This was an excellent episode, showing how dysfunctional Sherlock and John's relationship was at this point. Sherlock pulls a cruel trick on John, unnecessarily drugging him when he could have used a lab to test the sugar (which Sherlock thought contained a hallucigen that causes terror) and avoided making John suffer. John is inadvertently exposed to the drug during Sherlock's "experiment" anyway. On CCTV, Sherlock watches coldly as John runs around the locked laboratory, terrified, begging for Sherlock to save him. Even adding terrifying sounds to further freighten John. Then John immediately overlooks it after the drug has worn off. It's hard to decide which of them has the worse mental disorder. Sherlock's lack of empathy or John's codependency.
These earlier series had so much depth in exploring Sherlock & John's relationship. (Don't mention the 4th series to me - the fan service series. "We want a scene where Sherlock ..., and we don't care if how we get there makes any sense").
These earlier series had so much depth in exploring Sherlock & John's relationship. (Don't mention the 4th series to me - the fan service series. "We want a scene where Sherlock ..., and we don't care if how we get there makes any sense").