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[maryholmes94]

~ Redbeard ~ (BBC Sherlock)

[maryholmes94]

Guys, remember 'The Final Problem'? 'Who loves you? - Irene Adler? - Don't be ridiculous, look at the coffin'. John is just an Adlock-shipper, that's it ;)

But in general - I think this scene is not specific, it just states that women help men to become better, to become somebody they are destined to be. The most important words John says here are about Mary (don't have the exact English quote in my head, sorry): she taught me to be the man she wanted me to be - better than he was in reality. And it sounds even more significant if we keep in mind who wrote this: Moffat felt so broken after his first marriage, and then Sue Vertue came and changed his whole life, so it's exactly what she did to him.

That scene when John was talking about Irene Adler but very much described Molly 👌

We all know Sherlock was thinking about her 💗

[ibreathhere]

Today, it's been 5 years since the premier of Sherlock season 4.

[cumbytwice]

Ever wondered what happened to the balloon?

[many-a-fandom-life]

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[maryholmes94]

Very interesting take.

Although I would rather suggest that Sherlock doesn't hate himself, but rather doesn't know what it is to be loved, which is similar, but a bit different after all. It is a problem of all Holmes children - they don't know what it is to be loved, and therefore, as you say, they don't value their own lives. As for Mycroft - well, being an older sibling myself (with exactly the same 7 years age gap), I can only say that a childhood with a younger brother whom the parents like a little more than you (not love, but like) could be filled with something that people may call 'abuse', but it's always a two edged thing. Besides, what Mycroft was saying was actually true. He was smarter than Sherlock, and Eurus was smarter than him - but he never said he was better than both of them. And don't forget: he was not an only person who was hiding the truth from Sherlock. What about their parents? When Victor died, all three siblings were underage, and Mr and Mrs Holmes were responsible for them, so they were there when Sherlock 're-wrote' his memories, and apparently approved it.

And as for John - well, the huge part of 'Sherlock' fandom (first of all johnlockers) believes - wrongly - that this show was similar to traditional understanding of the Holmes-Watson duo, which we saw in movies with Rathbone and Bruce, Livanov and Solomin, Brett and his two Watsons, where the producers played on the motto "the opposites attract". But it was never the case in 'Sherlock'. From the very beginning John was aggressive, demanding and reprimanding, because he was trying to make from Sherlock a person who would suit him and compared with whom he would look 'normal'. They were never 'opposites', and they never had this ability to find peace in each other's company, because both were seeking the same thing, adrenaline. And in 'The Lying Detective' all this negativity came to surface, and, by beating Sherlock John was actually beating himself. And as for Sherlock - well, he doesn't have much experience with relationships, so he can't see when the relationship is toxic and needs serious mending. He just doesn't know what to do in such situations, as he himself said to this therapist in 'The Six Thatchers'.

And finally, this scene from 'The Final Problem' - I rewatched the whole series this summer and have to say that it is very clever. Because what Moriarty says? He says: 'Here we are. The end of the line. Holmes killing Holmes'. But there are three Holmeses in the room, and so it could be interpreted as 'Sherlock killing Mycroft', but also 'Eurus killing Sherlock' and 'Sherlock killing Sherlock'. And what Eurus didn't expect was that Sherlock would change the rules of her game in order to cross that line. She didn't see that coming because the last time he was confronted with such choice he chose friendship, not family. And now he metaphorically 'killed' himself in order to become a different person - someone who would care for his friends but would not forget his family.

The Lying Detective, self hatred and acceptance of abuse

There's something I need to let out of my chest about Sherlock and this episode in particular, cause it's the one that really opened my eyes about something very important regarding Sherlock: he hates himself. He really does, and because he hates himself he believes he deserves all the abuse he gets from the persons he loves.

At some point he says he believed he thought he was an idiot, because Mycroft kept repeating he was the smartest one when they were younger. That was until he met "ordinary people" and realized he was actually, you know, very smart compared to others. And yet, he kept believing that Mycroft was way above him in terms of intelligence. He accepted it, and because he accepted it he trusted him to know what was better for him. And Mycroft, in return, felt entitled to let him believe that Redbeard was a dog and not his childhood friend, and to hide him that he had a sister, who was also a murderer, who had let said friend rot in a well. He felt he had to do it because he didn't trust Sherlock to handle the truth. He thought he was what? too stupid to understand? Too sensitive?

Now don't get me wrong, I love Mycroft as a character, and I know that he did all that "for Sherlock's good", but at the end of the day, lying, manipulate a child's memory and repeating him all the time that he's stupid was textbook abuse. And Sherlock wouldn't have accepted to be called stupid, and would have probably seen that Mycroft wasn't THAT intelligent if he wasn't so deep in self-loathing. But then how was he supposed to love himself if he was always treated like the "slow one" of the family by his own big brother?

When Molly slapped him not once, but THREE TIMES, because he was high, again he didn't flinch, didn't protest. It's not an attack against Molly, I understand why she was upset at the sight of the man she loved destroying himself, but my point is: he could have considered that it wasn't her business, he could have told her to stop. But again, if someone he respects like Molly believes he deserves to be slapped, then he does.

Now John. Sorry guys, that's the hard part I have to say out loud. John was an excellent friend up until a certain time, no argument. One could even argue, and be right, that Sherlock was the abusive one for a while: he treated him like an idiot -but then Sherlock thinks everyone's an idiot except for Mycroft, ruined his first date, unintentionnally (or not) ruined several of his relationships by being obnoxious around his girlfriends, played dead for two years instead of confiding in him like any good friend would do, made him believe they would both die only to hear him say good things about him, I mean... Sherlock's definitely not an angel and for quite a long time, he was rather a shitty friend too. I guess growing up without friends, not even your own sibling will do that to you, but it's an explanation, not an excuse for being an asshole to everyone.

And yet John accepted him as he was, and always forgave him, so of course Sherlock came to idealize him like he idealized Mycroft, for different reasons of course. For the record, I love Sherlock and John's relationship/friendship/bromance/romance/whatever it is. Up until TLD at least I found it... precious. Yes Sherlock was an ass, more than once, but he acknowledged it, and showed he wanted to be better: he not only apologized, but he also grew to become a better person, someone who would be worth of John's affection.

What happened in The Lying Detective, though... what the hell happened? So John was sad because he lost Mary. Understandable. Even if popular theories like to claim he never loved her, his despair and the fact that he keeps her ghost with him all the time said it loud and clear: John loved Mary, very much indeed. And he was mad at Sherlock who he considered responsible for Mary's death. It was also understandable, if Sherlock hadn't shut his big mouth, yada yada... Ah I love to see a a female character fridged so two male characters can suffer and grow thanks to her sacrifice . But then what we know... happened, Sherlock was high as a kite, to the point he was very close to losing it completely he lost it completely, he took a scalpel and John, well, stopped him. But then John lashed on him. He BEAT HIM UP LIKE A PULP, which was at this point completely unjustifiable because Sherlock was no longer a threat, and he would have maybe killed him in his effort if two male nurses hadn't stopped him. But this post isn't about John and his disturbing lust for violence, not really. It's about Sherlock.

What Sherlock did? Nothing. Not one time did he try to defend himself. He took all the hits, didn't ask John to stop, just once again... Accepted. He accepted that he deserved John's violence, even said John was entitled to do that because he had "killed his wife". And Joh doubled down, "yes you killed my wife". But HE knew it wasn't true. Sherlock didn't, though. He was sick because he felt as if he had killed Mary herself, and that's why he was so adamant to grant her her last wish. As someone who hated myself for a long time, I totally recognized the impulse to take the blame for everything bad that happens. That's what Sherlock does, all the damn time.

Violence between men is often glossed over because the old say "boys will be boys". After all it wasn't the first time that John beat Sherlock up, he had done it after Sherlock came back from the dead but it was just for laughs and giggles then, "haha so funny John assaulted him three times, look his noise's bleeding, lol", and also the audience thought that Sherlock deserved it after all, so... it was fine, sort of. Notice that there too, Sherlock didn't try to fight back and didn't ask John to stop. Like, I still don't undrstand why John punched him the last time: because he told him he missed the thrill of the chase? What was wrong in saying that? Except that it was probably true? I'm personally never comfortable with the normalization of violence between men on TV especially when only one is actually fighting the other, but that's just me I guess.

In TLD it was very different. It wasn't funny, and it was certainly not ok. And I was very upset when at the end, not only John didn't apologize to his best friend for physically abusing him, but Sherlock was the one comforting him at the end. The man had almost been murdered by a serial killer, before that his second role model beat him like a pulp for a crime he didn't commit, and he was still the one being strong for John.

I have a big problem with the way this matter was handled, because John's violence was just.... forgotten. And if it had been the only time that he had expressed his anger against Sherlock with his fists, I'd agree it was just a bad moment in their relationship even though he'd still need to apologize for making it ok. But here there's nothing that tells Sherlock that John won't do it again; nothing that guarantees that the next time Sherlock will upset him, John won't lash out on him again, and it will be acceptable because for some reason, violence against a man is somehow ok.

The idea is, I suppose, that there's no power imbalance like there is between a man a woman. If Sherlock wanted to fight John he probably could easily win, he's strong and has enough fighting skills for that. That's not the problem. There IS a power imbalance in that Sherlock will always believe that John is entitled to be mad at him, thus to beat him up if he wants. And since John apparently never apologized for assaulting Sherlock, I have no idea if he realized how wrong it was, and if he intends to change. I don't know about you, but personally I thought texting a woman in secret from his wife wasn't a big deal compared to what he did to Sherlock, and yet that was the only thing that, apparently, John felt guilty of.

Sherlock really broke my heart when he told John that by saving his life, Mary had given it a value. Which meant, basically that before Mary's sacrifice, his life had no value whatsoever, at least in his eyes. Let that sink in for a minute.

"The Lying Detective" is a very fitting name for this episode and for Sherlock in general, because Sherlock doesn't just lie about being almost killed by Culverton Smith, he constantly lies to himself.

He did it when he claimed he fell back into his drug habits "for a case" -if he wanted to attract the press/Magnussen's attention on him there was a lot of things he could have done, he did it all his life about being devoid of feelings and emotions, did it about the reason why he literally offered his life to Culverton; yeah he wanted to "save John Watson" and honor Mary, but it was also about ending his own suffering, a result he hoped to get at best by catching Culverton Smith, at worst by dying.

No wonder why when Eurus challenged him to choose between John and Mycroft, he chose to kill himself. That's actually strange that she didn't see it coming. Probably she didn't know him as much as she thought. He made that choice because he thought he was the one deserving to die. Not Mycroft, not John, not even Eurus... Of course it was also a calculated risk, as he had understood at this point that he was the only one Eurus wanted to keep alive because everything she did was about him for some reason. But I truly believe he would have rather pulled the trigger and shot himself rather than killing Mycroft or John. I saw once someone claim that Mycroft knew Sherlock would choose to save John anyway and that's why he wanted to make things easier, but I think nothing's further for the truth. Sherlock would have never chosen. It would have always been him.

[amelia-chan-blog2]

Eurus Holmes forshadowing

In one of the bonus videos in the dvd's, i believe in the one explaining the reichenbach fall, Mofftiss explains that there were small hints throughout the whole episode to show how Sherlock would fake his death.

Now that you have that in mind, do you remember Sherlock's deduction about John in A Study in Pink? He thought John had a brother while he actually has a sister.

Doesn't that seem a little familiar?

It does, doesn't it? The same thing happened in season 4. The whole fandom thought the name "Sherrinford" was Sherlock's brother, but he actually has a sister. Eurus. She says it herself: "Did it never occur to you even once, that Sherlock's secret brother, might just be Sherlock's secret sister?"

I don't know if this has been noticed before, but I'll try making a video edit about it.

[bored-dandy]

Oggi nel giorno di San Valentino mi è venuto in mente questo dialogo tratto da una puntata della mia serie preferita: “Sai una cosa Mary? 
Non sono l’uomo che credevi che fossi.
Ma il punto è questo: 
Quello che pensavi io fossi, è l’uomo che vorrei essere. “

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[maryholmes94]

As I understood, the original scene had nothing to do with Molly at all. So Molly never appeared in the original script of 'The Final Problem'.

(Here is my source. I don't remember when exactly they talked about it, but I hope I understood them correctly)

I'm honestly a bit worried about what they had originally planned for Molly that others disliked so much. With the tone of the episode in mind I can think of two things:

They solved the puzzle and realized that Molly was never in the coffin to begin with. Sherlock smashing the coffin could be a leftover from this.

She really was there and they solved the puzzle, but it didn't save her, because Eurus doesn't play fair.

[maryholmes94]

Rewatched 'The Final Problem'. Of course it's not a detective story and not even a thriller - it is more a philosophical parable, a mythical search of one's identity which could be an end, but is in reality just a beginning of Sherlock's journey. It is the only episode of the show that keeps the viewer in suspense until the very end and has a perfect hommage to every permanent character and actor. Benjamin Caron's direction crowns the story perfectly, and the real stars of the night are of course Benedict Cumberbatch, Sian Brooke and Mark Gatiss. I've probably said it before but I say it again: it doesn't matter if Martin Freeman doesn't want to return - let's rename the show 'Holmes' and have a four and a half hours long celebration of the three most prominent British actors of our time (two of whom are so undeservingly less famous than the other). But no, I probably talk to much. Don't mind me. I only add that I can't imagine Mycroft and Eurus without the wonderful voices of Valery Storozhik (Валерий Сторожик) and Irina Kireeva (Ирина Киреева), who did a voice acting for Mark Gatiss and Sian Brooke in the Russian version of the series, and also give a link to the video where I play 'Who You Really Are' on piano (recently @rey-jake-therapist asked me about my talents - consider it one of them ;) )

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[maryholmes94]

Well, I dislike 'A Scandal in Belgravia' very much, and I find 'The Reichenbach Fall' just silly, but 'The Final Problem' is my favourite episode of 'Sherlock', and I'm so exasperated with the constant fandom mantra of how 'they' hated it, and how disappointed 'they' were with it, and how 'they' don't count season 4 as canon, that it almost makes me want to quit this all and go, but then I remember that it is Mark Gatiss' favourite episode too, and I know that I have to stay simply to remind people about this fact.

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