SusiGo wrote:

Here is the link. Please tell me if it has already been posted and I will delete it.

http://www.denofgeek.com/tv/sherlock/28843/sherlock-his-last-vow-qa-with-steven-moffat-amanda-abbington-lars-mikkelsen-more#ixzz2qMrEM9Co

What intrigued me is Steven Moffat confirming that Sherlock loses part of his brilliant abilities when allowing himself to feel. What does this mean for the future of Sherlock? Back to all brains and no feelings? Allowing himself to make mistakes? Or is there a compromise?

 

Either a compromise, or he learns to deal with it and other people - first and foremost John - learn that he isn't invincible and needs their support as much they need his.

Last edited by Ozma (January 14, 2014 8:56 pm)

No real person (apart from a few psychopaths and brain damaged people) are either brains or feelings. It's always both and so it will be for Sherlock.

As for future developments, if he is clever he's gonna learn how his emotions affect his reasoning. I think most people tend to be rather unaware how this happens, it's amazingly hard to see, especially when you're used to push your emotions away. 

silverblaze wrote:

No real person (apart from a few psychopaths and brain damaged people) are either brains or feelings. It's always both and so it will be for Sherlock.

As for future developments, if he is clever he's gonna learn how his emotions affect his reasoning. I think most people tend to be rather unaware how this happens, it's amazingly hard to see, especially when you're used to push your emotions away. 

 
I'll ignore that first sentence, pretty offensive statement really.

As for Sherlock, he always knew how emotions affect reasoning, has learned how it affects HIS reasoning and , if the creators stay true to their planned progression, I doubt we will see this ever happen to him again. He knows when to APPEAR to be affected by emotion, but he isn't really affected as he has a set plan that he is setting in motion eg becoming engaged to Janine.

kazza474 wrote:

silverblaze wrote:

No real person (apart from a few psychopaths and brain damaged people) are either brains or feelings. It's always both and so it will be for Sherlock.

As for future developments, if he is clever he's gonna learn how his emotions affect his reasoning. I think most people tend to be rather unaware how this happens, it's amazingly hard to see, especially when you're used to push your emotions away. 

 
I'll ignore that first sentence, pretty offensive statement really.

As for Sherlock, he always knew how emotions affect reasoning, has learned how it affects HIS reasoning and , if the creators stay true to their planned progression, I doubt we will see this ever happen to him again. He knows when to APPEAR to be affected by emotion, but he isn't really affected as he has a set plan that he is setting in motion eg becoming engaged to Janine.

Do you see this as every emotion we have seen Sherlock express has been false?  Even those he's expressed to John?
 

ok.  thanks!

kazza474 wrote:

tonnaree wrote:

kazza474 wrote:

 
I'll ignore that first sentence, pretty offensive statement really.

As for Sherlock, he always knew how emotions affect reasoning, has learned how it affects HIS reasoning and , if the creators stay true to their planned progression, I doubt we will see this ever happen to him again. He knows when to APPEAR to be affected by emotion, but he isn't really affected as he has a set plan that he is setting in motion eg becoming engaged to Janine.

Do you see this as every emotion we have seen Sherlock express has been false?  Even those he's expressed to John?
 

 
No, as I said he learned how emotions affected his reasoning, so he did 'drop his guard' somewhat in quite a few places thus far & allow emotions to infiltrate his thoughts & hence reasoning. But he has matured somewhat now, has learned when it's ok to have & show feelings and when it is time to shut down and get on with the job at hand. He's less apprehensive about what needs to be done in certain situations, he just does whatever is necessary & pushes the emotions to one side. eg Janine, eg Shooting CAM.
"Romanticise at your peril."

But he hasn't learned when it's okay to show and have feelings and when it is time to shut down at all. He has been much slower this season due to his feelings. I think this is a good and human thing, but from a logical-old-Sherlock-point-of-view new-Sherlock has messed up, has dropped his guard and got way too involved at the expense of his skills.

Hera, I agree, he got slower, emotions got in his way, he was wrong on several occasions.
When he hears John's voice in his head in TEH, something definitely gets in his way, and I would say this something is John. Sherlock is confused, he says to Lestrade that John is kind of out of the picture, and IMO Sherlock miscalculated John's reaction to his return. He never even dreamt it might be possible that John could not be 'in the picture' again.
And there's more. The huge deduction scene during the wedding and the fact that he obviously was wrong about CAM's vault - and also about Mary. He did see, but he did not observe. At least not the way he usually does.

Thing is, when you suppress emotions they don't actually go away. They just infiltrate your thought process without your awareness. Better be aware of them if you really want to be good at reasoning.