Yitzock wrote:

Interesting.  It doesn't bother me at all.  And it's supposed to be funny, anyway.  I think you're reading too much into it.  
Sherlock may not have physically hurt her before, but he has hurt her.  She hit him because she was angry, something she was likely tempted to do before, but didn't.  Maybe this was a tipping point?
She doesn't have to be complacent all the time or polite all the time.

You also say that testing Sherlock for drugs was not something he consented to...but he still had to do it.  Isn't staying clean something he agreed on? If there's a suspicion he hadn't kept that promise, he had to get tested. Besides, it's not like it was an invasive test.

I see it quite in a similar way to you. I don't think we are meant to read too much into it, and it doesn't seem Sherlok minds too much about neither the slapping nor the test. He seems to be more annoyed that the ruined his undercover (which he quickly forgets as well). 

Also, if he really wanted to stay undercover and not alert his friends to him doing drugs again, perhaps alerting John to his presence in the drug den wasn't the wisest move.

Vhanja wrote:

Yitzock wrote:

Interesting.  It doesn't bother me at all.  And it's supposed to be funny, anyway.  I think you're reading too much into it.  
Sherlock may not have physically hurt her before, but he has hurt her.  She hit him because she was angry, something she was likely tempted to do before, but didn't.  Maybe this was a tipping point?
She doesn't have to be complacent all the time or polite all the time.

You also say that testing Sherlock for drugs was not something he consented to...but he still had to do it.  Isn't staying clean something he agreed on? If there's a suspicion he hadn't kept that promise, he had to get tested. Besides, it's not like it was an invasive test.

I see it quite in a similar way to you. I don't think we are meant to read too much into it, and it doesn't seem Sherlok minds too much about neither the slapping nor the test. He seems to be more annoyed that the ruined his undercover (which he quickly forgets as well). 

Also, if he really wanted to stay undercover and not alert his friends to him doing drugs again, perhaps alerting John to his presence in the drug den wasn't the wisest move.

If I'm supposed to take that scene as comedy-- then, it reeeeaaaally felt flat for me. That's just bad slapstick, and ..well. disappointing writing. 

Maybe it's not "comedy." It made me laugh just because I was surprised, I guess.  That's what I meant by "funny," I think.  Funny because I wasn't expecting it.  But not hilarious.  But I don't find it disturbing, either.

I'm sure he was exposed to the gas through the leaky pipes.  But now that you mention it ... it's a clever bit of writing as it camouflages the real source of the chemical and perpetuates Sherlock's incorrect assumption about the sugar - but I never considered it from a practical standpoint, that it could be effecting daily workers in the lab.

If I had to guess, I'd say this is one of those instances where practical reality is overlooked in order to achieve a creative situation.

I bet Dr. Frankland had his fingers in the stuff and was responible for the "leaked pipes"...

Because I´m not sure that some pipes were really involved, but I have a hunch that Frankland poisoned John somehow...

John could have been exposed the drug if he was close enough to the hollow when they visited - but he got distracted by the "morse code".  

Would Frankland want to poison John?  His aim was to discredit Henry, rather than to have other reputable people seeing the same thing as Henry. 

And yes, I think it's possible that he was trying to be funny during the speech.  (Although not completely certain!  After all, he did try to drug John in HOB!). 

Sherlock doesn't always care if something is labelled "Not Good". 

So this is something interesting that someone noticed: John parts his hair on the right n S1 and S2, but on the left in S3.
http://slashscribe.tumblr.com/post/131300779881/your-gifset-is-wonderful-do-you-know-what-its

Is there a deeper meaning to this, or just a new hair stylist that got it wrong? 

I think that the explanation about the changing POV is quite intelligent and fits with the narrative:

Your part is on the opposite side when you look in a mirror, the same way photos of you don’t look like your reflection (because you’re used to seeing your own image reversed). The S3 episodes are from Sherlock’s POV, so John’s part is on the other side.