{"id":190517,"date":"2014-09-20T02:37:40","date_gmt":"2014-09-20T02:37:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2014\/09\/20\/prettyarbitrary-songlinwrites-ivyblossom\/"},"modified":"2014-09-20T02:37:40","modified_gmt":"2014-09-20T02:37:40","slug":"prettyarbitrary-songlinwrites-ivyblossom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2014\/09\/20\/prettyarbitrary-songlinwrites-ivyblossom\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"

prettyarbitrary<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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songlinwrites<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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ivyblossom<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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sherlock-undercover<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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“Whatever it takes,\u00a0whatever happens.” – Sherlock Holmes<\/small><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

John is in danger, and Sherlock is protecting him. I can\u2019t wait to see the depth of both of these go to in series 4.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

hold the fuck<\/em> up<\/p>\n

I\u2019ve just realized some implications here. Namely, that John thinks there\u2019s no one Sherlock would go out of his way to protect. We, the audience, know that\u2019s patently fucking stupid, because we saw Sherlock do just that in Reichenbach. So why does John not make that same connection?<\/p>\n

Has Sherlock not told John that he \u201cdied\u201d because John\u2019s life was threatened?<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

No, John knows it\u2019s him Sherlock is protecting.\u00a0 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<\/em> 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.\u00a0 I\u2019m 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\u2019s promise at the wedding he certainly knows it means one or the other of them.\u00a0 And in a sense, protecting either of them is protecting both.\u00a0 That\u2019s the point of the whole chain of vulnerabilities.<\/p>\n

(However, according to Sherlock himself, John\u2019s life was no longer in danger by the time he stepped off the roof.\u00a0 Mrs. Hudson\u2019s and Lestrade\u2019s lives, however, may have been.\u00a0 So Sherlock was never protecting John there, but it does show he cares enough to take a risk for his friends.\u00a0 On the other hand, he\u2019s also enough of an ass to then leave them hanging for two years.\u00a0 So, you know.\u00a0 John may find him understandably hard to read sometimes. :D)<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

prettyarbitrary: songlinwrites: ivyblossom: sherlock-undercover: “Whatever it takes,\u00a0whatever happens.” – Sherlock Holmes John is in danger, and Sherlock is protecting him. I can\u2019t wait to see the depth of both of these go to in series 4. hold the fuck up I\u2019ve just realized some implications here. Namely, that John thinks there\u2019s no one Sherlock would … <\/p>\n

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