dearjimmoriarty:

My stomach flips every time he looks at the camera in the second one

Because there’s the nervous energy of the Richard Brook character

and that look he gives is almost beatific

a plea to be recognized, certainly, but there’s also a longing for forgiveness

Because Moriarty’s Richard Brook knows he’s in over his head

But is relying on the permanence of narrative recording to clear him

And then we obviously have the Moriarty underlayer

Under the helplessness

And that’s what makes my stomach drop

Because the two characters are pushing through one another in that single gaze

And he can be beatific and lost and also looking at Sherlock

Saying

“Your Move”

And I also love the way he says “I’m the story teller.”

Opening his arms, palms-up

Not a threat

Just a story teller

But the best part is that he’s telling the truth

Because he is just the guy telling the story

And in our culture we never pay much attention to the power of narratives

How they’re made, not found in the world

But this whole sequence is about narrative construction and the powerplay inherent therein

How the way we tell a story is just as powerful as the people in the story

And I just love Moriarty-as-Richard-Brook’s belief in self-evidence here

Moriarty’s constructed him to feel completely separate from the narrative process

As though it could really be as simple as

It’s on DVD