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July 12, 2016
yearofjohnlock:
Moriarty places a diamond in the middle of this message:
which allowed him to...
Moriarty places a diamond in the middle of this message:which allowed him to shatter protective glass. I always associated the diamond with John, much like Magnussen’s reading of pressure points on Sherlock. But the diamond is the engagement & wedding specifically, and more specifically the bride.
Shattered glass at a weddingWe also see glass shatter another time in reference to a bride:
Sherlock’s shattering comes through a bride, but perhaps we do not know if Moriarty implanted the bride (MARY) or if the bride implanted Moriarty.
Shattered glass means the reveal, the discovery all three cases immediately preceded solving a crime. It is another curtain or veil-rising analogy. Just another magic trick.
99% sure u noticed this but u know how after John's speech in front of Sherlock's grave he does a military turn (idk the proper term for it) and continues marching? It always breaks my heart because John was just thrown back into his traumatic war days whi
Hey, now. This wasn’t necessary. Why do y’all hurt me so?
Seriously, though, it’s the little nod that gets me every time; John faces Sherlock’s death like a soldier, his comrade in arms has fallen.
Watching this always brings me forward to this line by Sholto in TSo3:
SHOLTO: There’s a proper time to die, isn’t there?
SHERLOCK: Of course there is.
SHOLTO: And one should embrace it when it comes – like a soldier.
Now watch that scene with this in mind and with the realization that John was worried about the press in TRF because he’s seen it happen before; and imagine that John has heard this advice before from Sholto.
John is embracing Sherlock’s death like a soldier.
You’re welcome, all.
welovethebeekeeper:
lianneder:
…and they are going to face...
…and they are going to face them together. (Please.)
I’ve heard you guys wanted some caves.
Look at this @1895itsallfine Cave Week Art!!! Brilliant.
Awesome.
constancecream:
constancecream:
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He was the young...
He was the young fisherman in Tenby. Is he also in the (studio) cave scenes?
July 11, 2016
The “empty” treasure box = Mary
So look at this description of ACD’s original story, The Sign of Four :
“tSoF is all about a group of four men who stole treasure from a city called Agra. One of these men confesses to Sherlock saying the treasure brought nothing but “a curse yet upon a man who owned it” bringing “murder… fear and guilt… slavery for life.” Mary’s dad dies as a result of the treasure and when recovered, it rightfully belonged to her and Major Sholto. After a lengthy boat chase along the Thames, the treasure is recovered and John (who at this point is crushing hard on Mary) goes to return it himself. John secretly wishes the treasure wasn’t hers because he wants to marry her and thinks that if he marries her after she’s suddenly become rich, people will think he’s a gold digger. Well, he brings it to her in this beautifully immense treasure chest. They open up the case and, to John’s delight, it’s completely empty. Johnathan Small had thrown it’s contents into the river. On discovering this, John proposes to Mary and all is well.” (x)
Now in HLV, Mary hands John a flash drive with what she says are her initials: A.G.R.A. The flash drive is supposed to contain the ‘truth’ about her past assassin work, which, if John reads, he’ll never be able to forgive. John doesn’t read it, presumably. He throws it on the fire at Christmas and forgives Mary. (which may or may not have been sincere, but is not the point of this mini meta).
I’ve seen fandom say that the flash drive was empty, because in ACD the original AGRA treasure box was empty. But what if MARY HERSELF is the ‘treasure’?
John married her. She was supposed to be this beautiful, fulfilling thing that gave him a normal life, one without risk of the type that SjHerlock brought. Sherlock broke John’s heart to smithereens when he fell, and John can’t take that again. Mary was the “safe” choice, the lovely treasure that would make him a rich man metaphorically speaking.
But that promise is an empty one because Mary herself is an empty treasure box. She has no heart or soul. Instead, she is a “curse upon the man who owns it” (i.e. John), and “brings murder, fear, and guilt… slavery for life”. Doesn’t that sound like what Mary, in her manipulative, dangerous, sociopathic assassin guise, indeed brings to John?
Yeah, I think Mary herself is the AGRA treasure box–the promise of a great treasure that turns out to be a curse and, ultimately, a completely empty promise.
“Why is she like that? She wasn’t supposed to be like that.” Mary was supposed to be the beautiful, nice, sweet, SAFE choice. The heteronormative treasure. And in this moment John realizes she’s not that at all.
No setlock london end of july? How reliable you think tweet is?
I think some others have commented on this…I don’t peg Sue as someone who would fib usually, but I’m still thrown off by her comment on the last day of London setlock for E2 when us setlockers were 99% sure Ben was indeed onsite and she said he wasn’t (by actual sight by some and by mention from various sources). However, this is a pretty big comment, and pair this with a comment from location menager Ben Mangham thanking London for being great after E2 finished, and location assistant Jeremy leaving in the midst of E2 for *probably* Star Wars, it does seem possible to me. Benjamin Caron already got his Gower Street bit back in June, and we only have a bit of a guess from previous Arwel tweets that he might have done another London recce quite a few weeks ago for E3, but that might not turn out to be for E3 at all. Also, from what we’ve seen already, we have an episode based on numerous beaches, ruins, and caves….not quite a London location. I think the lack of setlock on the streets of Cardiff for this ep (often a stand in for London) is also a good giveaway that we might not be seeing London for E3.
Tragic. I won’t fully believe it till E3 is done and wrapped, but I do think it’s really really really possible that London has finished.
wsswatson:
The Adventure of the Devil’s Foot:
‘In five minutes he died. My God! how he died! But my...
The Adventure of the Devil’s Foot:
‘In five minutes he died. My God! how he died! But my heart was flint, for he endured nothing which my innocent darling had not felt before him. There is my story, Mr. Holmes. Perhaps, if you loved a woman, you would have done as much yourself.’
‘I have never loved, Watson, but if I did and if the woman I loved had met such an end, I might act even as our lawless lion-hunter has done.’
The Adventure of the Three Garridebs:
‘In an instant he had whisked out a revolver from his breast and had fired two shots. I felt a sudden hot sear as if a red-hot iron had been pressed to my thigh. There was a crash as Holmes’s pistol came down on the man’s head. I had a vision of him sprawling upon the floor with blood running down his face while Holmes rummaged him for weapons. Then my friend’s wiry arms were round me, and he was leading me to a chair.
“You’re not hurt, Watson? For God’s sake, say that you are not hurt!”
It was worth a wound–it was worth many wounds–to know the depth of loyalty and love which lay behind that cold mask. The clear, hard eyes were dimmed for a moment, and the firm lips were shaking. For the one and only time I caught a glimpse of a great heart as well as of a great brain. All my years of humble but single-minded service culminated in that moment of revelation.
“It’s nothing, Holmes. It’s a mere scratch.”
He had ripped up my trousers with his pocket-knife.
“You are right,” he cried with an immense sigh of relief. “It is quite superficial.” His face set like flint as he glared at our prisoner, who was sitting up with a dazed face. “By the Lord, it is as well for you. If you had killed Watson, you would not have got out of this room alive. Now, sir, what have you to say for yourself?”’
"I’m a big fan of stories that lead the audience by the nose through the narrative, and these really..."
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Rupert Graves Interview about Sherlock S4 (x)
“lead the audience by the nose through the narrative”. I wonder what he means by that? It could simply the episodes are non stop action, as in “you’re on the edge of your seat”? Or could he be referring to flashbacks or replays of past scenes from a different POV? Like ‘you thought you knew what was happening, but really it was x’. I’d love that to be the case. (as in, we see Mary’s involvement with Sherlock/John from a new and darker POV).
But that may be wishful thinking on my part.
John’s Other Romantic Interests
I’m not including Sherlock on this list because this is a post talking about how everyone John has dated, married, or hit on, is a Sherlock mirror.
Anthea: obvious. Dark curls, angular features, nice suit, slightly snobbish and mysterious.
Sarah Sawyer: well, she doesn’t exactly look like Sherlock, does she? But she does look like Molly. Molly is Sherlock’s metaphorical spirit, and that was what first attracted John to Sherlock. He still hasn’t come to terms with his physical attraction to him yet…but he will. But she is brilliant and adventurous.
Irene Adler: yes, John does hit on her momentarily (”Oh…you like policemen?”). Once he’s gotten over the shock of a naked lady sniffing around his Sherlock, that is. And why not, she looks just like him! She even wears his coat! (Here’s a side by side comparison. Honestly, they could be siblings, if not twins.)
Jeanette: we never saw the two that came before. We know there was “the one with the nose” and “the one with the spots”. They never specify what “the nose” looked like, but Sherlock does have spots (freckles). But anyway, Jeanette is totally a Sherlock clone - she even wears her coat the same way!
Irene Adler’s henchlady: piercing eyes, mysterious, aristocratic, dressed in fancy black clothes. She even kind of has the same smile.
Corporal Lyons: in a deleted scene, John hits on Lyons the same way he does with Anthea in “A Study In Pink” (”You get any free time?”). He has dark hair and a pale complexion.
Louise Mortimer: just like Anthea, dark curls, angular features, smart.
Mary Morstan: I actually wrote a meta on how Mary is Sherlock’s antithesis/negative/foil. She’s everything he is, only darkly inverted (even though Sherlock really is an invert, haha).
James Sholto: tall, sad, blue eyes, cheekbones. Someone who gets death threats and has suicidal tendencies and loves John fiercely. I mean, the episode basically spells out the comparisons for us, but just as a reminder:
I see Molly more of a John mirror tho
She is! Very often. I love Molls to death, but in the narrative, she has three basic functions: to mirror John, to represent Sherlock’s spirit, and show that Sherlock is not interested in women.
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