Okay, time to talk about Elementary
May. 3rd, 2014 12:44 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
kaberettBut he isn't without peer. We already knew that Joan was his peer - we've been watching him begin to accept that - but oh, oh, that he is going to find out that Mycroft is as well -- the look on Joan's face, at the end -- that she doesn't know who to trust or what to believe and is clearly in trauma response -- that she looked at Mycroft and she looked past Mycroft and Sherlock wasn't there--
-- oh. Oh. The arrogance, the self-imposed isolation, the necessary bone-deep belief that you are an irredeemable fuckup, to think yourself without peer-- to count peerhood along one axis only-- he hurts so much, and she does too, and please the gods they are going to work out a way through this, and how the fuck is she going to deal with what she now knows about Mycroft that he made the decision to not share with Sherlock--
-- and how much of this episode was Mycroft guiding Sherlock through, anyway--
-- he might not put it in as many words but he thinks he is a monster. He's talked to Joan before about how associating with him puts her at risk - he was talking about this already in the first season - and he hurts so much and oh oh oh
okay, I'm going to leave this with a reminder to y'all about the vid Puncture Repair, because. (I've already cried my eyes out once today remembering that Galileo is a vid in this world-- and of course I did, because they are both about thinking you are different and monstrous and learning to trust yourself sufficient to be loved anyway, over and over again, because you never quite internalise it enough.)
-- oh. Oh. The arrogance, the self-imposed isolation, the necessary bone-deep belief that you are an irredeemable fuckup, to think yourself without peer-- to count peerhood along one axis only-- he hurts so much, and she does too, and please the gods they are going to work out a way through this, and how the fuck is she going to deal with what she now knows about Mycroft that he made the decision to not share with Sherlock--
-- and how much of this episode was Mycroft guiding Sherlock through, anyway--
-- he might not put it in as many words but he thinks he is a monster. He's talked to Joan before about how associating with him puts her at risk - he was talking about this already in the first season - and he hurts so much and oh oh oh
okay, I'm going to leave this with a reminder to y'all about the vid Puncture Repair, because. (I've already cried my eyes out once today remembering that Galileo is a vid in this world-- and of course I did, because they are both about thinking you are different and monstrous and learning to trust yourself sufficient to be loved anyway, over and over again, because you never quite internalise it enough.)