Tag: mhr

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branmuffinist:

Over the weekend I got the chance to ask Rupert Graves a question I’ve been thinking about for a while. I asked him if he thought that Greg knew during the Fall that he was one of the ones that Sherlock jumped for. I asked him if he thought Greg knew he was a target and did he know just how much he meant to Sherlock, and Rupert said no. He didn’t think Greg had any idea. Later on during a panel, he also was asked about the stag night and if Greg was upset that he didn’t get invited, and Rupert pointed out that Greg was invited to the baptism of Rosie and he thought that was a bit strange. He called himself “the local copper”.

Poor Greg! I’m sure somebody told him eventually! (I hope!)

I love that you asked this @branmuffinist ! It’s always been my headcanon that Greg didn’t know. It’s lovely to hear Rupert’s thoughts too. 💙

“Unless he’s talking to a mirror”

SHERLOCK: I won. I saved Molly Hooper.

EURUS: Saved her? From what? Oh, do be sensible. There were no explosives in her little house. Why would I be so clumsy? You didn’t win. You lost.

EURUS: Look what you did to her. Look what you did to yourself.

EURUS: All those complicated little emotions. I lost count. Emotional context, Sherlock. It destroys you every time. (x)

  • It’s always about the Fall
  • Sherlock tried to save John from a literal “bomb” (sniper) but failed to save him from an emotional one
  • i.e. Mary the ‘emotional Moran’, hurling rocks down onto Sherlock Holmes just barely clinging to the side of the waterfall
  • If viewed as historiographic metafiction, adds extra “emotional context” to the original ACD story too – the Fall is no longer an event which resonates (deeply and painfully) in just two or three stories, its emotional fallout obscured by the unreliable narrator/erratic timeline. Instead the effect upon both Sherlock and John is shown to be painful and long-lasting
  • The difference in John’s circumstances between TRF/MHR/TEH and ACD canon forces us to draw comparisons. In ACD canon, the (inconclusive!) death of Watson’s wife is added to the pain of losing Holmes so that Watson’s emotional turmoil may be safely ascribed to heterosexual love rather than excessive pining for his lost male friend. In BBC Sherlock, however, John finds, rather than loses, a wife during Sherlock’s absence. And yet his grief, his misery, his need to “move on” from Sherlock are unabated. This leaves the viewer/reader with the simple question: why? – and prompts us to re-evaluate ACD canon in light of this change.
  • BBC Sherlock makes visible, on-screen, the emotional scars – the loss of trust between Watson and Holmes – elided by the form, structure and narration of the ACD canon tales. Throughout the unreliable narration of Sherlock S4 runs a painful undercurrent of obsession with the Fall, a (sub?-)conscious reference by the narrator of S4 to the most painful event of John and Sherlock’s lives.