True but I still think his friend's lives were his primary motivation, more so than just saving his own skin (look at the expression on his face when Jim tells him they'll die if he doesn't).
Yeah Sherlock needs to take the first step and find some huge way to make it up to everyone. And while I think John will understand what Sherlock did was to save his life but it will take a while for the anger to subside for it all to sink in. I know how that feels to have someone do something that hurts you (not to the point of making you grieve but still hurtful) and later you realise it was with good intentions and while you can't quite forget the pain it is easier to forgive because you just become tired of being angry and you miss being close to that person so much that the anger just isn't worth it. And John isn't the type to hold a grudge forever - look at how easily he forgave Sherlock for the Baskerville thing (seriously, I'd have killed Sherlock for that alone!).
What I'm hoping for, on the first episode of S3, is about an hour and a quarter of mega angst between them and then some sort of heart-warming resolution that doesn't QUITE fix everything but it starts to pave the way so to speak. And it carries on as a theme for the rest of the series. Just my two cents. :)
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Date: 2012-03-21 06:18 pm (UTC)Yeah Sherlock needs to take the first step and find some huge way to make it up to everyone. And while I think John will understand what Sherlock did was to save his life but it will take a while for the anger to subside for it all to sink in. I know how that feels to have someone do something that hurts you (not to the point of making you grieve but still hurtful) and later you realise it was with good intentions and while you can't quite forget the pain it is easier to forgive because you just become tired of being angry and you miss being close to that person so much that the anger just isn't worth it. And John isn't the type to hold a grudge forever - look at how easily he forgave Sherlock for the Baskerville thing (seriously, I'd have killed Sherlock for that alone!).
What I'm hoping for, on the first episode of S3, is about an hour and a quarter of mega angst between them and then some sort of heart-warming resolution that doesn't QUITE fix everything but it starts to pave the way so to speak. And it carries on as a theme for the rest of the series. Just my two cents. :)