So, I thought to myself… What if Sherlock and John make TIME’s “most influential” list?
And then, as always, I got a bit carried away.
Above is the cover and article, as well as a bonus cover for another article/issue.
I’m not going to write “The Final Problem,” but my thinking is that after everything happens with Moriarty and Mary etc. (a.k.a. I have my own thoughts about it that aren’t what we were shown in series 4), John writes an article like a blog post but publishes it as a TIME exclusive in January. He and Sherlock both decide the public deserves the truth, and neither of them wants to do interviews or entrust the story to anyone else. So John just sets the record straight once and for all, and that’s the cover of the issue. Oh, and Kitty Riley edits it… because her false stories about Sherlock catapulted her to fame, and they figure it’s only fitting that she help tell their truths–and she’s willing.
In my head, that article is a few pages and would be laid out with documents, footage stills, etc., so I don’t foresee myself writing or creating it anytime soon. But if I get hit with enough inspiration, perhaps I shall give it a go.
The AO3 link below includes the above graphics, the accompanying fic, Mycroft’s article typed out within it for easier reading, and a blog post by John in both graphic and textual form.
The “secret” London project mentioned at Comic-Con is rumored to be the BBC’s new theme park. My guess is the Sherlock attraction will be a rollercoaster covered in homoerotic imagery that comes to a sudden stop in front of a sign that says “NO HOMO”.
His face when he says “That’s everything”… So softe, he sees what a beautiful love these two characters share. And his expressions in this interviews are SO different from pre and post s4 ones.
Much has been said about John in S4, his anger, his changed personality, his distance, his resentfulness, his brutal treatment of Sherlock – I could go on. Sure, in TEH we got angry John, violent John, but then it could be excused – at least up to a certain extent – and knowing Mofftiss they might have found it even funny to correct Canon by having not just one, but three physical attacks. After all they clearly stated that to them Canon Watson’s reaction was not very believable. Anyway, we are shown that John has not forgotten the fall but has forgiven Sherlock by the end of TEH.
Then TAB happens and we get the above scene in the cemetery, a scene that is modern AND happens in Sherlock’s mind without a shadow of a doubt. John being angry, John choosing to leave with Mary, refusing to help Sherlock on his case. And there is also the short moment in the carriage when Victorian John is substituted by modern John, saying: “Sherlock, tell me where my bloody wife is, you pompous prick, or I’ll punch your lights
out!” Both scenes are not real. Both times John chooses Mary over Sherlock, leaving him, threatening him with violence.
And then, in S4, in two episodes we are supposed to take for real, we get the same angry John, the John who is distant, who leaves Sherlock, who blames and rejects him, who saves him only because his dead wife tells him to do so.
In my humble opinion – since I do not believe that Sherlock suddenly has turned into a prophet or a clairvoyant – Sherlock is processing all that has happened to him after the fall: John’s anger, losing John to Mary, being almost killed by Mary, realising and accepting his feelings, trying to ensure John’s happiness at the cost of his own, overcoming his self-loathing and repressed emotions. And this processing is still going on S4, making John’s behaviour more believable. This is not the real John Watson we see but Sherlock’s inner worst case scenario: a John who blames him, cuts him out of his life, brutally beats him while being high and weakened by drugs. This would also explain why there is no apology during the hug scene. While making progress, Sherlock still believes that he does not deserve an apology. He has still got a long way to go.
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