Wow. You Guys Stop It. Stop Blowing My Mind Okay Am Not Ready For This.

Wow. You guys stop it. Stop blowing my mind okay am not ready for this.

Eurus = emotion

Eurus is Sherlock’s emotional side. She is sentiment itself.

Mycroft is the one responsible for imprisoning her. At a textual level this makes no sense. But if Eurus is emotion then it makes perfect sense. Sherlock started to imitate Mycroft’s own attitude to emotion, locking his emotional side in a fortress and then forgetting all about it.

Eurus has superpowers. She can make people do things just by talking with them. Again this makes no sense at the textual level. What makes us do things we don’t want to do on a rational level? Emotion. Emotions are motivators. People do things because of sentiment all the time.

Although locked in a fortress she escapes with ease. Yet she returns too. This makes no sense textually. But as subtext, she is Sherlock’s emotions locked inside him and yet his emotions escape regularly leaking all over the place.

John has an affair with Eurus. There is a romance between John and Sherlock’s emotional side.

Eurus is John’s therapist. Sherlock’s emotional side heals John.

Eurus plays the violin too. In fact, she taught him. At a textual level it makes no sense but subtextually, emotion is necessary to music.

Eurus plays the role of the daughter to the killer.Does Sherlock himself fear that he will kill one day because his emotions are that powerful? Or is she only playing that role as it is a conversation Sherlock is having with himself about the case?

Moriarty visits Eurus. Moriarty has always understood Sherlock’s emotional side. He sees beneath the mask that Sherlock wears.

Eurus is suicidal but Sherlock talks her out of it. Sherlock’s emotional side is suicidal but his rational side stops himself.

Eurus puts Sherlock through tortuous mind games. Doesn’t emotion do the exact same thing?

Sherringford is the original name for Sherlock. He started whole, rationality and emotions both.

Eurus killed Redbeard/Victor and then Eurus was taken away by Mycroft. That’s the textual level. But what does it mean? Was Sherlock accidentally responsible for someone’s death while caught up with his emotions? Or perhaps he simply blames himself? Or is the death symbolic? Did he fall in love with Victor as a child and revealing his true feelings destroyed the friendship?

The final problem then is reason vs sentiment. How do we live with emotions? Should we lock them up as Mycroft recommends? Sherlock has tried this and it didn’t work. So what’s Sherlock’s solution in the end? He lives with her. He accepts her. He becomes whole again. Reason and sentiment.

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