All Sherlockians and Holmesians know the famous line, "It was worth a wound - it was worth many wounds - to know the depth of loyalty and love which lay behind that cold mask. The clear, hard eyes were dimmed for a moment, and the firm lips were shaking. For the one and only time I caught a glimpse of a great heart as well as of a great brain", from the original ACD canon. This line is said by John about Sherlock when John is injured during a case and Sherlock hurriedly rushes to his aid - showing how much he cares. I wish every time I think about it that they had used this line in some way in BBC's Sherlock. And here's where I think it should have gone. The Empty Hearse. I wish the first episode of season 3, The Empty Hearse, had been presented as a kind of parody of the very first season 1 episode of the series - A Study in Pink. I wish it had opened with John having a nightmare about Sherlock's death instead of the war, and then waking up alone in a disheveled 221b, and not knowing what to put on his blog anymore. No Mary, just John still mourning with us - the audience. And then, when Sherlock returns and sees the state he's left his dear Watson in, John thinks this line to us in narration as we see Sherlock embrace him tightly and try to explain. Damn you, Moffat.
