#THE FINAL PROBLEM

[el-ffej]

This is so brilliant, on so many levels -- sorry, brain activity spiraling, too many jumping-off points in these panels to describe here. (The world-building/plot foundation for The Adventure of the Empty House and beyond.... dskfjsdfj.)

Main point: bravo. I strongly doubt there will be a piece of fiction that will knock me on my ass more than this, in 2025.

THE FINAL PROBLEM - part 8

THE FINAL PROBLEM - part 8 of many - - part 1 - part 2 - part 3 - part 4 - part 5 - part 6 - part 7.

"It was the sight of that Alpine-stock which turned me cold and sick."

Forgive me for ending this update in the middle of a conversation, but the next one will be LONG long. (I won't ask you to forgive me for anything else)

This is in the Watson's Sketchbook series!

[221bnassau]

Lestrade's face when Sherlock says his name correctly for the first time in the series... screaming and crying.

[unreformedcarrots]

[sandwormb]

Pre-Return Holmes musing to an unwitting audience

Meanwhile Watson:

[mustfindcreativeusername]

Sometimes I remember he died, he was dead for real, but SO MANY people loved him SO MUCH that he was brought back to life and got to have so many more adventures and get old and eventually retire and yes it's a fictional character but sometimes I think about that and I have to lie down and have a cry about it. We love you Sherlock Holmes

[tremendously-crazy]

I've been thinking a lot about the final problem lately. That was supposed to be the end. Sherlock Holmes was DEAD. He was actually dead. But then he got raised from the dead. I am eternally grateful to crazy Victorians for telling Holmes "nuh uh" when he decided to hurl himself off a waterfall.

[i-dont-talk-for-days-on-end]

I think it's terrible how Victorian readers probably lay in bed, happily thinking about what their blorbo was up to rn, and then in 1893 they opened the Strand Magazine to "The Final Problem" only to discover that Mr Sherlock Holmes had actually already died in 1891. What would you do

[allallestodo]

THE ADVENTURES OF SHERLOCK HOLMES

2.06 The Final Problem

[asoulwithadream]

[watsonsdetective]

This happened to me a few days ago, and now I'm scared.

[lxvenderjewel]

do yall think john would wear sherlock's ear defenders after reichenbach

[221bnassau]

VIOLENTLY CONVULSING

[teaspoonnebula]

Sherlock Holmes undergoes his most terrible ordeal yet: encountering A Fan.

Filmed at the Reichenbach Falls. Yes, all of it.

EDIT: Apparently this particular bit of Granada's Final Problem *wasn't* filmed at the Reichenbach Falls, which means that I clearly have a greater dedication to accuracy.

[murd3rouscrow]

Sherlock Holmes loves John Watson.

That is my main takeaway from the last episode. Whether this love is romantic, platonic or an entirely separate thing altogether. The fact still remains.

Looking at the whole ordeal from Sherlock's perspective reveals something interesting. To Sherlock, John is one of his extremely few friends, his best friend even. Sherlock hasn't had many friends. Sure Mariana is his friend, and once, so was Victor. But none of them have been a friend to him in the way that John has.

No one else had taken the time to dig deep into who he was. No one else had put themselves in genuine danger for him. No one else has followed him into murders, and kidnappings, and all the other horrors he deals with, and stays by side throughout it all. He can count on John to always be there. He can trust John with his fears. He can be vulnerable around him, and believes that John can do the same.

He has, in his own way, fallen in love with him. He has grown attached. He cares about John in a way he hasn't cared for anyone before... He nearly killed for John Watson... He'd very willingly die for him as well...

That's what takes me to The Final Problem. Where, at the threat of John getting hurt, Sherlock would back down. He'd call John, tell him everything, how much he cares. He'd ask, plead, beg, John to forgive for what he's about to do... Then he'd jump. Spending the next few years, still protecting John. And when he has to come back, he'll be afraid. Not of the press, or that he won't be accepted. That John, his John Watson will not forgive him...

After all, there is no universe, where Sherlock doesn't love his Watson.

[mustfindcreativeusername]

So apparently my grandma somehow never knew anything about Sherlock Holmes until like 9 days ago, when she saw me with "The Hound of the Baskervilles" and asked if she could read it after i was finished. Naturally i offered her the first volume and. Um. Yeah, so, in the span of nine days she read all 4 novels and 18 of the short stories. That's 1,237 pages. I didn't even know she liked reading that much. I'm actually amazed. I mean she's devouring them. And. I dunno, i just never expected to have, for lack of a better word, a fandom in common with my grandma. It's.. Really nice. You know?

And yeah i do think it's fair to say I've turned her into a SH fangirl. Today i told her about some trouble I'm having and that i dunno what to do and she went "Hey, hey. We'll fix it, ok? I'm on it, I'm Sherlock Holmes! *wink*"

Anyway what i wanted to say is that she's halfway through "The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes" and i. Well you might know that it ends with this little story called "The Final Problem". And omg she doesn't knowwww. I feel like history is happening, I don't know of anyone who started that story not knowing how it ends. (I didn't get that far, but I've known about it for like 8+ years)

Anyway. I'm kinda nervous for her. But really curious about her reaction.

(Also excited cause then i get to tell her he's not actually dead)

If she keeps this pace, she'll finish "The Final Problem" this evening.

[myiliterallyhavenolifegoals]

Sherlock & Co's adaptation of The Final Problem means I'm gonna have to listen to the note that Sherlock leaves John and Mariana before faking his death doesn't it