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Holy crap! What if she didn't really shoot John? She just did that to scare him? Maybe she drowned Redbeard in a well, and now she's kidnapped Sherlock's new "pet" and thrown him in a well for Sherlock to find!
Eurus Killed Redbeard
In the trailer for The Final Problem, Mycroft tells Sherlock “Every choice you’ve ever made, every path you’ve ever taken, the man you are today is your memory of Eurus.”
Mycroft sees his brother as someone, who, like him, disregards sentiment in favor of cold, calculated reason. Because of the innate human need to connect, abandoning sentiment completely is likely the result of a traumatic end to a sentimental relationship.
The fact that Mycroft always says “Redbeard” to warn Sherlock about getting too emotionally close suggests that this was the initial trauma.
The flashbacks we’ve been seeing are likely just before Redbeard was killed by his sister–it’s Sherlock’s last memory of being unafraid to love someone (a dog, but still).
Mycroft’s discussion of Eurus suggests she is extremely dangerous:
”It didn’t the last time” directly follows this, suggesting Euros is the same “legitimate security concern.”
“Sherrinford” here likely suggests a mental asylum or prison, and a very high security one (this could very well be where all of the tortuous mind palace looking scenes we’ve seen could be, but that’s a whole different meta).
Murderous tendencies are obviously a security risk, and if Eurus has the psychopathy of a serial killer, that would necessitate the high security Mycroft suggests is necessary.
One of the first behaviors serial killers demonstrate is animal torture.
Mummy and Daddy Holmes would know this, and there would likely be signs that she was in danger of becoming a serial killer throughout her childhood. They likely tried many therapies, but nothing was working. And then Euros killed Redbeard, and they insitituonalized their daughter before she could move onto humans.
In those flashbacks, Sherlock is young, which explains why he wouldn’t recognize her (even with his drug-addled state, he should have recognized her slightly if he had seen her at all recently). They Holmes family never talked about her. It’s why Sherlock is basing his behavior on her “memory,” not her presence.
The depth of Sherlock’s fear of attachment, stemming from Redbeard, suggests this wasn’t an ordinary “dog grows old and dies” story. There was trauma involved.
And nothing says trauma like watching your older (I’m headcanoning that she’s in between the brothers) sister kill your dog–two destroyed relationships at once.
Sherlock loved his sister and his dog, and because he let sentiment blind him (or Mycroft and the Holmes parents hid the signs from him), he lost both in one event. To protect himself, he built emotional barriers.
It’s the path he chose–because of his traumatic memory of Eurus.
(Eurus spelling taken from BBC subtitles.)
Holy crap! What if she didn't really shoot John? She just did that to scare him? Maybe she drowned Redbeard in a well, and now she's kidnapped Sherlock's new "pet" and thrown him in a well for Sherlock to find!
Eurus Killed Redbeard
In the trailer for The Final Problem, Mycroft tells Sherlock “Every choice you’ve ever made, every path you’ve ever taken, the man you are today is your memory of Eurus.”
Mycroft sees his brother as someone, who, like him, disregards sentiment in favor of cold, calculated reason. Because of the innate human need to connect, abandoning sentiment completely is likely the result of a traumatic end to a sentimental relationship.
The fact that Mycroft always says “Redbeard” to warn Sherlock about getting too emotionally close suggests that this was the initial trauma.
The flashbacks we’ve been seeing are likely just before Redbeard was killed by his sister–it’s Sherlock’s last memory of being unafraid to love someone (a dog, but still).
Mycroft’s discussion of Eurus suggests she is extremely dangerous:
”It didn’t the last time” directly follows this, suggesting Euros is the same “legitimate security concern.”
“Sherrinford” here likely suggests a mental asylum or prison, and a very high security one (this could very well be where all of the tortuous mind palace looking scenes we’ve seen could be, but that’s a whole different meta).
Murderous tendencies are obviously a security risk, and if Eurus has the psychopathy of a serial killer, that would necessitate the high security Mycroft suggests is necessary.
One of the first behaviors serial killers demonstrate is animal torture.
Mummy and Daddy Holmes would know this, and there would likely be signs that she was in danger of becoming a serial killer throughout her childhood. They likely tried many therapies, but nothing was working. And then Euros killed Redbeard, and they insitituonalized their daughter before she could move onto humans.
In those flashbacks, Sherlock is young, which explains why he wouldn’t recognize her (even with his drug-addled state, he should have recognized her slightly if he had seen her at all recently). They Holmes family never talked about her. It’s why Sherlock is basing his behavior on her “memory,” not her presence.
The depth of Sherlock’s fear of attachment, stemming from Redbeard, suggests this wasn’t an ordinary “dog grows old and dies” story. There was trauma involved.
And nothing says trauma like watching your older (I’m headcanoning that she’s in between the brothers) sister kill your dog–two destroyed relationships at once.
Sherlock loved his sister and his dog, and because he let sentiment blind him (or Mycroft and the Holmes parents hid the signs from him), he lost both in one event. To protect himself, he built emotional barriers.
It’s the path he chose–because of his traumatic memory of Eurus.
(Eurus spelling taken from BBC subtitles.)
Am I the only one that noticed that Sherlock and Henry Knight (form the Hounds of Baskerville) did the exact same thing when they were kids?? The both of them had a trauma at a very young age, so they re-wrote the memory and replaced a human being with a dog. Henry replaced Dr. Frankland with the Hound. Sherlock replaced Victor Trevor with Redbeard. Mind: Blown
!BBC SHERLOCK SPOILERS!
(can you hide images on this site in case of spoilers? In this case it‘s a bit too vague to be seriously concerning I think but still🧍♂️)
This finale is absolutely crazy