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12:24 AM EDT April 21, 2024:

High on Fire - "The Beating" From the album Cometh The Storm (April 19, 2014)

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I’m trying to dissect John’s anger in the morgue.

John is already angry over Mary’s death. He’s incredibly distraught, and looking for someone to blame. Although he doesn’t admit it until this scene, it’s clear to everyone that he blames Sherlock. He’s angry because he believes Sherlock’s actions created a dangerous situation, and a person that John loves died as a result.

In the morgue, John is forced to confront this. He is forced to confront the fact that Sherlock’s actions have, in the past, led to deaths of people he cares about, and that at this moment in the morgue, Sherlock’s actions are, once again, endangering the life of someone he loves: Sherlock himself.

I know it’s confusing, considering John beats Sherlock bloody in this scene (one could say John is endangering Sherlock’s life here), but think about it. John is trying not to acknowledge that he blames Sherlock for creating a situation in which someone he loved died. Yet Sherlock is forcing him to confront the fact that he does by placing another person that John loves in danger: himself. John is angry. He’s angry because it seems like Sherlock has learned nothing, that even after Mary’s death, Sherlock still creates volatile situations and endangers the people John cares about. He’s angry because he’s watching his friend kill himself, AGAIN, with what seems to be very little regard to John’s feelings. AGAIN.

John doesn’t recognize this in that moment, because it’s frankly confusing. It’s confusing to pretend you’re not angry with someone, when you are, and it’s made all the more complex when you love that person, and feel that they are putting themselves in danger. So his immediate reaction is to assign all of his anger to what happened to Mary, something outside of his feelings toward Sherlock. It’s less complicated for him that way. It’s easier to think “I’m angry because you got my wife killed” than it is to think “I’m angry because you got my wife killed, and I’m angry and scared because you’re killing yourself, my best friend, right now, just like you killed yourself, my best friend, years ago”, which is what John feels.

The scene in the morgue is fast-paced and volatile. There is a lot of adrenaline and not enough time for John to examine the complexities of his feelings. All he knows is that he feels really, REALLY pissed off. And from what we have scene in the show (the scene before Irene’s house, the scene where the chief superintendent insults Sherlock) John has a history of getting violent when he is furious. In the morgue, John takes that fury out on the greatest stressor in his life, because the adrenaline and danger of the situation don’t allow him the presence of mind to dissect and realize that his feelings extend beyond anger. He’s angry, truly angry, but he’s also scared and hurt because Sherlock is putting someone he cares about in danger for the third time. But in that moment, the anger sounds the loudest to him because he has a glaring and obvious reason to be: Mary. That right there is his excuse, a simple, uncomplicated explanation to his anger. When he has grief and fury over the death of his wife on his side, John doesn’t have to confront the fear and hurt surrounding his feelings toward Sherlock.

The scene after the morgue, in Sherlock’s hospital room, is telling. John is leaving Sherlock because the anger has been expelled a great deal, not entirely, but enough that John is getting a glimpse of the magnitude of his emotions, the fear of loss and the hurt that Sherlock is destroying himself. He is removing himself from Sherlock. First, because he knows now that he can’t stand to watch Sherlock hurt himself, and second, because John now considers himself a tool of self-destruction in Sherlock’s arsenal. John tries to walk out of Sherlock’s life because he doesn’t want to be around to see Sherlock kill himself, and because he can’t bear to be used in the process.

The morgue scene is John trying to obliterate anger that has been building since Sherlock’s fall. His anger began with watching Sherlock choose to commit suicide. When Mary died, the anger built, because it seemed Sherlock’s actions had once again led to the death of someone he cared about. In the morgue, it’s Sherlock’s choice to continuously poison himself with drugs that is the last straw, the catalyst that forces John to come to terms with the existence of his rage and express it.

The anger is based on the fear of loss and the pain of grief. John is just so utterly done seeing the people he loves, especially Sherlock himself, die as a result of Sherlock’s actions.

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2:39 AM EDT August 26, 2024:

High on Fire - "The Beating" From the album Cometh The Storm (April 19, 2024)

Last song scrobbled from iTunes at Last.fm

Des Kensel has left, but Arik Roper has returned.

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Special Ops: Lioness

Season 1, “The Beating”

Director: John Hillcoat

DoP: Paul Cameron

SPECIAL OPS: LIONESS - Recensione 1x01 “Sacrificial Soldiers” e 1x02 “The Beating”

Special Ops: Lioness, nuova serie targata Taylor Sheridan, abbina una storia potenzialmente buona a un buonissimo cast e una decente dose d'azione...

RECENSIONE 1x01/02

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I’m trying to dissect John’s anger in the morgue.

The anger is based on the fear of loss and the pain of grief. John is just so utterly done seeing the people he loves, especially Sherlock himself, die as a result of Sherlock’s actions.

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