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

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[amyhit]

Re: sherlock calling two ladies on the show "clever"

Ha! *rubs hands* More evidence for my "Sherlock is an equal opportunity misanthropist" argument. (In all seriousness, I'm not actually sure if I believe he's an equal-opportunity misanthropist or not. But I want to.)

Re: Sherlock on the rock in THoB

UGH SO RIDICULOUS. I've never been able to figure out if it's meant to be silly, or if the writers were actually trying to make him look dashing and brooding and romantic. I like to think the former, but I don't trust the writers. I wouldn't put it past them to honestly believe that such an OTT display of Byronic(ness? Byronicism? IDEK!) is warranted.

I guess it could be meant to be some kind of a foretelling of TRF, but if that's what they were going for I feel like it was weakly done.

[amalnahurriyeh]

He's absolutely misanthropic, rather than specifically misogynist, but it's also true that he goes after people (when he's being particularly cutting) in ways that cut to however he can hurt them most--which means he goes after women in particularly gendered ways. Also, he is genuinely an asshole. Just one who I love.

WHAT IS UP WITH THAT ROCK. Did you see the manpain vid somebody made a while back, which had a sequence where all the angsty manpaining men were standing on top of buildings looking ~~dramatic~~? It's like they were bidding for an entry into that vid or something.

Although I think I saw an ACD canon illustration on tumblr that implies that Holmes-on-a-rock is something that derives from the original story. Which doesn't make it less ridiculous, but would make it ridiculous for a reason.