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.)
Dumping thoughts in IM during a rewatch
Date: 2014-05-04 10:29 pm (UTC)msc kaberett: 1. the shot where Sherlock's stormed halfway to the library and stops, abruptly, because - harking back to his old dealer - he's clearly gone "I can't do this without her AND without heroin" and then caught himself with the knowledge of how furious with him she'd be
msc kaberett: 2. the way the shot is FRAMED with the two rungs of the staircase in between them
msc kaberett: 3. oh god he is so fucking terrified for her
msc kaberett: 4. stepping back some -- that the closest he can come to *saying* this to her is leaving her a ranty voicemail about her sex life followed by "please just let me know you're okay"
msc kaberett: 5. I am hoping that over the course of this rewatch it will become apparent to me wtf is going on in terms of all the triple-bluffing Mycroft's been doing all along, because I STILL don't quite understand how Joan getting taken is part of the deal
msc kaberett: 6. Sherlock is so TINY.
msc kaberett: 7. oh my fuck "I promise you I won't let you fail"
msc kaberett: why is he double-bluffing further with Sherlock whyyy
msc kaberett: 8. he... isn't actually going to want Mycroft out of his life, is he, after all this. Except... he is. He really is. But perhaps not as much as he wants to get to know him. His little face when Mycroft tells him to *think*...
msc kaberett: 9. Speaking brown woman! Also, bisexual black dude whose Tragic Queerness is sort of incidental.
msc kaberett: 10. ... I want to know what Mycroft's necklace is
msc kaberett: 11. ... wait if he accessed the thing early Monday surely he'd have been *seen in work* or *on the cameras*
msc kaberett: surely checking the footage is normal?
msc kaberett: 12. ... to what extent is Mycroft playing at not keeping up? To what extent is he guiding Sherlock?
msc kaberett: 13. THE FACE MYCROFT PULLS AT MCNALLY DURING THE INTERVIEW
msc kaberett: "MYCROFT, IT'S A PLEASURE TO MEET YOU"
msc kaberett: 5. Maybe, but Mycroft surely doesn't think _quite_ as badly of Sherlock and Joan as to think they wouldn't notice shit going down?
msc kaberett: 14. "My role in the situation is complicated"
msc kaberett: "seems simple enough to me" OH SWEETHEART
msc kaberett: 15. "We're doing our best under the circumstances" -- "if you'd removed your brother as I recommended..." because his _bosses_ knew Sherlock would snarl things up...?
msc kaberett: (I suppose he felt it necessary to keep up the Annoying Older Brother facade?)
msc kaberett: 16. "She is a trained detective. You are a buffoon." AHAHAHAHA
msc kaberett: 17. lol grindr
msc kaberett: YES YES I DO
msc kaberett: I SQUEAKED AT THE REVEAL because of your face
msc kaberett: (I want to know what Sherlock's lapel badge is)
msc kaberett: YES
msc kaberett: 18. "Out out, damn spot" -- Joan scrubbing her hands actually more obsessively than strictly necessary?
msc kaberett: He's got a badge of some description on the lapel of his jacket
msc kaberett: can't tell what it is
msc kaberett: Mycroft playing at showing his brother he can make simple deductions aaaaah
msc kaberett: (... or is Mycroft in the business of proper international intelligence to the extent that he doesn't normally see dead bodies/the other bits and pieces of Sherlock's day-to-day? Doesn't seem like someone who works the homicide beat)
msc kaberett: (But he is doing a STAGGERINGLY good job of Irritating Elder Brother)
msc kaberett: (... except Sherlock genuinely DOES have the obsessive interests in zoology etc that Mycroft just... there is no reason for him to have done that)
msc kaberett: right, so the "it would have been much simpler" was "OBVIOUSLY your brother would cock things up UGH now you've got emotional investment that's going to be a liability"
msc kaberett: and Mycroft couldn't hide things from Sherlock once Joan was taken...
msc kaberett: also, SHERLOCK your little FACE the existence of TASERS
msc kaberett: (also of course he can do heavy-duty bondage with shit he has lying around at home, we already knew that, but LOL)
msc kaberett: ... oh god Sherlock is so fucked up
msc kaberett: SO FUCKED UP
msc kaberett: knowing what happened last time
msc kaberett: he is still going to go ahead with torturing and killing someone
msc kaberett: and this time it isn't for Irene, it's for Joan
msc kaberett: and he *knows what Gregson will do to him*
msc kaberett: oh god oh god oh god
msc kaberett: ("with all the depth I am capable of mustering")
msc kaberett: (Also Mycroft knows Sherlock so little - even after exploding the warehouse - that he is genuinely concerned Sherlock might not seriously be up for torturing someone for information)
msc kaberett: (Also Mycroft became a MICHELIN-STARRED CHEF FOR THE PURPOSES OF ESPIONAGE)
msc kaberett: and Mycroft NOT REALISING that Sherlock would OBVIOUSLY need backup
msc kaberett: s/need/want/
msc kaberett: and doing a STAGGERINGLY bad job of talking him out of it (presumably because the two different perimeters would clash and that would be Politically Awkward)
msc kaberett: but is he just using that as an excuse to get Sherlock out of the picture because he doesn't want to risk him too???
msc kaberett: but also MYCROFT'S BOSSES KNEW IT WAS YODE
msc kaberett: and oh god Joan's sudden trauma face
msc kaberett: (and also dude BELIEVES HER about medicine)
msc kaberett: and um the NSA refusing to help??? Like, are they seriously in on it all along as well in spite of Mycroft managing to look genuinely surprised that they knew him???
msc kaberett: Or was that the Mycroft surprise-face of "my bosses have been information-sharing with the NSA"???
msc kaberett: also oh god Joan's FACE
msc kaberett: she isn't watching for Mycroft she is watching for Sherlock
msc kaberett: she just gives him the look of "where the fuck is Sherlock what the fuck even are you"
msc kaberett: meanwhile he gives her the "I am sorry I will try to explain later" look
msc kaberett: meanwhile Joan does the "what the fuck have you done with Sherlock you've obviously just taken his conclusions
msc kaberett: also they are poor lackeys
msc kaberett: they do not immediately do the thing
msc kaberett: is that because they want his car to get well away from any potential blood spatters? or purely for ~dramatic effect~
msc kaberett: Joan's little FACE
msc kaberett: DON'T FUCKING TOUCH HER WHEN SHE'S STILL GOT HER HANDS TIED
msc kaberett: augh augh augh their FACES
msc kaberett: RIGHT okay done