mild-lunacy:captainsjm:John is terrified by a gun pointed at his head. He recognizes his own m
mild-lunacy:captainsjm:John is terrified by a gun pointed at his head. He recognizes his own mortality. He knows what a bullet wound does to a person, and he has no doubt that the gunman would shoot. Sherlock is glib. He jokes, he condescends. He’s surprised when Mary shoots him. I doubt he’s ever been shot before HLV. MP!Molly has to remind him, “it’s not like it is in the movies.” Because he’s never personally encountered it before then.While he’s never been shot before, he has certainly understands the danger of others being shot.Sherlock’s innocence: one of my favorite topics, haha, especially when you consider how it intersects with his recklessness. I can’t help but think of Ivy’s old meta on ASiB, where she says that the reason Irene has been constructed as a dominatrix is to play off Sherlock’s vulnerability in this exact area, to be his ‘pressure point’. I think it’s interesting that Sherlock’s innocent of all three: love, sex and death. He’s really-really a Virgin, with a capital V, even, and it’s always John to introduce him, both to love and to fear (and the process began with a bang when Moriarty strapped John to a bomb, surely). Humanization and/or integration arcs (which I’d talked about with baudown before) involve this sort of reconciliation of seemingly opposite aspects of the character’s life. Sherlock’s married to his work, so he must find a way to relate sentiment to the area that he’d thought was devoid of sentiment. As a consequence, he has to find a way to deal with fear, both for himself and for John, which requires him to grow up.As a side note, I’m sort of pleased, because this is indirect proof Sherlock couldn’t have killed or been shot at very much during his hiatus, or the whole point of his development in HLV seems moot.YES TO BOTH OF THESE ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ -- source link
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