apmnwq:

See? That smile? Sherlock stops in the middle of his showing off and goes see John. According to Lestrade’s surprised face at first, this is something that’s never happened before. Sherlock misses the opportunity to find a murderer to protect the man he just met, pretends he’s in shock and goes talk with that man. This doesn’t look like a logical reaction. It looks like a human reaction. Caused by emotions… Shock? Really??

The explanation is so blindigly obvious even Lestrade worked it out on day 1. That’s why he smiles.

the-7-percent-solution:

@gosherlocked I was reading the threads of your post of how drowning in BBC Sherlock is never the actual cause of death – if anything it’s a distraction. A red herring. Alex Woodbridge in TGG, The Dusty Death case in the beginning of TST, Carl Powers in TGG… Underwater is just where they go after something deadly has been administered. 

But the original Sherlock Holmes didn’t drown either, even though it looked like it. Doyle threw him into the water in The Final Problem and everyone thought he drowned. Needless to say, I don’t think Victor Trevor actually drowned in The Final Problem. @shylockgnomes I believe is on the right track when they say Trevor is dead but died a different way. The “drowning” is just a second mask for the real death, like all the others were. 

And considering all of the underwater imagery of series 4, I think it’s reasonable to argue series 4 IS Sherlock’s drowning. But he’s not really drowning, it’s just a cover up for something deadly that’s already been administered. Which would play back into @monikakrasnorada, yours, and my original EMP and possibly all of @sagestreet‘s wonderful analysis on a dying Sherlock. 

Series 4 is a drowning. And it’s consistent to the other water “deaths” in BBC Sherlock. There’s first the real danger, then the corpse thrown underwater, then it’s recovered and the real danger is reassessed. Steps one, two, three. We watched Sherlock get shot (or fall off Bart’s, or shoot up cocaine after the wedding) and then we watched him drown himself in TAB by jumping off the waterfall. But the drowning has gone on so much longer than we would have ever guessed, which is why series 4 is BURSTING with drowning imagery and references. 

Only step three is left – we gotta break through the watery red herring and assess the real cause of death. Which means we go backwards in time. Like with all the others. Like with the original The Final Problem/The Empty House.

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Love your fucking life. Take pictures of everything. Tell people you love them. Talk to random strangers. Do things that you’re scared to do. Fuck it, because so many of us die and no one remembers a thing we did. Take your life and make it the best story in the world. Don’t waste that shit.

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