a study in pink, and the mirror moment;
This was intended as a form of introduction for the S2 meta, but after several rewrites of it it simply didn't seem to fit, so I'm putting it up now, perhaps as a prologue. See, ASiP remains my favourite episode pretty much on par with TRF, and I find the echoes between both of these episodes to be fascinating, but upon closer reflection ASiP
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And that’s the issue and the delight, isn’t it-that Sherlock doesn’t fit nicely into any definition. He’s a bunch of walking contradictions (Sherlock who looks as though he craves sentiment even as he claims to detest it).
I love how you pointed out John’s trust issues. This is the first time I’ve thought about that, John having trust issues before Sherlock, and then Mycroft telling him he’s very loyal very quickly-which, yeah, doesn’t exactly scream trust issues to me, but clearly it’s just that John hadn’t found Sherlock, his exception, yet.
…John's the one who's just shot a man in cold blood and smiles pleasantly afterwards, giggling at a crime scene of his own making; overall they're both completely insane.
Just keep heaping on the John-is-a-BAMF proof, please. I seriously can never get enough of that. Donovan may have been warning the wrong person about standing over bodies that they had put there…
But, yes, yes, oh God, yes to everything you’ve said here. This ( ... )
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Regarding John's trust issues: I think they're part of the reason why he takes to Sherlock so fully and absolutely once he makes the decision to stick to him (i.e., to save his life even if it means putting himself in danger of being arrested). It's all or nothing, with John: he distrusts his therapist and Mycroft alike, even though they both have entirely opposite interpretations of him, and it's fairly obvious that he keeps himself understated with Stamford, keeps himself repressed. Sherlock disrupts all this. He makes John's own words escape him - Brilliant! Amazing! - and John is left with a choice: either trust Sherlock ( ... )
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This is the best description of their relationship ever ^^
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i have a lot of feelings about the dynamic between the two of them that shifts from season 1 to season 2 so omggggg i absolutely cannot wait for the rest of your meta, like, EDGE OF SEAT WONDERING HOW OFTEN I CAN PRESS F5 WITHOUT SEEMING TOO DESPERATE sort of cannot-wait. :D
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they are so incredibly fucked up, paradox laid on paradox (soldier-doctor, genius-child, warm-tea-crackshot, approval-seeking-no-friends, self-destructive-steady-state) and this is exactly why i find them endlessly fascinating, why i love writing them so much because i always think that something's gotta give, there's going to be an explosion in any story if i wait patiently enough.
This is everything I always try to convey in my own writing, and, I think, constantly fail at doing right; they're both, yes, paradoxes in their own right, and supernovas in their own right, too: they don't quite fit their original characterization, except they do, because they are made of contradictions, and it's - it's like Moffat and Gatiss and Thompson have taken all the incongruities and inconsistencies that have accumulated in the Holmes books because of ACD's lack of care or issues with consistent characterization, and have made ( ... )
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afkd;ahgk;dakgl;sd touching
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Second, HOLY HELL YOU’RE WRITING THESE HUGE THINGS THAT I CAN READ FOREVER ABOUT THE EPISODES HELLO LET ME SCREAM FOREVER
And technically there’s just a lot of screaming going on around here.
ANYWAYS I would say hi but you probably don’t even remember who I am and I don’t want to freak you out by making you think, “Who the fuck even is this weirdo.” So I’ll refrain myself if refrain is even a suitable word for this situation ( ... )
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Of course I remember you, dude. Massively long reviews + capslock? yeaaaah. I didn't know you were in Sherlock fandom! I, aha, I've been around for nearly two years, so. Yeah.
TBH, I think ASiP is the episode where they both fall inexorably for each other - regardless, again, of the name you give to their affection, be it romantic love or platonic life-sharing or bromance or charismatic attraction (I will defend to my death the concept that John is attracted to Sherlock, even if said attraction isn't sexual but mental, even if it's a physical pull), because I doubt anyone can deny they're the first and most important person in each other's lives - but I like your radio station analogy, because yes, that's it exactly. They change each other's lives in the space of a gunshot, in the span of time it takes Sherlock to look over and see John standing calmly amidst the police cars that're all there for him, all the policemen that would arrest him if they only knew he'd been the sniper, holy shit, ( ... )
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The books ♥ ngl I adore the canon!fandom - there's been some gorgeous fic written, and I may throw recs at you if you want some, because, like, there's so much stuff. It's an amazing fandom and it deserves alllll the greatest writers.
But yes! John is generally infatuated with Sherlock from the moment he sees him, whichever 'verse they're in, and I think that's the greatest thing about Sherlock, is how they show that this, this adoration they have for each other, this instant trust and regard for each other, is mutual and very much intensely shared by both partners in the equation, because I doubt they can ever do anything without each other, after this, they've pretty much dug their way inside each other's chests and will refuse to be dug out again (except they are, and they will, because TRF and wow hello that episode made me very emotional, what gives). But canon!Watson is ( ... )
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