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April 9, 2016
Hey! Today I was trying to explain to a friend why Johnlock will 99.9% definitely become canon in season 4/5 but I couldn't think of any concrete evidence to give them. Please could you give a couple of solid reason why they'd definitely become canon?
Hi Nonny! I’ve written a TONNE of Masterposts about this! Here’s a copy-paste from this post here!
The Johnlock is Already Blatant - TAB has made that extremely clear to me.Softly Softly: The BBC’s Study on LGBT Relationships (2009) - Before Sherlock, the BBC was looking for a show to help represent LGBT relationships. A year later,Sherlock was commissioned. TJLC: Your Guide to Romance & Holmesian Deduction in the Sherlock Fandom - An interesting long post about many of the more blatant signs of Johnlock through the first three seasons. I look forward to when this post is updated for S4. Fave post, great read!
TJLC for the Uninitiated - A wonderful summation of all the tropes and clues in Sherlock so far that point to a Johnlock Endgame. Basically, if you have a friend that needs convincing, send them here. What Happens When the Writers Stop Joking About Sherlock and John Being a Couple - One of the reasons I believe in TJLC so wholeheartedly is because THIS has already actually begun. HLV has already started the “canon Johnlock” arc. The Unabridged Dictionary of Johnlock Tropes: 157 Romantic Tropes Used in the Gayest Show on TV - ifyouhaveenoughnerve goes through the 157 romantic tropes and uses actual examples from Sherlock for EVERY ONE OF THEM to support Johnlock. It’s long but TOTALLY worth the read.
Heteronormativity Caught You in a Haste? - A lovely list that gives you rebuttals for all the common arguments against Johnlock.
TJLC: The Show Doesn’t Make Sense Without it - The show has gotten to the point where, if it’s not real, it doesn’t make any sense; there is no plot without it.
Sherlock & Romance, AKA Why So Many People Ship Johnlock - A CLASSIC by@wsswatson, this is a GREAT read. It takes you step by step through the romantic arc that Sherlock portrays season-by-season. Definitely worth a read, if you still need some convincing. My Masterpost’s Johnlock Meta Section - Like it says on the tin, I also have my own extensively organized Masterpost which contains an extensive and never completed TJLC / Johnlock section. Blog Tag: Sherlock and John’s Relationship Arc - Because I love precise tags. As a heads up, I’m VERY meticulous with my tagging system, so you may end up in a loop on my blog. It’s my way of ensuring I’m like Wikipedia; once you start here, you NEVER LEAVE *evil laugh*@softsons TJLC Explained Video Series - Great series for new and old fans of the series! Goes through the tropes and subtext in the episodes! Currently ongoing, so be sure to subscribe.
Plus:
Check out this post here, as it discusses why John will not turn down Sherlock when he confessesAnd this post discusses WHY we had to use subtext to build up the arc
I hope this has helped you out! Good luck!
TAB: The Greenhouse Scene (Murder on the Knees)
John: Now that I have you in the dark, on your knees, after the house is asleep, I want to go man-to-man.
(cue the hairy eyeball from Sherlock)
….You know, talk.
Let’s talk about how jealous I am of Irene Adler and how I go through your stuff at night trying to suss out your relationships with women.
Sherlock: I don’t like girls. You like girls. I have nothing to add to a conversation about girls.
John: OH YOU LIKE GIRLS YOU TWAT. IRENE ADLER. IRENE. ADLER.
Sherlock: …
John: Why do you need to be alone?
Sherlock: All emotion is abhorrent to me. It is the grit in a sensitive instrument. A crack in the lens. Please remember these words because I will repeat them verbatim when describing Moriarty later in this episode which will be the opening to the most homoerotic dream sequence you’ve ever seen.
John: Those are MY WORDS, not yours! I write all of that “machine” nonsense and even I don’t believe it!
Sherlock: I’m a robot. Beep boop.
John: Let’s talk about you wanking.
Sherlock: Kill me now.
John: Wanking is natural! Wanking! This is a totally normal conversation between close friends in the dark! Please tell me more about your wanking, Sherlock. It’s because I’m……worried.
Sherlock: BEEP. BOOP. (hearing distant, dream-like barking) omg wait is that my childhood dog? Redbeard, my well-established weak spot that comes up whenever I’m afraid of loving someone for fear of tragically losing them? why would he show up right at this moment?
A word for word transcript of the scene
BEEP. BOOP.
Perfect
You know the introduction sequence to TAB (the "So far on Sherlock" seqence)? Why is Mary almost completely left out, even though she is a significant part of TAB storyline? It is intentional, no doubt about that, but I cannot wrap my mind around it. What
Yeah, silent Mary definitely is curious!
I don’t know if you’ve read @bobenlugares meta ‘Clues in the beginning of TAB’ here? She says this about the “So far on Sherlock” sequence:
“The selection of scenes and the special way they’re edited are clues to decode Sherlock’s drug-induced dream. The scenes are not in chronological order and some of them have dates and others don’t. Also, they are a retelling of John and Sherlock’s story and it’s important what they chose to emphasize.
The order and the placement of dialogue proves that the recap is happening in Sherlock’s mind. He was reading the story of how they met; the, “So far in Sherlock”, could be part of the mind palace dream.”
So, the So Far on Sherlock= a visual of what Sherlock was thinking of as he was slipping into his Victorian Mind Palace. And, as @bobenlugares explains, it’s all about the story of John and Sherlock, the moments they shared that Sherlock deems especially important.
So, what about our silent Mary? Here’s the scene where she shows up:
Outside Sholto’s room in “The Sign of Three.”
JOHN: Shut up. You are not a puzzle solver; you never have been. You’re a drama queen. Now there is a man in there about to die …
(Brief shot of Sherlock putting on the deerstalker at the end of “TEH.”)
JOHN (sarcastically quoting Sherlock): … “The game is on.” Solve it! (x)
And here’s (roughly) what she looks like (sorry, I had to find a screencap from TSo3 to illustrate this, I don’t have the DVD of TAB yet, if anyone wants to add a gif/ screencap from the actual TAB moment, feel free!)
What does this tell us, then? Well, for me, it says that Sherlock is associating Mary with the pressure he felt while trying to save Sholto. This really is not a flattering moment for Mary here- she looks quite irritated, in my opinion. This is to nudge Sherlock (and the audience) even more into thinking that she is a villain, not to be trusted.
During this brief flashback, John is demanding that Sherlock “solve it”, live up to his public Consulting Detective reputation. I think this is foreshadowing that Sherlock needs to solve the mystery of Mary Morstan, or there will be “a man about to die”: John? More Three Garridebs foreshadowing?
And, why doesn’t Mary speak? Hmm… maybe this is Sherlock saying that he’s still uncertain about her, he hasn’t got her quite figured out yet. Perhaps she hasn’t used her “real voice” yet- this could be viewed on both a literal level (Sherlock says in HLV her accent is English, but he suspects she is not) and a more symbolic one: Mary hasn’t fully “voiced” or shown her true colours yet.
Tagging more meta writers in case they have more thoughts, because I don’t think I’ve seen this discussed yet! Thanks for your question! @inevitably-johnlocked @gosherlocked @monikakrasnorada @deducingbbcsherlock @just-sort-of-happened
April 8, 2016
thesetison:
Setlock, 4.8.16We got confirmation that yesterday’s scenes were being filmed in the...
Setlock, 4.8.16We got confirmation that yesterday’s scenes were being filmed in the studio. Arwel’s tweets about the cyclorama and the exterior of the 221B set seem to indicate that the 221B set is not yet finished. That fact, combined with his previous tweets and a picture today of what seems to be the sidetable from John and Mary’s bedroom, may indicate that the studio scenes they
were filming were in John and Mary’s flat.
Someone on twitter said they weren’t allowed on set for filming yesterday because it was a ‘heated scene’, but that is 100% unconfirmed.
Arwel teased us with an east wind reference in a pic of University Hospital of Wales, but it may have just been taken when he was driving and not be indicating a filming location.
It sounds like Loo may have been filming again today.Claire Pritchard (hair/makeup), Dominique Arthur (costumes), and Loo all tweeted things that seem to indicate that filming is now done for the week. Claire’s tweet also mentioned laughs, smiles, blood, sweat, and tears, but whether those are related to the process of filming or what was being filmed, who knows? She also mentioned twisting and diffusing, which is often used in reference to Ben’s hair, so that may be confirmation that he was indeed around this week, even if we never saw him.
57circlesofhell:
keagan-ashleigh:
martinfreemanruinedme:
futch...
fick you arwel i beg for death
Where John chair?
NO.
no.
Ugh. Separation confirmed, at least at the start.
Thank God all roads lead back to Baker Street
if u wanna be my lover, u have to leak the script
what say you, @bbcthree
♫ we tried to steal it, but the alarm got tripped ♫
♫ now we’re locked in a basement, we’re never getting out ♫
♫ now what ya think about that? ♫
♫ now you know how we feel ♫
♫ the hiatus is almost over ♫
♫ the baby can’t be real ♫
OMG! Even beeb3 doesn’t want a baby. Lol
(1) Hi Jenna :) I don't know if you've ever talked about this, but I was watching TEH and I thought it was odd that, if Mary was truly one of the good ones and cared about John, she would have not gone to Sherlock to rescue John. I mean, she's clearly very
(2) I also found it strange that Mary didn’t kill CAM. Then I thought that it may have been because she knew Sherlock was gonna be there or because she didn’t know that the vaults were “not real” and she needed Sherlock and John to get the information from CAM. I also think that Sherlock figured this out, so this is why he didn’t kill CAM until there were witnesses and it was clear to everyone that the vaults were not real. This would make Mary feel safe and John wouldn’t be in danger.
(3) I’m done, I’m sorry, I needed to get that out of my system. Thanks for reading this, I hope you have a lovely day :)
Hi, aww thank you very much, I hope you’re having a lovely day, too!
Okay, here’s my thoughts…
1) Mary is a villain, through and through, as many, many believe. @inevitably-johnlocked has a great collection of posts on Mary here!2) And this brings me to: “The Mary Problem” (phrase coined again by @inevitably-johnlocked). For me, the “problem” is that Mary has always been a villain, but the writers still partly wanted this to be a ‘big reveal’ moment for series 3. So…
3) They make Mary’s entire character misleading for a ‘rug-pull’ moment of shock for the audience when Mary turns around to face Sherlock with a gun in His Last Vow. The surface narrative initially tells us Mary can fit into John and Sherlock’s lives- she’s not fazed by anything, she actually ‘likes’ Sherlock, she can read a skip code…wait is that suspicious? oh, I’m sure it’ll be fine…
4) Of course, some fans worked out that Mary was a villain before His Last Vow aired- in some cases, even before Series 3 aired! See here and here for more info. In my case though, I was totally blindsided until the His Last Vow reveal- I feel for the writers’ tricks hook, line, and sinker! ;) Paraphrasing Moffat slightly from one of the episode commentaries here, I think I reacted this way because you’re so caught up in Sherlock’s return to John, you’re nervously tying yourself in knots hoping everything is going to go well- ironically, I was so focussed on John and Sherlock’s relationship, I at first ended up being unaware of the person who was/will be the biggest obstacle to their relationship!
5) Because Mary’s villainy was treated as a big Reveal Moment ( “You were told, but you didn’t listen,”), there are still some murky grey areas and confusion over her actual motivations, what’s really going on. Nothing is 100% as of yet when it comes to the devilish Miss Morstan. In my opinion, we’re still due some flashbacks, and yet more Big Reveals about what Mary’s been doing behind the scenes: (Feel free to add some more if you like, folks!
1) Mary was the sniper at the pool in The Great Game.2) Mary was there when Moriarty “shot” himself in The Reichenbach Fall.3) Mary shot the assassin who shook Sherlock’s hand in The Reichenbach Fall.4) Mary knew all about the planned skipcode and John being put in the bonfire- she is taunting Sherlock, revelling in how panicked he’s getting: “What does it mean?” she asks Sherlock re: the texts hinting about the bonfire. She knows exactly what she’s doing and is enjoying every minute of it…5) Mary was off doing Suspicious Things when she sent John and Sherlock off on a case in The Sign of Three.6) Parts of the confrontation with CAM were a set up.7) She received some sort of signal to wait until Sherlock arrived before encouraging John to propose at the restaurant in The Empty Hearse. (That’s why she left the table and makes her dramatic entrance down the staircase).
Ok so I was rewatching TAB and at the beginning it shows "so far on Sherlock" and literally none of it shows anything about John and Mary. She is only shown once for 1 second. To me this is showing exactly what the show is about; John and Sherlock. What ar
Absolutely, unequivocally, TOTALLY, EXACTLY what the entire point of it was. They seriously showed, I think, maybe 2 frames of Mary? And none of them were Mary and John together.
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