channybatch:addignisherlock:kaleidoscopeofabstractfantasies:sherlockians-get-bored:trained-cormorant
channybatch:addignisherlock:kaleidoscopeofabstractfantasies:sherlockians-get-bored:trained-cormorant:vulgarweed:addignisherlock:william-sherlock-watson:addignisherlock:Go to hell Sherlocktld gifset ¼this gives me goosebumps everytimeIt’s so terrifying to watch coz I can literally see he’s petrified with fear and his eyes are teary and his hands are flailing so desperately and it’s so real and hard to watchI feel like, when he said, “I don’t want to die” for the third time, and his eyes welled up and his voice cracked, that was when he actually meant it. He finally understood that he’s important not just to people who care about him, but also important TO HIMSELF. And this is the scene where, just after he’s realized he desperately wants to save himself, he’s too physically weak to do so.I love shipping Sherlock (with lots of people), but for me, the most important thing is that Sherlock comes to love himself and value his own life and fight to survive for his own sake. That last “i don’t want to die” was a pivotal moment. He’s made such a huge show of not fearing death, of embracing danger, of being all too willing to give himself up - for love, for knowledge, for a puzzle, or for nothing.After this moment, he can’t do that anymore. The vow he made to John and Mary and their baby wasn’t “I will die for you.” It was “I will always be there for you.” If he takes reckless risks that lead him to die for the people he loves, that’s not fulfilling the vow, it’s breaking it. The vow was to stay, at any cost.I feel like after this moment, Sherlock really started to understand that wasting his own life is not acceptable. When he aimed the gun under his chin in Eurus’s game in TFP, he was drawing from a place of all his self-destructive years. I love this so much. That’s the entire story isn’t it? What the premise was right in the first episode. He needs to become a great man and a good man. And he is at the heart of it, he just doesn’t value himself, his own life, enough to know it. Series 4 was such an underrated series because people just aren’t realising how monumental this personal growth and understanding is. Yes of course it has its problems, but so did the other three series. The core story arc IS good and I want to see more of it, not just a flash with a voiceover at the end of TFP. Sherlock is a good man, he is a great man, and now he’s ready to love himself and express love for others, whoever they may turn out to be.True. It goes from Sherlock risking his life to prove he’s clever to wanting to live for John. He goes from solving murders for the fun of it to solving them to save lives.Say what you will about season 4, but I loved how they explored the concept of suicide.Sherlock’s conversations with Faith (a.k.a. Eurus) (You all know which quote I’m talking about. Good stuff.), the hospital scene, and the talk before the hug were all done really well. It was dark, sometimes slightly unpleasant to go through, but it revealed a lot about Sherlock. Maybe the plot was not top-notch, but they made some progress in character development.Honestly, I had a mini heart-attack when Sherlock’s voice cracked when he said “I don’t want to die.” Superb acting!There are many good things about season 4, so please don’t be so negative about it, fellow Sherlockians!Agreed. Honestly I nearly cried when I heard his voice crack the third time he said I don’t want to die, because honestly I did NOT expect that at all. Like they’ve always touched on Sherlock’s vulnerabilities being tested, like the entire plot of trf and Sherlock feeling left behind in tsot. But they’ve always made his vulnerabilities a subtext. We only ever see glimpses of it but for the most part Sherlock’s guard is always up. But in tld, in that scene when his voice broke, that was just so frontal and open and vulnerable and goddamn Ben for being able to portray it with such realistic humanity and vulnerabilityThe writers told us it was going to be a very dark season, they did not lie! -- source link