EVERYTHIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIING. I agree with everything!
Those last 15 seconds are improbable and ridiculous and I DO NOT CARE.
It is SUCH an deliberate, symmetrical, obvious bookend to the opening scene - in which Irene saves Sherlock from certain death, right down to the silly cell phone interruption of a tense moment! - it just drives home how they are playing a game that only the two of them really understand, and it isn't about winning or losing, it's about two geniuses who like the rare pleasure of not always being the smartest person in the room. The episode opened with her saving his life for her own reasons, of course it had to end with him repaying that debt for his own reasons. The way it happened was very very very ridiculous, yes, but I thought the reasons were clear.
I also really loved that conversation between John and Irene in the factory/warehouse/wherever. I don't have any idea what TPTB have been saying, but what that conversation says, in such plain terms it might as well be in flashing lights, is that the characters are acknowledging that love and sexuality are not simple things in which everybody fits into neat little boxes. "These are our labels, and this is how we are acting outside of what those labels dictate." I ♥ complicated characters.
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Date: 2012-01-03 10:34 pm (UTC)Those last 15 seconds are improbable and ridiculous and I DO NOT CARE.
It is SUCH an deliberate, symmetrical, obvious bookend to the opening scene - in which Irene saves Sherlock from certain death, right down to the silly cell phone interruption of a tense moment! - it just drives home how they are playing a game that only the two of them really understand, and it isn't about winning or losing, it's about two geniuses who like the rare pleasure of not always being the smartest person in the room. The episode opened with her saving his life for her own reasons, of course it had to end with him repaying that debt for his own reasons. The way it happened was very very very ridiculous, yes, but I thought the reasons were clear.
I also really loved that conversation between John and Irene in the factory/warehouse/wherever. I don't have any idea what TPTB have been saying, but what that conversation says, in such plain terms it might as well be in flashing lights, is that the characters are acknowledging that love and sexuality are not simple things in which everybody fits into neat little boxes. "These are our labels, and this is how we are acting outside of what those labels dictate." I ♥ complicated characters.