Aujouret wrote:

I think what Sherlock told Anderson was pretty much the truth. I also think it doesn't matter anyway.
When John pressed for the answer at the end, Sherlock just brushed it aside.
So that is that. Fini.
This Sherlock series just puts whatever onscreen and the audience can believe whatever it wants.
The fan base debates and debates everything.
The writers have a BIG hit show.
It is not the Granada series with everything tied up neat with a bow.
It is not canon.

And maybe John really meant it when he said he didn't care how; maybe he even LIKES having the lingering question of something supernatural. And we, the viewer, are probably supposed to identify with John more than any other character.

...was that something he engineered, too? Or was it mostly the police who had formerly been against him?

I have said before I'm surprised John didn't suspect he wasn't dead; people have explained that.

Wouldn't you have thought that John would dedicate himself to helping clear Sherlock's name "after the fall?" Did he in fact have any role in it?

There is another reason why Johnlock fits canon better:

At the time canon was written ANY indication that ANYONE was sleeping with anyone was, of course, taboo to mention, and "Johnlock" would have been downright illegal. So it would make sense for that side of their relationship to exist, yet be suppressed from or left out of the stories, or turned into subtext.

In today's media, there's not much that's really off-limits. So it's harder to believe that there's something going on behind the scenes in a modern series, because  "why not just tell us?" Then again, with THESE writers and producers..

Please keep in mind I have seen ONLY TEH, so don't spoil, but I assume the reason behind John's kidnapping and near death will be revealed later in the season?

It really didn't seem to mesh with anything else going on.

Also, I didn't get who was sending Sherlock the texts. I almost thought John was doing it, only pretending to be in danger.

Do you think John would have "gotten back with" Sherlock if the bonfire bit hadn't happened?

On his blog,  John half-jokingly accuses Sherlock of setting up the bonfire scene just so he could save John:


 Sherlock and my girlfriend turned up in the nick of time and saved me. It was probably Sherlock himself. Set it all up just so he could save my life so I'd forgive him about what he did. Nah, I know it wasn't really.

SusiGo wrote:

"Oh my God." 
"Not quite."
 

Meaning that he's not quite God, but almost? Do you think Sherlock wants to be seen as somewhat god-like?

besleybean wrote:

I thik it's a heck of an assumption that asexual people want asexual friends.

I think I more mean that I would expect Sherlock, who doesn't have many real friends, to not do a very good job of sharing the ones he has with THEIR other friends.
 

Watching the flash back scene, "it's all a magic trick," meant, not "my cleverness is all fake," but "what you are about to see - my supposed suicide - is a trick."

sj4iy wrote:

sherlockskitty wrote:

I think Sherlock knew that John wasn't gonna easily forgive him for keeping him in the dark,  for two whole years.   But I don't think he expected that John would attack him.   None of us did.  THAT  was a surprise, for me.  (but I loved it cos it was different than it was, in  the canon)  

Actually, I think quite the opposite.  I think he grossy underestimated just how easy it would be to 'waltz' back into John's life as evidenced by:

1. Making a joke out of it by dressing up as the waiter to 'surprise' him
2. His comment to Mycroft that he could 'jump out of a cake'
3. Telling Mycroft that John had no life without him
4. Sherlock not actually, sincerely apologizing for what he did until after John was nearly killed

He really didn't think it would be hard to come back in and pick up his life just the way he had left it, and it took him by complete shock to find that he wouldn't be able to do that as easily as he had imagined.  I COMPLETELY imagined John would attack him...it just fits the personalities of both of the characters.

The "What life? I've been away." line SAYS IT ALL. Sherlock really had no clue that John would be doing anything other than waiting for him to come back. And frankly, in canon and also in the Brett series, we get this impression about Watson too. He doesn't seem to move on. He seems to be trying to hang on to his life with Holmes.

In our review of EMPT in the "Book Club," someone really slammed the story for the unrealism of Watson's quick forgiveness...but to be honest, I would have preferred the series to stay true to that... but that's partly my addiction to "Johnlock."
 

John was right about that, of course, but this is the kind of thing you say to someone who lets fame go to their head. Do we have any indication Sherlock was enjoying fame or getting any MORE cocky than usual as a result? I thought he really didn't care what "the little people" thought.

SteveNJ wrote:

Well I have to credit the actor because he fully commited to the role but the babbling, loon-type character is a cliche.

He became a comedic character. Should I be laughing at Moriarty?

Just need some gravitas to go toe to toe with Sherlock but we'll get that with the updated Milverton, I guess.

His committing suicide as a way of winning was REALLY over the top.