#emp?

'Go and solve a crime together. Make him wear the hat!‘

‘Actually, he should wear the hat as a special tribute to me. I’m dead. I would really appreciate it.’

And then..

‘I’m Sherlock Holmes. I wear the damn hat.’

‘Isn’t that right, Mary?’

Another proof of EMP? Who really put ghost Mary there as a tool for conciliation, for mediation when unsure how to speak? Was it grieving John, or was it Sherlock?

Or is this just Moffat/Sherlock being cheeky?

Credit to Ariane DeVere for the transcript and kissthemgoodbye for the screengrabs.

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I'm not apologizing to anyone for the title (😂😂)

Look I ( me , personally, just my opinion) hate the idea of Emp starting in TRF .

I don't even want to consider this possibility because it implies then, a completely different show and I have a really hard time trying to comprehend the reason for such a plot choice.

If we assume Sherlock entered emp right after he hit the ground then there's a major clash of POVs here and we can never be sure whose POV we're looking through.

Did we enter Sherlock's POV instantly? or is it just johns after he did? or are we going back and forth? and then if we are going back and forth which is who's POV? Did we only enter Sherlock's POV at the graveyard?

According to what is most plausible, Sherlock at the graveyard is when we enter his POV, and if this is emp, it implies johns graveyard speech is emp too, and if we assume that at this point we don't switch back to johns POV and remain in Sherlock's POV, for consistency reasons, then we are shown johns therapy session at the end which is a continuation of the therapy session right at the beginning of the episode which implies THE ENTIRETY OF THE EPISODE BEING EMP ........?!??

Then what's the point of any of this at all then ?

This is just my personal opinion really and I might not be right, obviously there are assumptions here but the POV clash at the end if it's Sherlock's emp drives me nuts.