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One of the ways that Sherlock deduces that David still has romantic feelings for Mary is that in all his Facebook pictures of John and Mary, John is, ‘always partly or entirely excluded’. This shows that he wants John, ‘out of the picture’, so to speak.
Then we see director Colm McCarthy’s approach to framing his shots during the best man speech. During Sherlock’s speech, Mary is, ‘always partly or entirely excluded’, in any shot that also includes Sherlock. Janine, a character we’ve only just met, and of much less importance to the proceedings, seems to have plenty of room to fit in shots that exclude Mary.
If excluding half of a couple is a sign that someone wants them to not be a couple, then, here, the show is explicitly telling us that John and Mary are not the right couple. The compositions escalate from merely cutting Mary out to having Sherlock actually physically block her from the audience’s view. We are meant to not see John in relation to Mary but Sherlock. It’s always Sherlock.
John grins like that when he’s angry or uncomfortable. Here, clearly, he’s trying to act natural. He’s trying to be as ordinary as possible to hide what’s actually going on.
Sherlock is on his left, talking to Janine. Hello there, strangers. Here I am, a normal person just like you, holding my best friend’s coffee for him, nothing strange going on here. We’re supposed to be here, obviously.
I’ve been dreaming about him. The psychosomatic tremor in my hand, the one he cured, it’s come back. I’ve been thinking about leaving my wife. I’ve missed him so much, and he’s gone and replaced me.
He’s talking to his girlfriend. He has a girlfriend now, you know. It’s madness, isn’t it? A girlfriend? My Sherlock? He doesn’t do girlfriends. Or boyfriends, as far as I know. I thought he was gay. A GIRLFRIEND. It doesn’t make any sense. It was only him and me until now. Now there’s her.
Nothing strange going on, nothing at all. Walk on by.
He can swallow all those feelings for now, but he’ll fail once he sees Sherlock standing there with an engagement ring. Then it all rushes to his face.
The police are treating Sherlock roughly, as if they just caught him in the act. They don’t need to handcuff him, because he intends to go with them willingly. He put on his scarf and his coat; he intends to go quietly. But they cuff him and haul him out anyway, with contempt. That is more than John can bear. It’s unjust.
John wants to see a warrant, for one. At least a warrant. He demands that they treat Sherlock with respect. After everything Sherlock has done for them: all the cases he’s solved for free, after all the good he’s done, this is how they treat him, in the end. The way they wing him around so that he stumbles; I wonder if that’s the point where John starts to seriously lose his temper. Sherlock is a strange creature, but he is, if nothing else, dignified, and the police are not allowing him any dignity at all. They are deliberately humiliating him.
Given John’s fundamentally moral nature, his inclination to defend the people he loves at any cost, the injustice of this arrest, and the willful humiliation of someone he admires while he is helpess to prevent it, it’s no wonder he ends up resorting to righteous violence.
This is totally how I saw this scene. As a preparation (symbol of) for John/Sherlock intimacy. <3
Now, we’ve seen sherlock kissed (almost) by a man, now we’ve seen Sherlock’s hand kissed by a man and that man almost kiss him, again.
People are being, ‘primed’, and desensitised for John and Sherlock’s relationship. Well, those that need it. :)
So now we’ve had two make-believe kissing scenes, one gay and one straight. We’ve also had two majorly cringeworthy kisses, one gay and one straight. It does seem like they want us used to Sherlock being kissed. They want us to go “didn’t happen, didn’t happen, eww Janine stop it, no Magnussen ew eww ewwwwwww” and then think about who should be kissing him instead.
Yes! Exactly! Why do all these people who shouldn’t keep kissing him? :) And we all know who should. :)
What do you think about irene's romantic attraction? It's stated that she's a lesbian but iam a little unsure about her romantic status because she obvioudly had a thing for sherlock ? Could she be biromantic ?
I don’t know based on what we know I wouldn’t say she’s a lesbian though, she does identify as gay but it’s in a very specific context where she’s calling out John on his bullshit (or more like refusing to let him hide behind his “I’m not gay” default answer because, as we’ve argued many times, in this specific context it only eliminates one sexual orientation and says nothing about his attraction to Sherlock). I’d say bi/pan/poly who knows? If she’s supposed to be John’s foil, which she is, I would say that bi makes the more sense but we don’t know enough to draw definite conclusions.
I would def rule out lesbian though because she is instantly attracted to Sherlock (we can see it very clearly when we have the whole sequence with her hand caressing sherlock’s pictures at the beginning of asib) and tbh I’m as much of a fan of the “gay with an exception” trope as I am of the “straight with an exception” trope which is: none at all.
Irene is hard because her work definitely involves sex and even though we know that she apparently sleeps with men we definitely don’t know to what degree she is sexually attracted to other genders than hers. I guess every orientation is pretty much open except strictly gay or heterosexual.
Always thought that John's worry over Sherlock's name being smeared by the media in TRF was due to basic empathy, but just realized there's more to it-- He's seen it done before, with another good friend who was destroyed by the media, who became a complete recluse, whose only interaction with people now are getting death threats from them. He knows someone who has never recovered from being publicly torn to shreds the way like that, and doesn't want to see it happen again.
I only just realized. In the end, he DOES think Sherlock was torn apart by the media…he’s left alone, thinking that the media drove his best friend to suicide by convincing everyone Sherlock was a fake. And blaming himself all the more because he believes he had the opportunity to stop it this time, should have been able to stop it, and failed.
