What I love about this is that it’s the ‘real’ Sherlock, and while he hasn’t hidden who he really is from John in the past, this is when he’s really ADMITTING for the first time, not just telling. He’s not telling John he’s a high functioning sociopath, he’s not telling him he’s a consulting detective, he’s telling John that the man he’s chosen as his best friend is really just a junkie who has changed his drug from cocaine to action, and that is just…
too much for me. No more Mr. Detective, just Sherlock. In this scene, to me, he’s admitting to John for the first time ever that he is human. Because he’s not indestructible, he’s not unbreakable, he’s just a human who is really really good at pretending to be.
Oooh nice. I can hear @eldritch-horrors grumbling about ‘junkie’ in my head (where is eldriiiitchh…) but this just fell into an ‘of course!’ mental space with a satisfying thunk. This is the kind of moment I was looking for in S3.