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December 8, 2016
swissmissing:
bluebellofbakerstreet:
Transcript for Mark’s Tab preview:
Good evening.Hope you...
Transcript for Mark’s Tab preview:
Good evening.
Hope you enjoyed The Abominable Bride as much as I did - or as much as we enjoyed making it.
John: Excuse me, I do hope we’re not interrupting.
But now, for series four of Sherlock, we are returning to contemporary London where we all belong. And I have got four minutes, apparently, to tell you absolutely nothing about the new series. What can I tell you in the next three minutes and thirty seconds? Well, Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson are back in Baker Street, as is Mrs. Mary Watson. There is a new arrival in the form of a baby.
(Music only)
Three minute to go. Ah, so we have a new team in Baker Street, maybe we could call this The Adventure of the Three Watsons, but we haven’t; we’ve called it The Adventure of the Six Thatchers. There’s a clue there if you you know your Arthur Conan Doyle. Go back to the original story and find out precisely as much or as little as you want to.
(Music Only)
Two minutes and thirty seconds to go. Uh, and there are certain things which come to fruition in this episode which have been building for an awful long time - hundred and twenty-five year old spoiler - see what you can make of that.
(Music)
Two minutes to go. Well, Sherlock and John and Mary are tested as never before. They are put through an emotional wringer, leading into episode two which is based on Arthur Conan Doyle’s Adventure of the Dying Detective, now called The Adventure of the Lying Detective. (Two minutes and fifteen seconds) starring the great Toby Jones as Culverton Smith, one of the scariest baddies we’ve ever had, and probably one of the scariest baddies ever committed to the television screen.
(Music)
Umm, Episode two is an extraordinary emotional punch in the guts. I think it’s quite unlike anything we’ve done before, and I’m very, very proud of it. Leading into episode three which we don’t have a title for yet - yes we do, but we’re not telling you because it’s something of a giveaway. Uhh, it’s a culmination of everything we’ve been building up for for the last six years of Sherlock, all kinds of clues and red herrings (One minute to go) are finally paid off in episode three, which features lots of extraordinary things I can’t tell you anything about. Umm, and but possibly things will never be the same again. But in the next thirty seconds, perhaps I can speculate on how they might alter. Sherlock will come to a shattering climax, like a great piece of music, I hope. Whether there will be another concert to enjoy, who knows. we’d certainly like to. Perhaps if you come to the cinema more often and watch it, there might be a fifth series. Who can say? (Fifteen seconds - I’m enjoying this!) Uh, I hope you have a lovely time; I think series four of Sherlock is the best one we’ve done; I’m very proud of it. I think everyone’s at the top of their form, and I think it’s going to be quite something, God Bless.
Thank you so much, this is fantastic! For those who can’t view the preview or want another opinion on some of the details, here is what I see going on in those “music” segments above:
1. “… as much as we enjoyed making it.” - Scene from TAB. John walks into the morgue with Stamford to the sound of something being whipped. As he moves out of the way, we see that it is Sherlock flogging a corpse.
2. “… in the form of a baby.” - Long shot of a soundstage with a set being constructed. There are bright lights set up causing glare that makes it difficult to say what the set is.
- Switch to shot of Rachel Talalay, Mark Gatiss, Sue Vertue, and several crew members watching a monitor. Rachel and Mark have headphones on.
- Quick shot of several crew members crowded at the side of the Baker Street set, someone is moving a door (?).
- Shot of Amanda Abbington and Martin Freeman, in costume as Mary and John, standing in the living room of the Watsons’ house. There are white and yellow balloons behind them. Amanda is holding a real baby. Amanda/Mary smiles broadly at someone off-screen. Martin/John looks fondly at the baby. (Hard to tell whether they are actually filming or if this is a moment in between takes.) Several crew members pass briefly in front of the camera.
- Shot of Benedict Cumberbatch and Una Stubbs standing in the Watsons’ living room with several crew members around them. Benedict is wearing a dark blue suit and Una is wearing a purple blouse (or dress?) with a jacket over it. A female crew member (Claire Pritchard?) stands in front of Benedict, rubs her hands together, and reaches up as if to do something to his hair. Una holds a lipstick in her hands and is consulting with another female crew member (makeup artist?).
- [NB I’ve edited this since my original post since I misidentified Molly as a crew member.] Shot from filming in the Watsons’ living room. John and Mary sit on the couch, Mary holding the baby. There are white and yellow balloons behind them. In front of them is a table with several wrapped gifts and what looks like a white teddy bear. Mrs Hudson stands on the other side of the table with Molly who is adjusting something on the table. Mrs Hudson is fiddling with something, possibly a digital camera. Molly helps her with it. John takes a sip from a wine glass and Mary looks at him.
- Shot of Benedict/Sherlock standing by himself by the stairs in the Watsons’ living room, texting.
- Shot of Mary and John sitting on the couch looking adoringly at the baby in her arms. John holds his pinky in the baby’s mouth for it to suck. Both look up at someone offscreen at the same moment, as if someone has spoken to them.
3. “…as little as you want to.” - Outside shot of a yellow manor house with lights set up outside, pointing in through a side window. Several crew members are milling around.
- Closer shot of the lights, two male crew members watch a third one adjust a screen.
- Shot of Benedict sitting down somewhere outside, wearing Sherlock’s scarf and suit (no Belstaff) while a female crew member checks something on her phone.
- Shot of Martin sitting near Benedict, talking to a bald man wearing sunglasses. Not sure if he’s another actor or crew member. In the background, two female crew members are gesturing around Benedict’s head as if discussing his hair.
- Shot of the outside entry of the manor house. Sue stands leaning against a column, wearing blue plastic covers over her boots. Several crew members walk in and out. One is carrying a large piece of plywood.
4. “…see what you can make of that.” - A male crew member adjusts a fan blowing a white mist on an indoor set that I don’t recognize. It’s the corner of a room with yellow walls, a small table, and a multi-colored rug. I guess it’s the inside of the manor house.
- Another shot from the same set of a camera man in a blue puffy coat sitting behind a camera. A woman in a similar coat walks away from him.
- An overhead shot of the same cameraman, this time in action. He sits on a dolly aiming the camera at the hallway just outside the room as another male crew member pulls him backward. Sherlock, Greg, and John walk in, led by an unfamiliar male actor in a grey suit. He looks like a lackey. John is wearing his black jacket with the leather shoulder patches and looking at something on his phone. Greg has on a suit and long grey overcoat and is carrying a briefcase. Sherlock has on his suit, scarf, and Belstaff. It looks like John says, “Sherlock”, and the three of them stop just inside the room. Sherlock turns to Greg and John.
- Same scene from the perspective of blue-coated camera guy filming John, Greg, and Sherlock talking in the yellow room.
5. “…committed to the television screen.” - Nighttime shot of filming in what looks like a glass-enclosed office overlooking a city. The clapperboard tells us this is Sherlock IV, Slate 443, Take 2. Scene 2/1521 (not sure about that last number). Roll 166 (?). Director is Nick Hurran and DOP is Neville Kidd. Date looks like 15/06/2016. Behind the glass, we can see Culverton Smith talking to a man in a suit. The other man goes away. Then Culverton looks out the window at the nighttime cityscape, his reflection in the glass prominent. He is smiling smugly.
The Watson’s have redecorated
New coffee table, new small lamp, perhaps new sofa (not sure though)
And definitely new curtains. In the baby shower scene from S4 they are blue, where in HLV they were red:
Red / Blue = dreamtells?
@tjlcisthenewsexy @ebaeschnbliah
The pattern continues it seems. Red/blue … fire/water
Oh …. maybe we shouldn’t see red & blue as opposites but … mix it together? You know what colors emerge in this case?
PURPLE … VIOLET … LILAC …. !!!! (X)
Why does that remind me of a certain shirt? :)))
[image error]I tell you @ebaeschnbliah - the Watson baby will be called Violet! (Apparently one of ACD’s favourite female first names, going by his stories…)
ooooooooh!!! Nice catch @isitandwonder
Ooooh you guys. Awesome catch on those curtains @isitandwonder !!! We have some more blue being intentionally contrasted with red!!! Sherlocks hospital blanket - blue in the Janine HLV hospital scene and red in the TAB hospital scene. In Doctor Who episode Amy’s Choice, the doctor noticed his tie changed colour when he switched between realities, it was blue in the reality where Amy was pregnant and red in the reality where she wasn’t. The blue curtains show us the fake reality, one that represents the ‘past’, the world where we needed to pretend that John was happily married to Mary. The red curtains in HLV tell us a version much closer to the truth - John pacing restlessly and thinking about Sherlock, Mary bickering with him and miserable a month after their wedding. I love it, i screamed hard just now. The past and the future, backwards or forwards.
monikakrasnorada:
tjlcisthenewsexy:
monikakrasnorada:
gosherlocked:
Does anyone truly believe...
Does anyone truly believe they will waste one of their precious episodes on a real birth in a car AND a real christening AND a real baby shower AND a real outing with dog and baby?
NoPE. If emp is a ‘waste’ of precious time, wth is all of this?? To what end do we need to see all of that??? Unless it furthers the dreamscape.
December 7, 2016
deducingbbcsherlock:
visionandperception:
the-blue-carbuncle:
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TAB SERIES 4 PREVIEW
Mark was literally counting the time, they really don’t want to give away anything.. thank you so much for uploading this!!
I stayed the whole video giggling and acting like a lunatic,
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH. The last yell until January 1st.
Mary’s clothes at this video are the same as the ones in The Market Scene.
^^^^ this! And also her and John have their longer hair. But the bunny baby in the market scene was NOT a newborn, and that made sense. Mary is fairly close to full-term in HLV, right? So this makes NO sense….that they’d grow out their hair so fast, and obviously that Mary would wear the same shirt welcoming newborn home that she does X months later at the market. (Again, unless it’s a dream/nightmare/fakeout, but I’m willing to operate under the assumption that it’s real).
waitingforgarridebs:
sidryan:
propergenius:
Series 4...
Series 4 Preview!!
IM FULLY SCREAMING
FUUUUUUUUCK ?????
I just saw this in the theatre. The whole “happy family with newborn and balloons” shot was a bit discouraging. And MG didn’t really say anything we didn’t know, but there were a few hopeful breadcrumbs.
Ep 1 - Certain things come to fruition which have been building for a very long time, 125 year old spoilers. See what you can make of that.
Hmmm. Johnlock, anyone? In Ep 1?
EMP, Planes, And What It All Means
I would like to come back again to this Twitter exchange X from February between Twitter user JP, Arwel Wyn Jones and Douglas Mackinnon:
This took place at a time when we just started to think about an Extended Mind Palace including parts of HLV. And the director of TAB himself raised a question most of the casual viewers - and some in the fandom as well - had not even considered, i.e. that all modern scenes in TAB might be Sherlock’s imagination. I never believed that the modern scenes were real. For once, I am not sure that they would mix real and imagined modern scenes. And the argument that only the last plane scene is real does not hold either because of the list.
So we have a director telling us to question the reality of the plane scenes. But there is more because JP states: If the differences are intentional, the scenes are imagination. And Mackinnon answers: Do you really think we’d do anything unintentional? To me this is saying: Yes, they are intentional, yes, the scenes are imagination.
So far, so good. But this leads to another point: If all the plane scenes are Sherlock’s imagination, there are two options:
HLV was real until the end, e.g. the plane is still returning, John and Mary waiting for the East Wind, Moriarty is on air, and we have no idea what will happen after the landing. There are no drugs, there is no OD, no list, there is no MI5 Mary and no caring brother Mycroft.
HLV already ended in Sherlock’s mind and TAB was just a continuation of this.I leave you to your deductions.
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Thanks for bringing this back and summing it up so coherently @gosherlocked!
@loveismyrevolution I actually think there are different dream layers, like @tjlcisthenewsexy explained. And I also think that the dream tells not necessarily manifest right at the beginning of the dream. The heart monitor for example is not right after Sherlock was shot. Those ‘errors’ might be tells to Sherlock as well, who subconsciously realises that something is not right (Moriarty saying ‘It doesn’t make sense because it’s not real’ is also in his mind after all) but can’t quite fathom what it is.
Awesome evidence. I’d never seen this. Thanks for reposting. It does, indeed, pretty much prove all of TAB was MP/dream.
I’m going to the TAB movie screening tonight. No idea what to expect from the S4 ‘sneak peek’ stuff....
I’m going to the TAB movie screening tonight. No idea what to expect from the S4 ‘sneak peek’ stuff. Anyone know?
Who (or what) is in the morgue?
Looking at the horrible promo clip of Sherlock looking heartbreakingly horrified in the morgue. Who would be dead that would be that upsetting to him?
1. Mycroft
2. John
I couldn’t bear to put John first even though that is obviously the real order. Also maybe…
3. Molly?
4. Baby Watson (if she exists, I don’t think she would be in a morgue anyway though)?
5. His mom?
6. His dad?
7. Irene?
Does anyone think he would be that intensely horrified/heartbroken over any of 3-7? I am asking seriously.
PS, if you or someone you follow already has a good post on this please let me know, thanks.
Reblogging my own post because I really want to talk about this and I posted it late last night (probably should have queued but I have never actually done that before)!
Good question @mint-doesnt-have-an-account… This is from TLD. If this is real, I remember first thinking when this trailer came out in the summer it was the baby, because it will be gone in TLD imo. Then I thought Mary, because she will most certainly die as well…
But after the latest dark promo it might even be John, which would be truly devastating. Only, I don’t believe John will die, so this might be a nightmare / drug induced hallucination of Sherlock? Or it’s (still) mp.
Mycroft is always an option, as I think we’ll see his downfall in S4. Though I’m not sure he’ll die a physical death (and if so, would Sherlock react to it like he does above? These are my personal dark Mycroft ideas btw…).
Last but not least, this reminds me of the other morgue we’ve seen Sherlock in in HLV (I know it’s not the same morgue though…). Is Sherlock seeing his own corpse (a bit like being attacked by a zombie corpse in TAB)? Is he imagining / running a scenario in his MP where he witnesses his own post mortem, only to realise how much he has meant to John, who breaks down when seeing his dead body? A bit like Christmas Carol, Scrooge visiting his past/future/present with a ghost = the LiR? And lying could mean that Sherlock lies dead in a morgue in his dream/coma.
Sorry, these are just my thoughts…
Yeah, I’d say he’s looking at John’s corpse or his own. Third cray cray option, in that bit in the teaser where he is wildly shooting, he shoots Lestrade or Mrs. Hudson and is looking at them in the morgue. But I think that’s much less likely.
December 6, 2016
Are you guys watching Eyewitness? So freaking good! Cracking mystery, but mostly, gay teen protags!...
Are you guys watching Eyewitness? So freaking good! Cracking mystery, but mostly, gay teen protags! (It’s on USA network and Amazon)
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