Schmiezi wrote:

SilverMoonDragonB wrote:

Schmiezi wrote:

John's face(s) during the entire scene with Janine at 221b. I could watch it in slow motion over and over again.

I think his reaction reflected so much of the fandom in that moment....

For a short moment I wished I hadn't read "The Advenure Of Charles August Milverton". I surely would have looked just like John.

I had re-read it just the day before but I was soooo WTF that I didn't make the connection.
My face was exactly like John's  LOL

Sherlock: I'm undercover.
John: No, you're not!
Sherlock: Well, I'm not now!

Sherlock's tantrums always make me laugh 

Hello!

Well, there are obviously many deep, sad and dramatic moments in HLV being discussed in other topics so why don't we talk about the funny ones? I'm starting:

One very funny moment for me was when John is leaving to "rescue" Isaac Whitney from the drug den. I was like "Is Martin going to drive? Really?" because well, he can't. And then Mary comes out of the house and goes with him and they go into the car and there is a very sudden cut to the car already at their destination and John taking the tyre iron (or whatever is called) from the trunk and I was...  LOL  You weren't very subtle there.

I think that CAM had contacted before (Why? Did he make her do somthing for him in exchange of his silence?) so she knows who is sending the message. He mentions her family because she has family although they maybe think her dead. Any way she can't contact them but CAM is reminding her that he can.

How does Janine arrive to work every day? Does she uses Magnussen's private lift or there is another lift she uses? Anyway she must have a card that gives her access or someone else must have one (a security person that lets her in). Cards can be stolen or cloned and I'm sure Mary found a way to do just that to get in. I don't think Janine gave her access.

Amy Airiel wrote:

Marva wrote:

Amy, I've made a somewhat similar experience. I've been a johnlocker, but only in terms of fanfic etc. This is the first time I actually see it on screen. As I stated before somewhere: I would have bought it if Sherlock had confessed his (romantic) love at the airplane.

I would have, too. Totally. What for other people including me some time ago would have been weird and senseless; would have turned very plausible, even certainly beautiful. And painful, really painful, given that he was gonna leave forever.
I'm a romantic.

I agree. There are things that are a fact (i.e. John is straight, he likes women and see Sherlock only as a friend). So I'm not expecting them to become romantically involved, I know that it won't happen. But my point in this thread is that Sherlock loves John deeply and unconditionally. Is it romantic love? I don't know because I'm not sure Sherlock is able to feel romantic love.

If you had asked me in series 1 I would had said that I wasn't sure that Sherlock could love at all (any kind of love). In series 2 I would have said he could feel respect and that he cared deeply for John.

I have always been a Johnlocker but I was the 1st one to admit that it was only a fantasy and I couldn't see it in the show (well, except when John got jealous of Irene). But now? This entire series has been a testament to how much Sherlock loves John. John loves Sherlock too but only as a friend (a brother maybe), that's clear. Sherlock loves John above everything (even above his own freedom and even his own life). Call it whatever kind of love that you want but it's so big and so unconditional that it really makes me cry.

Ozma wrote:

belis wrote:

Amy Airiel wrote:

I want all of this THOROUGHLY REFLECTED by John Watson, not just a couple of days and a burnt USB.  

 
Was it not a couple of months that have elapsed? It seemed to be summer time when Sherlock got shot and Christmas when John and Mery had the USB conversation. So that is a considerable length of time to think things true.

yes, it was a few months...

The wedding was apparently in May so HLV occurs in June (John hasn't seen Sherlock in a month according to Mary). John forgives her on Xmas day so yeah, he had about 6 months to think about it. 

I have a question: where has John being living during those months? With Mary or back at Baker Street?

SolarSystem wrote:

I just found this on tumblr and it almost made me cry...


everyone on my dash is screaming “HE WAS SO GOING TO SAY HE LOVED HIM” , but he did say that, weren’t you paying attention?
Sherlock and John don’t communicate the way “normal” people do - how could they? One is an adrenaline junkie who seeks out bullets even after one left a web of dead cells on his shoulder and the other introduces himself as a “high functioning sociopath” to protect himself from his own emotions (because his childhood pet died - I’m crying into eternity over that.)
So what did we see?
He took his glove off when he shook John’s hand, he offered his name, full name, to be theirs - remember how John hates his name, but “gives” it whilst Sherlock is, to his eyes, flirting with Irene? 
He shot a man. He shot a man. In the head. Point blank, no regrets. He shot a man for John Watson. He jumped in a fire for John Watson. He jumped off a roof for John Watson. 
He helped pick out the colour for the bride’s maid’s dresses for John Watson. He wrote that best man’s speech for John Watson. He saved “the most unsociable man he’s ever met” for John Watson. 
He moved John’s chair because he couldn’t bear to see it vacant. (or for Janine to sit in it? It’s John’s after all.)
He got bloody engaged to ensure John’s wife was fine.
He relapsed.
He fucking bought himself back into consciousness with the thought “John Watson is in danger” after being shot.
He let John choose if he wanted Mary to stay. He only told John “six months”, so he wouldn’t worry him, because that’s not on - John can’t worry, because John Watson is his top priority. 
He knew he was going to his death so he made that joke about his name so he would see John Watson smile.
He did all that fully knowing that while John is his pressure point, he is not John’s. 
If that’s not an “I love you”, than, my dear fandom, I don’t know what more do you want.

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