He is the
ultimate bad boy, and I don’t mean the kind of hot rebel guy that you can think
of if I say bad boy, I mean bad as in evil. He is basically insane but
extremely intelligent. If Sherlock is a high-functioning sociopath, Moriarty
(this Moriarty) is an actual psychopath. And they have created the character in
such a way that it can get really scary sometimes and crack you up the next
moment. He is unpredictable. All the time. That is where the greatness of the
character resides, it is just impossible to overlook someone like that and you
end up loving him, loving how much you hate him.
He is
Sherlock’s main nemesis but it is not exactly that he despises him; he just
needs someone clever enough to follow his (sick) games. They are like the two
sides of a coin: both are brilliant but each uses their brains for one or the
other side.
What I
really enjoy about this character is that with bad guys in fiction sometimes it
is fairly obvious that the ‘hero’ is always going to end up the victor of the
two; however with Moriarty, as it is depicted in this adaptation, you never get
to know if Sherlock is going to be able to get him. Because he definitely is a
criminal mastermind like no other.
He is one
of the best secondary characters I have seen for a while and the actor Andrew Scott
portrays him perfectly; he undoubtedly does an amazing job.
"You need me, or you're nothing. Because we're just alike, you and I. Except you're boring. You're on the side of the angels."
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