When Sherlock notices that everyone is crying at his speech and he says a little panicked “John?!” before asking if he did it wrong – oh, my heart.
John, everyone is crying and that usually means I’ve said something horrible.
John, I tried so hard to do this right why didn’t…
You’ll see Mycroft sitting at the lectern position in the Mind Palace, above Sherlock. Completely unreachable. John just sort of… appears there. Seeps in, stands as Sherlock’s equal. He doesn’t lay on pressure to perform perfectly, as Mycroft seems to do in Sherlock’s manifestation. John asks simple questions that encourage Sherlock to think in more natural patterns. John allows Sherlock to be human. Mycroft expects what appears to be nothing less of immediate omniscience and mastery.
Sherlock is still so very much the little brother to Mycroft. Competitive because he obviously internally idolizes Mycroft’s mind. Sherlock is a inferiority complex wrapped in a superiority complex, and unsure of which to succumb to. The alienation of superiority, or the vulnerabilities of inferiority.
Sherlock has never been treated like an equal, within such intimate boundaries.
John isn’t as brilliant as Sherlock, his intellect not as broad, but John has never put himself or allowed Sherlock to coin their relationship under anything else than equality. John is consistent in softly nudging Sherlock to be a better man.
Mood swing of the fandom after The Sign of the Three
Right after the episode: OMFG THIS EPISODE WAS SO HAPPY AND FUNNY THEY WERE DRUNK HOLY SHIT WAS IT EVEN REAL????? AND MARY IS PREGNANT OMG
One hour after: LOL I’M STILL LAUGHING AT DRUNK SHERLOCK ALTHOUGH he was a bit sad at he end, wasn’t he?
Two hours later: Hehehe drunk Sherlock lol
Three hours later: ….Mary… CAM… his last vow…
Four hours later: ….holy shit he was so sad when he left NOBODY DANCED WITH HIM
Five hours later: HE TRIED SO HARD TO MAKE EVERYTHING PERFECT FOR JOHN AND IN THE END HE WAS ALONE
Six hours later: I BET HE WENT HOME AND USED DRUGS DON’T EVEN TOUCH ME THIS WAS THE SADDEST SHIT EVER AND DON’T EVEN TALK ABOUT THE NEXT EPISODE
Johnlock–it’s not just for fans anymore. (Sherlock SPOILERS)
You know, I have never been one to actually buy into fannish ships. I mean, they’re fun to run with, and it’s fun to take things from the show and reinterpret them with a different spin.
But really and truly, I had not, previous to this season, believed that Sherlock and John canonically had a Thing. When the writers called ‘no homo,’ I believed them.
But after this episode, I no longer ship Sherlock and John ‘fannishly.’ I no longer buy the writers’ insistence that these characters are not attracted to each other. I don’t think it’s the people who want a queer reading they’re lying to. I think the ones they’re lying to are the homophobes they (or the BBC) are afraid they’d upset with an explicit queer relationship.
Fine, we may never see them snogging explicitly on screen. But it’s IN THE TEXT.