Right? I love it when characters are under the delusion they're Above It All (... or, as the case may be, Big Bads) but are in truth endearingly clingy and, in their own way, moral.

It does help that he didn't write it! I'm, perhaps irrationally, way more forgiving of -isms people don't notice than of -isms they spew themselves. I'm relieved to see Gatiss didn't write it either. (I like Gatiss!)