{"id":218260,"date":"2014-04-07T12:21:13","date_gmt":"2014-04-07T12:21:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2014\/04\/07\/pornpreferencenormal-how-the-difference-between\/"},"modified":"2018-09-22T09:27:40","modified_gmt":"2018-09-22T09:27:40","slug":"pornpreferencenormal-how-the-difference-between","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2014\/04\/07\/pornpreferencenormal-how-the-difference-between\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-218260 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\/04\/07\/pornpreferencenormal-how-the-difference-between\/attachment\/218261\/'><img width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/tumblr_n3kxbc7kAu1tsujavo1_500-150x150.png\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/tumblr_n3kxbc7kAu1tsujavo1_500-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/tumblr_n3kxbc7kAu1tsujavo1_500-100x100.png 100w\" sizes=\"100vw\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/pornpreferencenormal.tumblr.com\/post\/81820333247\/how-the-difference-between-season-1-2-and-season-3\" target=\"_blank\">pornpreferencenormal<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<h2><strong>How the difference between season &frac12; and season 3 made me realize once again that Johnlock is going to be real<\/strong><br \/>\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014<\/h2>\n<p>I\u2019ve read a few reviews about the third season from respectable (online) news papers who write about such things very objectively and what they all say is: the third season is different.<\/p>\n<p>Their conclusion is always that it\u2019s enjoyable, but it\u2019s different than season 1 and 2.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>However, they can\u2019t elaborate why.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019ll tell you why:<\/p>\n<p>The reason why the third season is different is because John learnt to repress his emotions and Sherlock always just avoided them.<\/p>\n<p>Season 1 was purely the work + friendship.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Then in Season 2 they put a dash of \u201cfeelings\u201d into the show. John fell in love with Sherlock, but he knows how to repress emotions, it\u2019s what he has done all his life and it\u2019s what he will continue to do in the third season. John\u2019s feelings do not get in Sherlock\u2019s way, so nobody has to acknowledge them. Sherlock learns to value his friendship with John, it\u2019s nice having someone by his side, but the work is still the love of his life, and so we have Sherlock solving cases and John helping him.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Season 3 happens, Sherlock returns from the dead and learns that John will not come back to him. The emptiness of the place beside him hits Sherlock like a truck. John\u2019s presence became so normal to him, that him not being his partner anymore makes him panic. Sherlock asks Molly if she want\u2019s to assist him, maybe it\u2019s not John he misses, but having a partner. Very soon he learns that that\u2019s not true. His work is nothing without John, he needs John, he misses John, John climbs up in Sherlock\u2019s mental ranking and becomes the most important aspect of his life. The work comes second.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>He dedicates every minute of the day to John, gets almost obsessed with the wedding preparations, accepts Mary without any fight, he does everything for John. It\u2019s not him slowing down the wedding preparations because he needs John on a case, no, it\u2019s John begging Sherlock to take on a case. Sherlock doesn\u2019t even think about cases, is not interested in them at all, he\u2019s all JohnJohnJohnJohnJohn\u2026<\/p>\n<p>Sherlock never learnt how to deal with emotions. He always saw them as tiresome, they clouded his judgement, so he quickly learnt how to avoid them. As a result, the emotions he can\u2019t escape swallow him alive. Every single part of his entire being is completely overruled by the intensity of his feelings.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Sherlock himself didn\u2019t really change. He focuses wholeheartedly on whatever is the No.1 thing in his life. Before S3 it was the work, and that\u2019s why we got case after case after case.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>But now it\u2019s John, and so all that focus is redirected at John.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The day Sherlock realizes he is in love with John is the day when he deduces that Mary is pregnant. First he acknowledges that he is in love, then he finds out how off limits the recipient of that love is.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Sherlock\u2019s inexperience with emotions is what makes that love so dangerous. What he does first is to try to avoid his emotions and the source of them. He and John don\u2019t see each other for a whole month and Sherlock turns back to drugs. Sherlock buries himself in a case, without success. The moment John is in danger, he completely forgets Lady Smallwood. Lady Smallwood\u2019s husband kills himself, Sherlock didn\u2019t solve the case in time and it doesn\u2019t even bother him. Even though Sherlock continues with his hunt after Magnussen, it is not because of Lady Smallwood, but because of John. He tried to make the work important again, but failed spectacularly because JohnJohnJohnJohnJohn\u2026<\/p>\n<p>Sherlock\u2019s love for John consumes his entire being.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>At the end of HLV Sherlock accepts that no matter how hard he tries, John will always come first.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>He gives up his work, his future, all for John\u2019s happiness.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Sherlock fell for John and he fell hard.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>So of course season 3 is different than the two seasons before that. When Sherlock\u2019s love for John will stop hurting him so much, he will be able to concentrate on crimes again.<\/p>\n<p>But there are not many ways that will happen though.<\/p>\n<p>1) John disappears from Sherlock\u2019s life, so he can try to forget him and move on. Not very likely.<\/p>\n<p>2) Sherlock learns to deal with his emotions and we get pining Sherlock for the rest of the story, while John stays completely oblivious. Also not very likely, because this scenario has no development. It\u2019s pure stagnation and that\u2019s not how a story works.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>3) Sherlock learns to deal with his emotions and we get pining Sherlock. John realizes that Sherlock loves him, which will probably topple his world, because he convinced himself that Sherlock is a sociopath and doesn\u2019t care much about people. John is always shocked when he gets to know that Sherlock has a human side, so when he finds out that Sherlock is in love with him, that will pull the rug from under his feet. Sherlock\u2019s sociopathy was John\u2019s reason not to get too close to him, but when he finds out about Sherlock\u2019s feelings for him, oh boy, he will be hella conflicted.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>I always love it when something that doesn\u2019t make sense is suddenly glaringly obvious when you look at it in the light of TJLC.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>pornpreferencenormal: How the difference between season &frac12; and season 3 made me realize once again that Johnlock is going to be real\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014 I\u2019ve read a few reviews about the third season from respectable (online) news papers who write about such things very objectively and what they all say is: the third season is different. 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