BBC Sherlock Fan Forum - Serving Sherlockians since February 2012 / When John starts to ask Sherlock for a loan...what do you think?

**Posted by tonnaree** August 18, 2016 5:51 pm

Within the universe of the show they do have many people compliment John's blog. Up to and including the "highest in the land."

**Posted by Schmiezi** August 18, 2016 6:11 pm

kgreen20 wrote:
But then, during the haitus, John meets and falls in love with Mary Morstan. =) And he decides that he wants to marry her.

And he gets a job working as a general practitioner at a clinic.

Yes, it's a shame this Sherlock guy came back, isn't it? John has been so happy.

**Posted by besleybean** August 18, 2016 6:19 pm

John has obviously desperately missed Sherlock, but the points remain: he moved house, fell in love and got a steady job.

**Posted by Schmiezi** August 18, 2016 6:29 pm

besleybean wrote:
John has obviously desperately missed Sherlock, but the points remain: he moved house, fell in love and got a steady job.

Exactly the right things for the man who missed the war so much he developed a psychosomatic limp.

:-(

**Posted by besleybean** August 18, 2016 6:31 pm

Well yes John obviously misses the lifestyle with Sherlock, too...but I fail to see how this impacts upon Mary.

**Posted by Schmiezi** August 18, 2016 6:55 pm

Never mind, we wandered off topic anyway.

**Posted by besleybean** August 18, 2016 6:58 pm

Sorry, I didn't actually notice which thread we were on.
But as somebody started talking about Mary, I did think it was the Mary thread!

**Posted by kgreen20** August 19, 2016 12:38 am

LOL! Well, we started off trying to deduce Sherlock's motive for deciding to go to the bank to check out the case that his old college classmate is asking him to solve, right when John's trying to ask him for a loan. Perhaps it's time we returned to that topic. =)

**Posted by besleybean** August 19, 2016 5:37 am

I thought it was just a plot device for a laugh!

**Posted by Liberty** August 19, 2016 6:51 am

Well, yes. I do think there's meaning there, but I think there's an awful lot of humour in Sherlock, even though we don't talk about it much! One of the reasons I found it initially appealing, in fact. That scene is funny!