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Sherlock Series Three: <3 <3 <3
(One heart each for Sherlock, John and Mary.)
This is both spoilery and kind of long.
I had a couple of issues with the plot of His Last Vow - it really was excessively stupid of Magnussen to tell Sherlock and John that all his info is in his head, and you can't tell me nobody ever demanded physical proof. But the character stuff, I loved.
I was a bit worried that Mary was going to end up evil and/or dead, but we get to keep her! And the baby girl who will not be named after Sherlock! (I don't think it's possible to derive a usable girls name from William Sherlock Scott Holmes. And how much do I love the fact that his lovely parents didn't actually give him such an odd first name, he just chooses to go by one of the middle ones? Presumably because William and its variants are too boring for his tastes. And now I'm wondering what Mycroft's full name is.)
Anyway: Mary! I was also worried that they might reveal she'd only gone after John for a job, but that doesn't appear to be the case, as it seems like she was already trying to leave her life of freelance assassinating behind before she even met him. It makes sense that she'd be drawn to an adrenaline junkie like John, and I think Sherlock's analysis of the subconscious reasons John fell for her in turn is probably spot-on. I'm sure that now he's over the shock, John will see the upside of having an ex-assassin around the place, given the dangers his work tends to expose him to and the imminent baby who will need protecting.
For someone who has never been particularly on-board with Sherlock/John in this universe, I have certainly become fond of Sherlock/John/Mary over the past three weeks. (I mean, Sherlock has certainly behaved like an abusive jerk towards Watson. But we're talking about a man who has forgiven his wife for lying about her entire past from the moment they met and not mentioning that she used to kill people for money. And his best friend for pretending that they were about to be blown to kingdom come just so John would say something nice. And who seems hopelessly drawn to people who do this kind of thing. I don't think adding sex with Sherlock, or at least John acknowledging to himself that they're an emotional OT3 if not a sexual one, would really make anything worse at this point.)
Other dot points of the season:
- I think I'm more tolerant of Sherlock's appalling behaviour than many because I spent eight years loving Gregory House - who did equally awful things on purpose and with a deep understanding of human nature and how to push people's buttons. Sherlock at least has ignorance and confusion as a defence. Which is not to excuse, just for example, pretending to propose to someone just to get into their boss's office.
- Speaking of which, I am glad Janine promptly got her own back *g*.
- Which is not to say that Sherlock doesn't also make me go 'awwwww' sometimes. Notably: the wedding speech, Redbeard and "he attacks people who are different and preys on their secrets." Now and then he actually does the right thing for the right reasons.
- And Drunk!Sherlock trying to fight crime is adorable. While I would not go anywhere near a sober Sherlock unless I had a mystery that urgently needed solving, apparently when he's inebriated I just want to take him home and look after him. (I would, of course, keep him in the bathroom, as far as possible from my lovely Persian rug. And I would make him work out where I put my bottle opener, a problem he should be able to solve even three sheets to the wind.)
- The rubbish bachelor party cracked me up in general. Especially the two of them dozing on the stairs while Sherlock vainly attempts to remember what his international reputation is for.
- Speaking of things that made me go 'awwwww', the Holmes brothers having a clandestine smoke in the backyard may just have been my favourite moment of the series. I am amused to see that 'itwasMycroft!' is still Sherlock's instinctive response when his mother is displeased with him.
- And I love that Mycroft obviously means the 'and because it would break my heart' and that he deliberately waits until baby brother is inhaling to say it.
- WIGGINS!!! A slightly older street urchin than in the original stories, but it's always nice to see a book canon character show up *g*.
- Since Mary, John and Sherlock seemed so slow about getting on with the job, I was verbally volunteering to go over there and shoot Magnussen myself. Because, wow, he really needed shooting.
- I guess actually making him Australian might have been considered libelous?
- While I am probably going to role my eyes at the plot used to get there, I find myself quite fond of the idea of having Moriarty back. I could just be saying that because my major complaint about that particular roof scenario is that they cut it off before the actual making out started.
- What I am most intrigued by, though, isn't the cliffhanger but Mycroft's throw-away 'you know what happened to the other one.' So are we to take it that there was another Holmes sibling, who came to a bad end? Perhaps less domesticated than Mycroft and Sherlock, to the point where big brother had to do something about it? (You can't tell me Mycroft isn't the eldest and Sherlock the baby of the family. Given the substantial gap between the two, it would make sense for any previously unknown Holmes to be the middle child ...)
This is both spoilery and kind of long.
I had a couple of issues with the plot of His Last Vow - it really was excessively stupid of Magnussen to tell Sherlock and John that all his info is in his head, and you can't tell me nobody ever demanded physical proof. But the character stuff, I loved.
I was a bit worried that Mary was going to end up evil and/or dead, but we get to keep her! And the baby girl who will not be named after Sherlock! (I don't think it's possible to derive a usable girls name from William Sherlock Scott Holmes. And how much do I love the fact that his lovely parents didn't actually give him such an odd first name, he just chooses to go by one of the middle ones? Presumably because William and its variants are too boring for his tastes. And now I'm wondering what Mycroft's full name is.)
Anyway: Mary! I was also worried that they might reveal she'd only gone after John for a job, but that doesn't appear to be the case, as it seems like she was already trying to leave her life of freelance assassinating behind before she even met him. It makes sense that she'd be drawn to an adrenaline junkie like John, and I think Sherlock's analysis of the subconscious reasons John fell for her in turn is probably spot-on. I'm sure that now he's over the shock, John will see the upside of having an ex-assassin around the place, given the dangers his work tends to expose him to and the imminent baby who will need protecting.
For someone who has never been particularly on-board with Sherlock/John in this universe, I have certainly become fond of Sherlock/John/Mary over the past three weeks. (I mean, Sherlock has certainly behaved like an abusive jerk towards Watson. But we're talking about a man who has forgiven his wife for lying about her entire past from the moment they met and not mentioning that she used to kill people for money. And his best friend for pretending that they were about to be blown to kingdom come just so John would say something nice. And who seems hopelessly drawn to people who do this kind of thing. I don't think adding sex with Sherlock, or at least John acknowledging to himself that they're an emotional OT3 if not a sexual one, would really make anything worse at this point.)
Other dot points of the season:
- I think I'm more tolerant of Sherlock's appalling behaviour than many because I spent eight years loving Gregory House - who did equally awful things on purpose and with a deep understanding of human nature and how to push people's buttons. Sherlock at least has ignorance and confusion as a defence. Which is not to excuse, just for example, pretending to propose to someone just to get into their boss's office.
- Speaking of which, I am glad Janine promptly got her own back *g*.
- Which is not to say that Sherlock doesn't also make me go 'awwwww' sometimes. Notably: the wedding speech, Redbeard and "he attacks people who are different and preys on their secrets." Now and then he actually does the right thing for the right reasons.
- And Drunk!Sherlock trying to fight crime is adorable. While I would not go anywhere near a sober Sherlock unless I had a mystery that urgently needed solving, apparently when he's inebriated I just want to take him home and look after him. (I would, of course, keep him in the bathroom, as far as possible from my lovely Persian rug. And I would make him work out where I put my bottle opener, a problem he should be able to solve even three sheets to the wind.)
- The rubbish bachelor party cracked me up in general. Especially the two of them dozing on the stairs while Sherlock vainly attempts to remember what his international reputation is for.
- Speaking of things that made me go 'awwwww', the Holmes brothers having a clandestine smoke in the backyard may just have been my favourite moment of the series. I am amused to see that 'itwasMycroft!' is still Sherlock's instinctive response when his mother is displeased with him.
- And I love that Mycroft obviously means the 'and because it would break my heart' and that he deliberately waits until baby brother is inhaling to say it.
- WIGGINS!!! A slightly older street urchin than in the original stories, but it's always nice to see a book canon character show up *g*.
- Since Mary, John and Sherlock seemed so slow about getting on with the job, I was verbally volunteering to go over there and shoot Magnussen myself. Because, wow, he really needed shooting.
- I guess actually making him Australian might have been considered libelous?
- While I am probably going to role my eyes at the plot used to get there, I find myself quite fond of the idea of having Moriarty back. I could just be saying that because my major complaint about that particular roof scenario is that they cut it off before the actual making out started.
- What I am most intrigued by, though, isn't the cliffhanger but Mycroft's throw-away 'you know what happened to the other one.' So are we to take it that there was another Holmes sibling, who came to a bad end? Perhaps less domesticated than Mycroft and Sherlock, to the point where big brother had to do something about it? (You can't tell me Mycroft isn't the eldest and Sherlock the baby of the family. Given the substantial gap between the two, it would make sense for any previously unknown Holmes to be the middle child ...)