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And all my thoughts aren’t exactly new but this parody really reminded me how much we have to thank Benedict for playing Sherlock the way he did. In the clip the focus is on Sherlock being a sociopath, and yadda yadda Mofftiss always claimed they wanted to show his way from this to a good man. But if this is what they were trying to do the over the course of the years then they failed because Ben gave us the humanity from the start. 

And if Mofftiss had got their way I would not have stuck around this long. I would have noped out after S1. Sociopathic manipulative asshole Sherlock is not something I’m interested in. I also never read the popular fics that made the rounds in fandom after S1. That didn’t ring true to me because of Ben’s acting because there was obviously more depth lurking beneath the surface but also because I don’t enjoy watching characters like this.