Now, I wasn’t exactly looking for a blatant confirmation of a romantic relationship between Sherlock and John, but it seemed logical for it to appear, particularly after The Lying Detective.
If you put a rifle on the wall in scene 1, it has to get fired before the end of the story. Announcing that John and Sherlock both need a romantic connection in The Lying Detective is one such rifle.
I wasn’t expecting it to be obvious, and it’s not, not entirely, but yeah, it’s there.
This episode isn’t about Sherlock and John and a change in their relationship, to be clear. It’s about why Sherlock is what he is. But slid in there is the assumption that Sherlock and John are back together, the way they haven’t been since The Reichenbach Fall, but this time with eyes wide open. They’re together and talking this time, that’s where we left them with The Lying Detective. They are finally, finally talking to each other about their feelings in a way they never did before. This story doesn’t address those steps directly, it certainly addresses them obliquely.
First: Mycroft wants to talk about their sister alone because “It’s family.” John stays in the conversation because Sherlock wants him there for the same reason. Sherlock considers John family. John considers himself family as well; they are in agreement about it, and John doesn’t offer to go, or move to step away. On its own, that’s a lovely sentiment shared between them, but what it suggests is that John is not only his friend. That’s nice, but only the first part of why I think they’ve moved their relationship to a new place.
Second: Eurus hears Sherlock play one note on his violin and knows that he’s had sex. That’s news! Who’s Sherlock having sex with? Eurus assumes it’s a woman. That’s the same kind of mistake Sherlock made in A Study in Pink. But who else would it be? It’s John.
Third: when John finds another DVD left by Mary, he doesn’t watch it alone. Sherlock needs come over to watch it with him. Sherlock is fully engaged in John’s emotional life at this point, just as John is fully engaged in Sherlock’s, family and all.
Most of this story is game face time, so other than a shot of them co-parenting, and them physically putting their lives back together at the end, there isn’t time for them to show much more. Except that’s sort of the point: they are working as a unit through this whole story, a truly complete unit. They are at peace with each other, they trust each other, they know each other. There is not a flicker of doubt left about each other.
Nothing will ever come between them again.
How many times does Sherlock ask John if he’s okay in this episode? A lot of times, because they are one, working together and, in the end, living together again. #bringjohnwatsonbackto221b
Mission accomplished
Life isn’t always candy ! Sometimes it’s a mouthful of sand! You just have to keep putting things in your mouth!!!
This sounds like it was written by my dog
things that Dont Make Sense
- jumping out of an exploding two-story building through the glass without any injury at all
- running out of an exploding two story building down several flights of stairs without any injury at all
- smashing a coffin into splinters and pieces with your bare hands without any injury at all
- being chained to the bottom of a well only to be able to climb up once a rope is thrown in
- being a medical doctor unable to identify human bones (even in the dark because honestly…. honestly)
- getting three unconscious people and yourself from a remote island in the middle of the ocean to your childhood home
- being able to construct a makeshift cell in the front yard of your childhood home when you’re having a psychotic breakdown for Dramatic Effect
- having a gun that’s inside of a sword that’s inside of your umbrella that won’t fire
- working in the government and being fully comfortable with human torture as well as having seen corpses and cadavers before but uncomfortable at the sight of a dead body
please feel free to add more because im sure there are plenty
- how did they land on the boat, in the fog, unbedraggled
- where are all these dvds coming from, how many did she bloody make
- how did sherlock not notice there wasn’t any glass
- why did sherlock forgive someone who is a psychopath and killed his best friend fucked with everyone that he loves, all because she wanted to fucking play?
- why is Molly still friends with sherlock after THAT
- how Euros as a child hear Jim’s voice
- how did Sherlock clear his memory and make up a dog that he loved so much
- all this for a bromance?????
sherlock restarting his heart for john ????????? ????????? ?????????? ???????????????????? sherlock almost confessing his love for john on the tarmac ???????????? ???????????????????? ????????????? ?????????????? ??????????????????????????? ???????????????? sherlock leaving the wedding early ???? ?????????????????????????????? ????? ?????????????????????????????????????? ?????????????????????????????????????????? ???????????????????? ????????????????????????????? john being jealous of every interaction sherlock has ever had with a woman ??? ???????????????????????????????????????????????? ??????? ???????????????? ??????????????????????? ???????????????????? ??????????????? ??? ???????????????????????? ???????? ??????????????????? ???????????????????? john flirting with sherlock during his own stag night ?????????????????????????????????? ??????????????????????? ????????????? ??????????? ???????? ????????? ?????????????????? ??????? ?????????????? ?????????????????????? ???????????????? ????????????? ??????????? ?????????????????
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