What do you think about Irene and sherlock ?
Like, did they have something going on romantically or not ?
No.
Sherlock has explicitly said he's not into women. Why do people not want to accept that?
Probs bc of this part /gen. I mean, maybe valid to question it a lil
I'm sorry, Mycroft's excuse???
Firstly, Mycroft is not Sherlock. Maybe we should trust what Sherlock says about Sherlock's feelings over Mycroft.
But also. This is like. This entire moment is Mycroft spreading the news of Adler's death.
Like.
This is a truly ridiculous moment to pick to use as evidence.
Adler's death needs to be public. And everyone Adler knew needs to know that for the lie to actually penetrate—so John also has to be told, and since Sherlock will know the truth anyway, John especially needs to be told by someone not Sherlock.
Bond makes his goodbyes to Sherlock to let Sherlock in on the truth, but without that, it's entirely possible Sherlock would have bought it—but would he have bought it if he heard it straight from his brother and spotted the lie? Because through John it was no longer a lie.
And, remember, John is the person drafting the public narrative here. He needs to be told the lie.
Additionally, Mycroft in the Japanese is saying he doesn't know if there's particular/special feelings involved, and if there were it would make this awkward. It's literally an excuse to tell John this instead of Sherlock to when John is kinda like, "Why are you talking to me?"
This is so dumb.
Mycroft said at one point in the context of lying more generally, "IDK maybe this is how Sherlock feels?" and people went, "Oh, so Sherlock has feelings."
What even.
People just want to ship them. You can ship them without thinking it's canon. FFS.
Joining the discussion here, this seems the correct explanation, Mycroft doesn't really seem the kind to be this afraid of telling Sherly things because there might be feelings involved, but there is one major point I don't know if I got right. When you say that John cannot be told directly by Sherlock because he will know the truth anyway, what do you mean? I thought that, since for Sherlock to tell it to John, Sherlock must have heard it directly from Mycroft, there would be the problem of Sherlock spotting that Mycroft was lying (ofc they know eachother well). Is that right? Honestly I find it slightly weird that Sherlock didn't get a little sospicious of Mycroft giving that he later found out the truth, but I guess one could argue that he assumed the loc fooled the government as well.
Sherlock was not going to do a good job of convincing John. But this way at least one of them was convinced (at least for a while)
We don't know that Sherlock's not suspicious of Mycroft. He is deeply unsurprised to hear Mycroft discussing the Lord of Crime with him later at the Diogenes Club. There's no reason to think that he doesn't know that Mycroft knows
Huh, but isn't Sherlock a really good actor? Can't remember if it happens with John, but he sure fools people more than once. Even so then, do you think it is right to say Mycroft didn't wanna risk being questioned directly in this case, and that's why he didn't go, among other things?? Sorry if I insist, I really care about properly understanding details in stories I like.
He's a very good liar, but he doesn't generally lie to John. John is if anything, his confessor. And then John lies in his books. But Sherlock doesn't keep things from John. I don't know if Mycroft knows that, especially by that point which is still relatively early in their friendship.
I think it's probably fair to say that Mycroft also didn't want to be questioned about it by Sherlock, and he would have.