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just watched Sherlock BBC season 4 episode 1. New CONFRONT character unlocked. JOHN FUCKING WATSON WHEN I CATCH YOU JOHN WHEN I CATCH YOU IT IS ON SIGHT ISTG WTF IS WRONG WITH YOU THAT WOMAN IS A STRANGER AND YOUR WIFE IS AMAZING AND SHERLOCK DID NOTHING WRONG YOU ABSOLUTE CLOD WHY DID THE WRITERS CHUCK HIS CHARACTER DEVELOPMENT OUT THE WINDOW!? IT IS ON SIGHT STEVEN MOFFAT ON SIGHT MARK GATISS ON SIGHT WHEN I CATCH YOU WHEN I FUCKING CATCH YOU ISTG I CANNOT DO THIS TODAY I CANT I JUS- i need to go to bed.
Ah yes, the indescribable urge to fall into a coma for the next six months due to the stress of your five A-level subjects and your EPQ. Such a wonderful feeling.
Anyone who tries to use the ‘oh he was like 60 by the end’ excuse to hate him is immediately invalid in my eyes when it comes to the show, like, dislike him all you want thats your prerogative but don’t blame it on that, he was 10 and he did what he could to keep close the only people who’d ever been shown to actually give a fuck about him, even if the action was drastic he was so young theres no-way he would’ve even thought about the moral standpoint of it or something, and by the tome a few years had passed he’s still not aging and his brain isn’t changing in anyway, so essentially he is still basically just a 10 year old, and from his ten year old pov, the choice he made was for the best- he hasn’t gotten in trouble, his fairy godparents (and new little brother) are still with him and happy, and despite how miserable he had to still be to keep them around, they are still there, and that is more than good enough for him.
I know I just made a post regarding "Timmy's Secret Wish", but I have more thoughts.
Mostly, I think that Timmy was slightly justified in making the wish. Was wishing for everyone to stop aging extreme? Yes.
But look at this from his perspective.
You are ten years old. You're parents are neglectful, you have an abusive babysitter that you're always stuck with, and you're life at school isn't much better with bullying and failing grades.
Then you meet these two fairies who are meant to be there for you. And unlike your actual parents, they take being there for you very seriously. There's only one caveat, when you become an adult they'll disappear and you'll forget about them.
But that's far away. Far far away.
Now, you're life is better. You have two people who genuinely love and care about you like you're their own child, and you love and care about them like they're your actual parents. In fact, they're more like your parents than your actual parents.
Not only that, but the fairies end up having a kid. So, now you have a little brother. A little brother that you love so much. It finally feels like you have the family that you've always wanted.
But now, the reality of what's going to happen in the future is staring you in the face.
In less than 8 years time, at midnight on your 18th birthday, you are going to wake and they'll be gone. And there's no chance of ever seeing them again. To make it all so much worse, you won't mourn them. You won't shed a single tear for their absence. Because you won't remember that they ever existed. Maybe you'll have a vague feeling of missing something, but that's it.
The thought of dealing with losing not only your family, but the memory of them as well, would be horrifying for an adult to deal with. For a child, it would feel like the world is coming to end and there's nothing they can do to stop it.
So, of course Timmy made such a drastic wish. What child wouldn't alter the course of time to stay with their family?