BBC Sherlock Fan Forum - Serving Sherlockians since February 2012 / Would John ever "be" Sherlock? (since he's officially dead, I mean)

**Posted by saturnR** September 3, 2012 10:25 am

He's already got the mafia after him thinking that he's Holmes, would he actually take it that one step further & actually be Sherlock for a day, while the real Sherlock is in hiding? Would be case related & not for the fun of it

**Posted by kazza474** September 3, 2012 11:22 am

In the canon, Watson was consulted on cases after Holmes' death. And he did seek out cases to be solved, that was how he bumped into the disguised Holmes.
I'm not sure why you think the mafia are after him & think he is Sherlock. That was a mistake by one person in the second episode. No evidence that anyone else thinks this at all.

Would he? He may try but the man is suffering from PTSD he won't want to do too much in that line of work I am sure.

**Posted by Davina** September 3, 2012 11:39 am

If they follow the canon then there is a chance that John would be trying to deal with some cases, probaly without a great deal of success. He is not dim by any means but he does not have the intellectual powers of Sherlock.

**Posted by Sherlock Holmes** September 12, 2012 9:34 am

Yeah, that would be quite cool to see John trying to help out on a couple of cases with varying degrees of success and that's how he runs into the disguised Sherlock. I would love them to use more disguises in Series 3.

Actually, I would really like Sherlock to be disguised as Benedict Cumberbatch. I think that would work.