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Date: Oct. 20th, 2013 05:32 pm (UTC)Yesterday I read a Sherlock fic that was engaging and pushed the right emotional buttons for me -- except at the critical junctures I kept finding myself saying, "No, that's not why Sherlock acts the way he does." The writer accurately depicted his behavior but gave him sad-panda, brave-little-toaster motivations for everything. So then John had to go through all this emotional pain and public humiliation for not understanding that when Sherlock behaves dickish-ly it's because of how tragic Sherlock is and therefore must be instantly forgiven. And John finally (after driving Sherlock to the brink of suicide through his thoughtlessness) makes the healthy decision to let Sherlock go, to get out of Sherlock's life so that Sherlock can be happy, even though it means John loses his job, his girlfriend, and becomes homeless and alcoholic/drug addicted. But it's ok because Molly is the friend John never was.
Yes, I was getting heavy dark-Wilson flashbacks by the end.