Agreed. I think he's much more interesting as an imperfect character, rather than the really rather too powerful character he was first presented as (creating the deus ex mycroft plotting problem). I think the idea that Mycroft could have been taken in by the magic code, and in falling for an appeal to his vanity, unwittingly betrayed his brother, is a really interesting one to play with (particularly in light of Mycroft reaming Sherlock out for just the same thing in BELG). Or perhaps Mycroft knew he what he was risking, but felt torn between protecting his brother and protecting the many other lives that depend on him (something they showed in BELG he is actually keenly concerned about).
Whatever actually went down, if there was a betrayal/massive mistake, I just hope that it gets picked up and actually dealt with--giving us a reason for Mycroft's apparent behavior, and having the consequences of it resolved between them. I'm afraid that, because this relationship isn't really the point of the series, we'll pick up next season without an adequate reason given for why things happened the way they did, and Mycroft's role will go back to the convenient exposition provider/furtherer of plot developments (IMO, the motiveless Ms. Adler demonstrates that M&G are not above just writing something because it seemed cool at the time, without really thinking too deeply about why the secondary character did what they did).
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Date: 2012-01-18 05:15 am (UTC)Agreed. I think he's much more interesting as an imperfect character, rather than the really rather too powerful character he was first presented as (creating the deus ex mycroft plotting problem). I think the idea that Mycroft could have been taken in by the magic code, and in falling for an appeal to his vanity, unwittingly betrayed his brother, is a really interesting one to play with (particularly in light of Mycroft reaming Sherlock out for just the same thing in BELG). Or perhaps Mycroft knew he what he was risking, but felt torn between protecting his brother and protecting the many other lives that depend on him (something they showed in BELG he is actually keenly concerned about).
Whatever actually went down, if there was a betrayal/massive mistake, I just hope that it gets picked up and actually dealt with--giving us a reason for Mycroft's apparent behavior, and having the consequences of it resolved between them. I'm afraid that, because this relationship isn't really the point of the series, we'll pick up next season without an adequate reason given for why things happened the way they did, and Mycroft's role will go back to the convenient exposition provider/furtherer of plot developments (IMO, the motiveless Ms. Adler demonstrates that M&G are not above just writing something because it seemed cool at the time, without really thinking too deeply about why the secondary character did what they did).