I’ve heard arguments that “He’s like a drug” and John waking up panting from Sherlock dreams is about John’s addiction to adventure/the cases
And on rewatching, I almost believed them because just LOOK at him:
Mycroft threatens to plant child porn on anyone who mentions Magnussen again, and before Myc’s even cleared the hallway John just
And then he literally examines his fingernails playing like he doesn’t care as he faux-casually says
And when Sherlock says “Too big and dangerous for any sane individual to get involved in,” look at John’s left hand go as he says
God, John, you’re legit fucked up about not being involved in the cases
I see now
NOTHING is more important to you than the ADVENTURE
John no, NOTHING is more important to you than the ADVENTURE, your hand was clenching from WAR MEMORIES when you thought you were gonna be left out of the CASE, now let’s focus:
….. okay John, okay, the Janine thing was shocking for all of us. But now that’s out of your system, and Sherlock will get you back on track because #SherlockHolmes’sCaseloadLives means #JohnWatsonLives
I mean your tone leaves a little to be desired given, like, your random shouting and fist clenching when you thought you were gonna be left out of the great adventure
And frankly, I’m not sure this annoyed gesture was necessary
But hey at least now we’re back on track feeding that addiction of yours, and NOTHING is more important than the ADVENTURE –
DAMN IT, JOHN
He craves that detective.
There is 100% a subtext to John’s bedroom in 221B – we have not been show this room yet, and the times it is discussed or referenced are very suggestive. The first time it’s mentioned is when Mrs Hudson asks if they’ll be needing two bedrooms (asking whether they’re together). The only other time reference is made to John’s room is when Mrs Hudson calls up the stairs, “Boys, you’ve got another one!” after a client faints in the entry way. Easy to look over, but why would both John and Sherlock be upstairs in John’s room together …. ? Very suggestive.
Sherlock also completely associates John with 221B – how happily Sherlock smiles when Mycroft says “Back to Baker Street” after he’s just been tortured, his shocked expression when Mycroft says John is no longer at 221B – Baker Street and John are one and the same to him. When Sherlock is stroking the wallpaper in his mind palace trying to come back to life (the last image that he sees before coming back to life in fact being 221B’s door), that’s about John. And in this way, you can view John’s bedroom as the highest level of 221B that is still to be ‘unlocked’. We’re definitely going to see John’s bedroom eventually and it’ll likely coincide with something else ~
John, Sherlock, The Work and “If we’re lucky one day….”
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)
