I was reading Sherlock’s post on John’s blog – which also is the very last post on that blog – when I realized something in the comments section that I probably should have noticed ages ago:
Does this ring any bell? ANYONE!?
Talking about elephants in the room, but this has been there since Series 3, hiding in plain sight. Three things stand out to me:
1. Sherlock is hinting heavily about John’s wedding as a crime scene and what happened there. He seems very lonely and desperate for some attention; he has been leaving comments for two days, but no-one cares. John and ‘Mary’ have apparently read his post, but they both merely tell him to shut up.
2. Finally, when John no longer responds at all, Sherlock allows himself to be distracted by Mrs Hudson, and they’re about to play CLUEDO. As in “clue”.
This is very sad and very good, @possiblyimbiassed. I never really got it how ANYONE that is stressed so much in TLD and TST was just meant to point to Culverton Smith’s choice of victims. Because we get the ANYONE at a very crucial point in Sherlock’s life, one of the most crucial of all. He realises he has lost John for good. So he gets obsessed with the word but it is about him and John, not about some cereal killer.
In connection with the blog, however, it gets even more heartbreaking. Imagine Sherlock leaving the wedding with no one noticing or caring – we get the look from Molly but she goes on dancing – and then sitting at home and not even getting answers to his blog comments.
For me more or less the whole of S3/TAB/S4 is about Sherlock trying to live without John, coming to terms with having lost the persons that matters most to him. Sure, there is his past as well – do not get me started on this – but the one constant thing that is repeated again and again is Sherlock losing Johnin every conceivable way. @ebaeschnbliah
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