#tehlb

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it’s over.  now, how do I keep from marathoning the rest of series three?  that is the question.

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“I made a little speech”

interesting that John parallels Sherlock’s best man speech.  is sherlock’s speech him asking John not to be dead to their love?  in just as hopeless a situation?

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Sherlock does know why they put John in the fire.  He lies to John and John either doesn’t notice or accepts his dodge. favour the latter.

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the miracle that John’s grief-fuelled graveside bargaining plea came true is epic.  if you’ve lost someone to the true death, you can imagine just how amazing that would be.

there’s nothing I wouldn't forgive someone that had come back from the dead for me.

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I’ve always thought that

"remarkably thick”

and

“you cock!”

are two of john’s insults in teh that go together really well

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the surrealism and postmodernism of the importance given to John’s gaze.

it makes no sense to jump off a building to only fool one guy about your death.  anyone else watching would see this three ring circus with a giant inflated blue thingy and people changing up corpses.

The only thing that matters is what John thinks.  this as a reference to John as the audience.  John as narrator, he must think Sherlock is dead.  The audience thinks he’s dead in the books since ACD literally killed him.  At the end of TRF, though, we know that Sherlock’s alive.  We transcend John as narrator and feel for him as character, as love interest.

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come on Sarah!  kiss Chuck!

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‘if we don’t do this other people will die’

johnlock saves lives.