Sherlock/Nightmare Fuel: Difference between revisions

== Series 1 ==

 

* One could almost say that Sherlock ''himself'' was working towards nightmare fuel in ''The Great Game.'' Especially at the very end, with Sherlock grinning most of the time the {{spoiler|little boy is being held hostage}}; he has a nice little moment of swagger and egotistical pleasure before finally {{spoiler|giving the answer that saves the child's life}}. Remember that {{spoiler|the previous victim -- and eleven other people -- died}}.

* The moment at the end of ''The Great Game'' when {{spoiler|Moriarty}} gives the first real flash of what he really is -- with just a single word at the end of a four-word sentence. Give the actor a gold star.

'''Jim:''' That's what people ''DO''! }}

 

* The {{spoiler|plane full of corpses.}} Oh God.

* In this scene the mood whiplashes so fast your head will spin:

** ... His face. Holy crap. And he probably would very literally skin someone.

 

** Not to mention that it's totally unnerving to see three characters in particular who normally have nerves of steel -- the sociopathic detective, the war veteran and the DI from Scotland Yard -- totally freaked out over something that doesn't technically exist.

* Those bloody '''flood lights'''. [[Nothing Is Scarier]] indeed.

* The whole fandom is glad that ''The Hounds of Baskerville'' wasn't written by [[Steven Moffat]]. We wouldn't have survived.

* Sherlock's {{spoiler|hallucination of Moriarty.}}

** Also known as: the moment where everyone in the fandom doubted their entire existence.

* Moriarty threatening not just John (which is expected at this point), but everyone Sherlock has ever cared about, in order to convince the detective {{spoiler|to leap off a building to his death}}. If Moriarty's words alone don't do it for you, the sick, ferocious glee with which he says them probably will:

'''Moriarty:''' Three bullets. Three gunmen. Three victims. There's no ''stopping'' them now. }}

* And after that, "Pleeeeeeeeeeeaaaaaaaaase?"