Oh dear, fandom.

[rosiedoes]

I find myself most amused that fandom is DESPERATE for Molly to be the real Moriarty.

Honestly, people are absolutely killing themselves that this poor fangirl should be evil and not just a poor bystander manipulated by both Sherlock and Moriarty. I can't tell you that she won't ever be duped into acting for Moriarty against Sherlock and I can't tell you she won't ever snap and do the sort of thing a spurned woman does (in this fandom, it'd probably involve fitting him up for a crime).

But I simply cannot buy into Molly being 'the real' Moriarty. They've handed us Moriarty already. Is he the person we expected? For most of us, yes. Was he characterised the way we expected? No, almost certainly not.

That said, he's a bratty evil genius, and who does that remind us of? They could have gone for an older version of Mycroft, with more looming, predictable presence, but instead they've given us a genuine loose canon who you can never be certain won't snap.

I do wonder if we're going to see Daddy Moriarty appearing with an equal loathing of Sherlock (and John), but for now people need to trust Mark and Steven because they haven't done bad by us so far. They're fanboys, they've thought this through. Let it roll out.

As much as it pains us to imagine that anyone could come between Sherlock and John, wishing that they were actually evil/doomed to an untimely death isn't going to change affect the plan of the writers.

Comments

[miscellanny.livejournal.com]

This isn't a man you can rationalise or reason with so he's much scarier than the bitter old dude who will, ultimately, die of natural causes long before someone of Sherlock's current age.

I definitely like that part of the character - like I said, I think that much of it was a controlled performance, that he was enjoying the showmanship of it. I've seen a lot of people commenting negatively about his bizarre vocal choices, but I quite enjoyed it, thought it played well to the impression he was trying to give; when he let the mask slip and showed real anger the loss of control was scarier. Er... if that made any sense. XD

[rosiedoes.livejournal.com]

Yeah, that does make sense.

I think he was having fun with it because he thought he had the upper hand on Sherlock and John and we all know baddies love to grandstand.

This Moriarty is probably going to be much scarier than he would have been as a dastardly old gent, the way people expected him to be. He's essentially Sherlock's equal, which is going to be why he's so difficult to beat.

[miscellanny.livejournal.com]

Moriarty is very much who Sherlock could be, if he didn't take more delight in thwarting people than in material gain. Obviously he has a stronger moral compass (thank you, John. XD)

[rosiedoes.livejournal.com]

He could, but I think it's the solutions which fascinate him, not the destruction. He can certainly be destructive, but it's when he doesn't have something to keep his mind turning over - something to unravel.

Sherlock doesn't seem to want to create chaos, but more to put things in order, whereas Moriarty delights in it.