The restaurant scene could have started like this:

Sherlock: (takes off glasses): I'm not dead. (sits) Let's have dinner.

(Well, they're already in a restaurant after all. But maybe it's just as well they didn't do that. Enough of that  line, maybe?)

tobeornot221b wrote:

Wholocked wrote:

I also think his line "You won't need me around anymore now that you have a real baby on the way" is indicative of his feelings just then. John has just married and has a baby on the way.

So he left. 

And then the episode is called "The Sign of Three", not "The Sign of Four", after all...

Honestly, up until his reference to "the three of you," gave away that (he thought) Mary was pregnant, I really thought his references to "three" referred to them being a team of three now: him, John, and Mary. I love the idea that his speech(es) carried the subtext of being married to them both.

@Swanpride - what did you mean by "partnerlook"? Are you referring to them drunk together on the stairs of Baker Street?

If before I had seen this episode, I heard that he ends up leaving the wedding early, I would have thought, "Well, of course, Sherlock Holmes doesn't like social situations." 

But watching him in this episode I almost believed he was having a good time...after all, he was in a role where he did get to show off! I think his anti-socialness is changing a little bit, so by the end of this episode I wasn't so sure that was the right explanation anymore. I would actually kind of have thought he would want to stick around as long as possible because he'd be nearer John, even if John couldn't devote the whole evening to him.
 

Sherlock Holmes wrote:

Yeah, lots of great Johnlock moments in this episode...I think you guys have pretty much covered all of them actually.

Oh, and the bit at the end where they were like "we can't all dance together" and John and Mary go off to dance on their own. Haha. I felt like Sherlock really became aware of his isolation at that moment. It was pretty sad. I kind of want him to find someone. His character development has come on so much that he's almost ready for a relationship of sorts.

I didin't catch what Sherlock said when John and Mary went off dance, but it sounded suspiciously like something about having taught John to dance.

shezza wrote:

Well, supposedly, Benedict said they did have dinner after he saved her in Karachi 

I remember a Sherlock/Irene shipper posting that they wished this had happened...but what is your source for Benedict saying it?

There was an implication that she's still capable of distracting him....plus, I'm seeing certain similarities between her and Janine.

SolarSystem wrote:

I especially love the fact that even when Sherlock is drunk, he still is a show-off.
Sherlock: "I have an international reputation. Do you have an international reputation?"
John: "No, I don't have an international reputation."
Sherlock: "No."

And then of course: "Aaahhh, Hudders."

Not to mention...a pretty Johnlock-y scene...didn't they wake up on the stairs or floor together?

I thought about the addiction thing, and miriel, I am not a fan of bachelor parties either. But I loved everything that the bachelor party scenes implied about their relationship.

Did you notice that it was mostly just John and Sherlock? (No strippers, thank God! One advantage of having someone like Sherlock as best man.) But it was as if to John really had no other male friends to share that with. Seems to have been used as a special friendship moment between the two of them. 

But then, I missed that John tricked Sherlock into getting more drunk. That's that side of John I don't care for.

lil wrote:

TRF a solution was always meant to be a joke.There never was going to be a solid solution.

The writers know nothing is new, all stories are based on very few themes in the end. At heart Sherlock is a morality tale and a romantic tale.
All good writers know this and often make jokes on older original versions of the theme/tale.
This is why in Animal Farm the pig is named Napoleon , funny because its a political tale/theme.

The writers in Sherlock know a morality tale is about good V evil/bad.
They make jokes with Moriarty all the way from the start based on the Original Bad Guy.
A few Examples...theme tune sinnerman..the fall(of man)the apple..the side of the angels..the virgin (innocent)....getting burnt....and so many more.
The final problem in good v bad is as Moriarty says. One can't exist without the other.
Moriarty s solution is to force Sherlock to become a bad guy too.
(Via doing a bad thing before dieing.Suicide)
This is all jokes/the writers having fun comparing Moriarty to the original morality tale and the Original Bad Guy.In the Original morality tale.
Have you guessed who?

Who does that make sherlock? The anti Moriarty (heh another joke there)
Sherlock maybe a bit like the Original good guy?
Jokes/the writers having fun with sherlock..healing the sick, unexplained magic tricks..people following him...people turning on him..dieing to save people...rising from the dead.....

You get the joke yet?
The fall solution always was meant to be an unexplained magic trick..its a joke on the underlying theme.

Thats why the solutions given are also jokes..but they also have a ....well if you didn't get the joke ....here is perfectly plausable solution version....if you want it.
While at the same time maintaining the jokes/fun with the theme.

If something seems odd on the surface, compare it to the underlying theme...
In scandal...wasn't Irene a kinda fallen woman..?
And at the end wasn't she still worth saving.....?
Oh hahahhaha...maybe another joke

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