Hey , I Just wanted to ask you about something that still bothering me about T6T ( I Know , I Know !!!!) , it's the fact that Sherlock doesn't recognize Thatcher , ok , he could have deleted it but it was the Password in the hound of the baskervilles ( also written by Mark ), he know enough about her to use " maggie " , it got me really upset !!!!!!!
John actually calls Sherlock out on this very thing in the script:
SHERLOCK: What is this?DAVID: Oh, it’s a sort of shrine, I suppose, really.(He stands up and walks over to the boys.)DAVID: Bit of a fan of Mrs T. Big hero of mine when I was getting started.SHERLOCK (smiling politely at him while he takes his magnifier from his pocket and clicks it open): Right, yes.(He bends down to look more closely at the table, then frowns and straightens up again.)SHERLOCK: Who?DAVID: What?SHERLOCK: Who-who is this? (He gestures to the table.)DAVID: Are you serious? JOHN (sternly): Sherlock.DAVID: It’s … it’s Margaret Thatcher, the first female prime minister of this country.SHERLOCK: Right.(He has bent down to look at the table again but now straightens up.)SHERLOCK: Prime minister?DAVID (starting to sound a little tetchy): Mm. Leader of the government.SHERLOCK: Right.(He squats down again, then lifts his head.)SHERLOCK (hopefully): Female?JOHN: For God’s sake. You know perfectly well who she is.(David walks away and John steps closer.)JOHN: Why are you playing for time?SHERLOCK: It’s the gap. (He focuses on the space between the items on the table.) Look at the gap. It’s wrong. Everything else is perfectly ordered, managed …(David sits down next to Emma and looks across to Greg, who shrugs.)SHERLOCK: This whole thing’s verging on OCD.
I think, honestly, this is a deliberate “fuck you” to Thatcherism from Mark (this is his episode, after all), possibly a cute callback to Sherlock not knowing who the Prime Minister is, and as a gay man himself, Sherlock I think is purposely being obtuse about Thatcher to piss off Welsboroughs – their son was coded as gay, and in turn, Charlie would have been afraid to come out to his ultra-conservative parents (Charlie was a kindred spirit of sorts). Though this is speculation, since Sherlock didn’t know Charlie.
That’s my thoughts on that :)