Okay, so I’ve been thinking a lot lately about canon moments that would be awesome to see adapted. And like everyone else I would absolutely die to see a Three Garridebs moment, to hear any version of “it was worth a wound…” but, while wanting John to explicitly recognize Sherlock’s heart, I also think that’s wrapped up in another revelation about how Sherlock interacts with cases in general and so comes my deep deep desire to see some adaption of “The Adventure of the Abbey Grange.”
This story kills me because there is a common trope in both Holmes and in Poirot, especially in ”Murder on the Orient Express” (which Mark Gatiss has mentioned on his twitter a few times and which has been adapted on John’s blog) for the great detectives to subordinate the pride they take in “solving the problem” to their sympathy with the culprit. And I’m so so sure we will have a version of that common detective morality moment on the show and that it will be a huge moment for John and Sherlock’s relationship and I think it is a very important moment on the road to their full emotional openness and realization. Because John absolutely has to recognize that there are things that come before The Work for Sherlock and right now (going by all the evidence in the show, as discussed below) he’s only at the place where he thinks that there are things that come a close second to the cases and he’s accepted that because he loves Sherlock. I don’t think this revelation would replace the Garridebs moment but it would sure be a nice moment of John realizing once and for all that despite all the evidence to the contrary, it isn’t The Work that comes first for Sherlock any more.
Okay. Back up a second. Papa Lestrade lays out the thesis of the entire show for us in episode one:
“Sherlock Holmes is a great man – and I think one day – if we’re very, very lucky, he might even be a good one.” (source)
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