XistentialAngst's Blog, page 190
February 18, 2016
"Remember where we left them."
“It will be tough at times. Maybe that’s the word? A tougher series.”
“We’re certainly going to put them through the mill. It’s going to be more of an emotional upheaval.”
“A lot of serialization is latent, isn’t it? It’s hidden.”
“[Season 4] is going to be… I suppose you’d say… consequences. It’s consequences. Chickens come to roost. It’s dark in some ways…”
“There are answers coming to questions which nobody has asked. There’s one thing that no one has really brought up…”
“We’ve actually set up something, I think—[co-creator Mark Gatiss] and me, we’re very exultant about a little thing we’ve set up that no one is talking about. ”
“It’s not that we’re being clever. We never know. Sometimes people go mad for one thing we think is quite trivial and completely ignore something we think is standing right in front of you.”
– Steven Moffat on Series 4 [ x ]
My own pet theory about the ‘thing they set up that no one has spotted’:
I think it’s that the real Moriarty = Mary, from the start. The hints about the female voice in TGG, the way Jim had a whole second identity (Richard Brook), etc. I think they had the whole Mary-is-Moriarty-and-Jim-Is-A-Front thing planned from ASiP and have dropped clues but no one has picked up on it until after TAB.
I guess we’l find out in S4!
XA
I always thought it was Johnlock they were talking about, and then M-Theory, but now I realize it must be M-Squared (Mary= Moriarty). Those geniuses.
Well they can hardly say ‘no one has spotted’ the johnlock arc. :-) The thought makes me giggle.
"Remember where we left them."
“It will be tough at times. Maybe that’s the word? A tougher series.”
“We’re certainly going to put them through the mill. It’s going to be more of an emotional upheaval.”
“A lot of serialization is latent, isn’t it? It’s hidden.”
“[Season 4] is going to be… I suppose you’d say… consequences. It’s consequences. Chickens come to roost. It’s dark in some ways…”
“There are answers coming to questions which nobody has asked. There’s one thing that no one has really brought up…”
“We’ve actually set up something, I think—[co-creator Mark Gatiss] and me, we’re very exultant about a little thing we’ve set up that no one is talking about. ”
“It’s not that we’re being clever. We never know. Sometimes people go mad for one thing we think is quite trivial and completely ignore something we think is standing right in front of you.”
– Steven Moffat on Series 4 [ x ]
My own pet theory about the ‘thing they set up that no one has spotted’:
I think it’s that the real Moriarty = Mary, from the start. The hints about the female voice in TGG, the way Jim had a whole second identity (Richard Brook), etc. I think they had the whole Mary-is-Moriarty-and-Jim-Is-A-Front thing planned from ASiP and have dropped clues but no one has picked up on it until after TAB.
I guess we’l find out in S4!
XA
February 16, 2016
sussexbound:
fuckyeahfightlock:
musthaveblackedout:
fuckyeahfi...
So I honestly can’t believe I’ve never seen anyone talking about the art direction of this scene. If I’m repeating something, Ah,well. But I’ve honestly never seen it pointed out that this is the very first time we see Mary, and there are three important things here:
Mary reaches for John’s hand. John takes it, of course—he is used to being offered comfort for his loss, by now—but he is not reaching out to her for comfort in his sadness. She is inserting herself into his grief. Reflexively, he lets her.
We only see the back of her. It’s unusual to introduce a major protagonist any other way than by showing their face pretty much immediately. A major antagonist, however…a baddie…well, they often are introduced in a cloud of cigarette smoke, from a distance, in the shadows, as a mysterious voice on a phone, or in some other way that doesn’t tell us right away who they are. Our first glimpse of Mary gives us only the most vague information about her. Obviously a woman, obviously someone John is close to, as he holds her hand. Other than that…who is she? We don’t know.
Finally, it’s no mistake she is wearing a long, grey coat which flares slightly from the waist, and a blue scarf. But they are paler shades of those colours than Sherlock’s coat and scarf were, because Mary is but a pale imitation of the person we are used to seeing standing beside John Watson (even once, when they were handcuffed together, holding John Watson’s hand in a manner similar to what we see here). Her coat and scarf look cheap, “less than,” and her denim jeans are “less” than Sherlock Holmes’s designer trousers. Her dark hat is a visual echo of Sherlock’s dark hair. This whole shot is set up not only to remind us that Sherlock used to stand here at John Watson’s side, but also that This is some lesser, fake, replacement-Sherlock standing at John Watson’s side, and whether consciously or unconsciously, John has chosen a pale imitation indeed.
This
is how
the show
introduces
literally
every
single
villain
and antagonist
HOW DID I MISS THIS WHEN I WAS WATCHING IT THE FIRST TIME?!
I did a meta once where I was talking about the visual similarity between when they introduced Irene for the first time, and when we meet Mary properly in the restaurant the night John tries to propose. Look at this!
February 15, 2016
caitlinisactuallyawritersname:
xistentialangst:
caitlinisactuallyawritersname:
threefootroo:
mesa...
:
:
the-epitome-of-sophistication:
*white parent voice* i cant believe kanye and kim named their baby North West!! thats ridiculous!! oh no, its almost 4:30, i need to pick up my kids Mackaylikiah and Ashleighyie from their water polo practice!
I always reblog this post so fucking fast every time it comes on my dash my phone shuts down the tumblr app and reboots
McKarty 64 is my favorite Mario Kart game.
My favorite part is that the blog post the photo was taken from detailed this mother’s decision-making process and chose this name because her husband saw it on a road sign on the way home
She named her daughter after a road sign
a road sign
there was a girl at my school called “zona” cause he parents went on holiday to spain and saw it and thought it was a nice name. IT LITERALLY MEANS ZONE
“47 month old”
this is my four year old rayman origins
“Who’s doing your surgery?”
“Dr. Rayman Origins.”
THE APP REBOOTED FOR ME!!
i met a kid once whose name was “Ryce” and his mum said it was pronounced “Reese”
the best part is she was originally going to spell it “Rice”
My auntie knows a family who decided to name their daughter Owen, but they spelled it “Oin” and they made her middle name the first sound that her big sister made which happened to be “Oogok”. her name is literally “Oin Oogok Puscus”
Oin Oogok Puscus is my favorite dwarf from the Hobbit
Yo I work at a rec center in a rich neighborhood and these are some real names of white children:
Salter
Tryge (pronounced Trig)
Loots
Aughyst (pronounced August)
Taileigh
Lotiss
Leviathin (yes spelled like that)
Bacchus
Daniyal (a girl, pronounced like Daniel)
All real
This shit is hilarious
I can’t
47 month old.
Nayvie….. Bish whet????
this is from my kid’s valentine’s list this year like this corny fake unique name thing is no joke yall this is all of the boy names
47 month old.
I refuse to go on knowing someone named their child “Salter” I’m so done ✌
caitlinisactuallyawritersname:
threefootroo:
mesaymeep:
crime-she-typed:
xoverlyxclusivex:
i-suc...
:
the-epitome-of-sophistication:
*white parent voice* i cant believe kanye and kim named their baby North West!! thats ridiculous!! oh no, its almost 4:30, i need to pick up my kids Mackaylikiah and Ashleighyie from their water polo practice!
I always reblog this post so fucking fast every time it comes on my dash my phone shuts down the tumblr app and reboots
McKarty 64 is my favorite Mario Kart game.
My favorite part is that the blog post the photo was taken from detailed this mother’s decision-making process and chose this name because her husband saw it on a road sign on the way home
She named her daughter after a road sign
a road sign
there was a girl at my school called “zona” cause he parents went on holiday to spain and saw it and thought it was a nice name. IT LITERALLY MEANS ZONE
“47 month old”
this is my four year old rayman origins
“Who’s doing your surgery?”
“Dr. Rayman Origins.”
THE APP REBOOTED FOR ME!!
i met a kid once whose name was “Ryce” and his mum said it was pronounced “Reese”
the best part is she was originally going to spell it “Rice”
My auntie knows a family who decided to name their daughter Owen, but they spelled it “Oin” and they made her middle name the first sound that her big sister made which happened to be “Oogok”. her name is literally “Oin Oogok Puscus”
Oin Oogok Puscus is my favorite dwarf from the Hobbit
Yo I work at a rec center in a rich neighborhood and these are some real names of white children:
Salter
Tryge (pronounced Trig)
Loots
Aughyst (pronounced August)
Taileigh
Lotiss
Leviathin (yes spelled like that)
Bacchus
Daniyal (a girl, pronounced like Daniel)
All real
This shit is hilarious
I can’t
47 month old.
Nayvie….. Bish whet????
this is from my kid’s valentine’s list this year like this corny fake unique name thing is no joke yall this is all of the boy names
47 month old.
I refuse to go on knowing someone named their child “Salter” I’m so done ✌
miadifferent:
londongypsy:
And we’re off, ladies and gents, S...
And we’re off, ladies and gents, S 4 is a go!!! THIS IS NOT A DRILL!! (x)
And here is the confirmation for the Pinewood Studios at Cardiff:
Yay!
57circlesofhell:
enjoytheelephant:
welovethebeekeeper:
1895its...
Arwel’s going to do it again this year like he did in 2013!!
Asdnfkdlflhlfksjslldlalaks
The madness begins.
It begins. Starting with pre-production tweets and casting notices and moving into setlock. I plan to tag all the setlock pics and the tweets and anything related with #setlock.
Please note: I AM AN ABSENT MINDED NERD and sometimes forget to tag. If untagged spoilers are a problem for you please save yourself and unfollow me now.
What
It begins.
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