There I fixed it
I have heard that there is Drama and wailing and gnashing of teeth in fandom over new Sherlock.
This is the way of things, as things go.
Much of the drama seems to focus on the last ten/fifteen minutes or so of the episode, so might I suggest that the scene in the Middle East is not completely real. It's shot unusually, probably to give it the quality of 'memory', but what if it's not memory? What if it's imagination? What if it's fanciful last thoughts of Irene, or heroic reimagnings of Sherlock?
Before people jump on me and tell me how depressing that is, remember that this theory does not exclude the possibility of Irene escaping all on her ownsome at the last second. Or being sprung by her girlfriend on a motorbike.
Personally, I don't find the idea of it being imagination depressing, even if it does mean the end of Irene. I mean, in the West we're all raised on stories of princesses and heroes, and even if we view them with a cynical eye, they affect how we see the world, what our expectations are. And if you were being led to your death, wouldn't you be wildly thinking about rescue? And rescue by the most capable person you know?
One point in favour of it being imagination - every terrorist video I've seen, everyone is holding big fuck-off automatic rifles. Even if he does have mad scimitar skills, I'm not seeing Sherlock slicing and dicing his way out of that. I can however, see him holding her phone, and slipping into a daydream of saving her against all odds, then laughing at himself, knowing that she would find such a fantasy funny too. It's not disrespect, that laughter, it's the height of respect and affection. He knows that whatever the situation (alive or dead) he's never going to match wits with her again. And so, the man who despises sentiment keeps the phone of the woman who refused to be tamed. As per his deductions about John's second hand phone in A Study in Pink, she left him. Left him far behind with a phone and memories and flew away to wherever the wind would take her.
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This is the way of things, as things go.
Much of the drama seems to focus on the last ten/fifteen minutes or so of the episode, so might I suggest that the scene in the Middle East is not completely real. It's shot unusually, probably to give it the quality of 'memory', but what if it's not memory? What if it's imagination? What if it's fanciful last thoughts of Irene, or heroic reimagnings of Sherlock?
Before people jump on me and tell me how depressing that is, remember that this theory does not exclude the possibility of Irene escaping all on her ownsome at the last second. Or being sprung by her girlfriend on a motorbike.
Personally, I don't find the idea of it being imagination depressing, even if it does mean the end of Irene. I mean, in the West we're all raised on stories of princesses and heroes, and even if we view them with a cynical eye, they affect how we see the world, what our expectations are. And if you were being led to your death, wouldn't you be wildly thinking about rescue? And rescue by the most capable person you know?
One point in favour of it being imagination - every terrorist video I've seen, everyone is holding big fuck-off automatic rifles. Even if he does have mad scimitar skills, I'm not seeing Sherlock slicing and dicing his way out of that. I can however, see him holding her phone, and slipping into a daydream of saving her against all odds, then laughing at himself, knowing that she would find such a fantasy funny too. It's not disrespect, that laughter, it's the height of respect and affection. He knows that whatever the situation (alive or dead) he's never going to match wits with her again. And so, the man who despises sentiment keeps the phone of the woman who refused to be tamed. As per his deductions about John's second hand phone in A Study in Pink, she left him. Left him far behind with a phone and memories and flew away to wherever the wind would take her.
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