I guess I was trying to squeeze too much into this, but you're right on all counts. They were actually dumpster diving earlier in the day, looking for the pink suitcase. I looked at the time line of the episode and figured it was possible to fit everything from the first crime scene visit to the shooting in 6 hours, including John going back home to get his gun.
Mummy's use of the word 'lover' was complicated. It was supposed to reflect the label I thought a woman of her era would use, as well as having the connotation of the relationship being, in her mind, illicit, mainly physical, and temporary. I don't think that she really understands what homosexuality is, and that it's possible for two men to honestly love each other the way a man and a woman might. She thinks that Sherlock is once again doing shocking things simply for the shock value and to get attention, like his drug use in his youth (which she never saw as a sign of a deeper inner turmoil or desperation, but just as Sherlock trying to embarrass her and being ungrateful for all the advantages he'd been given).
And absolutely, Sherlock's hand-dropping thing was him being insecure, both about Mummy's reaction and about his own feelings on the matter: does he want to present John as his boyfriend or merely as an acquaintance? But of course Mummy saw right through that, and/or Mycroft briefed her beforehand.
And this comment is already longer than 221 words, so you see how hard it is! ;)
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Date: 2013-12-05 08:17 am (UTC)Mummy's use of the word 'lover' was complicated. It was supposed to reflect the label I thought a woman of her era would use, as well as having the connotation of the relationship being, in her mind, illicit, mainly physical, and temporary. I don't think that she really understands what homosexuality is, and that it's possible for two men to honestly love each other the way a man and a woman might. She thinks that Sherlock is once again doing shocking things simply for the shock value and to get attention, like his drug use in his youth (which she never saw as a sign of a deeper inner turmoil or desperation, but just as Sherlock trying to embarrass her and being ungrateful for all the advantages he'd been given).
And absolutely, Sherlock's hand-dropping thing was him being insecure, both about Mummy's reaction and about his own feelings on the matter: does he want to present John as his boyfriend or merely as an acquaintance? But of course Mummy saw right through that, and/or Mycroft briefed her beforehand.
And this comment is already longer than 221 words, so you see how hard it is! ;)