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October 8, 2016

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This idea began from a...

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This idea began from a small kernel, and just got out of hand. Sorry! But here goes:


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Redbeard - In THoB we have a possible mirror, a dog has been substituted for a childhood memory of trauma. The dog image came from the anagram H.O.U.N.D and the accompanying graphic on a tee shirt. Henry saw his Father’s murder and replaced the traumatic memory with the image of a gigantic hound.


611174 - 6/1/74 Sherlock’s possible date of birth [based on the canon 6/1/54] I know the tombstone looked like 1977, but I’m taking a punt here that they revised it similar to moving the Watson wedding date to fit the story.


Vernet - ancestors of the Holmes brothers, on their Mother’s side. [Country Squires are also mentioned in the Holmes ancestry and in TAB Sherlock exits the coach in front of 221B saying he has been on a case of a dismembered country squire. The dismemberment of a relative? The dismemberment of his family is playing on his subconscious?]


The mathematics is the Minkowski Metric which deals with measurement of time and space [could it be tied into the Obliquity of the Ecliptic which Sherlock is preoccupied with in TAB?]


Take the word Redbeard as a code name and also the word Vernet, could we have two agents here?


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Sherlock appeared close to his Dad in HLV, closer than to his Mother [’I have a list’] There was a softness there between them. Could his Father’s Code name have been Redbeard? 


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As a child did Sherlock idolise his Father, and on discovering the Redbeard name in use by his Dad, use that name as his pirate name? Did it lead to something bad occurring to his Father? Caused the undercover code name to be discovered and thus lead enemies to torture his Father? Is it all being replayed in the present with John?




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The worry over John being in danger due to Mary/AGRA’s presence in his life, a presence that Sherlock knows is a result of Mary being assigned to John and thus is a result of Sherlock being in John’s life. Just like the time kid Sherlock used his Dad’s code name as his fantasy pirate and it led to horrible things occurring to his beloved father. 


Tim is going to be in series 4, no mention as of yet of Wanda [Vernet]


And then there is Freddie. Freddie Jones. Toby Jones actor father. Friend of the Cumberbatches. [Tim use to date Toby’s mother before he met Wanda. Evidently the four have been friends, as have their sons] 


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Will Freddie show up as the old enemy of Mr Holmes? The senior Mr Smith? [Clue name for ep 2 was just Smith, not Culverton]


So Mycroft’s notes:


Redbeard and Vernet gave birth to 611174 [Mr Holmes and Mrs Holmes gave birth to Sherlock. The maths; time and distance repeat. Mycroft is keeping close watch, he feels time is running out. [Tick tock, tick tock]


Throw anything in here you all have, the hive mind is required. This is as far as I have got on this one. 



Oh, this is nice! Ghosts from the past, demons… Just a small idea re: those bloody unreliable dates in this show: I read that according to the Casebook, Sherlock was born in 1981. If Mycroft is 7 years his senior, he would have been born in 1974… idk. Is Mycroft Redbeard?



Thanks. Yes, I had that issue with Mycroft’s birth year too. The thing is inconsistency; casebook has Sherlock as 1981, the grave stone appears to have 1977. I do think that the writers would change it if need be to fit the story better. If the flashbacks with the retro nurses and the decore of the Miskin house are all 1970′s then moving Sherlock’s birth to mid 1970′s may be required for the story. Also Benedict is looking his age now. He looks 40. [Well in real life versus VF photoshopped images] So placing Sherlock at 42 would be understandable. I don’t think Redbeard is Mycroft.



@welovethebeekeeper, @isitandwonder: I really like these thoughts. There must be something in the family history that has caused trauma for Sherlock. He seems to have issues with this mother. And the parallel between “The Dynamics of an Asteroid” and “The Dynamics of Combustion” have always struck me. As has the fact that in TAB Mycroft is referring to Sherlock throwing a maths professor into a waterfall. 


“Is he not the celebrated author of The Dynamics of an Asteroid, a book which ascends to such rarefied heights of pure mathematics that it is said that there was no man in the scientific press capable of criticizing it?” (The Valley of Fear)




Interesting! It gives more reason to introducing the Holmes Srs. in S3. 

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October 7, 2016

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If Sanders doesn’t get the nomination, and you can’t see yourself voting for Hillary Clinton or Donald Trump, then don’t. Vote third party.



Consider the Libertarian or Green Party.



Don’t feed the establishment by voting for Clinton, and don’t feed authoritarian isolationism by voting for Trump.




No. The absolute largest chunk of people considering changing their votes at the moment are disappointed non-conservatives. There was barely any competition among republicans; from the get-go, the voter base united behind Trump. If non-conservatives split their votes across multiple fronts, they WILL lose.

Voting third party in America throws your vote directly into the garbage. Our system does not work like Australia’s. You don’t get a second or third choice, and candidates who win aren’t going to look at the numbers and say “I see 25% of Americans voted Green, I should implement Green policies.” That’s not how it works. Conservative voters overwhelmingly back a single party, the GOP, while non-conservative voters are the ones that scatter across multiple, weak fronts when faced with an unappealing Democratic party nominee. Think about it like this:


The majority of Republican voters support Trump and are not changing their vote even though party leaders and figureheads are universally decrying him. They’ve been groomed for decades by the GOP to be this way, and now party leaders have lost control of the impressionable voter base they created for themselves. There’s nothing they can do about it at this point. While a small number of Republicans can and are switching parties, it’s not very much. Meanwhile, Democrats are floundering, trying to decide which front to unite under. Some of them go to the Green party or Libertarians, sure; the rest stay with the Democratic party in the hopes that even with people leaving, they will have enough to block Trump. But Trump doesn’t need a majority of total Americans to vote for him; he only needs more than the other candidates have. Do you understand what I’m saying? Trump could get 10% of the vote, but as long as no other party has more than 10%, he still wins. The second you split the left and middle across three or four fronts, the right seizes control. This is how it goes down every single fucking time we go through this.


The other thing to consider is that the electoral college is NOT going to weigh in favor of a third party. Doing so would be political suicide. They are paid to vote certain ways, and not doing so would fuck up their careers. Even if an entire state votes in favor of a third party, the electoral college is going to vote for whichever primary party matches up the closest, and sometimes not even that. Their votes are counted when making the actual choice of president; ours are not. They proved that with Gore. The majority of Americans voted for him; the electoral college installed Bush anyway and told us to suck it up. The question at this point is whether they’d risk it a second time, and we have to hope that they won’t, which is why we have to unite under a single front to block Trump.



^^^^^^^THIS!!!!!!!!!! People do not understand that under our plurality system, it doesn’t matter if the majority of the population doesn’t vote for Trump. As long as he has more than any of the other candidates, he wins. Splitting up the more liberal voters is now what non-Trump supporters want to do.



THESE CHILDREN ARE TOO YOUNG TO REMEMBER ROSS PEROT



And Ralph Nader.



DO NOT SPLIT THE VOTE, PLEASE! GOP is gonna vote Trump, they won’t vote for a 3rd party person. That means a solid voting bloc. Dem who split the vote are in essence giving him a free vote. HILARY WITH ALL HER FAULTS IS STILL BETTER THAN TRUMP!



GOD DAMNIT YALL BETTER NOT SPLIT THE DEM VOTES



This is how the Conservative Party in the UK won the last election with less than 40% of the overall vote!!!!
Don’t do it America!


Originally posted by ohmyreactionsgifs


NOT splitting the vote is how Canada snagged this magical unicorn man in the last election.  Basically everyone I know voted strategically, even if it was against their party, to ensure that Harper’s crusty conservative ass was kicked the hell out.  Personally I waffle between the Green Party and the NDP politically, but I sure as heck voted Liberal last election.



I am getting really fed up with people saying that they don’t have to choose the lesser of two evils, and so they’re going to follow their conscience and vote for a third party.

Well, I hope your conscience is okay with you voting Trump, because if you vote third party at this point, and Trump gets in, then that is exactly what you did, and you’ve been told this repeatedly prior to the election.

So, when the whole country goes to shit, I’ll be looking at you as well as the Republicans. Any vote other than a Democratic vote is a Republican one, at this point.



REBLOGGING AGAIN AND AGAIN AND AGAIN



Reblogging again mostly for the “magical unicorn man” comment, but also because it’s really really important.



^that



That is indeed how we got Trudeau - we swallowed our pride and voted strategically. In Canada, the political right is basically the Conservatives, whereas the left is split between the Liberals, the NDP, and the Green Party. Most of us NDP/Greens switched alliances last October, because for all his faults, Trudeau had the best chance of beating Harper - and TRUST ME, we wanted his ass GONE.


It’ll be the same in the US in November. Clinton isn’t great, but she is unquestionably better than Trump. Please, PLEASE vote strategically! The rest of the world is counting on you!



How many times must this be said?



REBLOG REBLOG REBLOG THE SHIT OUT OF THIS



I have no idea how many of my followers are American, ‘cause, frankly, I lost track of most of you a long while ago, but this shit needs reblogging as we get closer and closer to November 8th.

Also, yes, he is indeed a magical unicorn man, and he’s ours, but our borders are open. Please feel free to move up here. :-)



I’ve thought about reblogging this before but i was afraid of being attacked, but to be honest this is really important and I’m so scared of Trump winning.



There are other ways and other times to make a statement against the admittedly flawed two-party system. THAT IS NOT NOW. Too much is at stake. Do it locally. Even do it nationally if you must, when one option isn’t a total maniac. But not now.




Americans, if you’re old enough to vote, you MUST read this post, and you MUST vote strategically. I saw a twitter post earlier making the analogy of being offered a platter of shit with broken glass in it or chicken on a plane, and asking how the chicken was cooked. THERE IS ONLY ONE OPTION HERE. Hillary Clinton may not be your favourite president ever, but Trump is a terrorist who must be kept away from things like access to nuclear weapons and people’s health insurance at all costs. You MUST vote for Hillary Clinton to ensure that Donald Trump does not win. Those are your only options here!

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Published on October 07, 2016 20:20

Donald Trump was caught on tape bragging about how he uses his power to sexually assault women in 2005. Now it’s going viral.

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I have already wasted too much time today posting about politics. But I have just seen this video, and I have to write about it, because it makes me SO. FUCKING. ANGRY.


The Washington Post broke the story. I think you can still watch the clip there:


https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-recorded-having-extremely-lewd-conversation-about-women-in-2005/2016/10/07/3b9ce776-8cb4-11e6-bf8a-3d26847eeed4_story.html?postshare=6361475870515092&tid=ss_tw


Watch the whole thing. Because it isn’t just the conversation on the bus that’s important here, though that’s the part where he talks about how when you’re a star, women will “let you do anything,” and how you can just go up to women and “start kissing them,” and hey if you see someone you like you can “grab her by the pussy,” why not, and then they spot Arianne Zucker, the poor luckless actress who is going to be his co-star in the stupid cameo they’ve written for The Donald on this soap opera, and Donald and that little prick Billy Bush from Access Hollywood compete to see who can be the most gross about objectifying her and her legs.


No, it’s what happens after the bus door opens that really shows you what Donald is made of, and how the whole entertainment industry is set up to enable assholes like him. Because having had this disgusting conversation about how much they both want to hit that, Donald comes off the bus with a big smile and says hello as if he is a decent human being and Zucker greets him, and then the first goddamn thing Bush says is, “How about a hug for the Donald?” And then of course Donald says Bush has to have a hug.


So in other words, Donald talks about how he likes to grope women, Bush and Donald egg each other on about how gropable Zucker is, and then as soon as they meet her, they help each other touch her


And then, as they walk down to the studio, being filmed all the way, Bush starts asking Zucker which of them she would date if she had to choose, and Zucker is giving him the fake smile she’s undoubtedly given thousands of these assholes over the course of her career and plays along as she has to because the cameras are rolling and because after all she’s there to let Donald be Donald…and I’m just sitting there screaming internally, “YOU. FUCKER.”


This should be the end of Donald. It won’t be; but it should.




This is what sticks in my craw. SO MUCH THIS.



Yes. It’s totally vile.

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Published on October 07, 2016 20:18

"Has this not been clear to you?“ John presses, growing angrier by the second. “Can you not see, you..."

Has this not been clear to you?“ John presses, growing angrier by the second. “Can you not see, you supposed genius, the evidence in front of your eyes? Because at this point it must be neon and strutting around in the nude!”



“What ev—”



“Your incessant self-deprecation when it comes to me is the stupidest thing I’ve ever seen. You’re blinding yourself to the truth and—”



“What truth?” Sherlock demands as John pushes himself out of his chair for the second time, gathering a terrifying sort of momentum.



“—and you—you come in here with this ridiculous—” John snatches up the bouquet and thrusts it in Sherlock’s whitening face— “clump of maggoty flowers and present them to me. For what? A gift of apology? A romantic fucking gesture? What, Sherlock, what? No, don’t answer. That’s a rhetorical sodding question, because you don’t know what the hell you’re doing, do you? You think you can just come in here after killing my wife and Moriarty and beg me to kiss you and then tell me this. And then, and then, have the utter audacity to tell me I don’t need you. Well, you know what? Fuck you. You don’t know anything. If only you’d learned to stop feeling sorry for yourself and open your eyes for half a second maybe w—”



“Open my eyes to what, John?” Sherlock fairly bellows, wrenching his suit jacket off and throwing it to the floor beside his coat with immense vitriol.



“To the fact that I am in love with you right back, you titanic moron.” John’s chest is heaving with emotion and the feeling of vertigo has only increased. “And have been for years.



- Spark_Writer, Kiss Me (via johnlockficrecommendations)
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Published on October 07, 2016 15:44

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“Now Colin, you’ve always been seen as a romantic lead to the ladies. How did you apply this to a gay context? Was it difficult for you? How did you-”



Hero.



Not just that he said it, but that he seemed really angry that he had to.



Mr darcy is everything



I love him.




Too good for this world.

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Published on October 07, 2016 15:42

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One year ago today, we were losing our collective shit over the release of The...

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One year ago today, we were losing our collective shit over the release of The Abominable Bride trailer. Gah! Just 85 more days!!!
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Published on October 07, 2016 15:41

Yes, but who IS this villain?

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‘More than other stories, he says, this one feels more like one story in three parts - with a villain who ‘comes slamming into the center’ by the end of the first episode, and carries on into the second and resolves in the end. It’s fucking ridiculous it’s so exciting’.
Benedict Cumberbatch on Sherlock Series 4 (x)


In episode 1 and 2 there was not one iota of setlock evidence that Toby Smith was involved. Of course he could have been in the studio filming, but even then there was not a peep of any set locker seeing Toby in the Novotel area of Cardiff Bay during ep 1 and ep 3 filming. And keep in mind there were reports of many of the cast in that area during their downtime, most noticeably Tim Carlton and Sacha Dhawan. So is Culverton Smith, a villain from The Dying Detective really the big bad of series 4 arc? Smith is not in the same class as other canon villains, so is he more than one canon villain in a ‘mash up’? 


In series 3 CAM’s presence was noted in TSOT and arguably in TEH with the ‘CAM’s’ on the video screens of the London Underground. But he didn’t feature till HLV. And Milverton was a fairly major villain in canon, the man Holmes detested above all others and whom it is rumoured in Holmesian lore, was murdered by Holmes. So why does Smith warrant more airtime and story than CAM? The only FIX of The Dying Detective is the turn around of the cruel lie Holmes tells to Watson in that he is dying. 


Could the villain be AGRA/Moran? Look at what BC says:


with a villain who ‘comes slamming into the center’ by the end of the first episode’ - we know Mary features in episode 1 as Mary Watson, new Mum but aiming for super sleuth with her two ‘idiots’ in tow, one carting a baby. Which could all be conjecture inside the mind of John or Sherlock. But lets play along here and say Mary Watson actually gives birth to Bunny Watson, things are good and the foursome hit the streets to solve crimes [the look on John Watson’s face in all the filmed scenes of this scenario tell a very different story, but hey ho] Something occurs that results in incident’s with exploding cars, car crashes and some deep water [photos of burned out cars, the shark logo/graffiti, the water clapperboard, the tee shirt, yada, yada] Say Mary disappears with Bunny girl. Then suddenly we get AGRA, out of the blue the other persona enters the scenario as the villain. Slams into the viewers consciousness like a wrecking ball as episode 1 ends. We know there was a scene with just Amanda and Benedict filmed on the rocks and jetty of Porthcawl.


‘and carries on into the second’ - Benedict doesn’t say this villain is the central point of episode 2, he just says they carry on’. So their presence is looming throughout this episode. Maybe with brunette hair and a gun in Morocco?


and resolves in the end.’ - In episode three the final [Golden Wrap as Amanda put it] of AGRA.


There was no evidence from setlock that Amanda was in front of a camera for eps 2 & 3 with the exception of Morocco which could be in either episode. [Presumption that she was filming emanates from her tweets and presence milling around the set. Be careful presuming here, if Mark and Steven are called liars who lie, then add in the main cast to that list] However, I would say that Amanda did film something at the end of the third episode. Her demise?


Do we have other contenders for this villain who features in all 3 episodes of series 4?



Exactly my thoughts!
My bets are on Mary as the main villain in S4.


If we think back to the first three series’, we always had a main villain looming over all episodes. Someone we were already introduced to: Moriarty.
So it has always been someone who we already knew, whereas the villains of the second episodes (Shan, Frankland, Small) were always dealt with within the episode. I guess the same goes for Culverton Smith.


In Series 4 Mofftiss have the chance to change the players, whilst keeping their concept.
The only other antagonist that has been on screen nearly as much as Moriarty is “Mary”.
We know “Mary”, funny enough she was introduced like Moriarty in S1, as the innocent love interest, just to be revealed as the baddie in the the in episode 3 (Just think of Moriarty threatening to ‘burn Sherlock’s heart, while Mary thinks a touch more practical by directly shooting his heart).
So now it’s her chance to be “the big bad”.


The only other person I could think of is Mycroft, but while I believe that Sherlock and John may find out, that he’s involved in the whole Moriarty business, I don’t see him as the villain going against them actively.



Same thoughts about Culverton Smith here. Mary though … didn’t she do it already?  ‘Slamming into the center’ I mean. She has been outed as killer, assassin, murderer with a fake identity. We know she has been executing ‘wet jobs’ for the CIA and freelance for her own profit. She is quite possibly working for Moriarty or ’M’. Mary shot Sherlock. The hero of the show. Made his heart stand still. The pregnancy - the baby - don’t change one thing of what has happened. Mary is established as a villain since mid HLV. How could TPTB top all this? Would it be really such a surprise if Mary gets nasty again? Kills or tries to kill again?  Just thinking …. shrugs shoulders ….



I have the same feeling about Mary not fitting well with what he described. It just seems so clear that Culverton Smith is the villain in ep 2. It really doesn’t seem all that unbelievable to me that he could have had one introductory scene in ep 1 and a few in ep 3 that they kept hidden from us. May have only been a few days, they’ve been good at keeping things secret in the past, and I don’t see much need for him to be walking around Cardiff much (even if you assume he would for sure have been recognized).



I think it’s Mary. Keep in mind a lot of the casual audience bought the forgiveness bs & probably think she’s part of the gang now.



That’s true but I still don’t think it’s interesting or novel enough. “Slamming into the center” by the *end* of ep 1? That doesn’t sound like someone who’s been around, even if hidden in plain sight. And I really think her arc will be mostly resolved earlier in ep 1. Also continuing into the second fits with my belief that Mary’s not in ep 2 much if at all but I know that’s mostly me. And Amanda was very definitely not filming for most of ep 3 so it would be limited if she comes back at all. I know I’m biased but I just think it would be boring. I’d go for Mycroft before her.




Love all the above additions! How about Molly? We know she’s around during the time Jim shows up in the helicopter in episode 3 at Ogmore Beach. In TAB Hooper seethed with hatred towards Sherlock. It must be there as Sherlock is subconsciously aware of it. I just think it’s too late to introduce a new character as the big bad, so options are one of the cast suddenly revealed as the villain, Moriarty being a twin or having a sibling…….or Sherlock’s evil twin Sherrinford has been behind everything since ASiP!!!!!! Dum da dum dum. 



I could see Molly… Mary doesn’t fit for me as well. Mainly, because she’s already there, but also because ep. 1 seemed to be the most Mary/AGRA centered so far.


And although I don’t see C Smith as a Moriarty like super hero so far, more like Magnussen, I still thought of him. “By the end of the first episode” immediatley made me think of the Business Killer poster on the bus stop which was used for scenes in the 90s, so probably in the third part ofthe episode.


And my second thought was, maybe it’s Sherlock himself. His inner demons, maybe personifying his childhood, that he has to deal with through series 4.




I see what you guys are saying. But I think if ep 1 revealed that Mary had been Moriarty all along, the ‘spider in the web’, or alternatively his right hand man, I think it would fit. The casuals are not expecting that. And the way they had Sherlock and John forgive Mary in HLV, seemingly against character–the only reason that makes sense to me is that they were withholding Mary’s shot-Sherlock-comeuppance for a much bigger storyline involving her. 

But it’s all speculation for now, so who knows.

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Published on October 07, 2016 10:09

Yes, but who IS this villain?

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‘More than other stories, he says, this one feels more like one story in three parts - with a villain who ‘comes slamming into the center’ by the end of the first episode, and carries on into the second and resolves in the end. It’s fucking ridiculous it’s so exciting’.
Benedict Cumberbatch on Sherlock Series 4 (x)


In episode 1 and 2 there was not one iota of setlock evidence that Toby Smith was involved. Of course he could have been in the studio filming, but even then there was not a peep of any set locker seeing Toby in the Novotel area of Cardiff Bay during ep 1 and ep 3 filming. And keep in mind there were reports of many of the cast in that area during their downtime, most noticeably Tim Carlton and Sacha Dhawan. So is Culverton Smith, a villain from The Dying Detective really the big bad of series 4 arc? Smith is not in the same class as other canon villains, so is he more than one canon villain in a ‘mash up’? 


In series 3 CAM’s presence was noted in TSOT and arguably in TEH with the ‘CAM’s’ on the video screens of the London Underground. But he didn’t feature till HLV. And Milverton was a fairly major villain in canon, the man Holmes detested above all others and whom it is rumoured in Holmesian lore, was murdered by Holmes. So why does Smith warrant more airtime and story than CAM? The only FIX of The Dying Detective is the turn around of the cruel lie Holmes tells to Watson in that he is dying. 


Could the villain be AGRA/Moran? Look at what BC says:


with a villain who ‘comes slamming into the center’ by the end of the first episode’ - we know Mary features in episode 1 as Mary Watson, new Mum but aiming for super sleuth with her two ‘idiots’ in tow, one carting a baby. Which could all be conjecture inside the mind of John or Sherlock. But lets play along here and say Mary Watson actually gives birth to Bunny Watson, things are good and the foursome hit the streets to solve crimes [the look on John Watson’s face in all the filmed scenes of this scenario tell a very different story, but hey ho] Something occurs that results in incident’s with exploding cars, car crashes and some deep water [photos of burned out cars, the shark logo/graffiti, the water clapperboard, the tee shirt, yada, yada] Say Mary disappears with Bunny girl. Then suddenly we get AGRA, out of the blue the other persona enters the scenario as the villain. Slams into the viewers consciousness like a wrecking ball as episode 1 ends. We know there was a scene with just Amanda and Benedict filmed on the rocks and jetty of Porthcawl.


‘and carries on into the second’ - Benedict doesn’t say this villain is the central point of episode 2, he just says they carry on’. So their presence is looming throughout this episode. Maybe with brunette hair and a gun in Morocco?


and resolves in the end.’ - In episode three the final [Golden Wrap as Amanda put it] of AGRA.


There was no evidence from setlock that Amanda was in front of a camera for eps 2 & 3 with the exception of Morocco which could be in either episode. [Presumption that she was filming emanates from her tweets and presence milling around the set. Be careful presuming here, if Mark and Steven are called liars who lie, then add in the main cast to that list] However, I would say that Amanda did film something at the end of the third episode. Her demise?


Do we have other contenders for this villain who features in all 3 episodes of series 4?



Exactly my thoughts!
My bets are on Mary as the main villain in S4.


If we think back to the first three series’, we always had a main villain looming over all episodes. Someone we were already introduced to: Moriarty.
So it has always been someone who we already knew, whereas the villains of the second episodes (Shan, Frankland, Small) were always dealt with within the episode. I guess the same goes for Culverton Smith.


In Series 4 Mofftiss have the chance to change the players, whilst keeping their concept.
The only other antagonist that has been on screen nearly as much as Moriarty is “Mary”.
We know “Mary”, funny enough she was introduced like Moriarty in S1, as the innocent love interest, just to be revealed as the baddie in the the in episode 3 (Just think of Moriarty threatening to ‘burn Sherlock’s heart, while Mary thinks a touch more practical by directly shooting his heart).
So now it’s her chance to be “the big bad”.


The only other person I could think of is Mycroft, but while I believe that Sherlock and John may find out, that he’s involved in the whole Moriarty business, I don’t see him as the villain going against them actively.




Yes, absolutely, it is evil!Mary! I hope they tie Mary in with all the previous episodes or somehow show she stalked John purposefully. But yes! Bring it on! I can’t wait. 

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Published on October 07, 2016 06:55

"His [Benedict’s] enthusiasm, though, can have side effects notably an inability not to talk about..."

“His [Benedict’s] enthusiasm, though, can have side effects notably an inability not to talk about the things he says he doesn’t want to talk about, if he actually wants to talk about them. This becomes clear early on, when he says he musn’t, under any circumstances, under pain of death, talk about his new family. He then, of course, proceeds to talk quite a lot about his new family. Most topics, it turns out, lead to it: from the age (“The only thing about age that hits home is that you are very aware of your own mortality. It’s not about your life or ageing or anything like that, it’s actually about wanting to live long enough to protect that child”), to how sunny it is (“With the baba, I smother him in factor 1,000 and he still gets a tan”), to his up-at-4am workout routine to get ripped for Doctor Strange (“That actually got me through being a first-time father. I say that as if I was the only one getting up. Sophie really was incredible during those first few months.”), to working long days on Sherlock (“Getting home to see your family becomes the main thing - I’ll do the overtime but can I make bathtime?”)”

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British GQ - October 2016

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Aw! So sweet to hear him gush about them.

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