okay but listen so the maid is john’s bisexuality, right? and he yells at her “ARE YOU INCAPABLE OF BOILING AN EGG?!” i was like wtf is he even talking about, but what if the egg is a reference to a baby, what if sherlock knows or suspects that john didn’t get mary pregnant??? also “the fires are rarely lit, there’s dust everywhere,” john and mary are rarely “together” and she’s not keeping his bisexuality in line…
So the house represents John and Mary’s marriage/sex life. The maid, who should be keeping up the house (marriage), cannot maintain the house (marriage) because she’s too preoccupied with Watson’s stories about Sherlock in the Strand.
John’s bisexual side is too into Sherlock to pay attention to Mary. I fucking love this shit.
I’ve long suspected that Sherlock knew the baby wasn’t John’s if said baby actually exists, probably as early as the day he revealed the pregnancy to them.
Regardless, I love the fact that not once, the baby actually really comes up in TAB, meaning Sherlock must think it’s really a non-issue.