Molly's maintaining a crush on Sherlock throughout Season 2, and really sticking her neck out for him (as someone pointed out, she's taking a HUGE risk professionally), kind of amazed me. Given the way he sometimes treats her, a more logical reaction would have been, "I'll save him the trouble of having to FAKE death."

But someone thought his taunting her about making Moriarty go crazy, ("You went out with him three times and he stole the crown jewels...etc...so I suggest for the sake of law and order you avoid relationships") was Sherlock-ese (Sherlockution?) for telling Molly not to date so he could have her all to himself.

Was the scenario where he swung through the window and kissed her HER fantasy? It seems like one she would have.

I thought I said this somewhere but now I can't remember where:

I'm not really sure Moffit, Gattis, etc, even know how Sherlock did it! On most shows, that would be called a cop-out. But here it kind of feels like: Sherlock Holmes outsmarted even them!

I doubt John Watson is afraid of any damned thing. 

By "afraid to know" I meant that John wouldn't want to know if Sherlock did any REALLY bad things. He wouldn't want to have to suspect that Sherlock could have been involved in someone's death, or known someone was going to die, in order to use the body.

Decoding the Subtext is a blog that is ALL about Johnlock. The author, known as Nekosmuse, decodes EVERYTHING Sherlock, from canon on out, for evidence of a romantic/sexual relationship between Holmes and Watson. And she finds plenty, especially in canon.

She has done reviews of all of the BBC series so far, now including Season 3. She was enthusiastic about the series at first, but now...not so much:

http://www.nekosmuse.com/withlovesh/

@ Raven Morgan Leigh, can you cite a specific example? Mary Morstan is a canonical love interest for Watson but she's not married when they meet.

He refers to having "experience of women on three continents." I guess I was young enough and naive enough when I first read canon that I didn't assume that meant he had necessarily SLEPT with all those women...but in any case that phrase says nothing about them being married.

I don't necesarily insist that Watson was canonically a saint. (Is that a pun?) He's a pretty terrible husband to Mary, actually, always running off with Holmes. Almost like a husband would do if he were cheating.

BUT, I know we are saying this series is not canon, BUT in canon, and in the Brett series, and, as far as I know in the Rathbone films, Holmes and Watson are NEVER violent toward each other. They do have verbal quarrels, and times of more coldness and distance, but there's a lot of tenderness between them, and their most serious acts of violence are in the name of protecting each other.

True of most pastiches, too. The only except I can think of is The Seven Percent Solution, when Watson knocks Holmes down to prevent him escaping from the house where he's being treated for cocaine. And Watson admits that his anger added force to the blow.

I haven't seen the Russian series, or the Downey/Law movies.

Ironically, I think the only place I've ever come across Holmes and Watson physically fighting before IS fan fic - of the darker variety.

I think that may be what bothers me about this new series. John being physically violent toward Sherlock is a HUGE depature from everything I've ever seen of the character. Whereas the Sherlock may not be so much of a depature from the usual.

Part of the idea of idealizing him in fanfic is that Holmes would only let his guard down with someone ideal,, and I don't think Watson has to be perfect, but I like the implication that he provides "balance" to Holmes' nuttiness and is a role model in some ways. 

Do you think when John stormed out of the restaurant he seriously intended to have nothing more to do with Sherlock?

I do think his anger was realistic; what wasn't realistic was for him to forgive right after another stunt that involved Sherlock tricking him and messing with his mind (i.e., the bomb.)

Unless, because he was reminded of how dangerous life with Sherlock can be, he was thinking something like, "God knows what danger he must have been in the last two years; maybe it's just as well he protected me from it."

And maybe, he's afraid to know too much about what Sherlock gets up to out of his sight. Example: how was there so conveniently a body available to "play" Sherlock's corpse.

Or maybe the deception will continue to be an issue between them (again, haven't seen the other episodes.)

And, though I know enough about TSofT and HLV to realize this isn't going to happen, I wouldn't put it past Moffit and Gattis to reveal in a subsequent episode that John was in on the plan / onto Sherlock all along, and the scene in the restaurant was totally staged!

I think it's odd that Mary giggles over her fiance having a fight, and doesn't seem to care either 1) that Sherlock hurt the man she supposedly loves, or 2) that if they did make up, Sherlock would occupy a lot of John's time.