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I love the family dynamics throughout the show, and I noticed how Cordelia is the aritist and free thinker, creative and fun. And Silas is the disciplined strict business personality that believes in order, organization, and planning. So it's interesting to have Mycroft to take after Silas but have their morals diverge. And Sherlock takes after his mother with his intuition and induction, abduction, deduction work. He thinks outside of the box which works with his mother's mindset. However, Mycroft gets the tenderness from his mother because of how understanding he is of Sherlock's abilities and difficulties with people. And Silas is just a cold bastard, so I can see his cool detached logic going to Beatrice. who also gets her creative and inventive nature from her mother. However, the only person who's trying to keep this ship together while everyone's so chaotic is Mycroft. And it's soo good because it's *typical* older sibling syndrome. That's why I love him so much as a charater. He's so interesting and endearing to me

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It's also great to see how Mycroft takes his father's orgazational and people skills and his mother's empathy, but Sherlock has his mother's mind and his father's moral flexibility. He's constantly breaking the law and doesn't see a problem with it. If it's for a good reason (see him breaking his mother out of the asylum), he'll justify it. And to see Mycroft and Sherlock constantly knocking heads because of this shows how opposite they are, and yet Mycroft being the older brother can't help trying to reign him in and help because he knows if he doesn't Sherlock will do it anyway but get into more trouble. Also he loves him too much to deny him much.

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Anyone notice how Moriarty's never strictly on anyone's "side"? He's almost always got this charming veneer unless he's been verbally attacked. Like when Sherlock and Mycroft are arguing Sherlock says, "And you called me a half-wit." "Witless was the word he'd used," Moriarty says. He's teasing Sherlock, yes, but still it's pretty cheeky and a tad out of touch. And then we see something like again but in more intensity when Moriarty is having dinner with the Holmes family. He's chill and quippy, teasing. He said lines like "It's a Greek tragedy" and "Mycroft, you cute hoor" which means in Irish a sly cunning person. He doesn't seem emotionally sensitive to the pain and tension in the room, unless he's trying to defuse it, but Mycroft is clearly distraught, so I wouldn't think it a great time to tease him or congratulate him. It's something I noticed throughout the show that makes his character intriguing. Especially around that scene, fooling around with Sherlock's sister, he doesn't think what Sherlock might feel if he knew, he just goes for it. He's more intrigued by the Holmes family drama then directly or indirectly affected by it, which is interesting. He really has a balance of self-interest and care for Sherlock, which could totally explain his slow descent into being Sherlock's enemy when his self-interests and care for Sherlock keep diverging further and further away until he has to make a choice.

Basically Moriarty is compelling and surprising in that his actions or words aren't always expected and quite the opposite. He appreciates the chaos as a spectator rather than directly involved in it.

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Mycroft Rant (Young Sherlock)

God he’s just frickin adorable because what do you mean he gets all dressed up to get his brother from prison and then jokes around with him because he’s missed him and he loves him? What do you mean he’s so business and professional but he’s not afraid of showing he cares of his brother? And he looves his mother so much, and he’s SO HAPPY to see her in Paris confident and free and outspoken. His face is just relaxed for once and happy and sweet. He’s got his mum back :sob::face_holding_back_tears: Like hold all investigations, gotta hug my mom and admire how amazing she is. Love that for him. Like Sherlock has to pull things back to focus. And then Mycroft is not like a hardened veteran government member so he freaks out when things go wrong. Him spiralling after Mailk kills Hodge, omg I felt so bad for him :sob: He just tries so hard to figure things out on his own. And then the way he walks across the room and looks at everything and counts the steps and the magnifying glass :rofl: Like not the dignified manner of waiting where he was sat, and I love that so much. He’s so babygirl I’m sorry. Like he’s cool and proper but warm and casual at the same time. I need more of him in the next season. More scenesss. Like I know that Sherlock and Moriarty take precedence bc main characters and rivalry arc, but give me more Mycroft pleasse. I relate to this man too much lmao. Max Irons really brings this warmth and emotional sensitivity and vulnerability to Mycroft that feels new and fresh and exactly what we needed from the books adaptation

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Mycroft Rant (BBC Sherlock)

In reference to S4 Ep3:

The reason this episode kills me is because Mycroft has wayyy to much responsiblity and too much to hold and handle and too much expected of him, and when he can't handle it he's judged so harshly. And for that one decision to ruin Sherlock's life when ALL he's been responsbile his whole life since Eurus' incarceration HAS BEEN TO PROTECT SHERLOCK. And their parents have not helped at all and Sherlock constantly fights Mycroft on this when he repeatedly saves him from drugs and dangerous criminals and Moriarty and with Irene. And I'm so obessed with this because it's older sibling trauma/syndrome which I relate to so much and he's so underated and I don't think people really understand him that well.

Before he calls Sherrinford at the end of ep 2, his fridge is empty and the doors have takeout menus. He's SOOO LONELY. And he has nobody but Sherlock, but even Sherlock spends most of his time around John. Sherlock is his only equal and they're not even that close because Mycroft doesn't want people to use Sherlock to get to Mycroft and put his little brother in danger (and still Irene Adler and Moriarty exploited that when it was as cold as could be). And for him to be like "well, I don't have much of a heart, not much of a target. I messed up, and I'm no good. I tried, but I just didn't do enough." when he loves Sherlock so much and uses his career so much to protect his baby brother and they take it for granted, and for Mycroft to think that... kills me. Someone needs to give him a hug and tell him that it's not his fault. It was out of his control. And he is not ALL POWERFUL like people think. He may be the British government... but he's still a man. And underneath he's so lonely and isolated and scared and faced with putting up this facade to protect Sherlock and prevent world catastrophes. So yeah... Those few lines in that scene where Sherlock thinks of shooting him and Mycroft knowing how important John is so he tries to die instead of John bc HE LOVES HIS BROTHER and Sherlock barely being able to think of even shooting him... Mycroft has a heart.

||He's the Ice Man bc he has to be but that moment where he watches that old home movie with Sherlock and him as kids just shows the cracks of his heart and how much he wishes Sherlock and him could be that close again. Sherlock from s1 has fought all his attemps of protection and trying to get closer and only now in s3 a little with the "i know you're lonely" scene and "make sure he's okay" do we see Sherlock reciprocating those bids to get closer and protect each other. Like I know Mycroft is condescending and smug but hey Sherlock's also a pretentious arrogant child XXD Mycroft tries to prevent Eurus from happening again by telling Sherlock "emotions are bad" and so doesn't show sentiment for fear of Sherlock rejecting him bc of that (and in fact he does sometimes when Mycroft tries), and Sherlock acts cold bc he thinks Mycroft actually thinks he's stupid and he wants to seem smart and mature. So they're defense mechanisms. But it doesn't mean they don't love each other. They're just reallly traumatized and emotionally stunted. This is why I'm obsessed with Mycroft in YS and in BBC 😭 Mycroft needs more love and understanding and appreciation and I relate to him so much.

Also there's posts and memes about how much of a coward Mycroft is or spineless whatever so many variations of words he's been called... anyways for not killing the PM!! And not being able to stomach it, throwing up. They're calling him a weak bitch and stuff. And ik we all joke about the characters but... idk sometimes idk if they're joking or not, but if they're not ISTG this is so sensitive with me because Sherlock is the one accustomed with death and John bc Sherlock has seen is every day for YEEEARS as part of his job, he's been desensitized to it, and so has John been bc of the war and his profession as an army doctor. Mycroft? His job is zero leg work. It's an office job. It's a good job. It's important. He does a lot of behind the curtain work to keep the country safe and running. But he doesn't directly deal with death or dying or anything, so for him to see the PM and his wife die and for Sherlock and John trying to get Mycroft to do it and he can't... it's not a question of his character or strength. Just because he's the voice of reason in high pressure situations and can keep a cool head doesn't mean he can handle actually taking a life (he's not that cold).

And those situations don't involve directly killing someone, and when it involves his brother he cracks (see when he's in the helicopter yelling at them not to shoot Sherlock) and I don't think it's a negative. As cold, professional, and disconnected he seems, it's a cover for how vulnerable and human he is. Which is very surprising after everything he's been through and has had to deal with. So yeah poor Mycroft. He really has been put through the wringer that episode, and it played to Sherlock and John's strengths more than it did to Mycroft's and he did his best during those games. John and Sherlock had more grit to deal with it after dealing with Magnussen, Moriarty, and bunch of other psychopaths.Sherlock has had his own mistakes and vulnerabilities. So for Mycroft to mess up just this once!! C'mon he gets a pass. I really think he should for messing it up with Eurus and not being able to kill someone.

Also if even Sherlock can't do it after killing Magnussen (although let's face it this is different bc it's an innocent person) and if John can't even with his military experience, then how can Mycroft be expected to do it who has zero experience? Like he's got a cold demenor but for diplomatic situations, mentally stressing minds games, not murder.... so yeah. Thank you for coming to my Ted talk.