Yeah, Molly frequently makes me cringe away in contact embarrassment, and I really want something good for her. I think I'm willing to let the writers slide on her characterization being unrealistic only because of her field; I've met some reeeeally awkward pathologists in my time, you know? I still want her to bust out with some awesome moment... Mostly, I just want her to have a comfort zone, and for us to get a glimpse of it eventually.
Sherlock in the Christmas scene almost read as a little bit tipsy, to me. I have no real evidence for this, but he's not monitoring himself very well at all, in terms of what revelations he lets fly, which he's really only done before in the show when he was worked into too much of a tizzy to bother. Maybe he's just being a jerk and showing off there after all, but the teasing tone he starts out with and the fact that he genuinely feels bad for hurting her feelings makes me wonder. Also, it definitely never crosses his mind that the gift is for him, even though he's shown in the past that he knows he has an effect on her. So, yeah. I don't think he's firing on all cylinders there, which is a crappy prospect for everyone involved.
Then again, half of it is a set-up for the context of Irene's gift on the mantle, with the flash of her coordinating her lipstick and the wrapping, too. Gah. I don't know. I need to watch it again.
How was Mycroft's plane of the dead plan supposed to work?
I think the months and years of planning he mentions are probably supposed to be the logistics of creating cover identities for a plane's worth of bodies. A list of names with the basic paper trails, maybe a few strategically orchestrated "grieving family members" to appear in the press, and I can kind of believe it could work. At least until the requisite plucky reporter comes along to break the conspiracy wide open. *g*
Moriarty and the terrorists... hm. The way it works in my head is that he's got connections to them much like he did with the Chinese group in TBB, and so when he wants to tie up loose ends by taking out Irene at the end, he calls in his debts with them. I tend to think that most of what Irene says is the truth, with some tweaking: she really does collect information mainly as security, although she has no qualms about using it to her advantage when it suits her. It doesn't really make long-term business sense to collect secrets the way she does with the purpose of selling them, because everybody would know that she's the one doing it pretty quickly. There's no threat in holding the secrets hostage if they know perfectly well she's just going to out them anyway. On the other hand, when you piss her off, apparently she tells the world that she's been sleeping with both you and your wife separately, so...
I don't think she had intentions of selling the Bond Flight info in the beginning, but the CIA realized they had a leak and went after her - CIA Bad Guy alludes to her kicking their asses before - and that motivated her to find out just what she had to bargain with. Moriarty is the guy with his fingers in all the pies, so she contacts him with the news that she has something interesting, and Sherlock is suddenly famous for being able to solve all the puzzles ever, so she starts planning a way to make this his problem. The various secret services are still after her, so she fakes her death, but that's a temporary solution at best. She still needs to ultimately get enough advantage over someone to ensure her protection (and one hell of a payday, if that note to Mycroft is any indication), and Moriarty lets her in on the best way to play Mycroft Holmes. (Which is, really, to both of their advantages.) The leak of the Bond Flight info itself is the perfect blackmail, as it endangers both Mycroft's career and his brother by proxy, and it conveniently gives Moriarty a little welcoming gift to bring to the terrorist community. Everybody wins! (Well...)
I can't decide where messing with Mycroft, playing with Sherlock, and ruling the world fall in Moriarty's overall hierarchy of needs, though. How much is business and how much is pleasure, for him?
Wow. That turned into a lot of unnecessary thinking out loud. Sorry.
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Sherlock in the Christmas scene almost read as a little bit tipsy, to me. I have no real evidence for this, but he's not monitoring himself very well at all, in terms of what revelations he lets fly, which he's really only done before in the show when he was worked into too much of a tizzy to bother. Maybe he's just being a jerk and showing off there after all, but the teasing tone he starts out with and the fact that he genuinely feels bad for hurting her feelings makes me wonder. Also, it definitely never crosses his mind that the gift is for him, even though he's shown in the past that he knows he has an effect on her. So, yeah. I don't think he's firing on all cylinders there, which is a crappy prospect for everyone involved.
Then again, half of it is a set-up for the context of Irene's gift on the mantle, with the flash of her coordinating her lipstick and the wrapping, too. Gah. I don't know. I need to watch it again.
How was Mycroft's plane of the dead plan supposed to work?
I think the months and years of planning he mentions are probably supposed to be the logistics of creating cover identities for a plane's worth of bodies. A list of names with the basic paper trails, maybe a few strategically orchestrated "grieving family members" to appear in the press, and I can kind of believe it could work. At least until the requisite plucky reporter comes along to break the conspiracy wide open. *g*
Moriarty and the terrorists... hm. The way it works in my head is that he's got connections to them much like he did with the Chinese group in TBB, and so when he wants to tie up loose ends by taking out Irene at the end, he calls in his debts with them. I tend to think that most of what Irene says is the truth, with some tweaking: she really does collect information mainly as security, although she has no qualms about using it to her advantage when it suits her. It doesn't really make long-term business sense to collect secrets the way she does with the purpose of selling them, because everybody would know that she's the one doing it pretty quickly. There's no threat in holding the secrets hostage if they know perfectly well she's just going to out them anyway. On the other hand, when you piss her off, apparently she tells the world that she's been sleeping with both you and your wife separately, so...
I don't think she had intentions of selling the Bond Flight info in the beginning, but the CIA realized they had a leak and went after her - CIA Bad Guy alludes to her kicking their asses before - and that motivated her to find out just what she had to bargain with. Moriarty is the guy with his fingers in all the pies, so she contacts him with the news that she has something interesting, and Sherlock is suddenly famous for being able to solve all the puzzles ever, so she starts planning a way to make this his problem. The various secret services are still after her, so she fakes her death, but that's a temporary solution at best. She still needs to ultimately get enough advantage over someone to ensure her protection (and one hell of a payday, if that note to Mycroft is any indication), and Moriarty lets her in on the best way to play Mycroft Holmes. (Which is, really, to both of their advantages.) The leak of the Bond Flight info itself is the perfect blackmail, as it endangers both Mycroft's career and his brother by proxy, and it conveniently gives Moriarty a little welcoming gift to bring to the terrorist community. Everybody wins! (Well...)
I can't decide where messing with Mycroft, playing with Sherlock, and ruling the world fall in Moriarty's overall hierarchy of needs, though. How much is business and how much is pleasure, for him?
Wow. That turned into a lot of unnecessary thinking out loud. Sorry.