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curlyboff:

How proud Greg looks in the first gif keeps me going in life.

You know, Sally’s always wary of Sherlock and he drives Anderson bugnuts, but…look at their faces here.  This hat thing is a friendly razz, the kind of thing you do to somebody you like.  And Sally and Anderson are in the back, looking amused and, yeah, maybe even a little proud.  I feel like they’ve had their ups and downs, but at this point in the series, things have come together for these people.  He’s earned Sally’s respect, Anderson’s grudging admiration, the general goodwill of the police department, and Greg’s like, “This is the person I always knew you could be.”

What Sally does in Fall, she does because she’s a good cop and it makes sense to her, not out of any kind of malice or even distrust.  From her body language and the number of times we see her poring over the evidence, I don’t think it’s a conclusion she even wanted to draw.  She wanted to be wrong, wanted him to be innocent, but Moriarty knows how to set a man up.  He laid out the pieces so that it’d take Sherlock to come to any conclusion other than his guilt.

Yes, to all of this.

Also, on a significantly more superficial note, it’s always amazed me how Jonathan Aris, who is an attractive man, manages to look so weaselly and unpleasant as Anderson most of the time, and this photo set has helped me figure it out. In that top right-hand gif, he looks downright handsome. And you know why? Because he’s smiling. He’s genuinely amused, not sneering. He’s chuckling at Sherlock’s antics, and he’s enjoying a shared moment with Sally, and he looks legitimately content.

All the actors on this show are amazing, but I think we tend to overlook what a fantastic job Jonathan Aris does of portraying a hugely annoying dick with his face and body language. This little clip just goes to show that he can be as much of a chameleon as the main actors.

Yes to all of this, and adding that I think the reason Sally and Anderson end up looking so bitter in places during “Fall” is that they *had* grown to like and trust Sherlock, in their own way, and felt deeply betrayed by what they perceived to be his deception. 

(via tardis-stowaway)