{"id":233532,"date":"2014-01-08T19:41:55","date_gmt":"2014-01-08T19:41:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2014\/01\/08\/isolvemurders-in-which-the-most-important\/"},"modified":"2018-09-27T23:51:33","modified_gmt":"2018-09-27T23:51:33","slug":"isolvemurders-in-which-the-most-important","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2014\/01\/08\/isolvemurders-in-which-the-most-important\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-233532 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\/01\/08\/isolvemurders-in-which-the-most-important\/attachment\/233533\/'><img width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/tumblr_mz0spd039w1qc57p4o1_r1_250-150x150.gif\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/tumblr_mz0spd039w1qc57p4o1_r1_250-150x150.gif 150w, https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/tumblr_mz0spd039w1qc57p4o1_r1_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\/01\/08\/isolvemurders-in-which-the-most-important\/attachment\/233534\/'><img width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/tumblr_mz0spd039w1qc57p4o2_250-150x150.gif\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/tumblr_mz0spd039w1qc57p4o2_250-150x150.gif 150w, https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/tumblr_mz0spd039w1qc57p4o2_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:\/\/isolvemurders.tumblr.com\/post\/72534308104\" target=\"_blank\">isolvemurders<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>In which the most important character development of Sherlock Holmes is when he chooses to focus on the life that needed saving, instead of the satisfaction of an answer to the puzzle.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>As demonstrated by the earlier phonecall from Mycroft, the Holmes brothers have always distanced themselves from human interaction and\u00a0<em>getting involved.\u00a0<\/em>The utmost importance always lied in\u00a0<strong>objectivity<\/strong>\u2014 always needing there to be answer. Mycroft dominating Sherlock\u2019s head in this scene signified this second nature of cold calculation and the reflexive search for\u00a0<strong>who did it.\u00a0<\/strong>Thus, while Mycroft was at the helm, all Sherlock could see was <strong>&ldquo;who is the <\/strong><strong>Mayfly Man?\u201d.<br \/><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>We\u2019ve seen this before in The Study in Pink and The Great Game, where Sherlock only cared about who the mastermind was, never minding the lives that were lost along the way.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Not this time.<\/p>\n<p>At the height of his deductions, he forcibly shuts Mycroft off along with his obsessive compulsive need to know who did it saying \u201cNot you\u2014you.\u201d And he then points to John.<\/p>\n<p>And this is where the most powerful character development occurs because it is immensely\u00a0<em>difficult\u00a0<\/em>for\u00a0Sherlock to consciously put aside the obsession over a culprit (evident from the fact that he had to slap his own face) and yet here, we witness him recognize that John is always the one to put lives first above all else, and for once, he will too. He turns away from <em>who did it\u00a0<\/em>to\u00a0<em>who can we save<\/em>\u00a0and\u00a0what Sherlock sees then changes to\u00a0<strong>target<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>He chooses John to rule his head saying that John\u00a0<strong>keeps him right, <\/strong>and more importantly, to <strong>not\u00a0<strike>solve the murder<\/strike>; save the life.<\/strong>\u00a0For once, in all his cases, Sherlock consciously realizes that there\u00a0<em>are\u00a0<\/em>more important things than deducing who the culprit is; it is the people they can save. For once, Sherlock <strong>cares<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>And if that isn\u2019t A+ character development that was so humanly natural it slipped by unnoticed, then I don\u2019t know what is.<\/p>\n<p>[gif credit to <a href=\"http:\/\/ughbenedict.tumblr.com\/post\/72440065072\/if-that-wasnt-a-declaration-of-love-then-i-dont\" target=\"_blank\">ughbenedict<\/a>]\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<strong><br \/><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>isolvemurders: In which the most important character development of Sherlock Holmes is when he chooses to focus on the life that needed saving, instead of the satisfaction of an answer to the puzzle.\u00a0 As demonstrated by the earlier phonecall from Mycroft, the Holmes brothers have always distanced themselves from human interaction and\u00a0getting involved.\u00a0The utmost importance &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2014\/01\/08\/isolvemurders-in-which-the-most-important\/\" 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":[10185,15,148,9037,14420,4],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233532"}],"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=233532"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233532\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":233535,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233532\/revisions\/233535"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=233532"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=233532"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=233532"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}