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I want him back…

Would it be cool if you could reblog this post if you’re a Sherlock blog who enjoyed Series 4, if you don’t fill your tags with negative stuff and isn’t basically taking every opportunity to rip the episode and series apart cos i’ve had a few messages today from people who would love to follow you. Myself included. 

It’s a very simple and easy request. I’m not asking for your opinion in terms of “i liked it bUT.” We just want to know if you’re a Sherlock positive blog so we can shuffle our Tumblrs about accordingly.   

We’ll check you out from reblogs and likes! Let us know! Thank you! 

Sherlock & Molly “I love you” scene ( without music backround )

Is Molly getting sick into her sink? She’s holding her hair back and leaning over her sink.

Then there’s this shot:

Yes it’s a bulky jumper, but doesn’t her middle looke a little bulkier than normal? And lemon can be settling for an upset stomach.

Also, in the final scene when Molly is at 221B, someone pointed out that her boobs look a little bigger and made the “domestic bliss must suit you, you’ve put on three pounds” comment. Well, what if it’s not just ‘domestic bliss’?

So a lot is going to be made of THAT SCENE, in several different ways. But we really need to break it down.

Sherlock declares that he won, by getting Molly to tell him “I love you”. But Eurus claims the victory and reveals that Molly was never in any physical danger.

All of Eurus’ games had been lethal ones up until then. But then she forced Sherlock to get Molly to say I love you. With how intelligent Eurus is, she KNEW Sherlock was going to have to say I love you first.

Sherlock says it. Twice. The first time, he says it because Molly told him to say it. And then the second time… There’s a difference in him. Finally he’s said the words and he knows they’re true.

Eurus grew up in a family where “Sentiment is a chemical defect found in the losing side”. The reason why she didn’t have to hurt Molly physically, why she thinks she won, is because Sherlock and Molly DO love each other. It reminds me of the exchange from Batman Returns: “Mistletoe can be deadly if you eat it.” “But a kiss can be even deadlier if you mean it.”

Getting Sherlock to say he loves Molly and for her to say it back is the most destructive thing Eurus can think of, because they both MEAN IT. 

Even after Sherlock finds out Molly was never in any danger, he lashes out, destroying the coffin. I think there is an element of wanting to destroy a coffin meant for Molly, but more than that… Eurus has forced Sherlock to expose himself. He’s stripped to the nerve and he’s never been in that position before. 

When we next see Molly, she’s coming into 221B, smiling and happy. Eurus hasn’t destroyed the two of them. Their relationship is okay.

Because Eurus is wrong. That kind of reveal isn’t something destructive. Sherlock did win.

Sherlock, remembering what he has just done to her, whispers “No” and undoes the button of his jacket, takes a step back and then proceeds to beat the shit out of that coffin.

Sherlock thrashing the wood all over the place, screaming every time he thinks about how Molly must be feeling right now, screaming every time he thinks about the pain Molly is in, the pain he has caused her.

Okay. Greg is leaving and Molly enters the room from the left…where the stairs are…leading the a spare room…there is new furniture that looks old…she wears no jacket or bag…

I leave you to your deductions…

Euros said Sherlock was unaffected by all that was happening, he was lucid and concentrated on the puzzle she presented. Mycroft threw up when confronted with death and John felt guilty and upset but Sherlock kept his focus and Eurus did not want that. She knew that Sherlock would not let her shake him so she decided to strip him of his defenses, caring is not an advantage so she decided to make him admit that he cares, more deeply that he lets on about Molly Hooper. She could pick John or Mycroft, she actually gave Sherlock that choice but Sherlock had recovered by then, and he was smart about it, yes he protected them both because he loves them mboth but he could keep his cool and not falter.

What did she use instead to make Sherlock lose it? Molly Hooper. She used his own feelings for her to rip him apart. He lost, not because she died since she didn’t but because he could not turn back from the truth, once you said it you can’t take it back, you can’t un-say it. Once you’ve opened your heart you can’t close it again. Not only she stripped him of the obliviousness he had chosen for his own feelings, but she made him trample on Molly’s heart, she made him force Molly to admit that it was true that she loved him though he does not know what to do about it, because loving someone and being able to act on that love is not the same things and Sherlock has spent most of his life trying to deny that he needed that love. She was the wallpaper, the background of everything he did. She was the voice that guided his mind palace. She was the one that counted the most. He’s a graduate chemist but he needed the “practical experience” (seriously?), and It took him 4 years to remember Greg’s name, but no problem with Tom’s. All of that meant something.

Sherlock had to see a man kill himself, his wife die without a reason, and had to contemplate killing a little girl to save a city but he went mad when Eurus told him to look at what he did to Molly, that he had destroyed her, and in a way destroyed their relationship because he had treated her feelings like a joke, at least from Molly’s perspective in that moment.