How could she recognize his voice at all?

She said she heard shouting, and apparently recognised Mycroft's voice.

The thing I loved most about series 3 (apart from the things that have already been mentioned here) was the route they took with Mary. Her character is just great IMO. And then especially the fact that Sherlock liked her. So much even that he made a vow to protect her, not just because she's John's wife but because he really likes her as a person and allows her to be one of his closest friends. I didn't expect that and I thought it was a wonderful idea. Although Sherlock had his problems with the fact that John didn't live in Baker Street anymore, all three of them made an effort to get along and it worked most of the time.
In general there was so much about friendship in this series, it was even more in focus than in S1 and S2, and I thought it was wonderful.

So I just watched it again (the scene at Baker Street), and I'm convinced that they're both faking. And she's torturing him. I think in their dialogue she's threatening Sherlock to tell John the truth. And the kiss in the end was not Sherlock's intention but she did it on purpose because she knew he didn't like it and he had to play along.
Or maybe that's just the only way I can deal with that scene because otherwise I find it too awful. I just refuse to believe that anyone could be so stupid, and I don't understand how their "relationship" is supposed to have worked before that day.

I have a conspiracy theory.
I don't buy the Janine story at all. Romance or not, I just can't believe that she could be that stupid. I mean, she first met Sherlock at the wedding, where he made a rather harsh speech against romantic love and marriage in general (afterwards he admitted that wasn't very nice but he didn't really take it back). That was in May. HLV takes place in autumn if I saw that correctly. So we're supposed to think that only about five months later Janine is head over heels in love with Sherlock and believes that her feelings are reciprocated? So much that she does anything he asks of her, stays in his flat overnight (apparently more than once) although he's not there, and doesn't even notice that he's using drugs? She believes all his lies although they're extremely obvious? Apart from that, in Baker Street she doesn't exactly act as if there's so much romance in their relationship. With her behaviour and her comments she makes it seem as if it's mostly about sex. Later it turns out that wasn't the case at all.
Then her reaction in the hospital after she broke up with Sherlock. If she had been so in love, shouldn't she be crying? Where are the emotions? She's triumphant because the press published her stories and that's it. She even says something along the lines of "we could have been friends". So she got over him that quickly?
I suspect there was something else going on. Sherlock made a big issue of not wanting anybody to enter the bedroom. It's possible that there was something in the bedroom, maybe also in the bathroom, that nobody else was supposed to see. Janine's actual task might have been to distract John. On a cue she would walk out of the bedroom, only half dressed (John would of course be very impressed by that), and then act as if she was doing things with Sherlock in the bathroom to make sure John wouldn't go in there either. Then Janine and Sherlock would put on a show to make sure John didn't ask too many questions about other t

Sherlock lives alone now. John is not there to fetch things anymore. Sherlock needs several laptops in every room because he's so lazy.

This morning when I arrived at work, my colleague wasn't there but his radio was already on. So I sat down at my desk, and suddenly the radio: Oh, what a night! Late December back in '63 ...
I immediately jumped up, left the office and spent a couple of minutes somewhere else until I was sure the song was over.

gently69 wrote:

I also never thought that is interested in Janine as a person. But she could have been his alibi to stay at the wedding. No point for him to amuse himself on his own. Yeah... friends... maybe he IS scared of losing John .

 
Janine at least showed a bit of interest in Sherlock's deductions during the day. Perhaps he hoped she would be somebody he could have a laugh with, dance with her, show off his talents and get some positive reactions from her, continue trying to pick a man for her just because it's funny ... But all that doesn't happen, because she is not interested in him as a person either. He was just useful, like she said in the beginning.
I hope that John will prove Mrs Hudson and Mycroft wrong in the next episode and show that marriage doesn't change things that much. He's a better friend than that.

Cheesecake sounds great! Thank you.

tobeornot221b wrote:

SusiGo wrote:

Did you see Sherlock's wedding pictures video on John's blog? I love that it ends with a photo of the two of them. 

Yes, lovely! But then: "directed by Sherlock"...

 
It's nice to think it shows the people who are most important to Sherlock.