My brother is literally the worst
So I was talking to my brother and we got to the topic of Sherlock (he’s a super casual watcher and hasn’t seen TAB). And he pointed out how awful T6T was and how it was definitely the worst episode of Sherlock he’d ever seen. Now a few days ago I would’ve agreed wholeheartedly, but after reading all the metas and theories under the sun I realize how fantastic of an episode it is.
So immediately after hearing this I needed to defend the show and started saying how the whole episode was MEANT to be that way and how all of it was so deep and wasn’t meant to be interpreted at face value. He didn’t seem very convinced at that point so I explained how fishy (literally) Mary’s death was and how it was just like the Molly quote from HLV, and he just gave me a pitying look. I really needed him to understand so I pulled out the fact that THOUSANDS of people are analyzing and creating meta and theories about the episode and explained the John’s Alibi theory in great detail (it’s my favorite one). At this point brother mine had a blank stare and I could tell he was trying hard not to explain what “denial” is to me as he had done earlier in the week. As a final resort I just gave him the line from the beginning of the episode when Mycroft pointed out they could doctor any footage to create the story they wanted to be told and talked about the differences between the bus scenes.
He. Wasn’t. Convinced.
My brother gave me the most pitying, sad glance he could muster and had the AUDACITY to say
“Yeah, to me that just sounds like a bunch of people who won’t accept that episode is crap. I mean, professional critics gave reviews and said it was bad, and some of them worked for really nerdy companies. It just wasn’t a good episode, move on and accept your favorite show isn’t good.”
Like????? What????? Are people really like this????? My own brother?????
