with the scimitar guy, the whole John-falling-asleep-on-the-job-but-ending-up-with-a-date-with-the-boss-anyhow scene, Sherlock and John's conversation on the stairs before the "circus" show, Sarah immediately grasping how the cipher worked because she had noticed something Sherlock had not.  The episode has a lot of good organic comedy, but it's weak in the drama department.

 

[sittything]

 

HOTB:

Hands down the lab scene. Hilarious.

Heavens, it never occurred to me to think of that scene as funny. Sherlock is clearly having a good laugh (and I do find that part funny) -- but poor John! I know it's hard to explain humor, but could you at least tell me which specific parts or aspects of the scene you find humorous?

Oh, I think the whole thing is comedic gold! John running around frantically on camera when there's nothing there, Sherlock lounging lazily in the chair watching John scurry about, Sherlock pumping growling sounds over the pa system. To be specific, I'm strictly referring to the clips that flashback to that scene which are from Sherlock's perspective. Not necessarily the original scene from John's perspective, although I do find that kind of funny now that I know it's all an experiment.

[Carol the Dabbler]

OK, the flashback -- I do find Sherlock's attitude amusing (though also infuriating).  But the original scene, sorry, I can't find any humor in that, even knowing that it's an experiment.  In fact, I think that makes it worse -- it's no longer exciting, it's just infuriating how thoughtlessly Sherlock is behaving.  (I don't even like it when people treat lab rats like lab rats, let alone John Watson.)