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#i simply would've jumped after this.

yup. show that is basically the equivalent of radioctive waste hence why posting about it feels like spreading a contagion

#i don't tag my text posts for this reason. no one needs to see this i'm just having a little relapse it will pass

on the rooftop when moriarty says "yes, you're not ordinary. you're me. you're me. thank you, sherlock holmes. bless you." (while tearing up) he looks like a man having finally glimpsed divinity as if his faith has been restored that yes there is this one person in the world who is truly his equal and can break jim out of this monotonous existence. which is why instead of just walking away from their encounter he promptly kills himself to beat sherlock at their game, because you'll do anything, anything at all to stop being bored! when i say this was a genuinely inventive take on moriarty

#this show kind of encouraged conspiracy theory-ish engagement hence the years of theorising #'this was an unpredictable edgy twist of course he faked his death'#but his suicidal ideation was an extremely well telegraphed detail about his character since day one and was mirrored with S1 sherlock #of course they also ruined this by constantly teasing scott's return. many such cases

— Jim pushing Sherlock to kill himself by convincing everyone Sherlock and Moriarty are one person — Sherlock unwittingly pushing Jim to kill himself by convincing him they're the same person

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#like the plan was to ruin his reputation so he kills himself #and jim was just going to walk away but sherlock convinced him as long as jim's alive sherlock can beat him. well! good luck with that!#and really good metextual element to it as well which is that #sherlock holmes is a fictional character and in that narrative sense he needs a gothic double arch nemesis to stand opposite him #if moriarty doesn't exist then holmes will become moriarty that's their whole thing. in another life you could've been me #likewise you kill your double by becoming your double #bbc sherlock #jim moriarty #sherlock holmes #sheriarty

great game is hysterical on a re-watch because it's like a sheriarty fic premise 1) heavily implies that at least one of them has known the other since childhood because sherlock's first case was moriarty's first crime... soulmatism 2) the whole pips thing is moriarty gifting him puzzles to solve and sherlock having never felt more alive than in that moment - "i am on fire!" and likewise sherlock being the only person to break jim out of a lifetime of indifference "you were the best distraction i ever had." literally romance. the queer coding is of course evil and malicious but it's 2026 you can just look at the pool scene and laugh and go yass slayyy

#i am sorry mr andrew scott.

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the show's thesis kind of was that john watson is what's stopping sherlock from turning into moriarty. he shoots the cabbie that night and saves his life / moriarty shoots himself in front of sherlock and instead of just killing himself he stays alive for john and in abominable bride watson pushes moriarty's memory out of his mind palace once and for all so yeahh that's all very sweet and i might've cared about it as well if freeman's watson compelled me even a little bit post-asip or if they had bothered to write sherlock as marginally less of an asshole. i think my last straw was the baskerville drugging which was clearly a reference to devil's foot's consensual drugging. and sherlock didn't even apologise for it. my god they hated john watson

#i do actually like other iterations of johnlock obviously but this one is simply insane #he blatantly treated john like a lab rat and i was meant to what. root for their friendship #at least jim and sherlock were transparent about wanting to blow each other up