finalproblem:For several episodes in a row, Sherlock has unbidden flashbacks to his childhood.The Ab
finalproblem:For several episodes in a row, Sherlock has unbidden flashbacks to his childhood.The Abominable Bride: Sherlock hears Redbeard during his drug-fueled Victorian adventureThe Six Thatchers: Sherlock flashes back to the beach after Mary knocks him out with drugged paperThe Lying Detective: Sherlock flashes back to the beach during a breakdown connected to his extreme overuse of drugsEach of these flashbacks is connected to Sherlock using drugs or being drugged. Sherlock may have been on to something after all with his suggestion in The Lying Detective that “perhaps the drugs opened certain doors in my mind.”It’s only in The Final Problem that drugs seem unrelated to a flashback trigger.And yet—Sherlock was recently blown up, and there are an awful lot of hospital references after that… Is this really the odd one out? -- source link