Benedict’s top 10 crying moments as voted on Twitter (compilation for the lovely @duskybatfishgirl) [x]
10. Inseparable – Diagnosis 9. Parade’s End – Chrissie shell shocked 8. Star Trek Into Darkness – Khan in the brig 7. Van Gogh: Painted With Words – Vincent’s mad tears in the asylum 6. Sherlock: The Lying Detective – “I killed his wife.” 5. Sherlock: The Reichenbach Fall – Rooftop scene Sherlock: His Last Vow – “Why did you never feel pain?” (TIE) 4. Third Star – James’ tears by the fire 3. Doctor Strange – Stephen’s tears & The Cloak wiping them away 2. Sherlock: The Final Problem – “You killed my best friend.” 1. The Imitation Game – Final scene
I can’t get over how well Martin gets across how conflicted John is in this scene. He’s still angry with Sherlock, and also worried about him, but also fighting with amusement and a tiny bit ridiculously charmed despite himself. 👏
this little lip bite!!! 😳 holyhell… 👏🏻👌🏻
They are both so brilliant here. This entire ep kills me.
manic and deranged is so so difficult to pull off believably imo cause it can get campy and hammy very easily but ben really did #that.. same with toby jones tbh, he genuinely IS frightening and disgusting, it could have been horrible but it’s so so real
HOW WAS THIS SCENE WRITTEN AND ACTED IN A WAY THAT MADE ME LITERALLY NOT CARE
Right? It’s just upsetting how emotionally numb and distant I felt during the entire episode or, really, most of S4. I’ve spent literal years getting emotional over fics and old episodes, and TAB was wonderful in that regard, but there was a weird disconnection between S4 and me,
None of it felt sincere so I couldn’t bring myself to care enough, idk.
This is sort of a follow up to my earlier post about “The Final Problem’s” self-indulgence and the way the writing ultimately betrays the extraordinary work being done by everyone involved in the production–including, I am about to argue, the actors.
One of the first questions that emerged as I pondered my own response to this episode was: why was I so much more affected by the scene in which the prison governor dies than I was by what I am sure was intended to be the emotional climax of the Eurus-experiments sequence, which is the scene in which Eurus demands that Sherlock kill either Mycroft or John?
Below the cut tag I’m going to talk about why. The short story is that the second scene is the moment where the whole production has to pay the piper for the cumulative effects of Moffat and Gatiss’s bad writing decisions.
Can we also give Loo Brealey a standing fucking ovation for that performance, like holy shit I’ve always admired that mix of strength and utter raw vulnerability she gives to Molly Hooper, but that last episode just blew everything out of the water. Every twitch and blink meant so much and you could see grief and pain and YEARS of heartbreak coursing through her, and when her voice broke when she was trying to tell him it was true, and that she couldn’t say it BECAUSE it was true, I swear she made my heart burst with how much empathy she gut-punched out of me, and even in the midst of this hellish power play with Eurus she ensured Molly still stood tall with strength and dignity, she showed that her love and vulnerability wasn’t weakness, it was strength AND YOU COULD SEE IT ALL IN LOO’S BEAUTIFUL FACE, 10/10, A+, someone give her her own tv show asap thanks
12/10 from me. I was gutted when she drew the phone away from her ears the moment she heard what Sherlock wanted her to say.
It might have been the only moment I was emotionally connected to the story.
This scene may be my favorite of the whole series. I watched it countless times. Brilliant acting by all of them – you can read Mycroft’s face as soon as Eurus gives Sherlock the ultimatum. He calculates and makes his decision that quickly that there’s no way he’s going to let Sherlock choose this.
Ugh, then Ben! The way he’s stoic but briefly closes his eyes when Mycroft asks him not to shoot him in the face….his brief, sad smile when Mycroft jokes about how small his heart is…the almost imperceptible shake of his hand on the gun….
A round of applause for Sian, too. If you look in the background at the screens, you can see her roll her eyes at Mycroft’s heart comment. You can also see how eager she is looking at the screen. She’s reacting to the things Eurus is supposedly seeing, not just being a blank face on the screen.
Imagine what it feels like for Ben and Martin to see the ratings for S4 to hit all time low and what a big blow it must be to them. Watching the show they have worked in for almost a decade. It’s like a slap in the face to see the hours you clocked in, with your blood sweat and tears, AND the emotional rollercoaster needed to get in character was for naught.
I imagine them doubting themselves, wondering if this brilliant show’s downfall was because they did not try harder, they did not work harder, they did not put in enough effort to get in character, they weren’t consistent, they weren’t… they weren’t… they weren’t….. they weren’t enough.
If their thoughts do lead them down this path, i hope they know that they are wrong.
I hope that someone, anyone, or rather everyone will let them know that they were enough, they were more than enough, in fact, they were brilliant and marvelous and wonderful and and and… incandescent! It’s because of them I fell in love with this show 5 years ago; the way Martin displayed a soldier’s bravado, clinging to every last ounce of will to live, finding hope in Sherlock where everyone and everything else in life has failed him, or rather he thinks he have failed in life, the way Benedict portrayed a character so uniquely, holding his own in a sea of Sherlock Holmes in the past century, giving life to a detective whose seemingly nonexistent heart is apparently almost as big as his mind palace. Most of all I love how their undeniable chemistry and spark made me believe in love, or finding hope in places you’d never think of. Such cliched sentiments but they are true nonetheless.
It’s a shame that this love story, veiled vehind heteronormativity since its conception due to societal expectations, set in this modern-age where it is plauded to be forward-thinking and ingenious, has to once again be lowered down to nothing more than subtext because ….. what? Was the timing not right? Implications? Poor reception?
Whatever it is, I only hope that the actors realise that they were perfect in embodying their characters, and that our disappointment is nothing more but a reflection of the screenwriters’ failure this time round.
The actors deserved every accolades they have garnered.
Someone please get this to Ben and Martin.
Yes, absolutely. Ben and Martin breathed life into these characters. They brought them to life, body and soul, and made us love them. Even when the writing barely let them, they were incredible. They did absolutely everything they could and created something beautiful, and I’m so proud of them.
PLEASE SPREAD THIS. PLEASE.
God I hope they see this somehow, or someone tells them. All of them. Ben, Martin, Amanda, Andrew, Lara, Louise and Rupert. They all acted wonderfully with what they were given.
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