… once Sherlock had been …
- ‘I’m clean. I don’t even smoke.’ tells Sherlock in ASIP. The message is clear: Sherlock is clean at the moment, but once he had been a junkie … addicted to drugs and there are still ‘danger nights’ when the risk of a relapse threatens.
- ‘Once, in the early days, Sherlock had been an emotional child’ … Mycroft tells in TFP. But then Sherlock changed and became very different.
Erus got locked up behind elephant glass, Jim chained to the wall of a padded cell like a hound from hell and a mask, a facade, a guardian created and married to the (traditional) friendship … to guard the ‘one fixed point in a changing age’ … because otherwise …. ‘mE and Jim will get on like a house on fire’ ...
September, 2019
This is great, @ebaeschnbliah. Suppressing, abstaining from, chaining your unwanted feelings, hiding them in deep water, in a well for example … And another thought: this image reminds me of Sherlock and Jim in the adjoining cells in TRF, but here Eurus and Jim are even closer, facing each other. Another progression, I would say.
And it also reminds me of the things that should not be hidden behind glass but used, just as Sherlock’s feelings do.
Wonderful addition, @gosherlocked Here’s the scene in question. You are right, one can easily assume that there isn’t a stone wall but elephant glass between them. :)
yes!