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April 24, 2016
khorazir:
“Tick Tock”
Inspired by this post about Sherlock’s...
“Tick Tock”
Inspired by this post about Sherlock’s bolt-holes and the chance of the boys meeting behind the clockface of Big Ben. I really liked the setting.
happierstill:
bakerstreetbuddies:
Sherlock Holmes’ first...
Sherlock Holmes’ first apperance
And the very FIRST thing we hear in be entire show is that John can read upside down. He can read Sherlock.
Awesome catch
April 23, 2016
perverselyvex:
free-martinis:
new still of Martin Freeman as...
new still of Martin Freeman as Everett Ross in
Captain America - Civil War
Martin discovered The Swoop and is not letting go, is he?
consultinggalpals:
sometimes, when I have some smidgens of doubt, I like to remember this
and then...
sometimes, when I have some smidgens of doubt, I like to remember this
and then everything feels right again in the world :)))
Yup. That’s pretty clear. Thank you, Amanda.
ebaeschnbliah:
isitandwonder:
In TAB, we see Sherlock finally choosing John. But John has already...
In TAB, we see Sherlock finally choosing John. But John has already chosen Sherlock. Because no one deceives like an addict.
In the scene where this line is spoken, we should think it is addressed to Sherock. But it’s not.
The only person who’s ever called an addict on the show is John.
Sherlock does it at during the Watson Domestic in HLV:
SHERLOCK: John, you are addicted to a certain lifestyle.
Even before that, at the beginning of the episode, John’s ‘addiction’ is mentioned (and understood by Sherlock). At the lab at Bart’s we get the following dialogue:
BILL: Yeah. Somebody ’it me.
MARY: Huh?
BILL: Eh, just some guy.
JOHN: Yeah, probably just an addict in need of a fix.
SHERLOCK (pointedly, looking directly at John): Yes. I think, in a way, it was.
John’s the addict. Sherlock is never called that (despite it being him who allegedly takes drugs). Sherlock calls himself a user. John doesn’t believe Sherlock being a ‘junkie’ in ASiP. Even as Mycroft is allerted by John at the beginning of HLV, he doesn’t call his brother an addict. He just asks him if he’s back on the sauce and speaks of his substance abuse.
But if John is the only one called an addict on the show and no one deceives like an addict - who is John deceiving?
That wife of his? Himself?
John made a vow to Mary. But he hasn’t been true. He is deceiving her - and himself . For he dreams of Sherlock and wants to be with him.
John is addicted to Sherlock but fights it. It won’t help. It’s a war he has to loose. In fact, I think he has already lost it. He is deceiving his wife - even if it’s just in his dreams. We always thought it was Mary cheating - but it’s John.
I’m certain he’ll lose his fight eventually in S4. Johnlock will become canon.
Wow! I think I held my breath while reading this. That’s so simple and so true ! And the perfect example for using smoke and mirrors to hide the most important clues. Seems you dispersed the smoke quite a bit here @isitandwonder :)))
Love it.
Staircases: The Subtext in Elevation in BBC Sherlock
Anyone stop to notice all the sweet moments John and Sherlock have shared together at the bottom of the stairs of 221b? Out of breath, laughing together in ASiP. John admitting what he said at Sherlock’s grave. The tension between them in TRF before Sherlock meets the press and goes to the trial. The tender moment they shared sleeping at the bottom of the stairs in TSoT. This isn’t by accident - this is an intentional metaphor placed by the writers to show the different layers of their characters’ emotions: staircases are the way to show the difference between emotions of the mind, the heart, and the groin.
The three different emotions are shown through vertical ascension: The ground level by a staircase is the heart, the levels above are the mind, and the levels below are the groin. Our characters are seen in meaningful situations at the bottom of staircases because they are speaking from their hearts.
*Sherlock hugging Mrs Hudson as soon as she opens the door to the landing of 221b in ASiP.
*John attempting to propose at a table near the base of the stairs
*Mycroft sitting at the bottom of the stairs in HLV waiting for his junkie brother to return home
*John returning to 221b in TEH to say goodbye one final time hears Sherlock’s violin at the bottom of the stairs
*Sherlock is the nicest he’s ever been to Molly when he thanks her in TEH at the bottom of his client’s staircase
*Sherlock kisses Mrs Hudson on the landing in ASiP
*Sherlock in his MP in HLV descends a staircase and finds Moriarty chained up
Just as the bottom of a staircase is significant, so is the top. 221b’s living room and kitchen in particular are the most important locations. These places are the mind, an “elevated level” of thinking. There are multiple skulls and severed heads in 221b to drive home the metaphor.
*John often finds Sherlock deep in thought upon arriving
* IV Drugs for Sherlock are always administered on the 2nd level of a structure, showing how their use is intended to affect the mind (Irene’s syringe, morphine in the hospital, drugs in 221b, the upper floor of the drug house in HLV)
*Sherlock opens his eyes on the operating table once he climbs his MP staircase (note that his heartbeat starts once he revives himself at the bottom of it)
So we’ve covered the ground level and above-ground levels, but what about literally taking the stairs underground? The most significant moment is when Sherlock leads John down several flights of stairs and into an unused train tunnel in TEH. This is his groin. He takes John somewhere that is fully-functional but never used. There’s no cell service, no sunshine. They go deeper down the stairs to find a train ready to blow. Sherlock tells John not to touch it or else it’ll explode and send phallic Big Ben blasting to pieces. Luckily Sherlock “turns it off” in time. This writing is hardly subtle.
While the three layers are important to understand on a basic level, it’s also important to watch the characters move from one level to the next - this tells us exactly what we need to know about their motivations.
*Sherlock descends a staircase in his MP in TSoT while deducing the importance of women in the Mayfly Man case. He starts in 221b (his mind) and goes down the stairs telling most women “not you” (his heart). There is where he’ll later tell John “You. It’s always you. John Watson you keep me right.”
*Sherlock descends the staircase in TAB after he sees Sir Eustace dead with Moriarty’s tag on the dagger. His mind has just seen something he knows can’t be real and he shakily descends to his heart, only to run into John. There he’s angry at John for abandoning his post and instead meeting him in his heart, where he shouldn’t be.
*In THoB Sherlock (and everyone else, really) descends into the hollow only to see a viscous monster peering at them from above. The monster starts to descend and it is promptly destroyed. Sherlock sees Moriarty there, too. He can’t trust the terrors of his mind and their possible infiltration of his heart.
With all this information at hand, what can we deduce about Mary and how the writers choose to show her climbing stairs? Her introduction to the viewers is her on a staircase, descending to meet John. What was her purpose up there? They could’ve shown her approaching from any angle but they chose the stairs. How did she get into Magnussen’s office when the personal lift is the only way up? What does it mean when every time Mary is showing ascending a staircase she’s RUNNING? In TEH, TSoT, and HLV she is running up the stairs, never walking.
Could it be she is never comfortable on the ground floor, her heart a facade just like the rest of her? Could it be she’s waiting for the opportune moment to abandon that facade for who she really is?
This is so great! I think it’s cool that Mary starts out on the level of the mind and then goes to the level of the heart. This could be to show that she’s in the relationship for head-reasons/work reasons and is just actin like she’s on the heart level, like you were saying. Also, if she was talking to someone, ‘in the bathroom’, or wherever she was then it was something mind related. Talking to her boss? Handler? Associate?
Re: the moor, wouldn’t ground level be the heart and the hollow be the groin? Like the hound tries to move from the heart and into the groin and is shot instead because it’s so scary? I think that makes tons of sense for these guys. Also, Moriarty is, ‘Mr Sex’, so he’s always at the underground level, in HLV in THoB, even in TGG when he gets them to go to the basement of Baker St.
I love the idea of Mary running from the foyer of Baker Street, that makes so much sense. Also, ti’s incredibly dark as she runs through and she’s only half-lit even ¼ of the way up the stairs.
Brilliant, @the-7-percent-solution! I think you’ve discovered “stairs code”.
In the unaired Pilot, Sherlock is on the rooftop (almost man in the moon), completely oblivious / out of reach for John on the ground (who is looking for some sort of connection.)
In comparison, for a Study in Pink, this makes the chase out of Angelo’s to catch the American’s taxi even more incredible - Sherlock drags John up the stairs, then down the stairs, and across a rooftop:
After running / testing John across every level, they end up laughing and happy in the foyer of 221b. John works for Sherlock at every level!
And then this makes the little drunken bump down the 221b stairs very intriguing too, since things got a lot more subtextually sexual the rest of the evening (Rizla game, the nurse visit, the nurse’s apartment):
@inevitably-johnlocked @jenna221b @waitingforgarridebs
Beautiful!
Sooooo happy with this. Well done @the-7-percent-solution you just gave us STAIRS CODE!!
221C…Sherlock goes down into the disused flat in the basement and receives his first call from Jim: ‘Hello Sexy’. ‘The curtain rises..’ The awakening of Sherlock sexually is truly beginning. And in TAB we get the call back to this and Sherlock reflects that he has to ‘go deeper’. Oh I love Mark and Steven.
Then there is the Jack the Ripper set up in the basement, hearing trains [sex] and trying out the idea of Molly in this regard, to no avail, as Sherlock keeps calling her John. He leaves that basement confirmed in his own homosexuality. And I love that it’s a set up, similar to Anderson’s fantasy Molly and Sherlock kiss.
In THoB they go down several levels at Baskerville and John finds terror there, he begs Sherlock to save him, to come and bring him out of his ‘cage’. The bisexual repression John has forced onto himself for some reason. He’s begging Sherlock for relief. Plus Sherlock sees the hound [sex] from the hollow and is terrified [it’s just the pet of the two gay gays at the pub who have let it loose] he’s in an Inn with John and he wants it to be romantic/sexual but it frightens him.
Bring on the metas!
I love all the additions everyone! Keep it coming!
This is just a rough sketch, but would you guys be interested in something like this?
Here’s a link to a larger image
@the-7-percent-solution
@welovethebeekeeper (can’t tag)
@jenna221b
@mollydobby
@just-sort-of-happened
@obotligtnyfiken - that would be a very interesting map of the information … you have a lot of love and patience!
My first thoughts on this … one probably couldn’t read this graph expecting some sort of trendline that makes sense. I think the points of interest (heh) for the infographics would be
1) where the troughs and peaks are (stairs theory in action essentially)
2) whether a trough-and-peak combo mirror each other (may indicate a parallel / character mirror)
3) comparing all the episodes together, if any look similar to the other(s)
Though if we tried to interpret the infographic that way … it may be too much work …
@obotligtnyfiken I printed the larger on out and it is now on my show deduction wall. Thank you for that, it makes a great visual aid.
Another awesome meta.
Tick tock johnlock
Remember the “bolt-hole” discussion in His Last Vow? I have a feeling it’s going to come up again. So Sherlock fled hospital to set up the meeting with Mary. Meanwhile, Lestrade and John discover this and begin wondering where Sherlock has gone. Lestrade tells us that Sherlock has three known bolt-holes…Parliament Hill, Camden Lock and Dagmar Court. Mycroft adds two more to the list…The blind greenhouse in Kew Gardens and the leaning tomb in Hampstead Cemetery.
Molly gives us the sixth bolt-hole, her bedroom (because he needs the space), then John goes to Mrs Hudson and gets the seventh…
This is amazing! A scene behind the clock face of Big Ben, countdown to johnlock, and more! Must read.
April 22, 2016
cupidford:
miadifferent:
marcelock:
marcelock:
i love them...
i love them so much
What the hell is that about?
I will not lie, shark immediately had me thinking of business sharks and amanda talking about some business people being psychopaths and the whole mary is a psychopath convo. I know that’s super super far fetched for this weird convo between them but that’s immediately where my brain went.
This is quite interesting and peculiar. It could mean nothing, of course. Could be a total mind fuck. But let’s run for a moment with the idea that sharks=psychopaths=Mary. [Note I have NO idea why they would discuss such a thing on twitter other than to make a cryptic game for fans but ??]
1. Sharks are rude. – Mary is rude.
2. Sharks drive on the right. – American? Mary worked for the CIA.
3. Sharks wee sitting down. – Female. Check.
4. Sharks like going to the shops. – No idea. Could refer to some scene in S4, maybe Mary in a shop or watching John in a shop.
5. Sharks play dirty – Sounds like a psychopath. If Mary= Moriarty or Moran she has certainly played dirty.
6. Sharks like to dress as different kinds of sharks – costumes/disguises. That could definitely fit Mary’s various personas (my husband is three men)
7. Sharks speak very quietly.– A whispered threat? Maybe in S4?
8. Sharks can’t spell. Refers to the YOU vs I.O.U. bit in TAB vs TRF?
miadifferent:
constancecream:
[x]
He has an expertise a stunt...
He has an expertise a stunt driver… and if this was added to imdb in the last 48h… well, well, well…. ;-)
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