sweettasteofbitterold-blog:The Seven Deadly sins, the Sherlock versionI like this idea, but I’

sweettasteofbitterold-blog:The Seven Deadly sins, the Sherlock versionI like this idea, but I’m not sure I can get behind Molly as greed or John as envy. (Not trying to shit on the gorgeous gifset! Just musing.) What if they were shuffled around like so:Irene - Greed (yes, she’s a sex worker, but her character is more about greed than about lust–she’s motivated by what she can get and what she can gain.)Molly - Lust (I know she’s awkward and generally chaste, but the defining aspect of her character in the context of the series is her crush on Sherlock, her taste in men, her dating life. She is repeatedly weakened by her reactions to men.)John - Wrath (John is so unsinful that it’s difficult, but I’d say his temper, his vengefulness–which are triggered, generally, by loyalty and protectiveness–are his weakness, at least. Sometimes. Closest I could get.)Moriarty - Envy (I think of wrath not being about nastiness, one-upmanship, twistedness, or even evil; there’s something purely angry about it. Moriarty’s character is not, primarily, about destruction; in his way, he’s actually a creative person. Ultimately, though, he’s all about what other people have that he doesn’t, i.e,. humanity and companionship; although, he’s managed to turn it around to the idea of what he has that others don’t, the weaknesses they have that he doesn’t. That sentence got away from me a bit.)And then leave Sherlock as Pride (which is the version I’ve always known; vanity’s a bit different) (and which comes, famously, before the fall), Lestrade as Sloth (though if you ask me that’s a bit unfair, but nowhere better to put it), and Mycroft as Gluttony (I could make an argument for why this is more than tangential, but I think it’d be a bit of a stretch).–MM -- source link
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