it's those damn curls

beatrice holmes and james moriarty can both definitely tie a cherry stem in a knot with their tongue. do with that information what you will.

I love the family dynamics throughout the show, and I noticed how Cordelia is the aritist and free thinker, creative and fun. And Silas is the disciplined strict business personality that believes in order, organization, and planning. So it's interesting to have Mycroft to take after Silas but have their morals diverge. And Sherlock takes after his mother with his intuition and induction, abduction, deduction work. He thinks outside of the box which works with his mother's mindset. However, Mycroft gets the tenderness from his mother because of how understanding he is of Sherlock's abilities and difficulties with people. And Silas is just a cold bastard, so I can see his cool detached logic going to Beatrice. who also gets her creative and inventive nature from her mother. However, the only person who's trying to keep this ship together while everyone's so chaotic is Mycroft. And it's soo good because it's *typical* older sibling syndrome. That's why I love him so much as a charater. He's so interesting and endearing to me

one slightly admirable writing choice in young sherlock is xiao wei as like a reversal of the orientalist tradition of 19th century detective fiction. adaptations have a tendency to leave the orientalism of the original canon unexamined, in recent years blind banker being the most openly racist instance of this so i was surprised to see the show not replicating that. the villainous force here is the british government and imperial expansion as symbolised by hodge and his professors and later silas. it's not really saying anything interesting about the politics of empire but i did like that by the end of the first season sherlock does not seem to care a fig about the four professors xiao killed instead he's like you're my favourite princess actually :]

shoutout to the writers of young sherlock for the name of “Bucephalus” - it’s so perfect for Hodge because Bucephalus means “ox headed” and also was the name of Alexander the Great’s horse. Plus, Bucephalus sounds like an unfortunate ailment of the phallus. Victorian sounding but also unpleasant enough for his infuriating character ☺️

James's need to be seen is very ironic consider that his future path is all about NOT being credited for his work : ) "You don't want to acknowledge me? That's fine, I'm going to stay out of your sight and make it everyone's problem".