AH YUP. All the fourth wall moments fuck me up so much, but I think this one is the most blatant. He FUCKING NODS TO THE CAMERA. THAT IS 100% MARTIN. THERE IS NO JOHN IN THAT EXPRESSION ANYWHERE.
Gosh I hope we get something tomorrow, if only to end this hell I’m in, LOL
sherlock thinks he’s good at ping pong when he’s drunk like he sucks at it sober but he’s like “for some reason after my third shirley temple i get very good at ping pong” and he tries to show john what he means and johns like ok so they drink together and sherlock literally suxx like it’s so bad and john ends up laughing so hard he falls because sherlock is just flapping the paddle around and every time he misses he says “oopsie”
i was recently informed that shirley temples don’t have alcohol, which makes sense as i am 16 and far from the legal drinking age so i wouldn’t know that, but let’s pretend for the sake of coherency that 1) they do have alcohol or 2) sherlock was like “do shirley temples have alcohol” and john was just like uhhhh yeah sure and so sherlock got placebo drunk
“placebo drunk” sherlock wanted an excuse to act like a ho who was bad at ping pong so he could bend over whenever the ball dropped
“You don’t see me nervous about being on my third Virgin Mary.”
sherlock thinks he’s good at ping pong when he’s drunk like he sucks at it sober but he’s like “for some reason after my third shirley temple i get very good at ping pong” and he tries to show john what he means and johns like ok so they drink together and sherlock literally suxx like it’s so bad and john ends up laughing so hard he falls because sherlock is just flapping the paddle around and every time he misses he says “oopsie”
The difference between the way John thinks he feels about Sherlock being involved with someone else and the way John actually feels about Sherlock being involved with someone else.
Unpopular opinion by anonymous: I’m finding it hard to forgive John for beating up Sherlock, especially when he was weak and having a break from reality.
Yep.
This isn’t “flawed” characters; this is glamorizing and normalizing violence. It takes these characters to a whole other place in an entirely different relationship, an abusive relationship, and that is just not the show that began in ACD canon. It’s the writers’ right to take their show anywhere they want, but it’s also my right to reject it when it no longer represents what I wanted to watch—as is the case with this AU. And no matter how they tried to sugar-coat it (weakly) at the end, Mary directly pushed these two characters into this abusive situation that fostered this unhealthy violence. No, that’s not blaming Mary for the whole thing; that’s blaming the writers for drawing all of their characters into a zero sum game where everybody lost.
Whoever created this scene knows that, in the story, the thing was done, that it was done quickly, and that is was done specifically to John and Sherlock. Not to Sherlock and Mycroft.He turns his eyes to John. He does, and John sees. It’s only for an instant, a couple of frames, and then it’s back to Mycroft, but it happens.It took her five minutes to do all of this to us. To us, John.I’ve been meaning to make this gifset for a long time. It feels important.
In the last Sherrinford scene in The Final Problem, Mycroft admits that everything that’s happening is his fault, because he allowed Eurus 5 minutes with Moriarty. Here’s what happens as Sherlock prepares to shoot Mycroft:
He’s talking to Mycroft. Of course he is. And there’s no pause in the sentence. “To do all of this to us” all comes out, while his eyes are locked with his brother’s.
But then:
He turns his eyes to John. He does, and John sees. It’s only for an instant, a couple of frames, and then it’s back to Mycroft, but it happens.
It took her five minutes to do all of this to us. To us, John.
Whoever created this scene knows that, in the story, the thing was done, and that is was done specifically to John and Sherlock. Not to Sherlock and Mycroft.
that’s how i interpret it as well! that’s john saying, he is leaving sherlock so he will stop hurting sherlock. because he did, in the morgue, and when mary died, and throughout tst and the end of hlv, and all the way back to tsot, and even teh, and john knows that, you know? he knows. i think he had a lot of time between tst and tld to understand what mary was to sherlock – not just his would-be killer, but the choice john never should have made. he hurt sherlock from teh on by choosing mary when he didn’t really want mary, and john is realizing all that between tst and tld. and so john comes to say goodbye so he’ll stop hurting sherlock, and he gives this cane as a good memory of himself. remember me this way. remember me the way we were in the beginning, when things were good. and then mycroft calls, and john has no idea what mycroft will do to him, and he just. accepts it. and he goes.
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