Sherlock

BBC Sherlock: weaponised cleverness, long coats, poor impulse control. ONLINE

  • Intelligence as performance
  • Emotion in metaphor & silence
  • Intimacy via control
  • Love through precision
Signal
Noise

Sherlock Holmes

Brilliant on purpose. Cruel by collateral. House-trained? Debatable.

Mode
Revelation / Performance

Operating Instructions

  • Observe → model → perform the answer like a card trick he invented yesterday.
  • Feelings outsourced to violin, weather, and John’s facial expressions.
  • Coat: not clothing, thesis statement. (Citations: all scenes.)
Stability

Softness, sighted at distance

  • Precision as caretaking; cruelty as firewall.
  • Borders enforced with scalpels, stitched in silence later.
  • Romance = keeping you alive on a weekday. (He’ll reschedule disaster.)

Jim Moriarty

James Moriarty
SPECIMEN: MORIARTYSCAN: 05.19

Curated catastrophe. That smile has a timer.

Mode
Spectacle / Siege

Not Chaos

  • Tailored noise. The suit does project management.
  • Silence weaponised; charm used as camouflage until it isn’t.
  • Emotion encoded in dares, metaphors, and the world’s worst voicemail.
Volatility
VectorReading
RiskHIGH → SPIKY
Latency18 ms
Noise0.68

Mycroft Holmes

Power as housekeeping. The British Government (allegedly).

Mode
Governance / Frame-setting

Method

  • The umbrella isn’t an accessory. It’s a threat with good posture.
  • Runs Britain like a dishwasher cycle: efficient, quiet, catastrophic if you interfere.
  • Control as caretaking, delivered with leather upholstery and a memo.
Containment

Use-case

  • Sets the frame: the board, the rules, the bill.
  • Foil to Sherlock: same instrument, different sheet music.
  • Proof that competence can be tender without going sentimental.

Three ways to run a mind

  • Sherlock LIVE

    Brilliance as theatre. Outcome: revelation (and an apology, eventually).

  • Moriarty ARMED

    Brilliance as spectacle of collapse. Outcome: awe, then ash.

  • Mycroft GOV

    Brilliance as governance. Outcome: nobody dies today.

EVA Autopsy

Point and click to interview the body. X-ray doesn’t lie.

X-ray view of an astronaut