I’LL DO THAT
WITH A
FUCKING
LOOK
I HATE HIM AND I HATE THESE GIFS THEY ARE SO DUMB AND THE LOOK IN HIS EYES MAKES ME WANT TO PERFORM SATANIC RITUALS
So I’ve been rewatching the entire series while taking note of John’s hand tremors and then I came to this scene
We can see his right hand clenching in reaction to Sherlock’s offer for a handshake. But the thing is, that’s not the tremor hand. That’s not the hand that would start to shake whenever he’s feeling weak, helpless, vulnerable. The tremor always happens in his left hand, as Mycroft would confirm:
I do love the right-hand clench. It’s an understandable reaction; that hand is going to touch his beloved’s for possibly the last time in his life. But it’s not what I’ve specifically been looking out for. I’m looking for the hand that trembles when he’s reminded of how much war had changed him,
the hand that trembles as he’s begging for his best friend to not be dead,
and the hand that trembles when he has to confront the lies of the woman he’d made his wife.
It’s a shame we can’t see his left hand when Sherlock offers that final handshake. Like if it starts acting up and is shaking like crazy we wouldn’t know because it’s hidden from vie-OH WAIT NEVERMIND I DID SEE IT
Conclusions: Martin Freeman’s acting is fucking ridiculous, and the tarmac scene can go straight to hell
“Whatever it takes, whatever happens.” – Sherlock Holmes
John is in danger, and Sherlock is protecting him. I can’t wait to see the depth of both of these go to in series 4.
hold the fuck up
I’ve just realized some implications here. Namely, that John thinks there’s no one Sherlock would go out of his way to protect. We, the audience, know that’s patently fucking stupid, because we saw Sherlock do just that in Reichenbach. So why does John not make that same connection?
Has Sherlock not told John that he “died” because John’s life was threatened?
No, John knows it’s him Sherlock is protecting. As evidenced by the fact that he comments on it to Lestrade, John knows that his chair being back out in the living room means something, and then when he sits (quite possibly to try to figure out what Sherlock wants him to do with it) check out his expression of realization when he lays eyes on the perfume bottle. I’m not entirely sure whether he thinks Sherlock had it left there as a message that he was specifically protecting Mary or John, but after Sherlock’s promise at the wedding he certainly knows it means one or the other of them. And in a sense, protecting either of them is protecting both. That’s the point of the whole chain of vulnerabilities.
(However, according to Sherlock himself, John’s life was no longer in danger by the time he stepped off the roof. Mrs. Hudson’s and Lestrade’s lives, however, may have been. So Sherlock was never protecting John there, but it does show he cares enough to take a risk for his friends. On the other hand, he’s also enough of an ass to then leave them hanging for two years. So, you know. John may find him understandably hard to read sometimes. :D)
He makes me feel alive. When I’m with him it feels like we could save the world. I feel indestructible. I am dazzled by his brilliance. He’s a drug. I am addicted to what we are. I am addicted to him.
John ‘I’m-Not-Gay’ Watson about being around Sherlock Holmes in every post about solving cases with Sherlock Holmes on his blog dedicated to Sherlock Holmes. (via saidsherlocktojohn)
