Meta on JohnLock: How aware are they? (Includes reflections on pining!Sherlock / pining!John) (updated 9/12/14)
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Was Sherlock’s wedding epiphany about his own feelings towards John? And how much is John aware of?, ivyblossom answers. ”I don’t think Sherlock is aware of John’s attraction to him in a complete or realistic way, and I don’t think he entirely understands his own feelings for John, either….Sherlock is a kind half-formed creature that way, and constantly in agony because of it. The only real peer he’s had to help him through this is his brother, who is, as far as we can tell, more extraordinarily brilliant than Sherlock is, but entirely unemotional….What Sherlock has learned in working with John is that John is actually a better peer for him than his brother is….Sherlock has come to some sort of understanding about his feelings about John and John’s place in his life. I’m not sure how fully formed they are, but he is aware that John is the centre of his emotional world, and is critical to his intellectual world as well, but that he has just lost him.”
John was in love with sherlock and he knows it: response from loudest subtext:
But when do you think Sherlock fell in love with John ? If he deduced he's in love with John it must have happened before tso3 ?Is there a moment that's particularly striking ?, loudest-subtext. "But for when they were undeniably in love, I think John couldn’t deny it to himself anymore after the pool scene, and that’s when it hit Sherlock too. Though Sherlock was still too emotionally repressed to fully acknowledge it as love — in large part because he didn’t think John couldbe in love with him, so what would be the point? — he seems to wrestle with it in those terms anyway: "
I think I've seen this plot in a rom com, pretty arbitrary. On why the pining!Sherlock trope doesn't make sense, prettyarbitrary. “When Sherlock came back, took a look at John’s face and realized he’d already been having that relationship he’d finally gotten around to admitting he wanted sometime while he was away, he was also forced to recognize everything he’d thoughtlessly thrown away when he decided to bail out for two years and leave John wondering helplessly if there was anything he could have said or done or changed to keep Sherlock from dying.”
The Real Reichenbach Mystery, marsdaydream. "The one question mark that remains, for me, is what Sherlock could be thinking when he listens to John make the speech at his grave. Why, after hearing this speech, does he still not understand what he means to John? Even after “The best man I ever knew… please don’t be dead…” Sherlock still doesn’t seem to get it, if he can come back and think he can just pop out of a cake. According to what we see in S3, Sherlock really doesn’t understand until after the reunion that he deeply broke John. That, to me, is the real mystery of Reichenbach: not how did he survive, but given this moment, why didn’t Sherlock figure out how John feels?"
Breaking the rule of love in S3, professorfangirl and prettyarbitary. On TSoT: “Which is also why I don’t think his contemplative look when he leaves John’s reception is meant to be pining. It’s just him slipping back into real Sherlock, the man who doesn’t belong to places like a wedding reception and never did.
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