It’s kind of a story of family tragedy:
A family who’s youngest (possibly psychopathic) child murdered a boy, leaving her siblings reeling.
One covers up the memories and becomes a shut-off detective who uses drugs to numb the pain of emotions he doesn’t want to feel,
and the other is left stuck in the responsible eldest child role trying to help keep the family around him under control while also dealing with the government and his imprisoned little sister. While at the same time maintaining what must be an exhausting Holmesian stiff-upper-lip. (No wonder his diets are ongoing, he definitely stress eats)
But in the end Sherlock has John and a family (Mrs Hudson, Molly, John, Rosie, Lestrade, Mycroft and his parents) and he realises that Mycroft is now in the emotional position he was in at the start (“He’s not as strong as he thinks he is”) and so gives him a John to look after him through Lestrade.
In the end, Sherlock is the one to come to his brothers defence against his parents (when previously he was the childish one passing on the blame “It was Mycroft!”)
In fact the name of the show gives it away. It’s about Sherlock.
Sherlock matures through the story, and it isnt really about he cases or Moriarty.
It’s about Sherlock and John becoming Watson and Holmes. It’s the end of the dark beginning and the start of their real adventures.
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