Doubt it.
He told John she was wrong about him!

sherlocked wrote:

Mothonthemantel, do I unterstand you correctly: you think that the whole episode might be Sherlock's narrative to Ella, but his words morph into the tv movie we watch?
If so, that's a very clever thought. It would account for a lot of oddities. It would be an unreliable-narrator case par excellence.
But if this is true we can't be completely sure of anything which happens before the last scene with Ella. Sherlock might distort things, he might not want that Ella learns certain things, he might want to look better in certain situations, he might want to protect people... and so on. The big question is of course: why did he seek out Ella in the first place?
And is it really possible to interpret the whole episode in this way? I was under the impression that he doesn't really tell Ella anything. That's why she remarks she can only help him if he opens up. Maybe, we are just privy to Sherlock's thoughts?

 

I think the story about Mary was shown to us as flashbacks as Sherlock told it to Ella.
He would have had to tell her a censored version of course. The gist being Mary ran away and somehow ended up dead. Sherlock blames himself and John is overcome with grief.
Thats all Ella needs to know to help John.

Thus as with Canon  ( and also the drjohnwatsonsblog ) we have the unreliable narrator withholding the incriminating and interesting features and the last line is a sort of this is the story I am telling you but One day the true story may be told.

LOL yes. We don't know for sure who shot Ajay and we don't know for sure who shot Mary.

John's the secretary though, between the three isn't he. 

It must have been the jellyfish for sure. Unfortunately you can't arrest them

Wow, yes, this is a very interesting idea.

Another thing, that could mean something: We did not even once see Sherlock go into his typical mindpalace this episode, did we? (Or have I forgotton, I only watched it one time...)
Mindpalace was VERY present in the last few episodes. There are the "normal" things like in series 2, the newer and more creative things in series 3, and of course TAB. MP was getting more and more of a thing and suddenly nothing now? Sherlock is using his deduction skills as usual (like in the "Charly" case) or we see flashbacks, but nothing of the MP versions that we know.
Or maybe I've just forgotten a typical MP scene, as I said, I did only one viewing...

Do the makers simply had enough of MP/they didn't simply see an oportunity in this episode?
Or could there be another reason? For example it is like you suggested, he is only telling a distorted story (to Ella)?

Rache wrote:

Wow, yes, this is a very interesting idea.

Another thing, that could mean something: We did not even once see Sherlock go into his typical mindpalace this episode, did we? (Or have I forgotton, I only watched it one time...)
Mindpalace was VERY present in the last few episodes. There are the "normal" things like in series 2, the newer and more creative things in series 3, and of course TAB. MP was getting more and more of a thing and suddenly nothing now? Sherlock is using his deduction skills as usual (like in the "Charly" case) or we see flashbacks, but nothing of the MP versions that we know.
Or maybe I've just forgotten a typical MP scene, as I said, I did only one viewing...

Do the makers simply had enough of MP/they didn't simply see an oportunity in this episode?
Or could there be another reason? For example it is like you suggested, he is only telling a distorted story (to Ella)?

We get to see Sherlock’s MP. It's just that our attention is no longer guide there, it just happens.

The first example that comes to my mind is when Sherlock realizes that there is something miSwing on the Thatcher table. He cadually looks at the table and we see the other people in the room. Then he looks at it withe more cobcentration and suddenly he is alone in the room, the chair are all empty. Then his attention snaps back to the conversation and everybody is back at their chairs.

I need to watch the show again to find more examples.

We do not always see Sherlock going into his MP. The first instance was the multi-laptop scene in TSoT. We have a whole thread for this in here and it took weeks or months until some people realised it only happened in Sherlock's head. 

I think there is a progression. The viewers are prepared that there is something like an MP. In ASiB we get a mixture of drug effects and MP with the hiker deduction. In THoB Sherlock announces "I have to go to my mind palace" and we see him sorting facts. In TSoT there is no announcement anymore, we are just confronted with what happens inside his head: the laptops scene, the debating hall scenes. 

His MP is not always the same: sometimes it is just a sort of database in which he is sifting knowledge (THoB, TEH). Then again he enacts full scenarios in order to save his life or cope with experiences or play through what might have happened or could happen in future (ASiB, TSoT, HLV, TAB). 

Exactly. But we did not know in TSoT either and I suppose some viewers do not know until this day that he did not have ten laptops in his room. 

SusiGo wrote:

Exactly. But we did not know in TSoT either and I suppose some viewers do not know until this day that he did not have ten laptops in his room. 

Outing myself here as a fan who's nevertheless too lazy/incapable/stupid to get that.

Oh, by the way, do you noticed that John calls Mrs Hudson "Mrs H"?