As Much As I've Got To Admit That I'm Lowkey Very Fond Of This Detail, It Still Doesn't Make Any Sense

As much as I've got to admit that I'm lowkey very fond of this detail, it still doesn't make any sense to me. I've looked it up and V.R. is apparently supposed to stand for Victoria Regina, the queen during Sherlock Holmes' time

But Sherlock isn't interested in politics at all. Why would he be patriotic enough to shoot the queen's initials into his walls?? Maybe it's just something random cause he didn't have anything better to use instead, but I doubt that the queen would be of enough significance for him to even use it randomly🧍 I mean why would Sherlock feel the need to pay homage to her?

I could seriously write an essay on the dynamic between Deadpool and Wolverine, I am *this* close to asking my teacher if there’s any chance that I could get an extra grade for that, because THE CONTENT IS THERE AND I COULD ANALYSE IT

AND I’M NOT EVEN SOMEONE WHO’S INVOLVED IN THE FANDOM

In the game Sherlock Holmes: Chapter One by Frogwares, we can discover that Sherlock and Jon had put together a play for Hamlet with some other kids behind the Legacy Theatre when they were kids on Cordona (the island that the game is set on, they lived there with Sherlock's mom, her doctor and Mycroft when Sherlock was 10 until his mother died, which is basically the time and the place we're exploring and discovering new truths about during the story-relevant quests) He did this because he wanted to do a play but the man who owned the theatre didn't like children if I remember correctly, their Hamlet was so good that people had started gathering around them and the director came outside once the play was over to congratulate them on the good play and welcomed them into the theatre

Now this isn't necessarily some universal canon Sherlock or something, but I love this game and thought this was worth sharing :]

If Mycroft participated in theatre, it stands to reason Sherlock did too.  At least he took classes.  No one fakes all those personalities and cries on cue the way he does without training.

Now I’m envisioning them doing stuff like improv exercises where they have to pretend to be a bear stuck in a traffic jam or something.

very real ngl

Sherlock: I didn't miss that social cue, I just thought it was stupid

Wooo I can also post my animations here :D

OH ALSO THIS IS NOT A LOOP THERE’S MORE DOCTOR WHO AFTER THE INTRO

I just listened to the first episode of Sherlock & Co. again (which I've never done for a podcast before btw) and Stamford doesn't warn him here either😭

Though the difference is that John instantly knew that this wasn't gonna be normal because the first time he sees Sherlock he is bleeding. On a treadmill. Because he's doing an experiment on himself. So while Stammo hasn't warned him here either, at least John could throw out his expectations of any normal conversation himself, before being "mouth-doxxed" as @valhallassoundbox put it, since that's a much less normal start to meeting someone than the person just innocently asking for someone's phone lmao

Buuut Stammo still let John walk into this room unprepared for what Sherlock was up to, although to be fair he couldn't have known that *that* was gonna be what Sherlock was doing either, but he probably knew that there was a chance it was gonna be something like that

I just find it funny how Stamford seemingly did NOT mention to John that Sherlock would know everything about him the moment he’d walk in there. He did not know that he was instantly gonna be able to tell him everything about himself as if he had just finished copy and pasting a Wikipedia article about Watson directly into his verbal drive

Instead of warning him Stamford was just like “Can’t wait to see your reaction, it’s better when you experience it first-hand without spoilers lmao” and decided to let John walk into that room completely unprepared for what he was in for lol

John thought this was gonna be a relatively normal conversation