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Who are these idiots in the Sherlock tag-
-who think that Sherlock faked his death.
Take heed, because this is the only time I will push aside the fandom ethic that everyone should be given an undisturbed space for their opinion to flourish, and that everyone should feel free to post without being exposed to cruel language. I will take my scary-face out of the box this once, lose a couple dozen followers, and then never take it out again.
In short:
Fuck you and fuck off.
Sherlock did not fake his death.
He just happened to survive.
Don’t you dare invalidate this character’s magnum opus. Don’t you dare cheapen that moment when he flings himself to his death to protect his loved ones.
“Oh, he went to Molly to plan this whole thing!”
“Oh, he saw this whole thing coming, and planned out every little detail!”
No. He didn’t.
Don’t you get it? Clever, clever Sherlock, for once in his life, was completely helpless. He’s not a god. He doesn’t know everything. He’s not an unbreakable hero. He’s human. The most human human that John has ever known.
And he was defeated.
Our hero lost.
He was never even a hero, which he tried to tell us.
Not until today.
Not until he lept off that building.
That blood he spilled on the pavement? That was real. That was for John.
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All right, this is a pretty inflammatory post, and I can see why you’d get a bit worked up about this, but I think Sherlock’s sacrifice is being looked at through the wrong lens. Yes, Sherlock Holmes sacrificed something valuable to him when he fell off of the roof of Barts. But no, it wasn’t his life.
It was his reputation, which has always meant more to him.
Sherlock’s behavior has always bordered on self-destructive. Not suicidal (there is a difference), but everything from his old drug habits to his willingness to take the pill from the cabbie in “A Study in Pink” (and, please, when he says “Knew you’d turn up” to John that was the thinnest of excuses) demonstrates that he’s happy to risk his life for the thrill of the game. So, Sherlock Holmes has played a living/dying game with himself before—if he jumped off the roof and survived, it would just be along the same lines, honestly. That doesn’t add much character depth.
What does is that Sherlock can’t stand people thinking that he’s a fake. John says it to him earlier in the episode—“You’d care if people thought you were stupid or wrong.” And he would care, does care. Cares so much.
Which is why that’s the angle that Moriarty goes for. ”Kill you? No, I will burn you. I will burn the heart out of you.” Sherlock’s death isn’t the important bit: it’s that he dies in disgrace. Moriarty knows that Sherlock leaping off the roof will be taken as “the truth came out and he couldn’t handle everyone knowing about it.” Sherlock knows that, too. He’ll be seen as a fraud. And he can’t stand being seen as a fraud.
And you know what? Every single friendship he had will be ruined, too. Everyone thinking he’s fake—he’d be cut off. And he pushes for that, even though it hurts—it’s the only way to protect them. With his last words, he tries to discredit himself to John. John doesn’t buy it, of course, but that’s just how John is.
And then Sherlock falls anyway.
So, in the end, faked or un-faked, Sherlock dying wasn’t the important part. It was the fact that he sacrificed his reputation for the sake of his friends. He’s willing to be thought of as stupid to protect John, Mrs. Hudson, and Lestrade. That tells you more about his growth than anything else ever could.
How Sherlock survived.
He bounced off his massive intellect and was cushioned by his ego.
Obviously.
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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:
