An addition to the “blind spot” theory

 (Sherlock meta by bassfanimation)

Also may I just add to the “blind spot” theory… What was it that Sherlock failed to see right in front of him…the glass. He was so focused on ‘the case’ at hand, the game, he didn’t even notice the glass was missing and Eurus was right in front of him. Who is the person that has been there the whole time but that everyone, including Sherlock, has failed to notice was just right there… Molly Hooper.

Also, a blind spot can sometimes be even more painful than a pressure point. Pressure points are things we acknowledge in our lives as being important. They are things we’re afraid of losing, but they’re also safe enough that we acknowledge as real, tangible. It’s the blind spots that we refuse to look at that are truly terrifying. Anyone who’s been in therapy can understand this. It’s not the things right out in the open that scare us…it’s the things we can’t even see because it’s too frightening to even acknowledge their existence, the very truth of them.

I truly feel that OP [sherlocklock] is right on target. Molly is Sherlock’s blind spot, because that, much like Redbeard, scares the hell out of him and it’s almost like he’s so afraid of it, of his feelings, that he’d rather blind himself to them. Eurus forced him to see it. She forced him to see the glass that wasn’t there. That hand touch they had…that was the bridge, the breaking of the membrane, to allow him to see his wrongdoings, to see the love he has for his brother, to understand his protectiveness of John, and to finally see his love for Molly.

DAMMIT this show though, the brilliance blows my face off. I’m over a month in from S4 and I still just sit in the dark and think, “Son of a BITCH.”