The Raw Emotion In Sherlocks Voice "You Killed An Innocent Man. You Tried To Kill My Best Friend." "I

The raw emotion in sherlocks voice "You killed an innocent man. You tried to kill my best friend." "I meant what I said, I am going to kill him." God, a masterpiece. I can't get this episode out of my head. It was majestic.

Sherlock Holmes loves John Watson.

That is my main takeaway from the last episode. Whether this love is romantic, platonic or an entirely separate thing altogether. The fact still remains.

Looking at the whole ordeal from Sherlock's perspective reveals something interesting. To Sherlock, John is one of his extremely few friends, his best friend even. Sherlock hasn't had many friends. Sure Mariana is his friend, and once, so was Victor. But none of them have been a friend to him in the way that John has.

No one else had taken the time to dig deep into who he was. No one else had put themselves in genuine danger for him. No one else has followed him into murders, and kidnappings, and all the other horrors he deals with, and stays by side throughout it all. He can count on John to always be there. He can trust John with his fears. He can be vulnerable around him, and believes that John can do the same.

He has, in his own way, fallen in love with him. He has grown attached. He cares about John in a way he hasn't cared for anyone before... He nearly killed for John Watson... He'd very willingly die for him as well...

That's what takes me to The Final Problem. Where, at the threat of John getting hurt, Sherlock would back down. He'd call John, tell him everything, how much he cares. He'd ask, plead, beg, John to forgive for what he's about to do... Then he'd jump. Spending the next few years, still protecting John. And when he has to come back, he'll be afraid. Not of the press, or that he won't be accepted. That John, his John Watson will not forgive him...

After all, there is no universe, where Sherlock doesn't love his Watson.

When Hannibal says that he is seeing himself in Will in season 1, I think it's interesting to think about what exactly he sees of himself in Will. Sure, it's that darkness within and the intelligence and the passion for doing bad things to bad people and the loneliness that comes with not fitting in but is that all that Hannibal means?

Is it something else in there that he recognizes more or less consciously? Because season 1 Will is this:

But frequently he is also this:

Thoughts on Hannibal seeing himself in Will?

People do crazy things for love, Wilson says. (S2E11) House fakes his death for Wilson. Tell me that isn't crazy.

close enough, welcome back hannibal lecter

Just want you guys to know what John wrote in his blog about what happened at the pool... "I was made to walk out into the swimming pool area where, I discovered, Sherlock was waiting. The voice in my ear, which I vaguely recognised, told me to say some stuff - which, I realised, gave the impression that I was behind it all. That I, John Watson, was Moriarty. I could see the look in Sherlock's eyes - a flash of, not anger, but hurt. For a second, he looked like a little, lost child. I should have been horrified that he'd even doubt me for a second but, to be honest, it was so refreshingly human of him. He actually did value our friendship. He did, despite himself, care. Then he saw the explosives on me and he realised what was happening."