I loved this. It really showed how John has affected Sherlock. He started this episode saying, ‘There are hospital rooms full of people dying, Doctor, why don’t you go and cry by their bedsides?’ because it was irrelevant but now he’s pointing out that ‘people have died’. When I first saw it I thought, ‘Huh? I thought you didn’t care’ but it’s obvious: now it’s John strapped to that Semtex and he’s all too aware that it ends in death.
And then Moriarty says ‘That’s what people do’ and Sherlock realises that John is a person and John is someone he wants in his life and yes, actually, it is possible for him to need a person.
I always found the at-least-outwardly cold, unfeeling Sherlock rather at odds with how I saw Sherlock Holmes. I saw him as eccentric, whimsical and aloof but never quite as rude and insensitive as Sherlock in the BBC series. (This is largely based on the Granada interpretation, which I think is pretty much spot on, if we allow for the fact that the mood swings were a little exaggerated.) Then I realised with a jolt that the Granada series does not include ‘A Study in Scarlet’.
That’s what I love about this series. More than any other, it has showed how much the Sherlock Holmes we know and love depends on John Watson.
^Reblogging for that!
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