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January 2, 2017
1895itsallfine:
cupidford:
TLD Promo Photos and Behind the...
Is that Sherlock on Culverton’s TV show?
Guys!!
I just finished watchig the Czech dubbing version which aired tonight and in the end Mary did not send Sherlock “to hell” at all.
She basically said “fuck you” if I translate back to English. Not the exact same curse in Czech but the closest probably.
Anyway, my point is they were dubbing all three episodes together!! If it was somehow connected to “Hell” the city, they would surely translate it differently. Also we do have exactly the same curse like “go to hell” which they could have used and it is “táhni do pekla”. And she didn’t say that. Also if they meant that he is supposed to go through hell as in, suffer, she would use a different czech term as well.
So…EVIL MARY IS GO!! MUAHAHAHA!
WELL WELL WELL WELL WELL
Interesting.
isitandwonder:
angatita:
sherlock-overflow-error:
arts-and-mycr...
SHERLOCK GOING TO THERAPY SO HE CAN HELP JOHN FEEL BETTER ONLY TO HAVE JOHN FUCKING SAY HE PREFERS ANYONE’S OVER SHERLOCK’S
Okay, but I’m the only one who thinks this room is really weird? It doesn’t seem even real?
It is strange that they’ve changed Ella’s room so much from the therapy sessions with John…
The walls don’t actually reach the floor…
I just realized: This room looks like an attic, with the incomplete walls and triangular shape.
Attics….why does that sound familiar?
I consider that a man’s brain originally is like a little empty attic, and you have to stock it with such furniture as you choose.
Oh. Right. It’s how canon Holmes imagines his memory storage.
*cough* MIND PALACE *cough*
@lostvioletowl @arts-and-mycrofts
I noticed the walls in that scene but honestly I was too emotionally unstable at that point from John’s reaction to Sherlock to think anything about it. EMP-type something is definitely looking more likely.
Down the rabbit hole…
Yes, the room definitely isn’t real.
The Physics of Mary jumping in front of Sherlock
Mary jumping in front Sherlock is impossible from a Physics standpoint - an average bullet travels at 400 m/s (I took this as an estimation, it can be from about 300 m/s to 800 m/s and more depending on the gun, but since the gun used is a small handgun and the distance is very small, 400 m/s is a good estimate). Mrs Norbury stands about 5-10 m from Sherlock (my estimation skills are appalling, but they are no further apart than 10 m, as you can see below),
which means Mary has 0.0125-0.025 s to see the bullet and jump in front of it. The average reaction time of a human is about 0.2 s, the world’s fastest being 0.101 s. She would literally have to be superhuman to jump in front of Sherlock, let alone to react to the bullet being fired.
As Sherlock is a show that relies much on reality, then this has to be made up (remember Moriarty and his binary code?). The casual viewer who is used to Hollywood flicks with Physics-defying stunts doesn’t really bat an eye at this, but once you look at this scene again the jump from slow-motion to normal time is rather odd.
The effect used in the shot above, by the way, is called a Dolly zoom or a Hitchcock zoom. It has been used before in Sherlock, namely in the shot of Sherlock kissing Molly (meta). Here the use is justified - Sherlock realises that he will be shot. But in the previous case, it was used for a scene that ended up not being true, just a figment of someone’s imagination. Not definite proof in any way, but just something more to consider.
Sherlock doesn’t move - his expression stays the same, he doesn’t react because this is happening in the span of milliseconds. Also you can’t even see Mary in the gif above - she is nowhere close to Sherlock.
You can see Sherlock trying to dodge the bullet, but even that is rather unrealistic, since the bullet had made most of its way towards him before we can see any reaction.
The only way Mary could have done that jump in time was to move before the shot was fired, which doesn’t happen either, as you cannot see her in the slow motion gifs.
But maybe Sherlock does use Hollywood Physics? Then surely it has done so all along, since this series has been planned long ago and there is no need for sudden adjustments. We luckily have a very similar scene to compare this to, in real time, no less:
Notice how Sherlock blinks AFTER the bullet hits him?
(You can see the bullet hole in the first photo, he blinks only in the second one).
By the time he sees the shot being fired he is already hit. This is a very realistic depiction of someone getting shot - you don’t have time to see the bullet, even with the flash of light that doesn’t happen in real life. Yes, the distance is bigger in TST, but it would need to be hundreds of meters for any jumping to be remotely possible.
In conclusion: whatever went down in the aquarium wasn’t what we were shown. Slowing down time to make decisions, plants moving of their own accord - this happens in Sherlock’s mind palace, not in reality. Otherwise we may just consider the entire show to be science fiction and expect the Doctor to pop up in the next episode.
Also notice that Mary got shot basically in the same place as Sherlock - if Sherlock was unconscious in three seconds, then why does Mary have time to deliver a Shakespearean death speech and the dramatically die in John’s arms? This is what happens in Elizabethan tragedies or operas, not in BBC TV series with the action set in the 21st century.
Some Mythbusters Physics about this: video, text. Note that they are in fact hundreds of meters away - any distance closer is not worth considering unless you happen to be Quicksilver.
Thanks to the OP for putting this together. It is totally impossible! Which leads us back to episode fuckery of one type or another.
January 1, 2017
The boy in the car
Some better, and less tired, meta writers than me should tackle the whole dead kid in car thing.
* he looked like he might be gay
* we have the thatcher bust belonging to his conservative dad broken
* poor kid ends up dying in his parents driveway
* he dies after covering himself up with a vinyl seat cover costume. Like, wtf is that? That’s as preposterous as “meat dagger” so it has to have some meta meaning. He was disguising himself as a “normal”? And then he was going to “pop out” and surprise his dad but instead, after putting on the costume he dies in some kind of “fit”?
I’m sure it all means something related to the gay/thatcher thing but I don’t know what.
Post-T6T: My Theories and Speculations
Okay, on the whole, I regret my knee jerk first reaction, I really do. I did the same thing with TEH AND ASiB, and both are two of my fave episodes now for subtextual reading. The problem I find I have, is that I physically cannot process an episode of ANY new show properly the first time around, and I still have residual het-goggles on (sadly probably always will), so my brain absolutely cannot connect dots and see the subtext right away.
I think I was more upset about Mary seemingly getting a redemption that I could not focus on anything else; my reading of Mary was a very personal thing to me to help cope with an abuser in my life, and I think it just… really bothered me that everyone seemed hunky-fucking-dory about Mary being completely forgiven and that’s all I could focus on.
BUT SHE ISN’T REDEEMED. THIS WAS PART OF HER PLAN. I still think she’s a villain, and I still think her mission is to destroy Sherlock.
A few theories, as there are obvious clues that there is much more going on:
Mary’s gunshot mirroring Sherlock’s but being SO over the top that it’s ridiculous. John should have been able to save Mary. Like her last words were literally barbs to John and Sherlock: To John: “C’mon doctor, you can do better than that” (making John seem like he’s a shitty doctor) // To Sherlock: “now we’re even”, possibly making John think Sherlock meant for her to die.
And speaking of Doctor, John didn’t even, I dunno… TRY to save her? Like… he’s a “very good” doctor, and nothing.And what was that convo about the baby with 666 and the devil? Who… talks like that about their baby?We see mostly Mary’s POV, so we don’t really KNOW what’s happening with John and Sherlock, do we? Like… There HAS to be more to John. John’s “grief” doesn’t seem like it’s his. I dunno. I feel like John is purposely pushing Sherlock away, just like Sherlock was doing in TRF.There’s a lot of missing scenes we saw at setlock that we haven’t seen in this episode. Still annoyed by the fake letter. Mary’s talking like she’s in Sherlock’s Mind palace in TAB. THAT’S LITERALLY THE ONLY TIME SHE HAS EVER SAID “My Darling”.I do love that Sherlock is visiting Ella for advice to help John; he’s admitting to his emotional weakness for him. That said… unreliable narrator???There’s a LOT of lines directly paralleling previous episodes, and the music is all recycled from S3. This is all really suspicious to me.JOHN HAS DEFINITELY BEEN A HOSTAGE. His reaction to AJ’s torture story is TOO TOO “this is relatable”. He has experienced this. OR he’s thinking about Sherlock’s torture.The letter from John. What does it say? And Molly is in on all of this too. It seems like she is being forced to say that to Sherlock.The “love” codename. What if it IS a password from the trailer? Mycroft conjugates the translation, and “I love” is one of them.The sides of the bed bothers me. And if they’re “so in love” whey are they so separated in bed?ALSO: The CLEAR TAB REDO. The whole episode is TAB.ALSO: He refers to himself as SHERLOCK HOLMES. ALL. THE. TIME. Like that is really out of character for him.
ALSO: The Miss Me DVD. Can you be more obvious.ALSO: MENTIONED THIS in my last post, the ODD CAMERA ANGLE OVER BAKER STREET.I think there is definitely a larger plot at play, and John is at the centre of it, and Mary is still alive and that John will be the one to kill her.
As for the baby? Hm. I’m still iffy about it. As I said, I’m not entirely convinced this whole thing is real.
Anyway, I’m very tired. I can’t think anymore. I’ll add to this post with more rewatches.
heimishtheidealhusband:
So this is how Mary/Moriarty burns the heart out of Sherlock. Die in a way...
So this is how Mary/Moriarty burns the heart out of Sherlock. Die in a way where John will romanticize Mary, their marriage, and plant the idea in his head that she was indisputably good. Once an idea is planted, it can never be killed. John was unhappy enough in his marriage that he was already flirting with being unfaithful, but that has all been washed away. And how could Sherlock possibly approach John now and tell him what he’s seen?
Sherlock is going to fall apart next episode because he thinks that he has lost John, and that Mary/Moriarty is going to get John if he can’t save him.
It’s a game designed to be played after death. THE GAME IS FUCKING ON.
TJLC IS GO, IT IS PAST GONE, IT IS WENT, IT’S COMING, THIS GOING TO BE SO INCREDIBLY GOOD
kinklock:
Mary: all right, time to make them like meMary: hey man sorry for shooting you that one...
Mary: all right, time to make them like me
Mary: hey man sorry for shooting you that one time
Mary: nailed it
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