#sherlock didn’t beat her; she’d left him shaken and broken and going mad with it #it was joan; joan who saw it and used it to construct a trap; using sherlock #sherlock and irene and sherlock and moriarty were never going to be able to truly beat one another #sherlock was her blindspot and in sherlock’s shadow was joan; not just a shadow but a human being with a mind moriarty discounted far too sw #swiftly #if irene must be beaten in the game; brought low for the weakspot that is her emotions for sherlock #it can’t be sherlock; who is equally as fallible when it comes to her #(especially when her character is combined with moriarty’s) #it was a game between the two main women of the text; and it was a woman; joan; who beat moriarty/irene #take note moffat
