I DEDUCE THAT UOU AR SEXY

a-timelord-consultant:

mortitz:

#why are people so unwilling to accept that moriarty just wanted to die? #the final problem was staying alive #like he says this #it is a line that is uttered #that is then followed by ‘it’s so boring isn’t it?’ #his suicide wasn’t about being so desperate to win that he’d do anything #he wanted to die. this is made clear in the first line of the scene. IT’S THE FIRST THING HE SAYS. #and i know people cling to their ‘he faked his death’ theories #but honestly i think it’s pure delusion #how the fuck could that have been faked #even a blank would have killed him at such close range or at least done enough brain damage to ensure he won’t be conscious #and even comments moffat and gatiss have made about ascott’s performance have gestured towards this suicidal tendency of moriarty’s #the ‘blank-eyed desolation of a man too clever to exist’ #and ‘the bone-deep weariness with existence’ #why are people even so eager to believe he’s alive? #i mean god knows i want more moriarty but bringing him back would cheapen everything that made him in TRF amazing #it just bothers me how people close themselves off to how fantastic the rooftop scene was by clinging to these delusions #lmao i should stop being so fucking grumpy and just let people stick to the readings that make them happy huh? #but they’re just all so CERTAIN and it’s so fucking clear that moriarty just wanted to die and UGH IT’S SO PERFECT WHY CAN’T YOU EMBRACE IT #and idk i hate when interpretations render the source material uninteresting #like how boring is the thought of the rooftop scene just being another performance of moriarty’s? #that none of it was genuine and that whole long ass exchange was just bullshit filler to lead up to some dumb ‘PSYCH HE’S ALIVE’ twist #the thought makes my blood go cold lmao

^that
I love Moriarty as well. Andrew Scott’s portrayal of the criminal mastermind will never leave me, the fans, or the show. He made such a great impact, that it’s hard to accept the fact that he, Jim Moriarty, is dead, gone.
In some sorts I believe that his scene on the roof was some sort of final test, to see if Sherlock could prove him wrong, to keep his mind away from realizing that the game, his game, was coming to an end after what he’d done in order to twist Sherlock’s life to hell. As in, in some sorts, hold some hopes into filling his boredom, to stray the fact that everything was becoming ‘ordinary’.
He didn’t need to encounter Sherlock on that rooftop, no matter how much fun this all was, or if it seemed fitting. Despite being Sherlock’s ‘number 1 fan’, Jim Moriarty did not necessarily have to be there. He could have sent one of his men to kill Sherlock off. Hell, could’ve sent his whole platoon to clean off all his marks before sending Sherlock off to oblivion.
But no, instead he shows up, just as he had asked of Sherlock, at the designated spot of Sherlock’s choosing- no questions asked.
And no matter how you look at it, there or not, Moriarty was going to send himself off, because he realized: rarely do you meet a man of his own caliber, of Sherlock’s genius, much less of Mycroft’s.
Sure he can kill Sherlock off and mess around with the older Holmes- but even John defines the man as boring and lazy- so where’s the fun in that?
Without Sherlock, Jim has decided that he is nothing, and that this whole game, - built on the idea of taking him out of the mundane lifestyle of continuous lack of color-, was the only thing keeping his will to live.
He wasn’t depressed, sad, none of that, no. He was bored. He was drowning in it. And Sherlock had not only taken him out of it, but also made him feel very alive, after what I would believe was a repetitive lifestyle of continuous hobbies that were beginning to lose their luster.
So that day in which Sherlock had to be killed off to end the game, Jim Moriarty had known, and decided, that he would no longer find the thrill of living without his other half, without the thing that was making him giddy, angry, alive.
So when Sherlock had failed to prove him wrong, when Sherlock pulled out the card of his being there was a great asset to put Moriarty in the wrong, Jim had then and there decided that there was no reason to continue playing the game.
It had become boring. He was bored. And he wouldn’t allow Sherlock the end game victory and thrill. He would take the whole operation down with him with a single bullet to the head if it had come to it, and just as he predicted, it did.

It is known that James Moriarty, in the books, dies, and Sherlock Holmes does not. Not to forget that Moffat and Gatiss have kept the plot accordingly with changes to modernize and impact today’s audience. So why do we feel the tendency to just call out shenanigans and decide that Jim is still alive?
I know it sucks, but you have to stop coming up with these theories of faked death. As it goes in the old novels, Holmes survives, and Moriarty does not.