And now I kind of desperately want to know what Irene and Moriarty's interaction looks like.
After reading other people's episode reactions, I am feeling like I missed something HUGE regarding that interaction, because people keep saying Moriarty was manipulating Irene and she was a helpless pawn in his plans, but I didn't get that impression at all. If anything, I got the exact opposite feeling, that she was (usually) in control of the flow of information - because that is obviously her main play, knowing the power of information - and gave Moriarty what she wanted him to have because it amused her, just like she gave Mycroft what she wanted *him* to have. But so many people seem so outraged about how Irene was being controlled by Moriarty, I am all confused now and wondering which of us is completely interrogating the text from the wrong direction...
I haven't had time to rewatch it yet, so I don't know! Did I miss something huge? Was Irene scared of Moriarty? I thought she was scared of the terrorists and the governments and the CIA, etc. I came away with the impression that Moriarty and Irene were both doing their own thing as independent criminal parties, and their nefarious plans sometimes overlapped, and sometimes they sit around having tea and talking about how to make the Holmes brothers twitch, and also plotting the downfall of civilization, but mostly the first, because that's more fun.
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Date: 2012-01-04 02:26 am (UTC)After reading other people's episode reactions, I am feeling like I missed something HUGE regarding that interaction, because people keep saying Moriarty was manipulating Irene and she was a helpless pawn in his plans, but I didn't get that impression at all. If anything, I got the exact opposite feeling, that she was (usually) in control of the flow of information - because that is obviously her main play, knowing the power of information - and gave Moriarty what she wanted him to have because it amused her, just like she gave Mycroft what she wanted *him* to have. But so many people seem so outraged about how Irene was being controlled by Moriarty, I am all confused now and wondering which of us is completely interrogating the text from the wrong direction...
I haven't had time to rewatch it yet, so I don't know! Did I miss something huge? Was Irene scared of Moriarty? I thought she was scared of the terrorists and the governments and the CIA, etc. I came away with the impression that Moriarty and Irene were both doing their own thing as independent criminal parties, and their nefarious plans sometimes overlapped, and sometimes they sit around having tea and talking about how to make the Holmes brothers twitch, and also plotting the downfall of civilization, but mostly the first, because that's more fun.