XistentialAngst's Blog, page 157

sidryan:i need to stopSo cute.

sidryan:

i need to stop

So cute.

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FAVORITE FREEBATCH/TFBC MOMENTS

welovethebeekeeper:

distantstarlight:

vanetti:

inevitably-johnlocked:

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williamanyascottholmes:

happierstill:

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Lustful Martin

Touchy Martin

Pining Ben

“getting closer”

  

“notice me”

 

“offended”

 

“i’m fine, i’m fine”

  

“please notice me”

“alright, i’m not crying inside”

  

“pining in the distance”

Staring at each other when the other can’t see

 

Synchronized

This

Ben about Martin

Martin about Ben

 

“whether we like it or not…”

Looking like a couple

Ben waiting for Martin

Being silly

 

 

In a very platonic…

All this freebatch love tonight is making me smile like a loon. This is my favorite freebatch post of all. So so many good ones.

@snogbox1 have you seen all these?

I am honestly on fire

Okay last freebatch for the night I promise

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miadifferent:

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This is a post about @cupidford

Setlockers, have you thanked your cupid yet today?

Thank you @cupidford!

YAYAYAY Thank you @cupidford!

<3

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cucumberbenny:

Johnlock

You touch on one of my biggest fears about S4, and that's the "It was all a dream" scenario. It was fine in TAB, but if it stretches into S4, it's going to seem like some cheesy 80s show. As a writer yourself you know how frustrating it is when you write y

 Hey, sorry for the delay in answering this, keeping up with setlock has been a challenge! ;)

I do understand folk’s frustrations about the ‘it’s all a dream’ scenario- cliché, it’s been done before, and just really personal preference that they’d rather not see it again.

But, for me, Mofftiss deliberately play around with cliché- and, just because something is cliché doesn’t necessarily mean that you can’t make it ‘work’ or put your own unique spin on it.

Plus, I honestly would not worry about them ‘writing themselves into a corner.’ (And believe me, I’ve done that so many times and had to start again ;) ) They have had the plots and arcs and where they want to take the story they’ve telling planned out far in advance. Obviously, it’s unrealistic for them to have every single detail painstakingly mapped out, but they have all the major factors there. I’d particularly watch @softsons video on The Blind Banker, as all the talk about mirroring and the heavily foreshadowed villainous Mary arc is explained there, and highlights how the writers really did have a ‘Great Game plan’ from Series One.

But, back to the dream/ surreal mind palace idea. Yes, it’s already been done in The Abominable Bride, but I personally don’t think it would lose the ‘surprise’ factor because of this. I mean, I was so convinced by @inevitably-johnlocked‘s Mind Palace theory, and read it before TAB aired… and yet, you should have heard my shocked gasp and “OH MY GOD” when Moriarty said “It’s the landing,” and the episode transitioned back to the modern timeline. Never underestimate the power of new Sherlock material to completely erase your memory(!) ;)

And, that brings me to the opening of The Empty Hearse. That absolutely plays on what is real and what is fantasy, and for a moment, you’re completely fooled- well, at least I certainly was. ;) You’re so caught up on the fact that this is a new series, this is the beginning, oh my gosh, what is happening, what are they doing… and the writers absolutely take advantage of that in the best way! For a heart-stopping moment I was left desperately scrabbling for an explanation of why Sherlock would kiss moment– like, he just faked his death, maybe he’s just really relieved, I would probably kiss the first person I saw, too?!

So, if they do go down the route of another mind palace/dream scene- or even just play around with teasing us about a “fake reality” in another way- rest assured, it won’t be a cop out. Rather, like The Empty Hearse opening was, it’ll be a way to play on some of the audience’s expectations, and then point out why that’s happening, why that’s far from the story that’s being told.

For more on the “fake” setlock scenes speculation see:

The Empty Hearse Fanclub Returns?

Sharks and driving in tunnels

The Abominable Bride Car scene continues- does Sherlock fall asleep?

The ‘Mr and Mrs Psychopath’ Nightmare

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D-3BO ‏@JohnnyDeb

Benedict Cumberbatch, Martin Freeman and Amanda Abbington filming Sherlock yesterday. #setlock

https://twitter.com/JohnnyDeb/status/726037958801915907

So John definitely looks surprised here…

So I wasn’t in the right position to see John’s face, better for Mary’s face, but I did hear from hotsmugstache that he may have been surprised or unhappy to be taking the baby. Unsure.

HOWEVER, we were both of the impression that Mary seemed disingenuously happy, a bit condescending of a smile - we thought maybe we were projecting but earlier this morning I think cant-pronounce said the same?

Each take Amanda did pat and then rub Martin’s shoulder, so there is that contact between them, but the facial gestures might show a different story. 

There was a pap stationed in the garden across the street that security didn’t kick out so I’m really hoping we’ll get something????

So Sherlock knocks on what seems to be a client’s door knowing Mary will answer, but John doesn’t know and he’s unpleasantly surprised to see her, while Mary is condescendingly pleased…haven’t we seen this before?

John’s reaction even looks the same, the way he steps back…

Yes, good find! So one could speculate that, post-birth, John is working cases with Sherlock and Mary, much like the Mary in TAB, insinuates herself (and the baby) into one. I quite like that. 

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i love that baby, she is the tjlc setlock spy and she has a cute outfit :( 

concept: bebby, but in mary’s assassin outfit 

the babby is the one to take out mary in the end laskdjf

I’m Sorry, Mama. Truly, I Am. 

The shark fin in the tunnel grafitti… omen of a monstrous birth… she’s not even a year old but she already knows how to KILL. 

I just had the worst thought! What if Mary really is in labour in that car scene and there is a car crash (there were some hints earlier about something like that happening in this episode, i think?) and the baby dies (and maybe John also gets hurt) and bc

I just saw @queerjawn has a very similar thought to you here! That would definitely be dramatic and tragic. But, I’m still speculating that the possible car crash scenes are part of a car racing/Silver Blaze adaptation. (x)

As for why Sherlock is driving a car, I think it might be part of a nightmare/dream/mind palace sequence taking place immediately after TAB as I speculate here. I’ll copy the bit about the ‘how and why’ of cars underneath:

Okay adding my screaming to @waitingforgarridebs: What if Sherlock has fallen asleep during the car ride at the end of TAB and this is the result, his nightmare?! That’s why he’s dreaming of driving a car, because he’s hearing the noises of one…

Although perhaps Sherlock’s nightmare ends in a similarly tragic way before bizarrely ‘restarting’ to show John and Sherlock greeting Mary at her house with the baby and dog, and then they head off to Borough Market etc…with an increasingly disorientated Sherlock…?