This theory is quite a convoluted one, so strap yourselves in. What if all this time, everything was just a fake-out that Sherlock's enormously powerful big brother is making up? All these crimes and villains are just there so he has something to do, and to keep him off the drugs.
Whenever Sherlock's bored, he turns to drugs. But Mycroft is fully aware of this, so he sets up elaborate crimes for Sherlock to solve. And maybe to help him, he hired an actor named John Watson.
Yes, we know what you're thinking. Utter baloney. But when Sherlock first meets John, he lists of a load of facts about him, and John is astounded. But we see no actual evidence to support Sherlock's claims, aside from a brief flashback of John's time in the army. And even that is a dream sequence in which you don't actually see John himself. Is he just preparing for his next role?
We never actually meet John's supposed lesbian sister that he mentions at their first meeting, and when John does doctor-y things, he doesn't look very convincing (like checking Sherlock's pulse in his wrist rather than his neck, and falling asleep while working at a clinic).
When John first meets Mycroft at an abandoned warehouse, he offers Sherlock's new friend money to spy on him, which John turns down. Why wouldn't John recognise his new employer? Mycroft could have done it anonymously. And maybe he just wants to see how John can handle such a threatening situation.
All this would explain all the odd moments that Sherlock manages to triumph in, in particular that odd scene where he manages to easily rescue Irene Adler from a group of terrorists. But what about Moriarty? Simple, he actually was an actor called Richard Brook after all.
How did Moriarty get all the money to carry out his dastardly schemes? Mycroft, of course. Sherlock's big bro needed to come up with a supervillain with seriously dangerous crimes to go along with him. This also explains how Moriarty knows so much about Sherlock.
In 'The Reichenbach Fall', Moriarty suddenly claims to be an actor named Richard, and was hired to make detective seem like he was solving crimes. While we all assume this to be a horrible and clever lie, what if it was the truth? He actually wanted to get rid of this weird acting gig. And the next time he's on screen, he's gone mad, is forced to carry on the charade, and shoots himself.
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