{"id":200497,"date":"2014-07-21T07:35:40","date_gmt":"2014-07-21T07:35:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2014\/07\/21\/mallamun-dekesshaw-just-one-thing-holy\/"},"modified":"2018-09-17T03:54:07","modified_gmt":"2018-09-17T03:54:07","slug":"mallamun-dekesshaw-just-one-thing-holy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2014\/07\/21\/mallamun-dekesshaw-just-one-thing-holy\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-200497 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2014\/07\/21\/mallamun-dekesshaw-just-one-thing-holy\/attachment\/200498\/'><img width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/tumblr_mzf2auMMaV1rjh2ymo1_250-150x150.gif\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/tumblr_mzf2auMMaV1rjh2ymo1_250-150x150.gif 150w, https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/tumblr_mzf2auMMaV1rjh2ymo1_250-100x100.gif 100w\" sizes=\"100vw\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2014\/07\/21\/mallamun-dekesshaw-just-one-thing-holy\/attachment\/200499\/'><img width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/tumblr_mzf2auMMaV1rjh2ymo2_250-150x150.gif\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/tumblr_mzf2auMMaV1rjh2ymo2_250-150x150.gif 150w, https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/tumblr_mzf2auMMaV1rjh2ymo2_250-100x100.gif 100w\" sizes=\"100vw\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2014\/07\/21\/mallamun-dekesshaw-just-one-thing-holy\/attachment\/200500\/'><img width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/tumblr_mzf2auMMaV1rjh2ymo3_250-150x150.gif\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/tumblr_mzf2auMMaV1rjh2ymo3_250-150x150.gif 150w, https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/tumblr_mzf2auMMaV1rjh2ymo3_250-100x100.gif 100w\" sizes=\"100vw\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2014\/07\/21\/mallamun-dekesshaw-just-one-thing-holy\/attachment\/200501\/'><img width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/tumblr_mzf2auMMaV1rjh2ymo4_r3_250-150x150.gif\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/tumblr_mzf2auMMaV1rjh2ymo4_r3_250-150x150.gif 150w, https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/tumblr_mzf2auMMaV1rjh2ymo4_r3_250-100x100.gif 100w\" sizes=\"100vw\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/mallamun.tumblr.com\/post\/75283089749\/just-one-thing-holy-shit-look-at-sherlocks\" target=\"_blank\">mallamun<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/dekesshaw.tumblr.com\/post\/73355050290\" target=\"_blank\">dekesshaw<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><em>Just one thing\u2026<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Holy shit.<\/p>\n<p>Look at Sherlock\u2019s face in that last gif. Look at Benedict Cumberbatch\u2019s very intentional acting choices.<\/p>\n<p>That familiar frown of being, as Sherlock would put it, \u201calmost moved\u201d. The release of that frown, the blinking, as if something new has been illuminated. Most importantly, the faintest quirk of a smile at the corner of his mouth.<\/p>\n<p><em>We could have been friends.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Is this more of an important moment for Sherlock than we\u2019ve at all given it credit for? John Watson made Sherlock realize that it was possible for him to be\u00a0<em>someone\u2019s<\/em> friend, but I think Sherlock viewed John as an anomaly. This is a moment when he received an even more expanded view of his humanity. He realizes that the thing that makes him capable of being someone\u2019s friend is\u00a0<em>not<\/em> something that exists inside John, but something that exists inside\u00a0<em>himself<\/em>. That he is, in fact, capable of being not just\u00a0<em>someone\u2019s<\/em> friend, but\u00a0<em>anybody\u2019s<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>If he feels a connection with somebody\u2014and he did, blatantly, state that he felt a connection with Janine\u2014he doesn\u2019t have to resort to lies and manipulation to get nearness from that person. He doesn\u2019t have to \u201cuse them up\u201d and accept that they all, eventually, flee. (Because yes, Sherlock is practiced at this. Look at his intimate first-name basis with Sally [\u201cAlways, Sally\u201d], the implication that he used to work with Anderson, the seeming heartlessness with which he was simply willing to accept that John was \u201cnot in the picture anymore\u201d because he had \u201cmade his position quite clear.\u201d)<\/p>\n<p>As Mofftiss has said many times, this is not a detective show\u2014it\u2019s a show about a detective. Every single one of the cases they solve are metaphors or tools that explore Sherlock\u2019s personal development. Everything\u2014absolutely everything\u2014exists on these two layers of meaning. So if the plot layer to Janine\u2019s role was that he seduced her to gain access to Magnussen\u2019s office, then the personal layer is that Sherlock A) doesn\u2019t believe he can receive the gift of intimacy if people know \u201cwhat he\u2019s really like\u201d, and B) consequently feels that he must \u201cplay a role\u201d to benefit from those connections, but it must always end.<\/p>\n<p>If John was the exception that proved the rule, then Janine\u2014with this one statement\u2014is the second exception that makes Sherlock question whether his self-deprecating assumptions are true at all.<\/p>\n<p>This is Sherlock\u2019s arc, people. This is the entire bloody show. Sherlock: sociopath or human being? It\u2019s Sherlock himself who is struggling with this question.<\/p>\n<p>Standing applause for Benedict\u2019s acting. He squeezed\u00a0<em>all that<\/em> into those minutest of facial expressions.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>mallamun: dekesshaw: Just one thing\u2026 Holy shit. Look at Sherlock\u2019s face in that last gif. Look at Benedict Cumberbatch\u2019s very intentional acting choices. That familiar frown of being, as Sherlock would put it, \u201calmost moved\u201d. The release of that frown, the blinking, as if something new has been illuminated. Most importantly, the faintest quirk of &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2014\/07\/21\/mallamun-dekesshaw-just-one-thing-holy\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[15,148,1810,4],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200497"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=200497"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200497\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":200502,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200497\/revisions\/200502"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=200497"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=200497"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=200497"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}