{"id":224307,"date":"2014-03-05T04:25:18","date_gmt":"2014-03-05T04:25:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2014\/03\/05\/ivyblossom-you-have-to-wonder-what-the\/"},"modified":"2018-09-24T05:33:20","modified_gmt":"2018-09-24T05:33:20","slug":"ivyblossom-you-have-to-wonder-what-the","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2014\/03\/05\/ivyblossom-you-have-to-wonder-what-the\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-224307 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\/03\/05\/ivyblossom-you-have-to-wonder-what-the\/attachment\/224308\/'><img width=\"150\" height=\"145\" src=\"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/tumblr_lz69ygTZBX1qcrsexo1_r1_250-150x145.gif\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" 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\/03\/05\/ivyblossom-you-have-to-wonder-what-the\/attachment\/224309\/'><img width=\"150\" height=\"145\" src=\"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/tumblr_lz69ygTZBX1qcrsexo2_r1_250-150x145.gif\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" 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\/03\/05\/ivyblossom-you-have-to-wonder-what-the\/attachment\/224310\/'><img width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/tumblr_lz69ygTZBX1qcrsexo3_r2_500-150x150.gif\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/tumblr_lz69ygTZBX1qcrsexo3_r2_500-150x150.gif 150w, https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/tumblr_lz69ygTZBX1qcrsexo3_r2_500-100x100.gif 100w\" sizes=\"100vw\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/ivyblossom.tumblr.com\/post\/18252705848\/you-have-to-wonder-what-the-backstory-is-to-this\" target=\"_blank\">ivyblossom<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>You have to wonder what the backstory is to this one. I mean, people who know and love Sherlock are absolutely, 100% convinced that John is Sherlock\u2019s date the moment they see Sherlock and John together. It\u2019s a running gag, obviously, but it wants explaining.<\/p>\n<p>Sherlock is clearly a loner. He knows people (quite a lot of people, actually, more people than John appears to know), but he doesn\u2019t choose to spend his time with any of them. He just solves puzzles. That\u2019s all. He doesn\u2019t enjoy the company of other people. He doesn\u2019t go out for dinner with anyone, ever. (That point ever-so-nicely underscored by his bewildered question to Irene in <em>Scandal<\/em>.)<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s pretty apparent to us by now that Sherlock isn\u2019t particularly moved by attractive women. He doesn\u2019t particularly react to Irene at all, even when she\u2019s propositioning him. Maybe others have seen that in him too; he doesn\u2019t seem interested. So they may make the next logical step (\u201cOh, he must be gay, that\u2019s fine.\u201d) even though he isn\u2019t particularly moved by men, either.<\/p>\n<p>Maybe Angelo told Sherlock ages ago that he was always welcome in the restaurant, any time, with anyone he likes (\u201cBring a date! It\u2019s on the house!\u201d), and Sherlock never turned up. Then one day, months and months later, he appears with a fellow he\u2019s clearly fond of. Sherlock must be fond of this bloke, he must be trying to impress him, right? Because he\u2019s willing to spend an evening over dinner with him, an event which Angelo has never witnessed. He\u2019s willing to sit in a restaurant like a normal person with this fellow, so he must be tremendously special to Sherlock.<\/p>\n<p>Sherlock doesn\u2019t have friends. So maybe no one jumps to the conclusion that Sherlock has just made a new friend, because\u2026well, he could have been friends with dozens of people but chose not to be. Mrs Hudson loves him, Molly loves him, Angelo loves him, Lestrade loves him too: there must be others, people he\u2019s helped and rescued along the way, people who respect his brain even if they think he\u2019s entirely too odd for this world. I\u2019m sure there are a number of people who would be more than happy to sit across a table from Sherlock if he ever felt lonely. But he never takes anyone up on that. People who admire him are just a side effect of his work. He doesn\u2019t solve the cases for them and their reactions. They\u2019re an unintended but not entirely unpleasant side effect. He doesn\u2019t appear to give them much thought at all. He ignores them.<\/p>\n<p>For some reason, Sherlock takes to John almost immediately, and goes about trying to impress him. Everyone around him notices that: Mycroft asks about a happy announcement, Mrs Hudson makes her assumptions, as does Angelo. Sherlock is the observant one, but everyone around him sees that John is special to him. John doesn\u2019t feel particularly special yet, because he doesn\u2019t know Sherlock. He doesn\u2019t know that Sherlock has just made every possible exception for him.<\/p>\n<p>Sherlock doesn\u2019t take John to Angelo\u2019s in order to work on the case. He takes John there to trick him into losing the limp. Sherlock takes John out for dinner to cure him.<\/p>\n<p>There are three explanations I can think of for that behaviour, all of which I think are true.<\/p>\n<p>The first is that it\u2019s another curious puzzle for Sherlock to solve while waiting for the next break in his current case. (\u201cCan I cure a psychosomatic limp? I bet I can.\u201d)<\/p>\n<p>The second is that John will make a better addition to Sherlock\u2019s life minus the limp (there are, after all, seventeen steps up to 221b, and he doesn\u2019t want to give up his bedroom on the first level). It would be better if John isn\u2019t struggling up and down stairs. Sherlock is not a patient man. I\u2019d say that Sherlock realizes that John would be more of a help on cases minus the limp, but I don\u2019t think Sherlock realizes yet just how critical John will become to that enterprise. (This is, after all, before John turns the tables and impresses the pants off of Sherlock by shooting a cab driver through a window.) If he did realize it, I\u2019m sure he\u2019d have cured that limp long before dinner time.<\/p>\n<p>The third explanation for Sherlock\u2019s act of kindness is this: \u201cYou\u2019ll be impressed with me if I can cure you.\u201d The distance Sherlock is willing to go to impress John is kind of epic, when you think about it. It doesn\u2019t look epic to John at the time, but if he ever considered Sherlock\u2019s behaviour after the fact, from the vantage point of knowing him for a year or more, he must marvel at it a bit. Sherlock took a complete stranger to dinner. That\u2019s unheard of. Sherlock takes a very special and unusual interest in John immediately.<\/p>\n<p>No wonder Angelo thinks they have a romantic connection. This is Sherlock pulling out all the stops. It must be love.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ivyblossom: You have to wonder what the backstory is to this one. I mean, people who know and love Sherlock are absolutely, 100% convinced that John is Sherlock\u2019s date the moment they see Sherlock and John together. It\u2019s a running gag, obviously, but it wants explaining. Sherlock is clearly a loner. He knows people (quite &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2014\/03\/05\/ivyblossom-you-have-to-wonder-what-the\/\" 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":[129,15,1810,4],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224307"}],"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=224307"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224307\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":224311,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224307\/revisions\/224311"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=224307"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=224307"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=224307"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}