A Messy Business: Thoughts on The Pub Scene
I’ve been trying to organize my thoughts about The Pub Scene ever since I saw it. The best phrase that I could come up with to describe it is that it is a complete, unadulterated, horrible mess of a thing. And that’s what makes this scene one of the most brilliant ones in the entire series.
Yeah. Okay. I’m just going to put my head down on this table for a bit and sob because this is so entirely true, and a much deeper look into the scene than what I had been able to write up myself.
Sherlock Holmes is a mess, and so am I.
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elapsedspiral: :D just my two pennies: I thought the exact opposite actually about the "I don't have friends" scene. John was actually very on the money in this episode. He reveals that he knows Sherlock has Asperger's (autism) when he's talking to Lestrade. Sherlock was having a "meltdown", where an autistic person becomes very distressed, like a panic attack. It can come across as being angry, irritating, cruel. The best thing to do can be to leave them to calm down. John did that :).
This is all very true, IF Sherlock actually has Asperger’s, or is somewhere else on the autism spectrum. He does display a lot of the signs of it, and it’s been greatly speculated since long before the BBC adaptation.
However, it could just be John referring to the way he acts, and does not necessarily mean that Sherlock actually has a diagnosis on the autism spectrum.
My input was really the emotional side of it. Being a person who’s had panic attacks, I know how they feel, and I wouldn’t have wanted John rattling away at me, getting upset, and then leaving, especially if this isn’t something that happens all the time.
The “I don’t have friends” scene:
An observation:
OH MY GOD OH MY GOD OH MY GOD
I have to find download links asap. Not only am I the “supplier” for my friends, but I want to see it in decent quality. I missed practically all the beautiful cinematography that I’m sure was going on.
