Maybe his communications with Abigail serve as foreshadowing to the present time. He's doing the same with Moriarty in order to understand the workings of the mind of a criminal.
Oooh. yes! I hadn't connected those two specific points, but I think you're absolutely on to something there. :-) (This is why I love to bounce my ideas off of other people - they always come up with something I hadn't thought of.)
I think he's going to feel that if he armors himself up enough, he'll be able to get what he 'needs' from her, without being sucked in by her. But his current emotional 'betrayals' and mis-steps are going to trip him up. He is too damaged in the emotional arena to get by without help, but when he refuses that help out of arrogance....bad things will happen.
I also have a sneaking suspicion that Moriarty isn't even the 'bottom' that he's going to hit - she'll just be the catalyst and a swipe on the way down. Whatever Mycroft is cooking up sounds bigger (and Rob Doherty has said something to the effect that Moriarty isn't necessarily the 'big baddie' of this season).
Maybe there's a small part of him that acknowledges that sometimes what he does isn't always right, and he shies away from that part of himself.
I fully agree.
I do love to see him try, though. (Step Nine, the attempt to 'help' Bell.) It's a beautiful thing.
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Date: 2013-12-07 06:43 pm (UTC)Oooh. yes! I hadn't connected those two specific points, but I think you're absolutely on to something there. :-) (This is why I love to bounce my ideas off of other people - they always come up with something I hadn't thought of.)
I think he's going to feel that if he armors himself up enough, he'll be able to get what he 'needs' from her, without being sucked in by her. But his current emotional 'betrayals' and mis-steps are going to trip him up. He is too damaged in the emotional arena to get by without help, but when he refuses that help out of arrogance....bad things will happen.
I also have a sneaking suspicion that Moriarty isn't even the 'bottom' that he's going to hit - she'll just be the catalyst and a swipe on the way down. Whatever Mycroft is cooking up sounds bigger (and Rob Doherty has said something to the effect that Moriarty isn't necessarily the 'big baddie' of this season).
Maybe there's a small part of him that acknowledges that sometimes what he does isn't always right, and he shies away from that part of himself.
I fully agree.
I do love to see him try, though. (Step Nine, the attempt to 'help' Bell.) It's a beautiful thing.