Episode Post: "The Great Game"

[paxpinnae]

Post thoughts, reactions, and general enthusiasm about "The Great Game" below!  Spoilers for all three episodes in the comments.

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[pulchritude]

I CAN'T BELIEVE I DIDN'T THINK ABOUT SEARCHING FOR THIS COMM EARLIER

OMFG THIS EPISODE, I HAVE DIED

OT FUCKING P BE STILL MY FUCKING HEART

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[ex_amp350]

I AM BUZZING WITH FANGIRLY FEELINGS RIGHT NOW.
THERE ARE NO WORDS THAT DESCRIBE THE AWESOMENESS THAT WAS THIS EPISODE.

What made me squee:

- Sherlock correcting the guy's grammar.
- Shooting a smiley-face in the wall.
- Discussing John's blog.
- FAKE!Crying Sherlock. CREEPY.
- Hot, crazy Moriarty! He's totally flirting with Sherlock, "Gay" or not.
- "..Catch you...later. "NO YOU WON'T!"

I feel sorry for Molly though. Both guys she's been/is interested in are crazy geniuses (+ gay??).

FFFFFFFFFFfffff!!! Such a great episode, I squeaked when Moriarty came back and went all: "LOLOLOL KIDDING ABOUT THE WARNING, IMMA SHOOT YOU NOW. 8-D"

+ AND WHAT IS UP WITH PEOPLE CHOKING SHERLOCK?

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And they ended it with a cliffhanger!!! D-:

[paxpinnae]

DUDE, IT WAS THE FIRST THING I DID, AND IT DIDN'T EXIST, SO I MADE THE DAMN THING.

Now, for content!

[paxpinnae]

The grammar conversation made me smile SO HARD, because I'm teaching English right now and that's how about 90% of my conversations go. Also, Sherlock is just very chokeable! Just like John is very kidnappable. Everyone has a niche.

[paxpinnae]

HOLY SHIT.

I MEAN REALLY, HOLY SHIT.

There is no way I can list all of the things I love about this show, but here's a big one: THEY PUT IN ALL THE GOOD BITS FROM CANON. Bored Holmes shooting up the apartment (BEST RESPONSE TO 'THERE'S NOTHING ON' EVER), Moriarty's Irishness, Holmes doing disguises, THE BAKER STREET IRREGULARS LUV LUV LUV, Watson's abortive horror at Holmes' strange experiments, and above all:

THEY DID "IT WAS WORTH A WOUND." Or, you know, being strapped into an explosive vest. OH MY GOD, THAT WHOLE BIT. BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH, I LOVE YOU AND YOUR PALE WORRIED FACE SO MUCH. MARTIN FREEMAN IS MY WATSON NOW.

Alright, coherency can wait. I'm going to go roll around like a dog in all the new fic, and work on retooling something I started before the last episode aired.

[ex_amp350]

Hahaha, I was thinking "Thank you Sherlock :-D He was hard to understand, you made it better." LOLOLOL XDD *is foreign silly person*

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Moriarty was Irish?? Haha ahhh I'm such a failface!!! As I watched him I thought he had a weird accent, but I was like: OH I BET HE'S NOT REALLY BRITISH AND HE'S PRETENDING TO BE THAT'S WHY HE SOUNDS LIKE THAT OR SOMETHING 8-D ...like Colin Morgan.
*slaps forehead*

[tei]

Arrrgh, I'm late! OH WELL I'M GOING TO FLAIL AROUND HERE ANYWAY.

As I was watching, I started getting this thing where I had to jump up and flip excitedly through my books every few seconds until I found every single reference. And. Just. THE LAST SCENE. I WAS LIKE, FROZEN, FOR THE LAST TEN MINUTES. HOMYGOD, REICHENBACH FALLS WAS A SWIMMING POOL, WHUT?

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BETTER LATE THAN NEVER.

Uh, so, I win the slow-child award on the Reichenbach Falls front. I totally didn't get that, despite catching very nearly every other reference, including the really strange ones like Holmes shooting up the wall, due to the fact that I had the entire SH canon memorized when I was nine. (I'm thinking about writing up a references post.)

Also, THAT SCENE. When it was over, I think I had a moment where I was like, "I just listened to a villain monologue for ten minutes. And I was okay with that! BEST SHOW EVER."

[tei]

In the category of "things that should exist that I'm too lazy to do myself"... a references post! I think you should.