Sherlock 103

[katikat]

"Please, Jim, will you fix it for me..." These words have stuck with me for years now. It's the one thing I can quote word for word from the show. Just... the whole scene at the pool, Sherlock's shock at seeing John as the last victim... Moriarty's "That's what people DO!" Creepy.

Another thing I loved was Sherlock's callous attitude vs. John's caring. Sherlock really didn't care one bit about the victims. For him, it was a game. Which John simply couldn't understand. But then, the tables turned and the one person Sherlock actually cared about deeply became the victim. And suddenly, it wasn't a game anymore. All Sherlock wanted was to stop playing and save John. He looked so shaken when he saw the bomb. The looks he kept throwing at John while talking to Moriarty. And then, when Moriarty left, his first thought was to get the bomb off John, not catch Moriarty.

It's things like these that are the reason why I love the show so much. The character growth of both John and Sherlock, but especially Sherlock. Seeing his callousness in S1 - and then his "death" in S2, his expression in the S3 trailer... Beautiful.

Comments

[karmageddon]

I think Lestrade's comment in the pilot that Sherlock is a great man and maybe one day he could be a good man really lays out what the whole character arc is supposed to be. Sherlock's genuine obliviousness that a person would still grieve the death of a child 13 years later, his comment to John that "caring" doesn't seem to much help the victims . . . and then what you describe, the development we see by time you get to the pool scene and of course Falls. Love it.

[katikat]

I really loved the moment when Sherlock offered Moriarty the flash drive. At first, he planned to play him for it, to catch him, but now that John's life was at stake, he was just "Take it!"