XistentialAngst's Blog, page 32
December 25, 2016
isitandwonder:
skulls-and-tea:
heimishtheidealhusband:
besinaao...
I’ve seen lots of the BBC3 twitter liveblog reblogs of their lovely commentary, but so far no one’s mentioned this.
If that’s not a ‘phone = heart’ reference, I don’t know what is.
HOLD THE PHONE!
what the fuckening shit
@mint-doesnt-have-an-account - you wanted reasons.
natharmiller:
philiplukas + hands(episodes eight to ten) [one...
philiplukas + hands
(episodes eight to ten)
[one to three] [four to seven][caption: eight gifs of philip and lukas from eyewitness. each is a different shot of their hands on each other.]
Soundtrack Series 1-4
A Study in Pink01 Opening Titles
02 The Game Is On
03 War
04 Pink
05 Security Cameras
06 Pursuit
07 Which Bottle?
The Blind Banker08 Targets
09 Library Books
10 Number Systems
11 Light-Fingered
12 Elegy
13 Crates of Books
14 Sandbag
The Great Game15 On the Move
16 Back to Work
17 Woman on the Slab
18 A Man Who Can
19 Final Act
A Scandal in Belgravia01 Irene’s Theme
02 Potential Clients
03 Status Symbols
04 The Woman
05 Dark Times
06 Smoke Alarm
07 Sherlocked
The Hounds of Baskerville08 Pursued by a Hound
09 The Village
10 Double Room
11 Deeper into Baskerville
12 To Dartmoor
13 The Lab
14 Mind Palace and Solution
The Reichenbach Fall
15 Grimm Fairy Tales
16 Deduction and Deception
17 Prepared to do Anything
18 Blood on the Pavement
19 One More Miracle
The Empty Hearse01 How It Was Done
02 God Rest His Soul
03 Floating Dust
04 #Sherlocklives
05 Back to Work
06 Vanishing Underground
07 John is Quite a Guy
08 Lazarus
The Sign of Three09 Lestrade - The Movie
10 To Battle
11 Stag Night
12 Mayfly Man
13 Major Sholto
14 Waltz for John and Mary
His Last Vow
15 Magnussen
16 Forwards or Backwards
17 Redbeard
18 The Lie in Leinster Gardens
19 Addicted to a Certain Lifestyle
20 The Problems of Your Future
21 Appledore
22 The East Wind
23 Titles (45 Second Version)
The Abominable Bride
01 Second Afghan War
02 Opening Titles
03 Shooting Spree
04 Mr Hooper
05 Signing
06 The Maze
07 Broken Window
08 Cuttings
09 Unveiling the Bride
10 All the Women
11 Two of Us
The Six Thatchers01 The Stranger
02 59 Missed Calls
03 Murder This Time
04 Agra
05 Absolute Trust
06 Running Away
07 Cheating
08 Sharks
09 Never a Field Agent
10 Gunshot
11 Get Your Attention
The Lying Detective12 Stopped Lying Down
13 Too Heavy
14 Window Deduction
15 Anyone
16 Favourite Room
17 You Look Different
18 No Charges
19 Who I Want to Be
20 In the Tower
The Final Problem01 She Was Different
02 Doing A Good Thing
03 3 Suspects
04 Pick Up
05 Brother Mine
06 Bones
07 The Hall
08 I Had No One
09 Open Your Eyes
10 Always the Grown Up
11 Who You Really AreSo they’ve always been rather descriptive for S1-3… but we seem to get more musical motifs in S4. Almost doubled when compared to S1-3. More like TAB with all its different layers.
And the titles seem a bit more metaphorical for S4: Get Your Attention / Who I Want To Be / Who You Really Are…
On the other hand, the track titles sometimes directly refer to lines spoken on the show (’Addicted to a certain lifestyle’ in Watson Domestic, for example)…
But that is something I posted before connected to the new titles @isitandwonder: be careful with the titles, sometimes they are very telling, but very often they are extremely misleading on the first sight instead…only making sense when you see the scene and hear the music!!! So I’m extremely curious for the new score!!!Which titles do you consider misleading (from the episodes we know)? I honestly don’t think they have been actually misleading. For me there are only three titles of which I’d say it’s nearly impossible to deduce the actual scene:
Double bedroom (= context meaning: no double bedroom)
John is quite a guy (=context meaning: John is Guy Fawkes in a bonfire)
Lestrade - the movie (=context meaning: several scenes focussing on Lestrade an the Water’s case, let’s give him some very heroic action movie score)As I wrote before, I think for S4 they kept on choosing snippets from the dialogue for the titles as in S3. So of course we can’t know what the context of these words is, but the chosen words have not been misleading for S3, but have been rather crucial dialogue parts.
darlingbenny:
COUNTDOWN TO S4: 8 DAYS TO GO!!!
>>>...
COUNTDOWN TO S4: 8 DAYS TO GO!!!>>> TJLC Appreciation [23/30]
We’ll make it happen, we’ll turn it around
Yes, we were born to make history
A kiss for Maggie
the more I see reviews about how emotionally complicated TST is and how it changes their friendship irrevocably I honest to god wonder if that means they kiss. I didn’t think that at first, at all. You’d think the media would have a hard time keeping that secret, wouldn’t you? That was my first thought too. “If the show had gone gay the media would be blabbing about it.”
Except actually this, what we’re seeing, is exactly how they’d write about it.
If you watch House of Cards, you’ll know Kevin Spacey’s character is revealed to have had a romantic/sexual relationship in the past with a man. He also enjoys sex with his wife (and another woman) that season. Yet reviewers were still like “what does it mean?” *shrug emoji*
Season 2 took it further. Threesome between his character, his wife, and their (male) SS agent. Spacey kisses both on the mouth, on screen. Next morning, his wife hands him a cup of coffee and says “you needed that.” I shit you not, every major outlet review I read was like “will he out himself as gay next season??” “is he closeted??” like. It was unreal. Short of Spacey breaking the fourth wall and saying I AM BISEXUAL, they were just never going to accept it. He just…likes sex with men and women. That’s it, that’s the whole of it. Yet reviewers were wondering what it could possibly mean, blah blah erasure blah.
So think about this. IF there’s a kiss in TST––and oh boy, wouldn’t Gatiss just LOVE to put that kiss in the episode that smashes Maggie’s face, cherry on the sass cupcake––we know it’s not all fluff and rainbows from then on. Shit gets massively dark in TLD. There’s that angry punch in the morgue. There’s John in what I’m increasingly terrified is some sort of MP well that will delete some memory of him (say, a wonderful/terrifying LIFE CHANGING moment) from Sherlock’s hard drive.
If there’s a kiss, it’s emotional as fuck but it’s heavy with angst and uncertainty and confusion. Things that could easily be interpreted by viewers who are just going to cling to the “fact” that this Is Not A Gay Show till the bitter end as rejection, or at least non-reciprocation on one side (likely John, but who knows).
Think about how the Battersea scene goes over most people’s heads. Like that.
The whole point of this is getting the audience, the majority of the audience, to root for these two assholes to get together, right? Softly, softly. Have them kiss in ep1 then use that new dynamic, that “irrevocable change” to their friendship, to DRIVE the angst of ep2. By the finale, everyone (well…a good chunk of the audience, anyway) will be rooting for romance.
You make very good points! The House of Cards comparison is brilliant. An episode 1 kiss would have everyone thinking back to all of John’s “I am not gay” statements.
Reviewer: *consults notes* well, Sherlock might be gay, maybe, except for that Irene Adler business, but John definitely said he wasn’t, so….
I’m thinking too of the review(s?) that said that John is a bit of a dick…could a kiss between John and Sherlock fuel that perception? Would the average viewer think that John is violating the sanctity of his marriage by kissing Sherlock?
Gosh, this is all terribly exciting!
December 24, 2016
fleurdelisandbees:
A Study in Pink sets the stage for all of our future expectations. Nothing in...
A Study in Pink sets the stage for all of our future expectations. Nothing in this show is done by accident, and the way it is all handled is masterful. Seeds are sewn in this first episode that will never cease to matter throughout the duration of the show.
Take the first meal Sherlock and John share together at Angelo’s, where Angelo insists that the pair must have a candle for their table:
It seems like sort of a “joke” in a way–something that could easily be brushed off if we didn’t all know that TJLC is real. And the candle thing continues to be a theme. Illumination itself is a subtle theme throughout the show, with all the color-coded lights and the fact that Sherlock dubs John his “conductor of light” in “The Hounds of Baskerville.”
I noticed something recently when watching what is surely one of the favorite scenes of all Johnlockers: the reunion of Sherlock and John at The Landmark in the episode “The Empty Hearse.” This is the night Sherlock returns, supposedly from the dead, and interrupts John’s (rather lackluster) attempt to propose to his girlfriend Mary in a rather half-hearted effort to, in his own words, “move on” from Sherlock.
Notice anything missing from John and Mary’s table?
There’s a lamp, sure, but no candle. Maybe that isn’t terribly unusual. But look at the other tables in the restaurant:
Most have candles.
It doesn’t stop there. When Sherlock catches his first (heart-stopping; you can clearly see that in his face, just as it has been pointed out that if you isolate certain audio tracks in this part here you can hear Sherlock’s thudding pulse) glimpse of John after two years away…
how does he see him?
There is a candle placed strategically between them, clearly visible from Sherlock’s vantage point.
This isn’t the only throwback to Angelo’s on this night. If more is needed, I’m including this little bonus below. The writers have done this *so many times,* where certain words and phrases come back again. It isn’t an accident and it isn’t lazy writing. We’re talking about the combined efforts of two very good writers here, and though John’s nerves on this night aren’t exactly hard to pick up on, we get this cherry strategically placed on top:
I SUGGEST YOU DON’T MARRY MARY.
How could you do that? Hmm? ;)
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