Tag: eurus holmes

bbcbakerstreet:

urbanhymnal:

I’ve seen several people discuss how they felt Eurus was inconsistent as a character and the show fails to truly explain what she is up to in TLD. Here I will give a break down of Eurus, her motives in TLD and TFP, as well as how she fits within the larger theme of the show. For this meta, I am going entirely by the show and what we are told in it. I am not including what the writers have said in commentary or in interviews; instead I am trying to reason her character by what is shown to us in the aired episodes, with the assumption that we–as the audience– are to believe that she existed this entire time and therefore had a hand in what has happened not just in s4, but throughout the show. 

Keep reading

This is incredibly well-written and insightful, but I do have one qualm with the “neither good nor bad” pronouncement re: Eurus’s character. One of my biggest issues with her is the fact that she is unequivocally a rapist and a child killer, yet both of these heinous crimes are pretty much swept under the rug by the episode’s end. Unlike Moriarty – who went out with a bang as a bona fide villain, and the narrative never asked us to believe otherwise – Eurus is forgiven by the end of the episode, by Sherlock himself and by the audience (at least, that is plainly what Mofftiss intended, even if a large faction would beg to differ). I can’t fully accept the moral ambiguity/antihero status ascribed to her without having her crimes fully addressed and condemned by the narrative.

Also, while I love the idea of Eurus being a dark “what could have been” mirror for Sherlock, did we not already get this mirror in the form of Moriarty from day one? The two of them were pretty explicitly stated to be two sides of the same coin, right down to the fact that both of them “began” with the murder of Carl Powers. Why go to so much trouble to establish the Moriarty=Eurus=Sherlock symbolism when the narrative would remain basically intact, both textually and subtextually, without her involvement? Apart from the fact that I can’t forgive a character with a rap sheet like hers, that is my biggest hang-up with Eurus.

Although…..while I absolutely despise the fact that Mofftiss shoehorned the nurse’s rape/murder without batting an eye and then never addressed it again, I do wonder if there is some statement to be made about the extreme polarity between the Holmes siblings where sexuality is concerned. Sherlock abstains for fear of becoming too emotionally involved, whereas Eurus takes what she wants precisely because she lacks emotional context? It’s horrible and disgusting, but I don’t understand why they’d include that facet of her backstory otherwise. I’m just trying to make sense of the can of worms that is TFP and Eurus Holmes.