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September 13, 2016
TJLC Explained - Mary episode?
@quietlyprim mention that one. Does anyone have a link or is it still coming?
cloakstone69:
the-7-percent-solution:
How warm do you feel when you remember the conspiracy...
How warm do you feel when you remember the conspiracy theorists in Sherlock are always right? Not only conspiracy theorists, but anyone who is suspicious of anything? The cult at the end of TAB. “They are right and we are wrong”. Henry Knight’s dad was killed because he knew too much. “You’re only a nutter if you’re wrong.” Bainbridge knew he was being stalked even though everyone told him “it’s all part of the job”. The train guy in TEH suspected something amiss and consulted Sherlock Holmes, against better judgement knowing a man can’t vanish into thin air. From an outside perspective these people seem delusional and paranoid, but they are always right. They are ALWAYS. Right.
So here we are, a conspiracy group watching Sherlock and finding clues on our own because no one will help. “Nutters” we’re called. “Reading too far into things” we’re told.
But the people who do that are always right.
The nerdy comic book analyzers on John’s blog in “The Geek Interpreter”. The members of “The Empty Hearse” club. FUCKING ANDERSON.
Certainties
It’s a chilly Monday night in January when John knows.
Not knows, but knows.
Clear as crystal.
They’ve just returned to the flat after a dinner out at Angelo’s (two green salads; a bread basket with dipping oil; Sherlock: pesto gnocchi; John: prawn linguine; a bottle of the second-best dry red Angelo could scrounge up; five bites each of tiramisu plus one extra Sherlock sneaks whilst John is in the gents; and one peppermint that John tucks into the pocket of his cheek as they wait for a cab.)
Back in the sitting room of 221b, Sherlock wings out of his great coat and heaps it over the shambles of what looks like the frayed end of a laptop charger and a laptop curiously missing its screen. John pretends not to notice the cover-up as he digs through the cupboards for the now mostly-empty bottle of Ardbeg Uigeadail that Sherlock had lowered nonchalantly into their mostly-full trolley during a recent spending spree at Waitrose. (Thanks to a client’s generous tip, John had also splurged on not one but two rather posh candles for bathtime. Sherlock, bless his heart, had said nothing and tossed in a packet of Twirl Bites for good measure).
“Want a little?” John gestures with an empty glass.
“A finger.” Sherlock hums, prodding the early burst of flames beneath his hands. A comforting pop shoots sparks up into the dark cool air of the chimney. “Actually give me two fingers.”
John refuses to acknowledge the way the tips of his ears heat.
He pours their shares, spins the cap tightly back on the bottle, and leaves it be on the worktop. Coming over and holding a glass out to Sherlock, he plops down in his chair. “Been thinking more about that cold case.” He lets out a low groan as he readjusts the Union Jack pillow at the small of his back. “It could be argyria.”
“Argyria.” Sherlock’s fingers curl around his glass. He cocks an eyebrow in the way only Sherlock can cock an eyebrow.
“Why not?” John leans forward slightly. “A condition where skin turns an abnormal shade of grey-blue due to prolonged contact with silver salts. Victim worked in manufacturing, something with solar energy stuff.”
“Silver’s used in the photovoltaic conductive ink–”
“–which he produced, didn’t he?”
They stare at each other for a moment. A curve of a smile teases the corner of Sherlock’s mouth. “Well done, John.”
“I’m certain that’s what it is.” John moves to set his glass down on the small table next to his chair. The fire crackles pleasantly at his feet. Sherlock’s eyes crinkle as he lets the smile blossom fully into his features, a slight flush from the warmth of the room colouring high on his cheekbones.
God, you’re beautiful, John thinks.
“I’ll phone Lestrade tomorrow,” Sherlock nods. Crosses then uncrosses his ankles.
“Not now?”
“No, I’m…rather certain.” Sherlock means to glance at the fireplace, John thinks, but he doesn’t, he doesn’t look anywhere but at John’s face. Then his gaze instead flickers to John’s mouth before circling back up.
“I’m quite certain too.” John says a hint too loudly as his grin drops fondness into the well-worn lines round his eyes.
He feels alive. Purely, unabashedly happy and alive.
“You’ve mentioned.” Sherlock lets his knees bounce apart as he eases his bum down further in his chair. A floppy curl breaks free from its twin to grace his forehead as he ducks his chin down to his chest, the whisky rolling amber and loose in the glass still in his hand.
“Have I done?” John nearly whispers. He feels magnetised, unable to look away.
God, you’re incredibly beautiful, he thinks again.
“Yes.” Sherlock’s voice is a low rumble. He winks.
We’re…flirting. And I think he knows.
I know too.
John doesn’t feel afraid.
“There’s a few other things I’m certain of.” The fire snaps a punctuation of sparks in-between his words. “For example,” he feels his tongue dip out between his lips, wetting them, which catches Sherlock’s gaze again, “I’m certain that Angelo brought out that bottle because you asked him to.”
Sherlock nods again, conceding silently, as his eyes flick back up to John’s.
“I’m certain that you already researched the argyria diagnosis and told Lestrade about it.”
Sherlock starts to shake his head, but stops when John raises both eyebrows. Gracefully he shifts into a gentle nod and lets his legs drift even further apart.
John swallows.
“I’m certain that tonight at dinner… It was nice. I liked it, being there with you.” John says. “In a way I didn’t want it to end.”
“I did.” Sherlock never fails to surprise in the least surprising ways.
The thing is, John knows better now. “You did?”
“Oh I’m certain.” A soft smile. “I like this quite a bit more than eating pesto gnocchi in public.”
“Hmm.” John expects for his heart to burst out through his ribs, or for his palms to be sweating, or for his breath to be high and tight and shaky but he feels none of those things, none at all. “Come to think of it, I guess I did too.”
Sherlock asks him the question he’s been waiting for. “Why?”
The moment is perfectly ordinary in the most extraordinary way. Sat in their chairs, fire burning, together, at home.
“Because I was certain of another thing.” John feels a long awaited dawning deep in his core. “I was certain that I wanted to come back here and ask if I could kiss you.”
He waits, searching Sherlock’s face.
It’s the best first kiss John’s ever had.
**
The two glasses of whisky sit, all but forgotten, until John tips them down the sink four days later with a pair of cupid bow lips pressed against the back of his neck, soft and warm just along the edge of his hairline.
gregferrell:
maleinstructor:
In the heat of battle,...
In the heat of battle, photographer Horace Bristol captured one of the most unique and erotic photos of WWII.
Bristol photographed a young crewman of a US Navy “Dumbo” PBY rescue mission, manning his gun after having stripped naked and jumped into the water of Rabaul Harbor to rescue a badly burned Marine pilot. The Marine was shot down while bombing the Japanese-held fortress of Rabaul.
“…we got a call to pick up an airman who was down in the Bay. The Japanese were shooting at him from the island, and when they saw us they started shooting at us. The man who was shot down was temporarily blinded, so one of our crew stripped off his clothes and jumped in to bring him aboard. He couldn’t have swum very well wearing his boots and clothes. As soon as we could, we took off. We weren’t waiting around for anybody to put on formal clothes. We were being shot at and wanted to get the hell out of there. The naked man got back into his position at his gun in the blister of the plane.”
“And well, there was his butt, and I had a camera. I mean I AM a historian.”
Amazing photo. He’s beautiful.
quietlyprim:
“'Ghosts of the past are rising in the lives of Sherlock Holmes and John Watson...
sherlock:
therealmartinsgrrrl:
We’ve been waiting six and a half years for what’s coming in...
We’ve been waiting six and a half years for what’s coming in January. THEY’VE been waiting six and a half years. Six and a half years. They’ve been on the fucking tarmac for THREE YEARS. Y'all. It’s happening.
They. Gonna. Kiss.
Sherlock and John have been waiting 120+ years ✊
monikakrasnorada:
stillgosherlocked:
monikakrasnorada:
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isitandwonder:
multivariate-madness:
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Ohhhh and that could explain John’s hair and why…
My thoughts exactly, @yan-yae. How else do we get from John’s hair at the end of HLV / TAB (or in CAM Tower when Sherlock was shot) to The Swoosh™ without time having passed??? If the end of TAB is ‘real’ and Sherlock was dead certain he knew what Moriarty’s next move was, then HOW are we getting a time jump? Wouldn’t it be more logical for the next episode to jump right in there. As they work on taking care of Moriarty? If not, then how else do we explain John and Mary’s longer hair UNLESS THE TIME THAT HAS PASSED HAS BEEN WHILE SHERLOCK WAS IN COMA???
Again, I will gladly say I’m wrong when series 4 airs, but from all that we’ve seen to this point from the trailer, from Setlock…nothing else makes sense to me.
@monikakrasnorada: If I did not know better, I would say you hacked my account ;). Because this is a draft I have kept for some time but did not post yet:
We have been wondering about the changed appearance of John and Mary during setlock. Racking our brains about when the time jump might take place since there seems to be quite some need for action immediately after TAB. But no one spotted Martin and Amanda with their previous hairstyles during setlock.
What if the time jump took place before the beginning of S4? Anyone who is familiar with EMP/EDT (extended mind palace/dream theory) will probably know where I am going.
NOTE: I assume the May date of the wedding to be correct for the sake of argument. The wedding takes place in May so Sherlock gets shot at the end of May or the beginning of June. Now let us imagine for a moment that Sherlock does not wake up. He is lying in a coma, spinning his dreams of empty houses and drugged Christmas punches and vaults that do not exist.
But around him life goes on. People change their appearance. Hair grows. Bellies grow. Married couples live together as long as one spouse does not know the other shot his best friend.
@ebaeschnbliah. @isitandwonder
Great minds, @stillgosherlocked, great. minds. <3
I let my mind run with this thought sometimes (when I really want to drive myself mental). All sorts of ‘what ifs’…What if most of the next series is still MP, or some combination thereof. Hear me out. We get that scene with Mary apparently having the baby in the car (?) with a shark painted on the wall of the tunnel (and who knows what other kind of wonky imagery we might get with that scene). We get a months’ old baby in the ‘happy domestic threesome + dog’ scene in Burrough Market (where there was some oddness to some of what and how it was being filmed). So maybe this is Sherlock, running this scenario to see how they could manage to be a happy ‘quartet’? Then we get ep 2 and Culverton Smith. Maybe he’s Sherlock’s doctor. Maybe Sherlock’s incapacitation is the perfect ‘in’ for him now. Sherlock’s coming around, but Smith’s able to drug / dose him to keep him off-kilter. With Sherlock awake, he and John are able to talk about what happened and Mary flees (I don’t know how to work in what happens to the baby). John is caregvier, suspicious that Sherlock’s recovery is slow, or maybe he seems to get worse? So John gets to rage-sniff around and be the once and future BAMF he’s been unable to be since Sherlock’s death and rebirth. So Mary’s on the run, they figure out Smith (maybe even have to take care of CAM somehow in the meantime, too) and Moriarty just has to come back, because all his plans have been thwarted. And that’s ep3.
Like I said, it’s all ridiculous and pure cracky speculation, but man, I don’t know sometimes it just seems like the wildest things do come true. :P
I’m still a fan of the “everything is real until the empty house, the 221b domestic, and Sherlock’s second collapse”, but even so, if he went into a coma after the second collapse time could have passed and explain the hair and time jump. If that is the case, John knows about Mary and never forgave her and, yeah, the happy crime fighting family from the start of S4 would be a continuation of Sherlock’s EMP state (aka the John chooses Mary nightmare).
I think the Culverton Smith episode could be the culmination of Sherlock’s EMP/nightmare with so much heavy medical imagery and so much purely whacked MP stuff, like the windows floating in the street. That’s where it could become clear even to the casual viewer that Sherlock is dreaming and needs to wake up. and by the end of E2 he finally does wake up. That would be interesting, but I’m still only about half onboard with EMP overall. (Or maybe 60%)
If EMP is not the case, they could simply have time have passed, baby is born, etc. maybe Moriarty went “quiet” again. They’ve certainly done big time leaps with little explanation before , like in the Irene storyline and the jump to Christmas in HLV (again, this is if EMP is NOT true).
The one thing that I find most suspicious is Baby Watson. We see that ridiculous romp and apparent car birth at the start of e1 and then nothing of the baby in e2 or 3. At SDCC the impression I got from the cast was ‘oh yeah, the baby, right’ which lead me to believe that baby doesnt really exist. So I’m inclined to think those E1 scenes with the baby are MP. So either EMP is true, and Sherlock is still in it in E1, or you have to accept that the end of HLV and TAB ate real, but for some reason Sherlock is back to imagining the baby in an MP or dream state once again in E1. To me, along with the other reasons to believe in EMP, it makes more sense that it’s merely a continuation of EMP.
Sorry if this is a bit scrambled. I’m traveling and I’m on London at the moment. Hope to do the BBC Sherlock walking tour tomorrow!
September 12, 2016
NEAT ... DON'T YOU THINK ?
MUSINGS ABOUT TWO GENIUSES AND THEIR BRILLIANT MASTERPLANS
“Everything was anticipated; every eventuality allowed
for. It worked … perfectly.”Many wonderul metas have been written about a possible 'Reichenbach Solution’ or better the lack thereof. After four years this conundrum is still unsolved. How did Sherlock do it? What parts of the interview he gave Anderson are true? What is a lie? Why is that time jump right in the middle of the interview? And why is the whole scene located in the middle of the anticipated bomb explosion? So many unanswered questions. Let me add a bit more (probably not new either):
1. Sherlock says that Moriarty has used a doppelgänger to frame him for the abduction of the children …. why does he assume the corpse of that person would show up in a morgue? Why does Sherlock think the criminal mastermind Jim Morarty is that stupid that he can’t get rid of a corpse thoroughly? So that the dead man is never found again and Sherlock not able to prove himself innocent.2. What did the men, Mycroft sent to ‘intervene with the sniper before he could take the shot’, do? Obviously they waited and watched that sniper until he had lowerd his weapon, dismantled it and stowed it back in his bag - without any haste. Then they let him go away and …. followed him? Then ‘invited him to reconsider’? Are the men in Mycrofts employement amateurs or dilettants? And what does this say about Mycroft himself? He hired them. Does he really have that little 'horse sense’?“The flight of the dead. The plane blows up mid-air. Mission accomplished for the terrorists. Hundreds of casualities, but nobody dies.”
Indeed a very neat plan. Coventry revised but this time without innocent dead victims. Unless …. you take a more closer look:
A plane crash is something very big. Something that goes very public very quickly. Even more so when a terrorist attack is the reason. And a plane doesn’t explode in mid-air and evaporates simply into nothing. There will be 'things’ on the ground that will have to be retrieved. There will be bodies to be identified. Long dead and previously frozen bodies in that case. And there will be a list of all the victims. But most of all there will be the press. Media from all over the world. They will ask questions and they will take interviews. With the victim’s families, their friends, colleagues, acquaintances with politicians and experts and so on. And if they don’t get answers or anything is out of ordeer they will ask even more questions. That means - it isn’t done with fake victims alone. And it isn’t done with fake family, friends, colleagues and acquaintances either. There will come the day when the dead bodies will have to be sent 'home’. Where to I wonder? To their fake villages, their fake towns, their fake cities? Maybe the 'big’ media have lost their interrest a little bit by now. But their will be the local press instead ….Really, this is a bottomless barrel. If you start thinking you will find no end. Mycroft’s plan - that seems so neat and brilliant at first - falls appart very quickly and very thoroughly at a closer look. Collecting the corpses is definitely the easiest part of this plan. Even Reichenbach sounds more plausible than Mycroft’s idea. And it isn’t just that plan either that got canceled due to Sherlock’s mistake. They did already a rehearsal of the 'flight of the dead’.
LESTRADE:
There was a plane crash in Dusseldorf yesterday. Everyone dead.
SHERLOCK: Suspected terrorist bomb. We do watch the news..
MYCROFT:
We ran a similar project with the Germans a while back.Well, and now it seems that the 'flight of the dead’ comes back in S4. Why? What is so special about this 'neat’ and at the same time highly unrealistic masterplan of Mycroft Holmes? Is it coincidence that both Holmes brothers use exactly the same words to describe their plans? Ahhem ….
Is it because both masterplans are fake? This might be true for the Reichenbach Solution. But it is definitely incorrect for the 'flight of the dead’. According to Mycroft an apparently successful rehearsal of the plan did happen in Dusseldorf after all.
What might we deduce about that? As far as I’m concerned … I side with Anderson ….
For more interesting information about Setlock S4 including the flight of the dead listen to: Three Patch Podcast Episode 38: Setlock, I Am Your Father
A deep thank you to @callie-ariane for the scripts.
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Good point. The Coventry ish flight plan doesn’t make a lot of sense.
Why the Big Fix is a Big Deal but can't end the series
There is a definite conflict between the clear Classic Love Story arc the Sherlock writers have been using, and the Softly, Softly view that we know they have. You see it all the time, people arguing No, no, they wouldn’t make such a Big Deal about the love story, the Confession, the Kiss. That goes against the show they’re trying to make. And I get it, I get the tension there. I think they are walking a fine line between making the Big Fix they feel is aching to finally be made (which *will*, no doubt, shock many) and sending the message that the Big Fix isn’t in fact a Big Deal, that it should have been that way all along, in fact that it’s really *been* that way all along and just wasn’t seen.
I absolutely one point that @delurkingdetective made (if I’m remembering right), that they’re not only fixing, but they’re simultaneously demonstrating why the fix is necessary, what the audience’s misconceptions are. They’re also doing tons I think to put the fix *in context*, even though theoretically they didn’t have to. So although I know the creators aren’t afraid of audience reaction, and they won’t bow to audience wishes, I do think they have a particular story they are telling that has always involves some level of that context. This is why I think it’s so so crucial not to have the Kiss end the series, not to make their Big Fix *that* much of a *Big Deal*. They bothered to show in TAB that these two were meant to be together back in 1895. The message isn’t just “Hey, we finally got these two together after all these years!”, it’s more “Hey, we finally got these two together after all these years AND look! Nothing changes. They’re the same. Everything is the same. Because they were always meant to be together. It was under the surface in every single adaptation you ever watched.” So I really think it’s crucial to show the adventure and crime solving (the surface level of what the show is About) continuing after they’ve gotten together. And yeah even the drama can continue, I think they’ll be separated again after. You just can’t wait 2-3 years after the Kiss to show them being Normal. And not just to pre-empt the idiots spending that time saying the show has been ruined, but because it’s *part* of the Big Fix. It’s a key component of the Big Fix, and I think they’ve always planned it that way. Life goes on. Sexuality isn’t everything (even though they’ve temporarily made it everything, in a way, because wrongs needed to be righted). In the ideal world you would simply have that detective come home and have their boyfriend say how was your day, but the world isn’t quite ideal yet, is it? (I even see people argue that the ultimate softly is not to ever make it explicit at all for this reason, as part of their “keep it as fic” arguments, and just $&#%¥)
I’ve always thought (ever since they said that about starting younger than other adaptations did) that they intend to basically do their own Granada-esque series, except have it happen after the Fix (the simultaneously momentous and incidental Fix), happened at the younger ages, This is what I think both Series 5 and the one-offs after series 5 will effectively be, unless they really leave some stuff in their current arc to wrap up in S5. I know people really think it’s a 5-part arc. And yes I do think they will have the one offs later; they’ve all said repeatedly they want to do this until they’re old, and they love it, and the time it takes is just plain not a huge deal.
September 10, 2016
tjlcisthenewsexy:
deducecanoe:
dorkkybatch:
Mummy Holmes...
Mummy Holmes doesn’t mess around.
Mycroft’s like pondering if he should just say she’s drinking tea in the next room. Just to start shit. Because the minute you get into your childhood home you are instantly twelve.
Okay I just realised Mummy Holmes is carrying a basket overflowing with crackers, there’s almost a bomb’s worth of dynamite in there (because ‘the dynamics of combustion’)
Give us monstrous mummy in S4!
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