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Part 2 Also, by beating Sherlock, John himself takes Sherlock’s place. Which shows us what Sherlock was before he met John: a man who beat corpses and who had conversations with imaginary people. (John talks to “Mary”; Sherlock talked to his skull.) It’s a role reversal that shows us what both of them were before they met each other. Anyway, I’m still not sure this scene in TLD actually happened. But at least this would explain it from a narrative-point-of-view.

It’s almost as if Billy is now finally heeding Mr Gates’ advice from s1ep1. Back when Gates told him to restrain the Captain, Billy pretty much freaked out and replied that Flint never listened to him. Now Billy has grown so much as a character that he doesn’t care whether Flint listens to him or not, he restrains him anyway.:)He takes what he wants now and doesn’t wait for Flint’s approval,

Yes, Billy's finally heeding Mr Gates' worlds, and yes, Billy has definitely grown, and yes, Billy takes what he wants without Flint's approval.  But alas, that was a really really bad timing to assert his opinion and his decision was shortsighted. (At the 4-01, Flint was the shortsighted one, though.)

AWWW Thanks Sage!!! :D DITTO TO YOU TOO!! :D

ASDFASD And given that they DELIBERATELY made Mary look like Sherlock for ALL the promos AND throughout the episodes, that we are ABSOLUTELY supposed to subconsciously associate the two of them together. Though I am absolutely convinced that John hallucinated Sherlock for the two years he was gone, so there’s that too :D

(Part 2) Oh, and Catherine is also the patron saint of archivists, scribes and stenographers. Makes sense that John, the blogger, saw his daughter as a future protector of him and his blog about Sherlock (ie, the narrative in general). Also, Catherine is the patron saint of dying people, which might be Moftiss way of messing with us and foreshadowing the fact that TFP is John's hallucination after being shot. Especially since we see John conjuring up her image at 221B as he's dying.

Hi Lovely!

I actually haven’t seen any meta specifically relating to this. I thought perhaps it was the name of one of John’s relatives that he actually liked / cared about, but yeah, it’s never stated why the name is wanted by John.

Hi Lovely!

Honestly, anything is possible at this point, to be honest. S4 had a lot of mischaracterizations and a lot of inconsistencies and shirking of the “rules” that they developed in S3. I do believe that most if not ALL of S4 is either some sort of mirror-verse, mind palace, hallucination or unreliable narrator story, as the “reality” of it is constantly being questioned by all of us.. But yes, I more see John getting upset about the death of a baby more than Mary... especially after the “forgiveness” of her in HLV and the reveal of the HLV script characterizing Mary as satanic but they end up giving her a redemption arc... it doesn’t make any sense. 

Part 3/...whereas the eye you’re supposed to cast aside is the one that sees only earthly things. And then there’s also a part in the Hebrew Bible. In the ‘Song of Songs’. Yep, that erotic love poem.:) Where the groom tells his beloved bride that she has ravished/wounded his heart with ‘one eye’. The bride BTW is referred to as a ‘sister’, with the words ‘sister’ and ‘spouse’ being used for the same person and entwined like this: ‘sister-spouse’. (So, John really is Eurus in TFP, right?)

(referencing this meta)

LOVELY!! I never received a Part 2, so I’m sadly just posting these two, which are interesting bits on their own! LOL.

But yeah, Sherlock uses a lot of biblical imagery within the series, so I don’t think it’s much of a stretch to think assume there are other, lesser known ones! 

I don’t really know how much more I can comment on this since the middle bit is missing D: BUT! Yes, I love the “John’s shot in the eye” theory, since there is a lot of supporting evidence for it but again, like blind theory, we could have just been creating an awesomer story than the one we ended up with :/