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The Holmes Brothers & Dysfunctional Family Roles - A Psychological Exercise

Okay, so I love Sherlock and Mycroft’s relationship. It intrigues me to no end. I know that a lot of people have already analyzed their relationship from all sorts of different angles, but while re-watching the Buckingham Palace scene from Scandal the other day, the psych student in me suddenly recalled a phenomenon which fit the two brothers’ different personas to a T. I was rather pleased to find that such a common and ordinary approach as “dysfunctional family roles” (something I’ve observed in many a family, including my own), fit these extraordinary boys so well. The result is this (rather long) speculative essay.

I don’t want to run away with any wild theories about childhood abuse (especially since Gatiss himself has said the boys probably had a normal upbringing), but I think there’s no denying that both Sherlock and Mycroft seem a little… well, stunted, emotionally. This could be attributed to mild autism or sociopathy, or it could simply a by-product of their unique brilliance (all of which has been said before), but there are also several other explanations.

This is one of them.

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Questions I have after watching three episodes of The Handmaid’s Tale

1. If this is the future, and we can assume they have the same, if not more advanced, technology that we do, then why don’t they just do in-vitro on the fertile women? Why do they have to actually do the deed with the husband?

2. Are only the women infertile? One would assume that pollultion and plague that made the women infertile also affected the men, so shouldn’t their be fertile young men “studs” in this store?

3. What if a wife of a Commander suddenly becomes pregnant? Does she retain her status, or is she sent to the Red Room (or whatever the fuck it’s called) and become a Handmaid?

4. What exactly is the timeline for this thing? It seems like not a lot of time has passed between the main character’s normal life and this new life as a Handmaid. How did a whole society accept this new life in a mere few years? Could that really happen?

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