Thank you so much for your reply about Irene! I suppose I’ve tried to make sense of the situation within the fiction of the story, but you’re right, if you look from the perspective of bad writing it stops being so confusing. Writing morally corrupt and en

2/3 There is a disturbing trend of people who are supposed to look out for Sherlock making him pay for his rudeness/carelessness with violence or insults. I hate it, because when Sherlock missteps he gets told off (sometimes he deserves it and sometimes he’s right but everyone else is being too stupid to notice), especially by John, so as time goes on all the additional jabs at his character stop feeling like banter and more like open animosity.

3/3 Speaking of bad writing, I think it’s ludicrous that Sherlock is capable of making the mistakes he does throughout the show but he was able to predict which therapist John would go to, Mrs Hudson kidnapping him, etc down to the hour, probably that John would put him in the hospital too and bring his cane as a nice parting gift. I also think it was ooc for this Sherlock not to realise the killer in ASIP was a cabbie like he does in the pilot. Silly me, I thought what made him human was love.

Hey, sorry this is so late in coming! Things have just been super busy lately! Yes, I completely agree with everything you’ve said here.

Just to be super clear, it’s not that I think that Moffat or Gatiss are bad writers, per se, but they’re lazy af and entitled af. Gatiss once sneered at someone asking a question about unresolved plot threads as us wanting “pablum”, when what we the fandom have actually requested is, simply, quality work. Finished work. Work that doesn’t leave gaping holes. I firmly believe that they’re capable of writing work that meets that description, but they’re smarmy and self-satisfied and are too busy scoffing at the very people who gave them the platform that they have to actually listen when we point out that something is half-baked.

I could rant for a very long time about their view of what feminism looks like, but I won’t do it again today.

I fully agree about their inconsistent treatment of Sherlock. Either he’s a super-human intellectually, or else he’s so stupid that literally everyone else in his universe is said to be smarter than he is. He’s the only person who ever needs to face a consequence for his actions - and not only that, but also the actions of OTHER people, like how Vivian Norbury’s choice to pull a trigger and Mary Morstan’s choice to somehow jump in front of Norbury’s bullet were in any way done because Sherlock Holmes controls everyone and everything around him. What an incredibly stupid suggestion. I’ll also just point out that attributing the agency and decisions of two women to a man is incredibly misogynistic, even if I loathe one of those women. Mary’s actions were her own, and they were all very bad and she never once had to face a consequence or even pretend to be sorry for them. John also has a lot of shit to answer for (THE MORGUE SCENE, ANYONE!!!!), for going back to Mary (WTAF) after she shot Sherlock in the heart, on purpose, with the specific intent of preventing John from making an informed choice about her. Again, I could go on and on and on. Sherlock is the only person who has to face punishment, and man, do they love to punish him.

I think I just had a breakthrough realization that Molly slapping Sherlock is their Mary Sue. Wow. Lol.