ppl completely misinterpret sherlock’s character when they argue that he wants a morally grey/dark intellectual equal. we were already told that he doesn’t enjoy ppl like that when we saw him constantly clash with mycroft and irene or even magnussen, like.. he’s literally disgusted by ppl like that and that’s a core element of his character.. if you don’t get that you’re not paying attention, it’s not a matter of interpretation, you’re just not understanding him. he’s rude and he’s willing to disregard the rules™, sure, but he is not morally grey, everything is for The Greater Good at this point, even if he says otherwise to act tough..
he has strong morals and more importantly, he admires people who have strong moral principles, see: anything he said about john ever. it’s not a coincidence he surrounds himself with ppl like john and mrs hudson and lestrade. they are all “ordinary” but good people with strong morals. that’s what sherlock admires, not mycroft or irene, and DEFINATELY not moriarty
If I was to jump on the tinfoil train… I would like to point out that John is absolutely into watching crap telly. Plus, he made Sherlock watch James Bond. And, John absolutely LOVES horror movies.
We know from TLD that John doesn’t sleep, not much, after Mary died. So how does he spend those nights, if not with watching some movies?
TLD ends with John finding out that the Holmes brothers have a mad sibling, who has no problem with straightforwardly pointing a gun into his face just because John looks funny.
And now he’s drugged up by that tranquilliser… and has a nightmare. And what would that nightmare be about? The explanation of how it is possible for the Holmes brothers to have this mad sibling nobody knows about, and who possibly is “locked up in a tower”, as John already had pointed out.
As many of us had already speculated during TAB, the equivalent to Sherlock’s gay fever dream would be John’s heteronormative nightmare. And well… isn’t this what it was? Plus, mix in all the horror movies you can possibly think of, bad cinematography and a weak plot because other than TAB, TFP takes places in John’s mind bungalow and not in Sherlock’s mind palace, you have to lower your standards a bit… After all, John as “no imagination”.
So he borrows from everything he knows. Horror movies. A bit James Bond. And all those quotes that he re-uses, the East Wind, the second DVD of Mary etc. In the dream itself, it very often is John himself who drives the plot (e.g. the deduction about the Govenor being compromised by Eurus’s manipulation), despite it being an utterly bad one.
I know this does in no way explain how John could know about Redbeard / Victor Trevor and Musgrave… but ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ when Moftiss can fuck us up with plotholes as big as entire states just because they wanna have some fun…
TAB is Sherlock; TST is Sherlock; TLD is John; TFP is John. The cycle is complete, and it’s time to wake up.
