{"id":227964,"date":"2014-02-11T14:56:23","date_gmt":"2014-02-11T14:56:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2014\/02\/11\/i-have-some-hlv-feelings\/"},"modified":"2014-02-11T14:56:23","modified_gmt":"2014-02-11T14:56:23","slug":"i-have-some-hlv-feelings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2014\/02\/11\/i-have-some-hlv-feelings\/","title":{"rendered":"I have some HLV feelings"},"content":{"rendered":"

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

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I was just looking at this gifset<\/a>\u00a0and decided it would be better to put my thoughts into my own post rather than tag them onto the end of the set and annoy people with my comments.<\/em><\/p>\n

We tend to see Sherlock as a loose canon and John as the one who \u2018keeps him right\u2019 or \u2018conducts his light\u2019. True. John is an amplifier for Sherlock\u2019s good qualities; his brilliance, his charm, his feelings.\u00a0<\/p>\n

But in that scene, we see how John is the loose canon, and Sherlock is the one who grounds him. Not only that, but Sherlock is aware that this is his purpose. He knows exactly what he has done for John in the past (helping him overcome his limp, giving him the kind of life he craves, etc).<\/p>\n

John is riled up. He\u2019s ready to burst. And Sherlock says \u2018be calm and answer me\u2019. He does something that Mary hasn\u2019t been able to thus far which is bring John back down from that aggressive rage. She couldn\u2019t do it in the restaurant in TEH, nor at the beginning of HLV when John runs off to go and beat up some junkies. Sherlock really, truly knows John and understands how to treat him. Earlier on in that scene, John threatened to knock Sherlock out because he thought Sherlock was taking the piss. He threatened to hit his best friend who was shot only a week before and should technically still be in the hospital. John is fucking dangerous and definitely not in his right mind. But Sherlock doesn\u2019t cower, or threaten him back. He just tells John to be calm and think things through.\u00a0Sherlock doesn\u2019t get frustrated when John gives the wrong answers. He just repeats the question and waits. Because he knows that John understands what he\u2019s saying, it\u2019s just that his anger is in the way, it won\u2019t let him approach this sensibly.\u00a0<\/p>\n

This dependency on Sherlock for clarity is further evidenced by the fact that John asks Sherlock, \u2018But why is she like that?\u2019. Sherlock is John\u2019s font of reason and logic, and in a situation that he can\u2019t comprehend he has to ask his friend why his own wife is \u2018like that\u2019 (what he\u2019s really asking is \u2018why is she like us?\u2019, or perhaps more specifically \u2018why is she like you?\u2019, meaning Sherlock. To which the answer \u2018because you chose her\u2019 kind of breaks my heart).<\/p>\n

The point I\u2019m trying to make, and that I think series 3 is trying to make, is that this scene perfectly illustrates how much we\u2019ve focussed on John\u2019s effect on Sherlock in the past, but in fact Sherlock has been just as vital to John. I dread to think what John must have been like during those 2 years alone.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

willietheplaidjacket: I was just looking at this gifset\u00a0and decided it would be better to put my thoughts into my own post rather than tag them onto the end of the set and annoy people with my comments. We tend to see Sherlock as a loose canon and John as the one who \u2018keeps him right\u2019 … <\/p>\n

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