nakahara wrote:

Oh my.... look what some bloggers have found! 

http://iwasthesouthernpansy.tumblr.com/post/156264952228/gryssenielsen-beejohn-but-the-well-was



The well is right behind John and the house is just a few steps from there....

And yet no one found Victor in there? Were they even looking? 

That was one of the questions I asked earlier (I think in this thread), how did they not think to check the well when Victor went missing? In my post I said that maybe they could have been unaware of the well but the proximity of it to the house (and seeing as it is the ancestral home you'd think they would have known about it) does make that seem unlikely. Even if they didn't know it was there whatever search party was out looking for Victor can't have been a very good one! 
 

Possibly at that stage they didn't know how evil Eurus was...they never imagined she would have put him there?

Could be the well someway hidden? 

I'm still puzzled if we are clearly shown the well as so close to the house in the episode...but anyway, it's not important to me.

Mrs Holmes is very clever, but I don't know if she thinks in the same way as Sherlock does.  And maybe everybody was too oblivious to see that a five year old child had set up a puzzle to find a dying a child - it seems to unlikely!    I think the well being close to the house comes under suspension of disbelief - yes, the police would probably have looked there.  And Victor would have been all over the papers, possibly still to this day - it would have been virtually impossible for Sherlock to miss hearing about him growing up or as an adult, no matter how quiet his family kept.  And Sherlock's selective amnesia is unusual ... but I'm happy to accept all those things for the sake of the story! 

athameg wrote:

Of course selective amnesia is unusual. But it exists. My therapist found out during the last weeks that there were a lot of details about things happening in my past which I had totally "forgotten" because I did not want to know them. It was scary.

I also learnt about something I completely erased from my memory at the age of 5. Nothing as traumatizing as shown on "Sherlock" But still a strange feeling. My mother was in hospital for a while when I was five and my father used to locker me up in my dark room at night. I still can't remember it but wondered for years why I am so afraid of darkness.

I even replaced part of it by something different in my memory. I turned part of my experience into a story I thought I had made up, with kind of reversed roles. I used to imagine that in my closet there were two miniature children locked up by a witch and I always made sure it was closed so they couldn't get out at night. :-/

It is not so implausible, I think. First, Sherlock was very young, and peoples's memories of their early childhood are often hazy, like  Liberty said. Second, it was indeed easier to forget by everything (the house and so on) destroyed - thus no things who could remind him. And, most important: the parents tried to carry on as if Euros never had existed; perhaps ist was the only chance for them to survive without losing their mind. So they could have used it as an excuse before themselves: it will be better for Sherlock to forget about all this because it will save him from grieving the loss of his sister and his friend.
The same excuse would not work at Mycroft, because he was some years older at this time.

Of course he had. It makes "caring is not an advantage" very understandable. If he had cared (or himself allowed to care) he would not have done it.

athameg wrote:

Of course he had. It makes "caring is not an advantage" very understandable. If he had cared (or himself allowed to care) he would not have done it.

I don't think Mycroft's credo of "caring is not an advantage" means that he doesn't care. I think we have seen on many occasions that he actually cares a lot. Not caring is just his wishful thinking as caring hasn't caused him anything but pain.

Naavy wrote:

But I still wonder, how is possible to "loose" the well (it is not a portable hole!). Could exist sort of building in the garden, designed to mask it, like a arbour, or maybe forgotten cellar without visible connection with the house?

​...I guess, family moved to another house soon, and then was easier to pretend, Eurus never existed.

My theory is that it is a very old well. Too old to be in any maps or blueprints. When Sherlock, Eurus and Mycroft were children, the well was very well hidden in a thick coppice or hedge and nobody but Eurus knew of its existance. And as the kids were constantly playing around the house, the dogs weren't able to find poor Victor because his smell was all over the place. And as the well had a metal cover, no one would hear his screams. Probably he wasn't even screaming for very long because of exhaustion. 

And as Eurus burnt down their house soon afterwards, they moved away to a different place where it was much easier to forget all about Victor and Eurus. No one around the new place and school would even have known the two of them had ever existed and I don't think Victor's picture would have been in the national papers so often that Sherlock couldn't forget him. And as for the family never mentioning them, probably they thought it best for Sherlock to replace the very painful memories with something less painful.

 

Remember John lost Sherlock in TRF. Or thought he did.
Which is made more wierd considering TFP.