Say Hello. Remain. Close to me.

mallamun:

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Well I’m happy to see I wasn’t alone in a lot of these thoughts.  I don’t want anyone to misconstrue my reaction as being unhappy that she lived!  Au contraire; I rather loved her, more than I’d expected to, even.  

The execution was atrocious though.  The point about Private Life gave me a bit to mull over, it certainly made the whole bit a whole hell of a lot less random, but I stand by my thought.

When I watched the whole exchange between Mycroft and John, then John and his not-quite confrontation with Sherlock, I thought to myself, ‘John will certainly have a tell, you can’t lie to Sherlock - not unless he wants to be lied to and suddenly stops wanting answers more than anything.’ And THAT ALONE plus the desire to keep the phone would have signified a major shift for me.  It could be interpreted that he wanted the token, or that he meant to be sentimental almost in a parallel to his comment to John re: Harry’s second-hand phone in ASiP.  Again, Sherlock subtlety.

I’ll cop to feeling a bit “wtf?” about her being allowed to text to her last, but 1) I’ve never been about to be executed, and 2) my suspension of disbelief tends to be in fairly short supply for a show like Sherlock.  So yeah, his world phone(!) with the rude ringtone - at best I was going to laugh, at worst…well, I cringed.  Who the hell knows. /Kanye shrug

I’m sadly contradictory about ‘wanting’ it to be drug-induced, however - after all this talk of ‘danger nights’, who seriously knows??  It certainly struck me as open, and I guess we all know how I’m going to choose to take things!