inevitably-johnlocked:

sherlock-little-weed:

the-7-percent-solution:

sherlock-little-weed:

dyke-osaurus:

The moment where Billy is deducing John’s cycling habits is all fun and games until you relaise that this isnt why he is cycling to work, there is a underlying reason as to why he is doing it; he does not want to spend time with Mary. 

Originally posted by notmydate

But then I remembered this…

Just like John the cycling was a cover up for the truth. Nothing said or done in this show is a coincidence as we all know what they say about coincidences. 

Oh… Screaming! Good spot!

It’s also the reason Mary made Bill flinch while fixing his arm - he wouldn’t let go of the reason John was cycling to work.  She knows.  John knows.  Everyone knows but Sherlock, apparently.  

And Joe who lives in Flat 21A? A mirror for John from 221B?  Nice.  

Also… spot the swoopy hair!

Wow! Good catch!

welovethebeekeeper:

byebyefrost:

beejohnlocked:

John and Mary are canonically not happy together. This is CANON. It goes beyond shipping. It doesn’t matter if you ship johnlock or warstan or neither, the fact is we’ve been SHOWN that John and Mary aren’t in a happy relationship.

TEH: John looks like absolute dogshit the day he’s going to propose to Mary. He doesn’t talk about it like he’s excited. He states it as a fact, as an accepted inevitability but he doesn’t seem happy about it. Mrs. Hudson literally thinks John is seriously ill or leaving the country based on how he’s acting. The interactions between John and Mary aren’t horrible or anything. They seem comfortable enough, but not a couple gloriously thrilled about starting their lives together. Given that they’re newly engaged and hadn’t been dating long besides, it’s notable that they act the way they do. Not demonstrably UNHAPPY at this point, but not happy either.

TSoT: They seem pretty happy at the wedding, the happiest we see them in the show I would say, but this is a happy occasion and a celebratory mood is generally surrounding a wedding. But we see moments of doubt. During the wedding speech, Mary seems less than happy from certain things Sherlock says. John looks downright sad and regretful at times. His hand tremor starts acting up too. Then there’s pregnancy deduction, where neither John or Mary seem happy. Mary seems afraid and John seems pissed off. Yes it is a surprise but they’re an established couple with two incomes in their household, the writers chose to make the reaction the way they did. The happiness we see in that moment is between Sherlock and John, not John and Mary. On top of all that, the flashback is interesting. The flirty John on stag night but more so the fact that he’s not excited about the upcoming wedding and Mary doesn’t seem to be either. She’s at least doing planning but John is getting pushed along by her and Sherlock. They’re doing the work and John kind of desperately wants to be doing something else. And when Mrs. Hudson starts talking about John getting married, John loses his appetite.

HLV: I don’t even really need to say anything because it’s in your face but we see John having nightmares again, dreaming of Sherlock, throwing Mary’s hand off of him, pining over Sherlock and being a dick to Mary and the neighbor, Mary irritated with the mention of Sherlock, sniping back and forth, using Mary’s pregnancy as a weapon (they both do this), John and Mary going to work separately even though they work together, John keeping his clothes ready to pack. Then of course we have the shooting, the confrontation at the empty houses, the Baker Street domestic, and none of these moments show any happiness anywhere. Even the Christmas forgiveness scene. Even if you believe the forgiveness is genuine, John STILL says in a caveat that he’s pissed and it’s going to come out. And they still are fucking arguing about mowing the lawn and naming the baby.

TAB: Inside Sherlock’s mind palace, which makes it significant for different reasons. But John has essentially abandoned Mary for Sherlock and doesn’t even care enough to recognize her when she’s standing directly in front of him. Mary and John’s maid points out how shitty their marriage is MULTIPLE TIMES IN ONE SCENE. When Sherlock says Mary is in danger, again we have John having a total ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ reaction like “she’s probs with friends Holmes, let’s talk about you and me more.” And at the end when John says “I thought we were growing apart from each other”, he doesn’t sound particularly moved one way or the other. He doesn’t sound like he wishes it were true but he also doesn’t sound relieved that Mary is there. It’s incredibly awkward to watch. And we see right before MP John sets things right at Reichenbach, that Sherlock’s worst nightmare is John abandoning him for Mary. Sherlock begging John to stay and John basically saying “no, Mary is in charge and we are leaving.”

It’s much more difficult to get a true picture of Mary here because John is one of the protagonists so we are privy to his emotions more. She certainly seems intent on hanging onto John, but it’s hard to say why because they aren’t a happy couple.

If we had been shown loving and tender moments between John and Mary throughout the season, if we had seen them happy before AGRA was revealed, I could understand the defense of their relationship a lot more than I do. We don’t see them laugh together. We don’t see them say “I love you”. Their meeting, courtship, proposal, and exchange of vows all took place off screen. But we are shown them fighting, lying, angry, and unhappy. I just can’t root for a couple like that.

Amen.

Yet just by being a man and a woman following a traditional path, they are ‘assumed’ to be happy/functional/worth defending. They are seen to be CONFORMING to the rules of their gender and their social class, therefore it evokes a defence of the very rules themselves. People get angry that the relationship is even questioned. They demand an explicit declaration by John that he is not happy, that he is bisexual, that he is attracted to Sherlock. They hear him say he is not gay [he isn’t] and that he and Sherlock are not, nor ever where, a couple [which they were but not by John’s definition of a couple as that involves physical intimacy] We have witnessed in this fandom just how entrenched hetero-normative assumptions are in society. We have seen the rejection of gay/bi romance tropes which would have been accepted if they had been heterosexual romance tropes. We have experienced anger, hate, vitriol and just plain stubborn idiotic denial thrown at johnlockers by mainly females who are angry that a straight couple are not being honoured in the show when we should all be giving them the prime position of importance and accepting their relationship without question. So engrained is the ideal of the opposite sex couple that many refuse to see what is text in the show, not subtext, TEXT. Until Sherlock says the words ‘I am gay’ and John says ‘I am bisexual’, until John tells Mary the relationship with her is over and it was never going to work, many people will not believe what is right in front of their eyes. They need the explicit declaration.

stillgosherlocked:

JOHN: John Hamish Watson – just if you were looking for baby names.

JOHN: I choose the baby’s name.
MARY: Not a chance.

SHERLOCK: William Sherlock Scott Holmes. (…) That’s the whole of it – if you’re looking for baby names. 

This is such wonderful example of why Sherlock and John belong together and John and Mary don’t. 

• Both John and Sherlock are offering their full names to each other. And this is a strong contrast to Mary who never gives anyone her real name. 
  
• Of course there is the nearly identical wording as well. 
• And if you compare this with Mary’s snappish remark when John - who has been treated cruelly by her - wants to choose the baby’s name, it becomes clear that Mary is demanding and taking what she thinks is her right while John and Sherlock are offering and giving.
• This is one of Mary’s functions in the narrative: emphasising the ultimately selfless love between Sherlock and John by setting it off against her selfishness. 
• And the use of full names is reminiscent of wedding vows as well. So in a way we get wedding vows for Sherlock and John while the “real” wedding between John and Mary is never shown. But then Mary Elizabeth Morstan was never a real name. 

moriarty:

in scandal, after sherlock receives the plane tickets from mycroft and is taken to the plane, there’s a transition scene where sherlock’s in the car with the two bodyguards, and he’s talking, seemingly to himself

the guards markedly never answer him, so he isn’t talking to them. what he actually is talking about in the scene, the plane and the cover-up plan by the government, he’s actually already explained to irene the scene before that, so there isn’t any actual reason why he’d need to be explaining it to us all over again. so… is he talking to himself? literally in the scene before that, this is the conversation he and irene have

so, like, it’s pretty reasonable to assume sherlock isn’t talking to himself in the car scene, but is, in fact, talking to john? in his mind palace? Why Is He Like This… so sad and gay

inevitably-johnlocked:

johnlockheartor:

inevitably-johnlocked:

femme fatale

1:  a seductive woman who lures men into dangerous or compromising situations

2:  a woman who attracts men by an aura of charm and mystery

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I’m noticing some commentary arguing against Mary being a villain going around, and instead of commenting on every post with the same copy pasted text because I feel very strongly about this for painful personal reasons, here’s my all-around post for it. I’m honestly just stating how I see her character; this has ABSOLUTELY NOTHING to do with Johnlock (in fact, I actually think she’s good for Johnlock, but I digress). 

Some info is copy pasted from both this post (Mary x John is a Not Good Relationship) and this post (Mary is not a Nice Person).

Here are the facts:

• Mary is Possessive
• Mary is Cruel
• Emotionally Abusive to Both Sherlock and John
• She Forced John to Propose to Her
• Mary Meant to Kill Sherlock and Returned to Finish the Job
• She Would Have Killed John at Leinster Gardens
• Sherlock is Terrified of Her and Thinks She Will Attempt to Murder Him Again
• She belittles both Sherlock and John inside and outside the mind palace
• There are clues that she’s been involved since TBB or at least in TGG
• Even before we found out about Mary, she was suspicious (not mine)
• Mofftiss DELIBERATELY released promo photos that made her look like a femme fatale: (here), (here), (here), (here), and (here)

TAB tells us in the first five minutes what Sherlock really thinks of Mary:

Also: Sherlock believes Mary murdered him:

MYCROFT: You saw the whole room when you entered it. What was directly behind you when you were murdered?
YOUNG SHERLOCK (sounding petulant): I’ve not been murdered yet.
MYCROFT (leaning down to him): Balance of probability, little brother.

Look, I absolutely LOVE Mary; she’s an interestingly complex character. But the narrative arc supports her being a villain. She absolutely murdered Sherlock and is absolutely not nice. The only reason people sympathise with her is because she’s “cute” and “funny”: This is a common technique psychopaths and emotional abusers use to gain people’s trust. Please trust me on this one.

• Finally: My ‘the mary problem’ tag on my blog.

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MARY LITERALLY KILLED THE MAIN CHARACTER OF THE SERIES. THIS IS A FACT. Sherlock died. A common storytelling method is for the villain to kill the main hero. Mary is THE SAME CHARACTER WHO CONVINCED THE HERO THAT SHE WAS HIS FRIEND. THE SAME FRIEND WHO PLANNED HER WEDDING EVEN THOUGH HE WAS PINING HARD FOR HER FIANCE, AND THEN SHE LATER BELITTLED AND MOCKED HIM. The same friend that HER HUSBAND GRIEVED OVER FOR TWO YEARS. And the only reason given for her to shoot Sherlock was because SHE DIDN’T WANT JOHN TO KNOW ABOUT HER PAST, even after Sherlock offered to help her. I’m sorry, but that doesn’t scream “loving housewife” to me.

One of the biggest arguments I see is the one that Sherlock himself brought up: if she really wanted to kill Sherlock, she would have shot him in the head. 

Here’s the thing: She did not shoot Sherlock in the head because she knew John would have come after her immediately; a chest shot guarantees a slow (and VERY PAINFUL) death and it guarantees a worried John taking care to save a life. She knows John would not want to risk Sherlock dying again if there was a chance he could be saved, ergo, John acts to save his life.

MARY KNOWS WHAT SHERLOCK’S DEATH DID TO JOHN. AND SHE USES THAT TO HER ADVANTAGE.

Please rewatch the season with these ideas in mind. To downgrade her character to a “sweet housewife just looking to forget her past” after all this excellent character building within which she never once showed true remorse and love for any of the main cast is frankly insulting to her character. 

Look, if she was really going to “change”, she would not still have her assassin’s gear five years on that STILL FITS HER LIKE A GLOVE. Sorry.

THE SHOW HAS NEVER BEEN ABOUT THE CASES. IT’S NEVER GOING TO END WITH MARY, JOHN AND SHERLOCK. IT’S ALWAYS BEEN ABOUT SHERLOCK AND JOHN’S RELATIONSHIP. IT’S ALWAYS BEEN JUST THE TWO OF THEM.

Mary is not staying. They’re building her up to be something more. And yeah, I’m actually glad about that. I love her character as a villain and I love Amanda’s portrayal of her, and it’s insulting to the brilliant writing of Mofftiss to assume that she’s just being delegated to a housewife role.

I’m not looking to change anyone’s minds, I’m just stating how I see her character, and where her arc is heading. I think it’s a great arc for her, and I look forward to where it’s going in S4.

Her hair and dress in the proposal scene and exactly like a femme fatale  in a 1940′s film noir.

Ah yes, how could I forget about this too. It’s no coincidence that our first view of her face is one of a film noire lady, face constantly shadowed and everything.

may-shepard:

the-7-percent-solution:

The night of Sherlock’s return, the words floating around Mary included “Cat Lover”. This is a red herring, because every other time a cat is mentioned in this show it serves to distract from something bigger.

*Sehkmet, the cat that was a suspect in the Connie Prince case in TGG

*The Lucky Cat is the shop in TBB that serves as a cover for the smuggling ring

*“CAT” was shown over and over again during Sherlock’s death in HLV as he goes through the types of guns that could’ve killed him. He immediately realizes that the type of gun doesn’t matter, it was just a distraction to what actually mattered

*On “The Science of Deduction” blog someone important asks Sherlock to help him find his missing cat - except there is no cat at all, that was just a ploy to get his attention

So this tells us Mary is a lover to someone we don’t immediately expect. David? Maybe Moriarty? Maybe her baby isn’t a Watson baby after all - I mean, look at the turn ups on her jeans!

*klaxons*

beejohnlocked:

green-violin-bow:

withthekeyisking:

queerjawn:

ladymacphisto:

sassy1121:

weeesi:

caitlinisactuallyawritersname:

therealmartinsgrrrl:

I keep think about Mark saying “what in this domestic situation were we not privy to” and it’s torturing me to wonder if they’re going to reveal that they boys were actually Together at some point before the fall, because we’ve all wondered, fic'ed, thought about the possibility, because of how they were in Hounds and TRF…and that quote is just So Leading, and I just. Please, dads, they’ve been through enough, if they were a couple before the fall, it makes everything so much more tragic, please. I cannot.

SHUT

NO

Yeeaah not gonna lie, I also thought about this again while watching the thing.

It makes watching the reveal at the restaurant even more devastating than before, and this exchange absolutely shattering.

Mark certainly makes it sound that way and THoB and TRF fit the bill. S3 is so full of open flirting and lovelorn spitefulness, what with “I prefer my doctors clean-shaven” and “I’m not going to marry her obviously, there’s only so far you can go”: they both seem to know, to know for sure, what they are to each other even if they refuse to say it out loud. How did that happen, when?

Even though they weren’t living together anymore, I’ve also contemplated that maybe something DID happen during stag night, which would explain even better the extra-charged tension, frustration and sadness after the wedding.

Unreliable narrators: that old hell.

@queerjawn your reading is heartbreaking perfection!!! I definitely agree about a pre-Reichenbach something. I said something similar in another post about how this relates to Sherlock mentioning giving John dance lessons. They have been dancing around each other but they never acknowledge it out in the open. Everything Pre-Reichenbach is behind “closed curtains.”

No no NO I’ve just read this at my desk at work and now I want to ACTUALLY SCREAM and I can’t I have to pretend to be a normal functioning human for the rest of the day

I have thought the same thing so many times. That they were SOMETHING, but that it was never defined, never official, and the fall broke whatever had been between them. That closeness during s2, John stopping with the sham dating, the “we need to be more careful”, the double rooms, even in ASiB Mrs. Hudson shouting to the boys BOTH UPSTAIRS IN JOHN’S BEDROOM, like I hate how much it hurts, but it FITS. It actually fits better than if they were never together because of what @queerjawn points out, there is so much coupley sniping and flirting between them, in spite of them not being together, not living together, John being with Mary. “Neither of us were the first you know” also works with Sherlock being an actual past lover of John. And I think it actually explains better John being with Mary even if he’s in love with Sherlock and Sherlock with him. It’s the ex that broke his heart, and he refuses to make himself vulnerable again, even if he desperately wants to. “Why would he care? He’s Sherlock, who would he bother protecting?” is not John being an unknowing idiot. It’s John being a betrayed lover, bitter and hurt.

okay but seriously like if this is true, which would already be painful enough, it would mean that we watched canon johnlock on screen without knowing it

teaandforeshadowing:

piningjohn:

So that’s the TWO images they decided to include, ONE AFTER THE OTHER, in the video of the wedding photos on John’s blog. 

Not that Molly is John’s foil, that Tom is Mary’s foil and that Lestrade is Sherlock’s one, but Tom is Mary’s foil and Lestrade is Sherlock’s one and Molly sure didn’t stay engaged to Tom. 

If I may add another comparison:

Greg is literally leaning into Molly. Tom has his hand around her (or at least it appears to be), but they’re not even really touching. Couples should touch, especially engaged ones at a friend’s wedding.

Looking at this set up reminded me of another instance where two people, supposedly in-love enough to get married, weren’t nearly as close together as one of it’s participants was to an “un-involved” third party.

Look familiar now?

This scene has been analyzed before, but I think it adds even more to the evidence in the photos on John’s blog and the foils listed above. You could literally stick another person between Mary and John, whereas Sherlock is practically holding his hand. They may not actually be that far or close in reality, but the camera angle, which speaks for itself, is intentional.

may-shepard:

just-sort-of-happened:

may-shepard:

anti-bright-places:

waitingforgarridebs:

may-shepard:

may-shepard:

If the maid is Sherlock, then that makes much more sense of this apparent throwaway moment in the crypt sequence:

The maid pops out at the EXACT moment that Watson is being all smug about recognizing that “Hooper” wasn’t a man, but a woman disguised as a man. 

Big laughs in the theatre, but people were laughing for the wrong reason. Holmes’s shiteating grin gives it away: he’s the maid, and Watson failed to recognize him. 

@bigassmoustache I thought you might enjoy a pictorial confirmation of our new favourite theory!

Shameless reblob paging @sherlocks-gay-ass @gaybrunchthreepwood @the-virus-in-the-data @waitingforgarridebs @the-abominable-bee and I wish I could tag @teapotsubtext and @camillo1978 but tumblr won’t let me. I’m screaming mostly by myself over here!

Especially tagging to thank @oldgrimalkin because if you hadn’t make the comment about the crypt, I wouldn’t have looked. BEHOLD IT IS BETTER THAN WE COULD HAVE IMAGINED.

I never noticed Sherlock’s smug little asshole grin, oh my god, this is perfect

What?!

RIGHT? Okay, so I thought the maid was just a Sherlock mirror, you know, because this show is full of mirrors. 

But then I looked at the crypt scene and…wow. WOAH? Wow. That beat where the maid waves at Watson and he looks scandalized is such a *sad trombone noise* moment if it’s just a joke about Watson being, what, upset that his maid is there? No, it’s a joke on him. He’s figured out one thing and missed the important thing. 

Our dads are playing with us. Hardcore. I don’t mean at our expense; I mean they are going full bore for us. 

The fact that she is just so full of cheeky criticism about the state of their marriage, and that she pops up immediately after that weird apparent reconciliation moment where Watson says he thought he was losing Mary. Sherlock knows. He knows that marriage is rotten through and through.

@hubblegleeflower @just-sort-of-happened have I screamed at you about this yet?

this is perfect!!  I don’t remember if we talked about this that fateful night but I feel like we didn’t.  PS in hindsight her hair is so curly, I hadn’t noticed!

PS he wants her to light his fires.  And dust.  You know touch the human particles…  and to boil his egg.  like probably hard.  ¯\_(ツ)_/¯  and meanwhile she’s like lol you never see your wife, are you sure you’re still married?

I need to stop vigorously reblobbing my own post but your comments. YOUR COMMENTS! I think we loved the hell out of her on our first and second viewings? I mean who doesn’t? But I don’t think we caught the crypt dealio. It’s so out there? Like, really? REALLY?

gosherlocked:

monikakrasnorada:

gosherlocked:

monikakrasnorada:

gosherlocked:

monikakrasnorada:

gosherlocked:

the-7-percent-solution:

gosherlocked:

monikakrasnorada:

the-7-percent-solution:

So many people are discussing whether or not they believe some of the plane scenes in the Sherlock special are real, when really they should be discussing whether or not they believe some of the last scenes of His Last Vow are real. The mind palace might have taken over far earlier than we’d like to admit. There are signs if you really look for them.

I think you might be right about that. Absolutely. I mean, there could be some truth that the entire end of S3, from the moment Mary shoots him is ALL mind palace. I mean, why not? It’s just as plausible as any other theory

@the-7-percent-solution, @monikakrasnorada: I thought about that, too. It would explain the very things that many people find so hard to stomach: the whole terrible 221B scene, the less than convincing forgiveness business, the big gap between those two and, most important, Sherlock shooting CAM. 

@monikakrasnorada @gosherlocked Also doesn’t it seem weird that behind Mary at Sherlock’s parents’ house is a framed photograph of what looks like Sherlock falling in TRF? Some people have made a joke of it, but i think it’s a clue - that “forgiveness” scene at Christmas is like John choosing Mary over Sherlock, much like him falling without John there to catch him. Everything after is Sherlock’s way of saying “I need you to be happy John, because you choose her”. Sherlock summons Moriarty at the end of HLV (just like he’s summoned in TAB) to give insight to Sherlock about whether he has a fighting chance with John. Not to mention both TAB and HLV end the same way - with the droning out music and “just kidding there’s more!” extended clip. So i think the mind palace scene started when Mary shot him and hasn’t let up since.

@the-7-percent-solution, @monikakrasnorada: Oh, yes, good point. The more I think about it, the more things come up that feel completely bizarre and OOC: 

• Billy Wiggins being there, serving home-made drugs 
  
• The super secret laptop on the kitchen table
• The whole restaurant scene with Magnussen and Sherlock

But then we would have a completely different situation with a still dead Moriarty and a very much alive Magnussen, wouldn’t we? With a John who does not know who shot Sherlock. With a Mary we do not know anything about, not even the bit we got. No A.G.R.A. flashdrive. Oh, this is getting more and more fun …

Also doesn’t it seem weird that behind Mary at Sherlock’s parents’ house is a framed photograph of what looks like Sherlock falling in TRF?

WHAT???? WHAT??????? I have never noticed nor seen anything about this!! OMG @the-7-percent-solution . I am going to go watch it RIGHT NOW. IF that is true, sweet holy lord, I can’t even wrap my head around that.

Thinking most of HLV takes place in the mind palace makes it all better and worse. I would LOVE  a re-do of all that happened with Magnussen, that would be ideal. I am more comfortable with Sherlock’s actions after having seen the deleted CAM scene, but still, watching him commit cold-blooded murder was hard. I know his time away, he more than likely (most definitely) did far worse things, but we didn’t have to actually watch that happen. 

@gosherlocked Could it be that, IF HLV ends up being mostly mind palace, it was his attempt to run through the steps and see the outcome, like he did in TAB? But, then, does it make sense for him to ‘revive’ Moriarty? Perhaps he knows that is the only thing that WOULD save him from certain death, if he were to kill Magnussen? 

I can believe it happened both ways, now just digging up the clues as to what REALLY happened.

@monikakrasnorada: Possibly. It might start for example when he begins to think about Mary (Who are you?) in his mind palace, the scene with her in the hallway in Roland Kerr College, wearing the dress in which he saw her for the first time in TEH. It seemed strange to me at the time that he did imagine her in this place (where John saved him) in this dress (she did not wear when she shot him) and with the hand gesture we see only later (in the 221B scene). 

Btw, here is the pic @7-percent-solution mentioned. It bears a similarity to the fall but could also be child running with outstretched arms:

I think that is the most plausible starting point. It makes so much sense and it’s almost eerily the same as the conditions of TAB. He was heavily ‘medicated’, tripping balls in his mind palace. It follows the same kind of weird, non-linear timeline. Honestly, it’s making more and more sense to me as we go along with this.

It is odd that he saw her as Mary from the first time he met her, isn’t it? Why not keep her in her wedding dress?  

ETA: I posted this response before I saw that pic. Wow, @gosherlocked!!! That is eerie. I can see that it could be a child, but honestly. WHY put a photo that could be so easily mistaken for TRF when it would have been just as easy to put some other random child photo. This is a head-scratcher.

@monikakrasnorada, @the-7-percent-solution: I copy 7′s reply so that we have all ideas together in one place:

@Monikakrasnorada @gosherlocked After watching HLV tonight and discussing everything you’ve all said with my friend, we think Sherlock has been in his mind palace since discovering how evil Mary really is, then playing two scenarios out - one where John chooses Mary and one where John chooses Sherlock. TAB is all about what he could’ve done/has to do to get John to choose him. If John chooses Mary, Sherlock would essentially commit suicide. If John chooses Sherlock, he’ll have to be completely open and honest about his past and feelings. And after the extensive mind palace scene that starts in the middle of HLV and ends after TAB we see that Sherlock knows John would choose him no matter what because “there’s always two of us”.

What an interesting and bold idea. It is food for thought. But it would mean that Magnussen would have to return in series 4. What do you think? 

I only have a second here (and am coming back for more discussion after I get the kidlets out the door BUT I had to put this here for now) re: Magnussen. IF Sherlock is in his mind palace from this moment forward -through the end of TAB, because it’s still possible he isn’t ‘awake’ yet- then he doesn’t know what happened to Magnussen. It’s just as plausible that Mary killed him and left Sherlock for dead, isn’t it?

@monikakrasnorada, @the-7-percent-solution: Oh, this is brilliant! Of course he would not know. And all that comes after that would be his mind trying to explain away the fact that Mary is a killer. He would try to find excuses for her in order to protect John and the baby. And it would also explain his bizarre meeting with Magnussen in the restaurant - his attempt at selling Mycroft in order to save the Watson marriage. 

And also a little something that never sat right with me - Greg wanting to take a video of a drugged up Sherlock who nearly died. Of course this is an ASiB reference but being drugged by Irene and nearly being killed is not exactly the same thing. But it might be what Sherlock might think Greg would do.

Oh, this is fun!