Sherlock 3x02, "The Sign of Three"
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kindkitThat was really really really good. I don't have much else to say, in fact. It was lovely and warm and sweet, and sad at the end, which I think was right, because everything is changing between Sherlock and John and at bottom Sherlock cannot be happy about it.
It's interesting the Mycroft and Sherlock's relationship seems, despite the bickering and denials, much closer and less antagonistic than it used to be. I wonder if that's an effect of those two years when Sherlock couldn't talk to John and would have had to rely on Mycroft for whatever human contact and affection he needed. (I will confess that I have always rather shipped this version--and only this version--of Sherlock and Mycroft. They're both strange and dysfunctional enough that it's plausible, and their relationship has always come across as highly charged. Plus, since Sherlock seems to have been unable to fully accept what he could have had with John (despite all that "I'm not gay," I think if Sherlock had ever made a move, John would absolutely have gone for it), I think for both of them it might be the closest they could ever get to a deep intimacy. It's not every pair of fictional siblings about whom I would say that some incest might do them good, but in this case, yeah.)
Anyway, for whoever's not too squicked to continue reading, I think I may see how they're going to get rid of Mary. I like Mary enormously, to my great surprise, but since the show has apparently been renewed for a fourth series, I can't imagine that they're going to keep her around, because John's marriage and separate living arrangements would make it too hard to tell the stories. Sherlock's unfinished sentence about "statistics" and "the first trimester" makes me think something's going to go badly wrong with the pregnancy, and probably she and the fetus will die. "Death in childbirth" has always been the most common fan explanation for what happens to bookverse Mary Morstan, so I wouldn't be surprised if some version of that happens here.
Okay, that was a bit grim. Let's get back to what a lovely episode it was, and how it had all the emotional impact that the last ep didn't, and then some. The only thing I could criticize is that the murder method is completely implausible. But it's not as though I give more than about an eighth of a damn about that, especially not in the face of all the wonderful Sherlock-John love. They even used the word "love"! More than once! And Sherlock's speech almost made me cry.
It's interesting the Mycroft and Sherlock's relationship seems, despite the bickering and denials, much closer and less antagonistic than it used to be. I wonder if that's an effect of those two years when Sherlock couldn't talk to John and would have had to rely on Mycroft for whatever human contact and affection he needed. (I will confess that I have always rather shipped this version--and only this version--of Sherlock and Mycroft. They're both strange and dysfunctional enough that it's plausible, and their relationship has always come across as highly charged. Plus, since Sherlock seems to have been unable to fully accept what he could have had with John (despite all that "I'm not gay," I think if Sherlock had ever made a move, John would absolutely have gone for it), I think for both of them it might be the closest they could ever get to a deep intimacy. It's not every pair of fictional siblings about whom I would say that some incest might do them good, but in this case, yeah.)
Anyway, for whoever's not too squicked to continue reading, I think I may see how they're going to get rid of Mary. I like Mary enormously, to my great surprise, but since the show has apparently been renewed for a fourth series, I can't imagine that they're going to keep her around, because John's marriage and separate living arrangements would make it too hard to tell the stories. Sherlock's unfinished sentence about "statistics" and "the first trimester" makes me think something's going to go badly wrong with the pregnancy, and probably she and the fetus will die. "Death in childbirth" has always been the most common fan explanation for what happens to bookverse Mary Morstan, so I wouldn't be surprised if some version of that happens here.
Okay, that was a bit grim. Let's get back to what a lovely episode it was, and how it had all the emotional impact that the last ep didn't, and then some. The only thing I could criticize is that the murder method is completely implausible. But it's not as though I give more than about an eighth of a damn about that, especially not in the face of all the wonderful Sherlock-John love. They even used the word "love"! More than once! And Sherlock's speech almost made me cry.
