Okay, I really want to respond to the posts about Mycroft and how he reacts to violence and guns in TFP.
There is a huge difference between defending yourself and watching a man commit suicide. When Mycroft is in his home, he goes into defense mode. He’s being attacked and, in his mind, that is a good enough reason to pull a gun. Also we don’t know what kind of shock he could have gone through after killing the clown. At that moment, he was in fight or flight mode and he did the first thing that came to mind to protect himself.
At Sherrinford, the man is completely innocent. Mycroft will not shoot a man who has not done anything to hurt him. Watching someone blow their own brains out is an extremely terrible thing to witness. Also, with all of the adrenaline going through his body, he went into shock and began to get sick. We know he doesn’t involve himself much in casework and he’s probably only seen gruesome videos where he is not really involved or emotionally compromised. The combination of terror, horror, and his body’s natural reactions lead him to behave differently in these two scenarios.
I understand that it may not make sense at first, but his reactions are completely valid and are understandable for the different situations.
As with a few of my other posts, the one you screenshotted has a dash of hyperbole and is distinctly shitpost-y. There’s no room for nuance in it.
The thing is I actually agree with all of what you’ve written here.
I guess my issue is, his reaction to what happened in TFP isn’t completely outrageous or “wrong”, it just felt a tad unexpected to me given that in the past he’s kept it together in the face of torture and death. Again, they were very different scenarios though and the scenes in TFP involved prolonged exposure to stress of all kinds – I get that. It’s apples and oranges and no one can predict how someone will react in such a horrifying scenario.
Personally, I just felt on first watch that his reaction came out of left field, it was unexpected to me given what I thought I knew of the character.
But hey, I was wrong (probably in part down to some of my headcanons as well as what occurs in canon) and I’m now attempting to adjust my Mycroft-y world view by making stupid posts about it. I’ll get there in time.
I will never in my life understand this. Never ever ever.
i hope mark dreams of them at night. i hope he wakes up in a cold sweat to the ghost of ACD inches from his face asking him what the fuck he thought he was doing. “i hated writing the stories because i had to hide from the world that holmes and watson were in love. you hate writing them because the world wants to see them in love?!” and then he ghost-slaps him, which doesn’t really hurt when you’re a non-corporeal entity but is really freaky. and then when he disappears with a well-placed victorian invective, up comes oscar wilde cause he wants to explain his passions as well.
pitch themselves through the window – onto the awning of Speedy’s. Boop, and they’re fine.” – from ‘Sherlock behind 221B: The Final Problem’
THAT IS RIDICULOUSLY IMPOSSIBLE BECAUSE:
Anyone hurling themselves from such a height would need to be hospitalized (which is in fact something they made Sir Edwin say about Mycroft, who merely took the stairs– it’s like they’re being sarcastic on purpose), and yet Sherlock and John magically reappeared without a scratch. Everything about it defies the laws of Sherlock’s universe – but of course, we already knew that.
My point is that this man sounds desperate to point out how nonsensical this episode was. Just look at his face, how he looks at the camera -at us- to give us that ludicrous explanation. He’s teasing and enjoying it. There’s absolutely no logical explanation for any of this.
“Which is strange and awful and exciting (…) Boop!”
like i know we have had discussion of the use of “i want to break free” in TFP and like clearly the song choices are always extremely intentional and deliberate and serve a purpose
and if you listen to the entirety of the song, literally the entire thing applies to sherlock
if we operate from the assumption that there is an ep 4 and that TFP is actually the problem and not the resolution to the problem, then the use of this song is extremely telling
Steven Moffat: “… in the whole sixty story canon, he [Arthur Conan Doyle] allows one moment of genuine affection between Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson. You always know it’s there. There’s one moment in ‘The Three Garridebs’…” Mark Gatiss: “You’ve hurt my Watson.” Steven Moffat: “…when Holmes for a moment… yeah, ‘You’ve hurt my Watson.’ And that’s it. And I think, arguably – and we would argue quite strongly – that under the surface – you know, the detective stories are merely the surface – is the story of the greatest friendship ever.”
The Garridebs moment in TFP:
the point of this post is that this like, can’t be real
Eurus and Sherlock are the same person. Just like at the end of Fight Club, his biggest enemy is himself. Mycroft told said as much in TAB about leaving him alone in a prison cell. Which is exactly how we find Eurus.
Agree…Eurus is one of Sherlock’s inner deamons, one of the fights he had to fight with himself!!
Is this something they thought about or is this just some kind of coincidence? Again?
No coincidence imo!! @just-sort-of-happened@consulting-benaddict
Btw in this line you have also Moriarty’s and Sherlock’s conversation: “I see, you are me!”
Also Moriarty is a part of Sherlock…the rude “let’s play a game” part…
But lovely @ebaeschnbliah wrote a nice thing about it, look at it! Here’s a link, because I’m on mobile
Thank you so much @loveismyrevolution for mentioning my thoughts. And I fogot another antagonist of Sherlock who can be read as a part of his old self. Frankland the mad scientist without any conscience. I kow, at first sight there seems to be no connection. But compare their actions in THOB. There are parallels although the Frankland character is exaggerated.
Frankland (and Baskerville as a whole under Mycrofts protection) conducts his own dangerous experiments. He uses human beings as objects to test his self-produced drug. And we cndemn him for his actions …. rightfully.
But now look what Sherlock does. He is willing to administer a drug to John. Sherlock doesn’t know how it could effect the man. A man who is his closest friend – his only friend. A man who suffers from PTSD. Sherlock does it nontheless. Under safe conditions – he says – but that’s not the point.
And in TSOT Sherlock tells the guests that once he’s druged John and John lost one whole day.
Sure, it’s not quite as bad as Frankland’s actions. The motives are different. But it is very very ‘a bit not good’. We love Sherlock and therefore accept his action. Maybe even smile at it. But at the core …. it is the same shit. And Sherlock considers this too during his ‘evolution’ and realizes the wrongness of it.
Eurus is Sherlock, the part that is the frightened child Sherlock who’s emotional development was stopped because of Redbeard, he has to save her to save himself and John, he has to reintegrate that frightened ‘pure intelligence only’ part into the whole of the man who loves and who needs an emotional life.
and he has to do it where it began, at home where he was a child, the place where he buried the trauma.
We see the result. His music is a beautiful duet, both parts are in harmony and it’s beautiful.
I love this addition @alltheholmesandjohn!!!
Exactly that!!
And you know what…the last duet is not only in harmony… no, it’s the most beautiful Johnlock music there can be, because both themes John and Sherlock are as lovely entangled as possible and it’s passionate, it’s happy, it’s balanced and it’s really really lovely!!!
It made me cry so nice…and nothing about this finishing music is about anything but John and Sherlock!!!! @ebaeschnbliah as addition, you know, music 😉😅
Oh, this is a wonderful addition @alltheholmesandjohn @loveismyrevolution Can’t wait for watching it again. Thank you!
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