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freeman-martypants:

Yeah, this does things to me, okay? And, also, I want that waistcoat.

I still want this…

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Thoughts on setlock week 11

welovethebeekeeper:

What a week that was. Ruther2 went ‘live’ for us on Periscope ensuring another avenue opened up which enables us to follow the filming of Sherlock as a community. Big shout out to Ruther, not only for naming this mad detective game we all play periodically with the show, but for continuing to develop new ways to share knowledge and feel like a truly united group. Also kudos, as always, to the setlockers who provided great photos and intel and rallied to the locations often on short notice, then stayed despite terrible weather. 

So onto this weeks musings:

North Gower St. For me the highlight was the new nickname for Benedict coined by Martin of ‘sugarnuts’. Yes folks that lovely gay term for delicious balls. It’s so….fitting! It just fits, doesn’t it? Lovely little addition to the fandom, so thanks Martin for that one. We had a tale of two episodes with Nick H and Ben C both on set directing scenes for their episodes. Ben C’s scene was the one in daylight featuring the extras which spoke of excitement and angst to come in 4.3, while Nick H gave us a very wet and bedraggled Sherlock wandering with Sian Brooke, plus a spiffy John rushing out of 221b and talking on his phone. There was another scene close by which involved John in a car. Rachel T’s doppleganger showed up and confused the hell out of some people, but the doppleganger appeared to be a visitor to the set accompanying her red haired son. Rachel-the-real, was actually enjoying a concert in Cardiff. A headline in a prop newspaper drew our attention; ‘The Peckham Poisoner’ and we had several very happy fans who met and selfied with the cast and writers. Not the best NGS setlock we’ve had, but it sufficed, and the lucky set lockers there appeared to have a great time.

Onto Gordon Square: Less fans but more on edge security crew, as there was a scene filmed that they really did not want to be leaked. Few clues as to what it involved as we had one photo from the set of Loo talking to Ben, which tells us that Molly was in the scene, and weirdly, so was the front door from the Watson’s flat. It was seen on site being carried by crew. As Molly was in her ep 1 Watson flat costume, so was was the blue front door, we can surmise that the secret scene was a flashback in Sherlock’s mind to the scene filmed with Molly in ep 1 at the Watson home. Intriguing. What is so special about that event? Baby left alone? John and Mary absent? Molly minding the baby? Whatever it is they didn’t want us to see. The scene we did see was a bus stop scene between Sian and Benedict where they had some chips, read a letter, then walked off. However we all suddenly ‘clocked’ that the scenes with Sian in the red maxi and black jacket are filmed twice, once with Sian and once without SIan. Ergo these scenes are Sherlock’s hallucinations. In reality he is alone. He’s also getting weaker and sicker, poor lamb. [Oh and the sniffing of the letter? I think he’s holding it up very close to his face to read it, as his eyes are affected by the illness, maybe not sniffing]
Next night we were at Jubilee Bridge and Gardens, as we suspected we would be since the parking restrictions went up weeks ago.The scene filmed featured Ben and Sian on the bridge and Sherlock’s condition was severely deteriorating. It’s apparent now that the walk around London while ill, is one long scene. From the images at Mount Stuart Sq, to Charles St, to 221B, to Gordon Sq to the Jubillee Bridge and Gardens, all one long trial for Sherlock to wrestle with the ghosts in his head. I think he’s both deducing, revealing things to himself and confronting issues. Finally he collapses, not before the lady in red hands him what appears to be a gun. It will be metaphorical, as she’s an hallucination, and I propose that it will be the reveal Sherlock requires to end the ‘sojourn in the desert of his delirium’ and seek help.
Want to pause here to note the bizarre school of thought known as ‘Sherlock is heterosexual’. See whenever a female is in close range, especially, but not limited to, an age appropriate female, then this school of thought decides that the female is a love interest for Sherlock. Now can I just point out that having a human with a vagina stand next to a human with a penis, does not necessarily mean a ‘love connection’. Heaven help us if this were true. I read various ideas on social media about Sherlock and the hallucination-love-interest, that she would hold his hand, they were going to kiss, that she was his saviour, that Molly would be so jealous, [Molly, some worried, would now have beard burn from Sherlock’s kisses] Never mind that poor sod John Watson has been making love-eyes at Sherlock for over 5 years,  given up dating at one time for Sherlock, grieved like a widower for Sherlock, come on to Sherlock in a restaurant/numerous times in 221B and yet people question that John has romantic/sexual attraction for Sherlock? They dismiss that John IS the fucking love interest? So a few blurry set photos of LiR interacting with Sherlock, and she is a love interest, versus 3 series, one special and one mini episode of John being woefully in love with Sherlock and he is NOT a love interest? This week of all weeks, it came across as blind homophobia. 
Moving on to Riverside Towers Penthouse. [I am off my soap box now. Well I am never really off it but you know what I mean] Here we saw, Sian, Toby, Mark, Steven and Nick filming what appeared to be a private clinic. There was a waiting room area, and a boardroom, the very boardroom we saw in the middle of Mount Stuart Sq. We realised that Sian was one of the people seated at that board room table, the lady in floral, and we eventually got news that Benedict did show up on the second night of filming at the location, which made the link to the real boardroom and the one in his mind. There does appear to be something a bit ‘kinky’ going on here; the nurses at the clinic are in retro uniforms, the nurses uniform often used in fantasy role play for sex games, some setlockers reported the nurses were also wearing masks. Whatever, there is an air of exclusivity, money, indulgence and decadence about the clinic. Drug therapy that is not sanctioned but must accessed through private channels. All very weird and suspicious up in that penthouse overlooking the Thames and the London skyline. 
Finally we moved on to more mundane, real events, and our dear John at a bus stop. He keeps it so grounded and real, does our John, not a Mind Palace or hallucination in sight. Anyhoo, he was looking spiffy waiting for the bus, and here we have another woman featured at a bus stop with one of our lead characters. {Wonder if this is mirroring? Point being made?] This time the lady is in stripes/yellow. Given the reports from set of John holding a small card or piece of paper and the focus on the actress at the bus stop, I wonder does the woman pass him something and he then discards it in a bin? This scene is a pick up for episode 1 as Rachel was directing. However it suddenly became obvious why they waited to do this scene; they needed to produce a billboard of Culverton Smith to go at the bus stop, so needed Toby announced and on board before we got to this scene. So the poster becomes a major clue. Why? Because it reveals that Culverton Smith is a television show celeb, he has a show called ‘Business Killer’; the boardroom where it’s murder to do business!! Now for several of us that followed the excellent deciphering of the script from Charles St, we knew that Culverton was not a doctor but a celeb with a ‘Kitchen Nightmares’ type of show. Seems our Cully is the Alan Sugarnuts, sorry, Sugar of his own show, a Gordon Ramsay type, who ‘kills’ business if they don’t  measure up to his demanding standards. Getting good isn’t it? [So is the drug trial at the penthouse a business venture? Selling a drug to high end clients?] We also must note the lovely foreshadowing of this villain in Connie Prince, the make-over TV bully who ends up dead due to her treatment of her brother and his lover. Method of death; botox, an anti ageing treatment. Lots here to meta in the upcoming months.
Back to good old Doctor Watson at the bus stop. He was taking the bus twice, we know due to costume change, which suggests he’s forgone the bike for the bus. A bus we saw in NGS, a bus with a great big gay joke on it [Strawb Fizz exploding] and Mark [yes it’s Mark doing this, it’s his episode] makes sure John sits right above the ejaculating tube of Strawb Fizz, and of course as always John is on top.[Although in the other scene filmed, he was on the bottom, so switchlock confirmed] We have to discuss ring watch: yes it was still on. I believe that John is the type of man to keep his ring on while he is legally married, or at least feels as if the relationship has not formally ended. If he has separated from Mary, if Mary has disappeared, John will still have that ring on his finger. 
Speaking of Mary, apart from Amanda at NGS [where she was dragging Benedict away from Martin and two guests on set in order to ‘deliver’ him to fans] we didn’t have her around. [Not denigrating the love generated by her and her fans at NGS, if that is your thing then glad you had a great night] She did say she had met Rachel for a farewell lunch, and said she would be filming Thursday, but in the two locations in which filming was witnessed, there was no sign of Amanda. 
Rachel went home, Claire and her crew had transport issues back to Cardiff but Hartswood came to the the rescue and got them home, and Ben Mangham said a big thank you to London for being so wonderful this week. It sounds as if London shooting is done, at least for eps 1 and 2. Epsisode 2 itself may have a few days left but it should be nearly wrapped, and it appears like there will be a brief break before the final episode films, but certainly not a hiatus as we feared.

I suggest we all rest and recharge our energy, and phones, as we need to totally relish the next 4 weeks or so of setlock. Once it is over it will feel empty and we won’t do this again for at least a year. So make sure you enjoy the upcoming ep 3 chaos, it has to carry us over for a long while. 

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silentauroriamthereal:

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BENDEDICT CUMBERBATCH AS ALL in Zoolander 2

(from DVD extras)

Dear God. I’m semi-horrified, semi-turned on, haha! He’s rather good at that…

The one takeaway here: shaved thighs.

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becumsh:

January 29, 2010. Two souls reunited. In another life. In another century. At last.

And it is always eighteen ninety-five.

Remember that horrible headcanon and that horrible edit? I do. And this happened. No idea why. Because I am a slut for Soulmate AUs? I love them? Sherlock Holmes and John Watson are soulmates? Idk, watch it and reblog/like/review/put something in the tags if you want to, we live in a free world, do whatever strikes your fancy.

Jesus! 

Somebody give @becumsh a substantial budget and hours and hours of raw footage and I will watch whatever results. 

Seriously. SERIOUSLY! You know when you see raw talent so enormous you want to fall down on your knees and thank whatever powers put it there? This is it, people. This is the good stuff.

So lovely.

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Sherlock’s facial expressions in His Last Vow (Part - 1)

This gifset is heartbreaking

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kinklock:

I’m just saying it’s probably not coincidental that Sherlock messes up everyone else’s name (can’t remember Lestrade’s first name, calls Molly John, etc.) but became obsessed with finding out John’s middle name, and it’s probably not coincidental that the flip side of that is John knowing Sherlock’s full name but not Mary’s name at all 

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johnandsherlocks:

“Look, I find it difficult, I find it difficult this sort of stuff.“

“I know.“