For me I think the answer is obvious: they just want sex and if a tired and stressed wife isn't providing...

I know, but he has the option of getting away from it...
I thnk partly the latter part of your post, ewige- yes.

Last edited by besleybean (January 3, 2017 10:11 am)

I don't think so.  I get the feeling that they had reconciled at that point.  They seem good together, even almost walking off together and leaving poor Rosie!   I think it's in response to Mary saying it's difficult because he's so perfect, and he's going to tell her about his imperfect little fling. 

I feel the "I used to", is in response to Mary having run away, and finding out that she'd lied even about the little detail of the initials.

She's effing kidding, right?

Okay, it just can't be.
She must be kidding.
If it was in any way connected to the future Sherlock, she wouldn't be allowed to post it!!!

Lis wrote:

Is that bus stop lady's wig 

I don't think so, no.
I call the bus stop lady redhead but she's more like auburn... and the hair is more straight and a bit tangled, not really curly I think.

ewige wrote:

Lis wrote:

Is that bus stop lady's wig 

I don't think so, no.
I call the bus stop lady redhead but she's more like auburn... and the hair is more straight and a bit tangled, not really curly I think.

Yeah, I was just kidding hehe 

Last edited by Lis (January 3, 2017 9:14 pm)

To be fair, poor John has had recurring dreams for the entire time we have known him!

Well he certainly caught a break with bus lady!

Hi everyone, have refrained from commenting here for a loong time - almost three years. But couldn't resist to take a few peaks at the new threads today after having watched TST.
I have to agree with those who felt that the whole episode had something unreal about it. I had a very hard time to get into it. But I appreciate how the writers tried to work in very clever hints at canon. I postpone  final judgement until I've seen the last episode. It might work better in hindsight. I just didn't enjoy it very much as a standalone episode.
I do not believe that everything was a dream or a figment of Sherlock's mind palace. But the unreliable-narrator theory has some plausibility. And I think that the writers/makers deceived us as well on several occasions.  I firmly believe that John's midnight texting ("miss me ....it's been too long") is not a chat with the mystery woman but with an old friend, with whom he hasn't been in contact for a while. There's nothing flirty or erotic about it. It's just our dirty fantasy which adds this connotation, since we have seen John flirting with the mystery woman  . But the actual words of the  texts make it unlikely that the various texts are exchanged with the same person. So, with whom might John exchange texts after a longer hiatus? Some said it might've been Sherlock, but that's not very plausible, since there has been no recent hiatus.  My money would be on Mike Stamford, who couldn't even make it to John's  wedding for some reason. Too far fetched? Well, it has been mentioned  that Mike Stamford would make an appearance in S4. Why shouldn't he be in the morgue at night and exchange some  texts with John from one night owl to another? If true I reserve judgement for now if such an exchange will be relevant in later episodes.
But if John was really texting with an old friend while Mary was tending to the baby's needs, he wasn't quite as callous as we might've thought at first viewing. Maybe that's a comforting thought. He might not have acted so OOC after all.