Hi! I’ve joined the fandom this year. I’ve watched the series for the first time this summer and I’m currently rewatching it with my mum.
She asked me why Sherlock didn’t tell John anything about his plan in TRF and I said that he just wanted to protect him, since he knew the mission to stop Moriarty was going to be dangerous. Now I was just wondering if you could link me a post about why Sherlock don’t tell John about the plan, if you have it.
She said that Sherlock should’ve told John about it and ask him to play along the part of the grieving friend.
(I couldn’t tell her about Johnlock, because she’s not that much into the show for me to explain her all the details that point at it).
P.S. sorry for any (grammatical) errors, English is not my first language.
Thank you <3
Hey Nonny!
You're English is great, don't apologise.
As for specific meta, ah, I can't really recall any off the top of my head. My thoughts are along the same lines as yours – that Sherlock jumped to protect John from Moriarty's and his minions – but yeah, my belief is also similar in the thoughts that Sherlock could have easily convinced John to lie for him.
I think part of it is that Sherlock operates under the belief that John is a terrible liar, and in turn John feels that Sherlock broke his trust. My meta Secrets, Half Truths and Trust goes quite a bit into trying to make sense of why Sherlock never told John about his Fall (so check that one out) – essentially that Sherlock believes John is always followed for thee opportune moment to hurt Sherlock – and this misunderstanding is what leads to the inevitable heartbreak. Sherlock loves John so dearly and could never forgive himself if something happened to him, so I think he was genuinely surprised about John being visibly upset about Sherlock not trusting John enough with his secret. I also believe this is the case because it it's mirrored nicely in S4 if you believe the John's Alibi Theory (where the base premise is that S4 is actually a story being told by John on his blog to cover up his murdering of villainous Mary. More meta here.), wherein instead of Sherlock not trusting John for his Fall in TRF, Sherlock instead decides to trust John and work with him for John's potential "Fall" (ie. his arrest and jail time for his role in the true S4), because it's always the two of them against the rest of the world, and in the end, Sherlock and John usually succeed when they work together instead of apart.
That's my theory anyway, LOL.
So yeah, not really any specific meta I can really link to SPECIFICALLY about that one thing, but more just a bunch of ideas floated around Tumblr at the time.
If anyone has anything else they can add, please do :)
