No. Even you.
so ever since i’ve watched the lying detective, even more than once, i’ve had trouble understanding the meaning of this dialogue at the end of the episode
SHERLOCK: It’s not a pleasant thought, John, but I have this terrible feeling from time to time that we might all just be human.
JOHN: Even you?
SHERLOCK: No. Even you.
now i recently watched the episode with my mom for like the fourth time or so, and since then, i’ve been endulging myself in video edits, metas, posts, etc. mostly about that episode. but a little while ago as i was watching this brilliant edit: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=njAhpocOO84 by buckysmyfriend, that part showed up towards the end. and then it hit me like a brick. so to start john says his “even you” because he’s implying the typical ‘sherlock being a machine without a heart scenario,’ (which we know isn’t true of course). BUT. the reason sherlock says that it’s not himself, but john, is because of john’s mistake of cheating. John Watson. making a mistake. doing what humans do, which is making mistakes. but it’s a terrible feeling to sherlock because of how he’d always thought of john. he never really considered john to be ‘human.’ he thought he was the one thing humans weren’t. he thought john was perfect.
