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.

Comments

[abrae]

I was talking about that last shot in TRF with different people - general consensus was that it was gratuitous, and I thought so at first. BUT, BUT. So, if you have a passing knowledge of canon, you know he's still alive (also, S3), and so, to my mind, that last scene is entirely for affect. He's seen John, he knows by John's body language (!!!!!!!!!) how much his death has affected John. God, he's saying goodbye, I think. And so I kind of love it now. I didn't before, but now I kind of do.

And Martin Martin Martin. KILLS me every. fucking. time.

Just my $.02. With grapes. ;)

[amalnahurriyeh]

There's a huge chunk of the fandom (I think) that isn't familiar enough with ACD canon to get that the episode title is a spoiler, so probably they needed the shot to get those viewers up to speed with the rest of us. It's a little gratuitous, but mostly, for me, as a viewer, it recements the way I'm feeling about Sherlock in that moment, stops all of my emotional energy from being drained away on John and keeps it tautly pulled between the two of them. Frankly, as weak as it is, it also keeps the episode from ending on the crushing note it would if it ended with John walking away from the grave--it's a signal that There Will Be More, you know.

This was my first post on Sherlock ever. My feels about Martin in that scene. I just can't.