It sounds very plausible and in character for Sherlock. I´m just puzzled Mary and John left him to leave like that. But it´s true that John´s state could be bad and he maybe had to be checked in the hospital right away...

Vhanja wrote:

I doubht John would be angry, because he was already on his way to visit Sherlock when he was kidnapped. 

Yes, that´s true - he probably wanted to reconcile already.
 

I remember feeling pretty annoyed when I read John's blog and included in the entry is John saying that Sherlock probably did it just so he could save John and get him to forgive him. I know it's meant as a joke, but that's pretty heartless. 

I do not really agree with you. This is just sarcastic John speaking and he adds:

 "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."

And further down: 

"But then the whole kidnapping/bonfire thing happened. And he saved my life, of course. And I went to say thanks and... I was hooked. He's like a drug. He told me about the terrorist plot and I was hooked."

So John knows what Sherlock did for him - during the bonfire and before on the roof. And just look at the wording: hooked, drug. 

"It's bloody brilliant. #sherlocklives means #johnwatsonlives."

I personally find this here far more offensive and it throws an interesting light on the park bench scene in TSoT:

I will say, though, she's the best thing that's ever happened to me. Sorry, Sherlock  

To be honest - that BBC guy who writes John´s blog probably never watched the show himself, because he had John all wrong and OOC. In that entry for TEH, John also says about Sherlock something like: "Oh, I know he is a psychpath...." which is bullshit. It sounds as if Donovan kidnapped John´s blog. The man who once headbutted the policeman for calling Sherlock a vigilante would never use Donovan´s scathing remarks to describe his friend....

Butbutbut, girls. Don't you see?
John equates Sherlock and Mary in their position yet again.

TeaCub wrote:

There is that, yes!

As for the blog - the moment where I was the most upset was the entry for TGG, when John does say that maybe Donovan is right and that maybe Sherlock is a freak. That was incredibly heartbreaking; the whole point of their friendship is that John was never supposed to say that. Even if he's thinking it, when he's unsure or frustrated with Sherlock, he was never meant to say that. How hurtful. If I'd have been Mycroft and read that I would have purloined John once more and given him a talking to. 

That´s why I blame the BBC person who maintains the blog of doing their job without understanding the characters they are writing about.

John´s blog in the show is actually supposed to be read enthousiastically by many followers including the Queen, which means it simply has to have some literary quality and interesting content. The same blog existing in our world is written in a simple, almost neanderthal style and is obviously meant to be only a joke.

And then there´s a psychological side to all this: John as introduced in the show is not the type to smile into somebody´s face, call him his friend and then write nasty things about him behind his back. John is portrayed as a principled, straighforward man who does not hide his friendship or enmity behind such false fasade. If he was angry with Sherlock, he would scream it to his face rather than writing malicious quips about him in secret. His personality and attitude simply does not match with a personality of the writer of John´s blog.
 

God, yes, I agree that that blog is awful.  Its dates clash so badly with the show.  I can't understand why the show runners don't keep better control of it/provide Joe with enough information that he can be more accurate.

Anyway, back on topic: seeing as the last thing that John had said to Sherlock was, "F...... cough," or words to that effect (!), Sherlock might have felt that he wouldn't be welcome at the hospital once John was feeling better.  Assuming that a still drugged-up John was taken to hospital by ambulance, Mary would have been the first choice to ride with him and maybe Sherlock didn't dare go to the hospital himself. 

Or maybe he got back on the motorcycle with the intention of riding it to the hospital but then realised that he might not be welcome, and instead took it back to its owner who was presumably sitting in Mrs Hudson's kitchen plaintively awaiting the return of his bike!

Ariane DeVere wrote:

Or maybe he got back on the motorcycle with the intention of riding it to the hospital but then realised that he might not be welcome, and instead took it back to its owner who was presumably sitting in Mrs Hudson's kitchen plaintively awaiting the return of his bike!

This would be a nice foreshadowing to him leaving the wedding earlier in TSoT. I like that thought.

(Well, "nice" as in "profoundly heart-breaking", of course. It would fit with the way the show is written.)