Hi! I hope you're having a good weekend. I was wondering if you know of any posts which talk about the scene(s) in TLD where John leaves his cane for Sherlock when he's in the hospital and when Sherlock reveals that he bugged the cane. Its been on my mind recently and I just don't feel like I totally understood everything that it was meant to convey. Thank you so much!
Hi Lovely!!
I sadly DON’T know of any meta about that scene, unfortunately. My interpretation of it was that, since we’re supposed to believe that Sherlock apparently is psychic now and knows what John will do (then again, John is predictable in his nature, so probably that’s actually what was going on there if we’re to believe the episode is even real), he anticipated John beating him up to the point of hospitalization (refrains from screaming), and then being so angry with himself that he was going to part ways and leave the cane as a “thank you for everything, you were my crutch (what the cane symbolizes), Sherlock, but I don’t need my crutch anymore” (god the more I type this out the more “suspension of disbelief” this becomes). Knowing John would do this, he, weeks prior, put a bug in John’s cane (either that or the cane was always bugged since they met and Sherlock lied about the cane having a functioning bug, but left it there for the dramatic reveal because he’s a drama queen. This scenario seems more likely anyway, BUT the only thing going against this is that Lestrade implies later (I think) that the recording was inadmissible evidence, so either this bug was inserted just a few days before and Sherlock set it to record, or it was installed early early on starting the Culverton case and was always recording, meaning Sherlock constantly checks to make sure that the cane’s power hasn’t died… see where this starts to sound silly and fall apart?), and anticipated that John would leave it with him in a hospital and Smith would confess to Sherlock.
I’m sorry I find it REALLY REACHING to believe this is what happened for real, only because there’s SO many sharks you have to jump over that it becomes impossible to believe Sherlock is anything but a magician… which is another reason I don’t believe what we see on screen is real but instead “an unreliable narrator telling a fantastical story”.
ANYWAY, there’s my mini meta about that, LOL <3 Sorry I’m not much help otherwise :P
