#i just realized that john is balanced on the balls of his feet #and i can’t help but think that he is prepared to leap up #propel himself forward #and knock Sherlock into the pool #thereby messing up the sniper’s eyeline completely and possibly causing him to miss #he’s got this look like he’s trying to decide if he’s going to dive for it #’if this moriarty dick is psychotic enough to provoke sherlock this far #can i bollocks things up for his sniper lackeys?’ #and oh god it give me so many Jawn Feels #because that bastard is no damsel in distress #sherlock #Sherlock BBC #the great game
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#guys#let’s pause for a second and observe this scene#sherlock’s and john’s lifes lie in the hand of a crazy person#like for real crazy and mad and everything#and all it takes is one look#ONLY ONE LOOK for john and sherlock to agree on dying together#sherlock looks at john#and john just nods#he does not ask questions#he does not hesitate#he just nods and gives sherlock the permission to do anything#even if it means dying#dying by sherlock’s side#GUYS#I WILL GO DOWN WITH THIS SHIP
#this was cruel #to take a character and build him from a place that’s so small and dark and broken #to take him from a place where he had something to die because of and give him something to die for #to actually take his world and colour it meticulously bit by bit until he’s giggling in hallways #and then to take that away until he’s exactly where you found him #until to revert back to the way he was is the only thing he has left #TO TAKE HIM IN A PROGRESSION THAT’S A PHYSICAL CIRCLE #this show is run by assholes
And there you have it, ladies and gentlemen. With his mind completely blown by his flatmate’s selflessness, and meanwhile displaying some of the worst gun discipline ever seen in human history while he desperately attempts to reboot his vocabulary: Mr. Sherlock Holmes.
(APPLAUSE)
*grinning and applauding* You gotta figure there’s enough adrenalin coursing through his system to jump start a dozen corpses, too. Hee. (Also, yeah, totally bad gun-handling there!)
^^^ Yes, and yes.
I actually prefer the pilot version of this scene – very, very much so. First we get this recognition shot, which to me seems much more poignant in the pilot version. John is very much outside, apart from Sherlock and his world, and Sherlock gets up and goes over to deliberately join him: a really lovely visual metaphor for their whole relationship being established in this first episode. We’re robbed of that moment in A Study in Pink, where John is slap-bang in the middle of the action almost daring Sherlock to realise that he was the shooter.
Second, we get John’s marvellous “I’ve watched good men die / I’ll sleep fine tonight” speech, which is missing in the actual episode. To me, the John Watson in ASiP seemed far too callous about having just murdered a man, even if it was a not-very-nice man who was in fact an atrocious cabbie.
There are lots of things about the pilot that I wish they’d kept in the series, and besides the hair and costumes, this scene is probably on the top of my list.
YEP ^^
There are a lot of things I like out of both versions, but this is one of the scenes I really appreciated in the pilot.
This literally fucking broke my heart. Because this is Sherlock we’re talking about. Sherlock, who isn’t concerned for anyone’s feelings, who frankly doesn’t give a shit what people think of him. Sherlock who does and says whatever he wants because he’s a genius and he can, and he has no reason to hide who he is for anybody. Until John comes along. Sherlock, the man whose heart is essentially made of iron, who never inconveniences himself for anyone, he hides his sadness, all of his bad feelings from John, because John matters, and he doesn’t want to see John, his friend, inconvenienced by him. Because John has been through a war already and is going through another one walking with Sherlock, and on top of everything, John’s feelings matter to Sherlock. It’s why he’s pretty much the only one who matters to Sherlock, because they are so different in so many ways, but alike in the only ways that matter, and Sherlock knows how it would affect his best friend if he ever saw him in pain, in actual, emotional pain, something that he’s not familiar with, so Sherlock hides. And John has no goddamned idea. And that’s what makes their relationship so painful to me. Not that Sherlock doesn’t care, but he does to the point where he makes it an object to make it seem like he doesn’t. That is, of course, until he thinks that John can’t see.
^^^^^ Yes.
It’s 3 am and my stomach nearly tore open trying to contain my sobbing.
Lady Karasu 