the virgin mark gatiss queerbaiting a generation of terminally online queer people despite having "gay" in his name and literally BEING gay vs the chad neil gaiman making everything in his works as gay as possible including changing characters' genders in TV adaptions to make it MORE gay thus living up to his name and restoring balance to the universe
I love fictional detectives so much and I think the most important thing about them is that they're kind of a freak but in a deeply, deeply likable way. Columbo will walk into your pool in socks and shoes while figuring out a clue. Blanc will explain the structure of a murder mystery with a donut. Poirot is 5'4 and would rather be shot than have another tragedy befall his beloved shoes.
This is also exactly why I hate BBC's Sherlock, because his character is just Steven Moffat throwing every unlikable idiosyncrasy he can think of into one character while grabbing my shirt and yelling "Is he cool yet? Is he cool yet? Is he iconic yet? Am I doing it right? Am I doing it right? Is he quirky and crazy?"
When Robert Downey Jr. and Benedict Cumberbatch end up side by side in Infinity War, someone needs to say the line “No shit Sherlock”.
They never explained why Euros chose to broadcast Moriarty’s Miss Me? shit after Sherlock shot CAM, and then why she sat on her ass doing nothing during however long T6T took, then why she bothered with any of that Culverton shit
They never explained why the Charlie kid just haaappened to die at a place with a Thatcher bust connected to other Thatcher busts linked to Mary’s past
If we’re supposed to believe a full year passed between the Miss Me broadcast and the end of TLD (Sherlock’s birthday), what the fuck was Euros doing that whole time? Buying wigs and contact lenses?
Literally Euros has been capable of enslaving people with her X-Men powers since she was five and she just sat on that ability for decades even though she had some weird vendetta against Sherlock that made her want to set up this crazy Saw scenario?
Why NOW?
If she could actually enslave people just by talking to them wouldn’t her ‘play with me Sherlock’ have worked in childhood?
Riiiight? Couldn’t she have just persuaded Sherlock that playing with her was in his best interests or whatever kind of shit she said on those tapes John and Mycroft watched?
Instead she was like nah I’m just going to murder my brothers friend and get myself locked up forever??? Like John’s right you don’t lock up a child if a dog goes missing but if another child goes missing… YOU DO SOMETHING. YOU DON’T JUST WAIT FOR THE HOUSE TO BURN DOWN…. what….
RIGHT? Like… Sherlock and Mycroft remembered Euros singing clues to where “Redbeard” was, which means she was singing clues to where Victor, a missing CHILD was. Pretty sure you could go somewhere with that.
What the fuck did Victor’s parents think about that? Wouldn’t they raise hell? WOULDN’T SOMEONE CHECK THE WELL?
How is this real?? either this isn’t real or they literally wrote an episode so bad it’s hard to believe it’s real and idek
I’m sorry for that ‘how did Mycroft lock Euros up in Sherrinford when he was around 12’ post, I missed the line where it clears this up. However, please don’t accuse me of ‘making excuses to hate the episode’ because 1) I have no obligation to like the episode and 2) I don’t need ‘excuses’ to hate it as there were many errors that were definitely not mistakes on my part
we are all in love with this fucking show the fact that we don’t have enough excuses to like it says a lot
#we hate it because we cared
Thank you.
- What is it? What… What now? - Sorry, um, traced his route on the map.
if sherlock can repress the memory of eurus existing so can I
so i really love sherlock’s character development in the series but like do you know what i really wanted to see? above all else?
JOHN: You pretended to be dead for two years! It’s all your fault!
SHERLOCK: 10 times: I’m sorry. Yes, John, I know I did, and I’m sorry, it was the worst thing I’ve ever done–but I would have done it again because I did it to protect you! It wasn’t just you who suffered! I got beaten and abused, physically and emotionally! Can’t you for once redirect your anger to the actual source? It wasn’t me who wanted you dead but Moriarty so how about you are angry at him for a change?
and
JOHN: You killed my wife.
SHERLOCK: I did. You’re entitled to hurt me. No, actually I didn’t. She got herself into this mess. Her death was the result of her past coming back to haunt her, and I sure as hell didn’t press her into becoming an assassin and betraying her team. Also, did you forget she killed me first?
and
EURUS: I’m so alone, I just wanted someone to play with, and you were always–
SHERLOCK: It’s okay, I’m here, it’s over now. Yes, thank you, I’m flattered you were interested in playing with me, but you still manipulated and abused and hurt me, you killed my best friend, and years later you started to mentally manipulate and torment me. I don’t think I’ll come play violin with you anymore.
I want Sherlock to stand up for himself. I want that more than anything else. I want to see him stop taking other people’s shit. I want him to say, “actually you know what, fuck you, and you and you” and then I want him to walk away because he deserves better then to consistently get shit from the people who supposedly love him.
YES
I’m done with everyone blaming him for everything.
yes this
FUCK YES
♪ ♫ I want to break free ♪ ♫
how extra do you have to be to have a sword hidden in an umbrella handle and also a gun hidden in the sword hidden in the umbrella handle
every villain was queer-coded, explicitly or otherwise, to the bitter end. set this show on fire.
Iron Maiden. Mrs Hudson. Yes.
In Sherlock Irene Adler is just as obsessed with outwitting Holmes as he is with outwitting her, and I feel like that’s a fundamental misreading of the source material, because in Doyle’s version Holmes happens to get in Irene’s way, so she does the functional equivalent of trapping him under a cup, sliding a newspaper under him and dumping him out in the backyard.
This might be my new favorite thing ever
>>It’s not mine, credit to Sherlockspeare
