Trufax:

[amalnahurriyeh]

It is possible to experience watching The Reichenbach Fall viscerally, and by viscerally I mean my actual stomach hurts. At least I didn't cry this time? Wait, I'm crying now, it's apparently a delayed fucking reaction.

Anyway, Leigh and I rewatched both serieses this week. If you don't follow me on tumblr, my random thoughts as we did so are:

here: ASIP & TBB
here: TGG
here and here: THoB
here: TRF

I didn't write any notes on Tumblr for ASiB because I was too busy being in love with Irene Adler.


...OK, seriously, I just changed my icon from my default to the one of Sherlock on the couch and now I'm crying again. Changing it to Molly...there, not crying, just thinking about how I need a better Molly icon.

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[applegnat]

You might have caught this already: in the ep just before TBB, he calls the dead woman in pink, Jennifer Wilson, "clever" -- "Jennifer Wilson, running all those lovers; she was clever. She was leaving a message." I paraphrase. [He says this to JW right after JW has that great line: "Use your imagination." / "I don't have to."

[applegnat]

Both times, very specifically used for doomed women trying to escape death. I feel sure he's used it for Irene as well. Does anyone else in the series get to be clever, in his eyes? I don't know. It's an interesting question.

[amalnahurriyeh]

Yes, Soo Lin Yao and Jennifer Wilson are both clever, but doomed. I was listening for it in the rest of the episodes, and the clearest place was in Reichenbach, but I can't remember without a transcript if Sherlock himself says it: John tells him not to be clever at Moriarty's trial (Sherlock fails at that), and then Moriarty uses the term a lot in the rooftop scene. Which, again, implies that to be clever is to be doomed. Somehow. IDK. I need to think more.