I’m sorry I just have to say something. My family and I are re-watching season four of Sherlock, and I’m currently crying. I had to leave the room, because I couldn’t go though that pain again. I love Sherlock, and John, and Molly, and everyone, even Mary, I love as an interesting character, not a person that I want to see near any upstanding member of society. But that’s beside the point, everything about the latest season breaks my heart. I can’t stand Sherlock and John and everyone else go through the horrors of bad writing. There have been multiple times in my life where the only reason I’ve lived through the night is because I read Sherlock Holmes stories instead of killing myself in the morning. Further to the point I’ve said many times that Mark Gatiss is (was?) the greatest writer of our time, but after watching S4 I’m not sure. Is he on meth? Did he suffer some sort of brain injury that I don’t know about? If he needs help I’d like to know. I do ship Johnlock, but the fact that they didn’t end up together isn’t my problem with the series thus far. I just watched the scene where John beats Sherlock, and that was what did it for me. Not only did it bring back bad memories of my mother beating my dad, which I recognize is slightly my fault for not remembering that scene was coming and removing myself from the situation, but it also made the terrible writing terribly real for me. I love Sherlock Holmes with all my heart, and I can’t bear to see him hurt by someone who for over 100 years has stood by his side as a close and treasured friend. Nearly every decision made in the creation of S4 was a bad one, and that feels almost wrong to say after I waited so long and with so much hope for it. Maybe this is my own fault. I don’t know. I’m sorry to put all this on your dash, but I just had to get this off my chest. It’s not all of my feelings, but it’s all I can articulate right now. Thanks for listening, and as usual, if you’re sick of seeing my writing just block the tag “shut up sami.”