#loo brealey
“This is a demonstration of the new greeting I have invented for loved ones, if we are dropping off some shopping at the end of the path or bellowing hello across a big gap in the park or on FaceTime. I close my eyes and give myself a big squeeze and make the other person do it too and we can pretend we’re hugging. Here’s one for you. Take care of your beautiful selves, and everyone else xx PS Sorry I didn’t brush my hair, wasn’t expecting company.“
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Omg omg, Loo Brealey is in Denmark….. not close to where I live, but still….
Loo blindly defending the ILY scene just because she got to say “I love you” to Mr. Sophie Cumberbatch is one thing, but there’s more to unpack here.
Johnlockers saying that the scene was wrong is not “about ship shaming.” It’s about knowing what was wrong and what should’ve been done instead. It’s about standing up for a character who was thrown under the bus for the umpteenth time, and the maniac stans of that character for some reason foaming at the mouth that there are other people who would dare have something to say about their precious.
The review talking about the “unrequited love” and is yet another example of how everyone minus tumblr sherl0llians is able to recognize the scene for what it is and realize how awful it is. As we’ve said 100x here, if the ship was really made canon, it would be clear to every single viewer, not just a handful of shippers trying desperately to prove to everyone that their one interpretation is undeniably right one.
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Yes it’s nice and all that Loo wanted to turn Moffat’s poorly written character into a fully fleshed human being. But I don’t necessarily agree with her statement that Molly saw the humanity in Sherlock before John did. Let’s look at how Molly felt about him the day they met, January 28th, only one (1) day before John came around:
What Molly “sees in him” is his dark fuck prince aura and a hot body. It’s a superficial schoolgirl crush at best. She clearly glorifies/romanticizes Sherlock in her mind, which is why the first few times she gets a glimpse of how coarse, rude, and indelicate he can be, she gets upset. Because what she’s seeing doesn’t match her fantasy of who she thinks he is. Around S3, she starts to accept that Sherlock is an incredibly imperfect human, and the sweet, shy Molly is slowly replaced with a more irritable one. After the final turning point in HLV (i.e. when she fully accepts that he’s not who she wants him to be), we never really see her staple kind/cutesy personality again. But unfortunately, she’s been hooked on Sherlock for so long at that point that she can’t shake off her feelings and she remains hung on on a man who she knows isn’t good for her. It’s really quite a tragic story if you think about it.
Aka, it took Molly a while to see and accept the humanity in him, to get anywhere near where John is in the first episode.
When John first met him, he didn’t see a super cool, suave, mystery man. He instantly saw the human underneath the persona, the man who pretends he can guess the fortunes and acts like he doesn’t need friends, but he really does. Of course, the same romanticizing and infatuation from Molly’s blog is coming through in John’s writing too (fascinating, likable, charming, did I mention clever?), but he also calls him arrogant, rude, and pompous. Both positive and negatives are present because humanshave both positive and negative in them, and John has always seen and accepted Sherlock as a human being, not a fantasy.
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“Fear of failure has stopped me writing for years. Last night I understood that all failure is, is not trying. I tried my hardest and I’m proud of myself for that.”
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