I think he thinks it either was justified, or is just the kind of dangerous, cool shit guys do when they’re angry and and pushed to their limit. I’ll be clear, I don’t think that Moffat wrote it in there to be a character assassination. Both those options are scary as hell, and something that requires SERIOUS therapy. Because you have to acknowledge that either John consciously knew he could kill Sherlock and just didn’t care, or that his rage overwhelmed him to the point, where he went off his head for a bit, and acted almost unconsciously out of a place of anger. And in real life it would be a huge red flag in any domestic relationship, or friendship. That’s not in any way sympathetic or empathetic. That’s not making John more flawed and human (the narrative had already adequately given us that from TEH onwards). It was more important for Sherlock to be the punching bag of his rage and self-loathing. John’s medical knowledge, and the fact that he knew he could kill Sherlock in that moment, and just didn’t care, or was so off his head with rage, that he sort of zoned out and didn’t think. In fact when Sherlock is in the hospital bed later, he confirms that he does have double kidney failure. I’m an army doctor which means I can break every bone in your body while naming them.).
#Sherlock chapter one sacrificial lamb how to#
That could kill a healthy person, but Sherlock was inching up on double kidney failure, and John could have killed him right there, and John’s a doctor, so he knows that (I’m a doctor, I know how to sprain people. But instead of disarming Sherlock, getting his frustrations out with a punch, and then taking control of the situation, and removing Sherlock, getting him into a hospital bed and away from Smith, he punched him repeatedly, and then when Sherlock was bleeding, and on the floor, started kicking him in the torso. He’s a doctor, so he had to have known that drug use of that magnitude was going to lead to organ failure. He knew he was a couple of weeks away from death (Molly had just said so). I may have even been able to justify a second punch and chalk that up to frustration and anger fuelled moment of weakness (like the punching in TEH, though even that started to push the limits near the end).īut in TLD John didn’t stop there.
I can understand him being shaken by being in a morgue so soon after his wife’s death, and being shaken by Culverton Smith’s insensitive handling of that corpse.Īnd of course he did have to disarm Sherlock in that moment, and as I mentioned in a previous post, I even understand the first slap/punch (sorry I don’t remember) to clear Sherlock’s head. I understand him being angry at himself for running along against his better judgement. Like I understand John being frustrated at Sherlock’s erratic, drug-fuelled plan.
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