AHHH ALSO I hated when they copied the aesthetics of john and sherlock’s first chase together (the city as a map) and Sherlock said “we hung out all night I think she liked me and she has a cane and is suicidal but I’m gonna save her…that was a good night…” like okay how many ways are you gonna make everything about john
I think so! Maybe someone can confirm this replying to this post?
At the time of which I speak, Holmes had been back for some months, and I, at his request, had sold my practice and returned to share the old quarters in Baker Street.
Ok but does it means that when Sherlock says John is family, could it mean he’s saying the same to the paramedics trying to get john to the hospital, refusing to let go of him??
Also, “Oh… it’s making a funny face. I think I’ll put a hole in it.”
Tranquilizers… don’t… do that? I mean, a very TINY hole, maybe.
Someone who knows about guns will have to analyze the gun itself, but after some cursory research… looks like a straight up bullet-firing pistol to me. And the smoke? Just?
John was not tranquilized. He did not just fall asleep. He was shot.
Who the hell was he? Now, I’m here for the angst and everything, and I know that the characters can’t be perfect all the time and they are flawed, but??? First of all, in what world John Watson, the man who punched someone for calling Sherlock a weirdo, would willingly forgive his wife for shooting him. Hell, John saw and heard his wife getting ready to shoot Sherlock again. And he forgave her. And in S4 the issue was never brought up again. The man was already miserable and unhappy in HLV even before the shooting, but suddenly in S4 everthing was okay? Oh, but he wasn’t happy. Because he flirted with some rando on a bus who smiled at him. What was the point of that? To show that John wasn’t committed in the marriage, after all? But we already knew that. He dreamed of Sherlock within a month in the marriage, her wife almost killed his best friend.. of course he wasn’t happy. The cheating thing with the girl was unnecessary because there were so many elements already that suggested that he couldn’t be happy. And here goes my question: why did he stay with Mary? Why did he want to save a marriage that was crumbling here and there? Why was he suddenly okay with Mary being an assassin? What happened to the John Watson who in TGG got so mad at Sherlock because there were lives in danger and he was just interested in the game?
And he got so mad because Sherlock couldn’t save Mary in TST? And he blamed him for her death? AND HE ACTUALLY MOOED while Mary was dying, despite the fact he didn’t even try to save her whatsoever? He didn’t even tell her that he loved her, what kind of bullshit was that. And he excluded Sherlock from his life, even though in TLD he said that it was Sherlock that didn’t try to reach for him? What? And I know many people loved TLD, and the hug was frankly the only good thing of this season, but… John beating up Sherlock was horrible. Disgusting. I almost cried when I watched that, because it was so unfair, and wrong, and Sherlock didn’t deserve that. The real John would never, ever, hurt Sherlock like that.
I don’t even know what to say about TFP, tbh. Because… John was there. I suppose. But nothing more. The writers who always claimed that John was as important as Sherlock, the writers who wrote TAB and the waterfall scene, the writers who wrote lines like “Pretty damn smart”, took this amazing and complex character and destroyed him, because that was the only way to fit him in their fucked up new narrative.
Aaand another addition to my “John is the girl on the plane/Eurus shot him/ Garridebs/John is hallucinating” theory … again, this might be random somehow, but I hope you enjoy it anyway. 🙂
So. Someone asked how John could know about Redbeard, who was actually a boy and all that stuff? Uhm, well. Yeah. Magnussen mentioned Redbeard when John was present. AND because we’ve all seen it before … in “The Hounds Of Baskerville”!
Mofftiss said they included scenes from earlier episodes to make it look clever … so … uhm. Why did they not mention THOB? I mean, it’s basically the exact same story?!
First of all, we had a nice explosion. But that’s wasn’t an ordinary bomb, it was a grenade. And a landmine.
Oh, and look who was mentioned? AND was the code for the HOUND files? FUCKING THATCHER!!!
AND NOW GUESS WHAT. I LOST MY SHIT WHEN I NOTICED THE PARALLELS TO THE SIX THATCHERS:
REMEMBER WHAT WAS IN THE THATCHER BUST?! DAMN YES! FUCKING ACRONYMS! WE WERE TOLD BUT WE DIDN’T LISTEN!!! Thatcher was the code for THOB AND TST! This is so clever but they did not show us that in S4 – WHY?
Anyway. This scene is interesting because Henry Is about to kill himself. Sherlock and John are yelling and they try to convince him not to do it.
And in TFP … well. John and Mycroft do exactly … nothing. Super fucky.
Not to forget the lights turning on and off! TFP:
THOB (INCLUDING FUCKING GIANT GLASS WALL PANELS):
And Henry nearly shooting his therapist aka the therapist/Eurus shooting John:
And I think I don’t have to explain the following pictures:
I absolutely love when Sherrinford security come to take John and Mycroft away, and John goes full on soldier and hits them and shit but Mycroft just kind of vaguely wriggles his shoulders and glares at the guards like sweetie, honey, no, you’re doing it wrong, you gotta put some effort in
“Unhand me you thugs, this suit is expensive!”
He looks like my cats when i try to bath them
he looks like that cat who got the slice of ham dropped on its face and it just
reason why I’m currently Losing It: when Sherlock uncovers redbeard’s dish the girl on the plane interrupts and he puts his head in his hand and his voice is all shaky when he’s talking, “Oh hello, are you at the front of the plane, now?” and his voice distinctly breaks on “plane.” and then it cuts back to him and he’s wiping his eyes:
And again, imagine if that’s our Garridebs reality bleeding through… garridebs….like he’s crying and his voice is breaking but he’s talking gently to John to get him through it :))) @waitedforgarridebs
Imagine if John’s taking it on himself to tell Sherlock how much pressure to put on the wound even though he’s the one bleeding out…and Sherlock’s asking him questions because he knows while John is being a Good Doctor – even indirectly for himself – he’s not lapsing into unconsciousness
LISTEN, SOFT DESPERATE SHERLOCK IS CRYING NO DOUBT
HE’S TRYING SO HARD, SOMEONE HELP THEM
Pressure… Pressure on the wound – cabin pressure – those dangly breathing things were hanging from the ceiling! He’s losing pressure, he’s going to crash!
Lots of others have mentioned this already. However, because a lot of us are upset over The Final Problem, no one wants to rewatch and write meta. But here are a few things for you all to consider.
1) John got shot at the end of The Lying Detective. He got shot with an actual bullet. We’ve been studying Sherlock’s subtext forever and we all knew John was going to get shot, we knew the Three Garridebs canon moment was coming, yet we ignored it when we saw it because we believed the narrative spoon-fed to us. John did not get hit with a tranquilizer – he actually got shot. He’s in his mind palace. Or, rather, his mind bungalow, as he’s referred to it before.
2) The Six Thatchers told us John knows a LOT about horror films. Probably why 20 of them were mentioned in The Final Problem. John also loves Bond movies, which is why this nightmare scenario is part Saw- part Bond.
3) If Moriarty was Sherlock’s inner demon in TAB, then Eurus is John’s inner demon in TFP. This is why young Eurus is wearing John’s sweater. This is why she’s shown as a mirror for him on multiple occasions. She’s bisexual, she’s kept behind glass (repression) because her family put her there at first but now because she chooses to be there as an adult. She hears Sherlock playing Irene’s theme on the violin and asks if he’s had sex – this is John’s inner demon right here, asking what John’s already asked on the surface. John’s demon can be saved only if Sherlock comes to the bedroom and helps land the plane. “Landing” is follow-through when it comes to “falling in love”. TFP is a direct mirror to TAB – Sherlock knew then that John would always be there when he’s falling, and now John knows Sherlock would be there when he’s landing. It’s a complete mirror, exactly the one we were certain of months ago. Why did we dismiss this when we saw it? Because we lost faith in the story. Like Sir Boast-a-lot. Like The Princess Bride. We’re right on schedule.
4) Everything happening in TFP is a nightmare for John. Sherlock neglecting Vatican Cameos, Sherlock leaving him to drown, Sherlock saying “I love you” to Molly, Sherlock actually loving Irene Adler, A John-sized coffin with “I Love You” written on it closed and smashed by Sherlock, Mary infiltrating their lives again to tell them how their relationship should be. John is so fucking repressed he doesn’t think Sherlock feels the same way about him that he does about Sherlock. He’s mirrored in Molly in real life – how awful for John to think “I love Sherlock, I’ve always loved Sherlock, but he thinks we’re friends, why is he making a fool of me?” – like, The Final Problem might be my new favorite episode because this is masterful.
5) Eurus does exist, but not as a crazy woman on Shutter Island. There was a reason she flirted with John, there’s a reason she’s been hovering around them for ages now. I wrote a meta about it here. It still fits 100%. The only thing I didn’t take into account was BBC Sherlock faking its own death by dropping a ludicrous red herring as a series finale.
You guys thought we couldn’t see anything gayer, anything more repressed than Sherlock’s mind in The Abominable Bride? Oh. Oh, no. Take another watch of The Final Problem and you’ll see what actually happens to a repressed bisexual with a high sex-drive and a crippling love obsession when their mind is allowed to play tricks on him.
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