marielikestodraw:

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h3rring:

LOOK AT SHERLOCK HOLMES’ FACE AND TRY TO TELL ME THAT HE HAS TROUBLE MAKING EMOTIONAL CONNECTIONS WITH PEOPLE.  JUST TRY IT.

FUCKING.  LOOK.  AT HIM.

much sadder in black and white

I’d like to think that all the emotion he’s portraying is genuine.
And that the tears are real.
Because he has to lie to the people he truly cares about. To erase himself. And he’s trying to convince the person who has mattered to him the most that he is exactly what he doesn’t want him to be. A fraud. And he knows he’s hurting John by doing this. 
So even though he knows he has a plan. And everything is just a show. He’s not acting. 

Oh it’s definetely genuine to me.
I think what even gives it away is that little breath he takes just before telling John he researched him when they met, to impress him. Like he’s taking that ultimate decision of betrayal and trying to convince John he was a fraud all along. That’s what hurts him the most, you can see the switch, going back into the Sherlock persona because otherwise he’s gonna break and will probably not be able to continue with the masquerade.
This is the most heartbreaking exchange I’ve seen on TV in probably ages. I was OMGing softly out loud while watching it and I could physically feel my heart beating faster and my whole body tensing up at the horrible sadness of it all. Gorgeous, yet, excruciatingly sad.