so the writers recognize that a single stab wound to the abdominal area can be fatal but we’re supposed to believe that a gunshot wound to the fucking chest was “surgery” lol ok
Honestly I filed this one away under “Sherlock talks bullshit sometimes.”
And anyway, isn’t it…
But what I find weird is that John buys it. I mean he’s a surgeon for goodness sake and he worked as a military doctor in Afghanistan. He of all people should know how potentially lethal the wound Sherlock received was.
I still don’t know what is going on, but I have to believe that there’s more there than meets the eye. Otherwise I’d loose my mind.
Okay, so there’s something seriously wrong with the entire way of thinking I’ve been seeing around Sherlock getting shot.
To clarify: MARY DELIBERATELY SHOT HIM IN A DELIBERATELY POTENTIALLY FATAL FASHION. Even if you buy that she went out of her way to help him survive it, she still put a bullet in him in a way that SHE INTENDED to incapacitate him to the point of needing medical attention so critically that a 5 minute delay might kill him.
IT DOESN’T MATTER if she was hoping he’d survive it, or even actively helped him survive it. She DELIBERATELY AND CALCULATEDLY put him in that situation.
Which is all to say, there IS no ethical method or measure by which Mary’s shooting of Sherlock could be seen as ‘okay.’ And in fact we never see John acting as if there is.
What we see is John getting angry at Mary, because the woman John thought he married turns out to be a complete fiction; the total stranger who is his wife is actually an assassin; and in order to continue to preserve her secret FROM JOHN, she nearly murdered his best friend over whose death John recently spent two years having a grief-stricken collapse. And we see him getting angry at Sherlock, because now that best friend seems to be attempting to convince John that he should be fine with it all.
What we see is John acting baffled and furious, shouting at them both in a way that indicates that he feels both the people in the room are (against all rational expectation) joining forces against him. So I think it’s a stretch to say that John buys the ‘surgical shot’ argument.
I don’t know which, if any, of the arguments presented to him in that room finally influenced him to take Mary back. We never get to see that (and we are incidentally thus implicitly being told by the text that his process and reasons don’t actually matter, which pisses me off and further says something about how John’s relationship with Mary is truthfully not a priority in this show). Quite possibly it was none of them; he spent three months deciding, so maybe he came up with his own reasons.