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Honestly. wtf.

Whoops!

How was this not caught?! I’m dying laughing.

So we have this and the “blog” in photo rather than actually being open in an edit tab. Also, although you have to watch carefully, this head goes past amidst the traffic John passes while driving Mary in labor.

My assumption was that it was an awkward crew shot and left in because it was so quick and they only have enough time/money for so many takes and then have to make the best of things. But I’m also not 100% certain that it couldn’t be plot-supportive somehow (as I explained over here) if we do get a reveal of some other reading of all of this. After all, this too could have very very easily been edited out in post.

Interesting.

darlingtonsubstitution:Um Sherlock sweetie, right behind ya,

darlingtonsubstitution:

Um Sherlock sweetie, right behind ya,

John Watson has been trying to hit that since day one: A Meta

the-7-percent-solution:

“So you’ve got a boyfriend? No. You’re unattached. Like me. Great.”

“Do you think you’ll be seeing her again?”

“You have a girlfriend?”

The title of this post is everything.

Mary IS Milverton -- proof

This went by my dash earlier this morning, a post on another post, and I flipped out. I haven’t seen much discussion of it, so I thought I’d call it out again. Here’s the original post (x) by stravaganza and the screencap was added by johnsjawline I think?

To sum and reiterate, this is some of the best proof I’ve seen about the John’s Alibi theory:

Stravaganza writes:

In the canon, Milverton is killed by a random, unknown woman while Holmes and Watson watch on from their hiding spot.

Both Moffat and Gatiss mentioned that they believe this is the version of events Watson wrote, altering them to hide the fact that it was actually them, maybe Holmes, possibly both, who killed Milverton.

And then someone (I think johnsjawline) posted the below screencap. I think this is from the Sherlock game? I know I’ve seen it before, months ago. 

SO, we have a screencap from a canon source that shows a photo of Mary with “Milverton?” over the top. Mary is Milverton? If Mary is Milverton, then that confirms that her death was not as it appeared, that it’s a false story invented to cover the fact that John or Sherlock or both killed her.

(TO be clear, I don’t think John and Sherlock premeditated to murder her, I think it probably happened when Sherlock confronted her and she threatened him ala ASiP, forcing John to shoot. The alibi was constructed later).

I know that this is what we’ve been speculating, but this is a huge clue that we’re right. Awesome!

@inevitably-johnlocked, @byebyefrost, @kinklock, @stravaganza, @johnsjawline 

XA

proton-packs:bbcromance:galpalkirk:galpalkirk:In the dw episode with Jenny and Vastra’s kiss...

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In the dw episode with Jenny and Vastra’s kiss the kiss wasn’t included in the previews for reviewers and therefore the ep was listed as shorter but then it had it’s premiere and it was the full ep with the kiss included um wow

I’m not even saying they’re gonna kiss in tld but umm something’s coming

in literally crying from happiness right now this is amazing

I AM FREAKING THE FUCK OUT THANK YOU VERY MUCH

Is that for real? That’s awesome.

It’s canon. (No, the other kind of canon.)

finalproblem:

Okay, so. If you haven’t noticed (though I’m not sure how you could miss it), I think BBC Sherlock is heading into a Valley of Fear adaptation. I also think Mary is Birdy Edwards, the main character in that mystery. I’ve been talking about this for a long, long time now.

Funny thing when you bring in what happened in The Six Thatchers, though.

See, Birdy Edwards faked his own murder by gunshot with the help of his wife and a friend.

While Holmes was investigating Birdy’s “death,” the reader was led to believe Birdy’s wife was having an affair with the friend. But that turned out to be a red herring–Birdy’s wife was loyal.

So while it’s not for shipping purposes (non-shipper, here) or because I’m trying to force yet another fake death into the show or because I have any problem with characters being morally gray… I am incredibly predisposed to be skeptical of both Mary’s death and John’s implied affair in TST.

That’s my starting point. ACD canon.

I do think there are clues in the episode to support my skepticism, and I will post about them.

I don’t, however, expect to solve every bit of it or convince this fandom of much before it happens on screen. Because A) there’s no time, and B) have you met this fandom? 

Did John kill Mary? (Yes. Yes, he probably did.)

twocandles:

xistentialangst:

stravaganza:

I think it’s now a widely enough accepted theory by now that what makes TST weird is that the story is being told us by Sherlock, who is altering the facts to give John an alibi, because he’s the one who killed Mary.

A few meta (these are just some) point that theory out, and here I gather a few facts that support this theory.

It became longer than I thought, so click on read more!

Keep reading

Thanks for piecing this together with all the screen caps and everything. I’m onboard with the John killed Mary theory and this lays it out very neatly.

I have a question about alibi theory (sorry for dumping it here but otherwise about no one will see it):

I find this theory really dark. Yes, they’ve hammered it home time and time again that this series would be dark. But why do we just accept that John would kill Mary and frame someone else for it? I can see John killing Mary in an act of self-defence, but premeditated murder (at least that’s the vibe I’m getting from the theory right now)? That’s hard to swallow. What’s the motive, what happened so it came to this?

No, I don’t think it’s predmeditated murder. John is too moral for that. I think the alibi came about AFTER Mary was shot, as a way to get John out of trouble, similar to the way the Jefferson Hope killing happened in S1.E1 ASiP. 

So I would speculate some sort of scenario where:

* Sherlock and John were trying to figure Mary out and keep an eye on her. 

* Ajay shows up and threatens her. Mary goes after Ajay and kills him in Morrocco. (they need to justify her as truly nasty before killing her, unlike the sanitized Mary we saw in T6T)

* Sherlock meets Mary at the aquarium, offering to help her “disappear” for good (leaving John and Rosie alone). OR, it is arranged to try to arrest her. Somehow, she gets the upper hand on Sherlock and goes to shoot him and John has no choice but to shoot her in self-defense.

* The alibi is then dreamed up to try to “avoid a court case”. This is the story we’re seeing.

Obviously, I don’t know the real details, but I would imagine if John killed her, he did it in defense of himself, Sherlock, or some innocent bystander.

It’s just a theory, but there’s some great subtext support for it. We’ll see. 

ETA : As for framing someone else for it, I saw another meta go by that Norbury would be ‘disappeared’ by Mycroft and nicely compensated. That’s all total  speculation though.  

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just-sort-of-happened:

impatient14:

Is anyone else worried that they are letting us see so much of 221B Baker street because we are about to never see it again?

I wondered if it was to distract us from our theories.  Like, ‘they’re getting too close’, show them Baker St.

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(via https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wvvfMPDl5Ao)

I. can’t. stop. laughing.

Y’all gotta watch this. Right now!

Holy fucking shit, literally only hours ago this was at 145 notes, now it’s over 2k, jfc

Awesome fans are awesome.

I’ve watched this at least 10 times in the last few hours.

THE BEST. This girl gets all the stars.  Just take the trophy home right now.

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