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Official List of TJLC Explained Video Topics

softsons:

Since I’m getting constant asks of requests and suggestions (most of which are already planned) I figured I’d make a list of everything that I’m planning to do so you know what’s coming up. In the future, to save mine and everyone else’s time, if I don’t answer a request ask you can assume I was already planning on talking about it. As you can see I have the fewest counter argument ideas so if you have suggestions for those I’m all ears. I hope this works for everyone!

Episode Breakdowns
A Study in Pink

The Blind Banker

The Great Game

A Scandal in Belgravia

The Hound of Baskerville

The Reichenbach Fall

Many Happy Returns

The Empty Hearse

The Sign of Three

His Last Vow

The Abominable Bride (this one is probably gonna be a few vids lets be real)

Counter-Arguments
Sherlock is gay (including Irene discussion)

John is Bi (including Mary discussion)

In Depth Topics
Phone/Heart metaphor

Food=Sex metaphor
Mirroring
Deerstalker=fake (straight) public perception
Guns are dicks
Drink Code
Mary is Moran/Moriarty

Soundtrack songs and what they mean
Numbers in Sherlock (57, 1895, etc.)
TPLOSH References in Sherlock

Origins of TJLC (aka how TSOT changed everything)
How TJLC predicted TAB

Reblogging this for my own reference, but if you hasn’t watched these videos yet, consider this a rec!

quietlyprim:221bgay:“Are recently married couple John and...

quietlyprim:

221bgay:

“Are recently married couple John and Mary Watson (nee Morstan) really the match made in heaven we’ve all been to believe…?”

An excellent screengrab from the Sherlock Uncovered Villians episode

@quietlyprim

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quietlyprim:warmth-and-constancy:quietlyprim:I think because Amanda Abbington is such a...

quietlyprim:

warmth-and-constancy:

quietlyprim:

I think because Amanda Abbington is such a wonderful person I can have like a 5 minute montage in my “Mary Morstan” video where I’m like “don’t take my word for it” and show her just being like “MARY IS A TERRIBLE PERSON”

l would like to submit a formal request for the inclusion of the “Smack My Bitch Up” moment from SDCC

oh trust me that was the FIRST thing that came to mind

Can’t wait to see that one!

monikakrasnorada:fluorescentbluebell:So, I was just watching one of Rebekah’s TJLC vids...

monikakrasnorada:

fluorescentbluebell:

So, I was just watching one of Rebekah’s TJLC vids (wonderful if you haven’t watched them on YouTube), and she mentioned the flower outside the abandoned sweets factory in The Reichenbach Fall. She mentioned it’s a rhododendron, and that they stand as a warning for danger. Know what popped into my head? (And I paused the video so I hope I’m not just rehashing her):

The pin and the necklace. WE ARE STILL BEING WARNED ABOUT MARY. Her evil has nothing to do with whatever CAM had on her.

That rhododendron reference has always haunted my nightmares. Why? was it mentioned? It had nothing to do with what was going on, there was no other reference to it. Ever. @ebaeschnbliah @tjlcisthenewsexy @isitandwonder

byebyefrost:sherlobsessed:fuckoff-imacting:HE IS SO CUTE...

byebyefrost:

sherlobsessed:

fuckoff-imacting:

HE IS SO CUTE SO SO CUTE

@byebyefrost

Oh yes. He’s THE CUTEST. To watch this programme is to fall irrevocably in love with him

quietlyprim:who’s gonna tell her she can’t say that

quietlyprim:

who’s gonna tell her she can’t say that

welcome to TJLC positivity!

tjlcpositivity:

welcome to the tjlc positivity blog.

we all know there’s been a lot of negativity towards tjlc and people involved in it. this is a space for all those who believe in tjlc, enjoy discussing it with other tumblr users, writing meta, drawing fanart, or anything else tjlc-related to express their positive experiences of the tjlc community.

for an explanation of tjlc we recommend watching rebekah quietlyprim’s tjlc explained series.

so what’s this blog for?

imagine you’ve had a shit day. or you’ve had horrible anons in your askbox, making you doubt the impact tjlc has had on the bbc sherlock fandom and its community. this is a place for you to come to to feel better in all those instances. here will be the stories of people positively affected by tjlc, appreciative posts from one tjlc fan to another and just general positivity, relating to the johnlock conspiracy.

what’s allowed?

everything! that includes

asks and submissions just saying how much you love tjlc

asks and submissions about why tjlc matters to you
graphics and moodboards about happiness and tjlc
asks and submissions saying how much you appreciate another person in tjlc
asks and submissions from when you just randomly thought of tjlc and it made you happy
anything and everything that’s positive and related to tjlc!

what’s not?

while general positivity blogs are a-ok, this is not one. this is a blog specifically about people who want to read positive things about the johnlock conspiracy, so only tjlc-related content please.

negative messages will simply be deleted and not acknowledged at all.

general housekeeping

if you have a suggestion to me, personally, as the admin of this blog, put an asterisk in front of it and ask it off anon. all suggestions on how we can improve content and make it more positive and more tjlc are welcome! 

i hope people are okay with this idea and i hope it kicks off. here’s to positivity and the johnlock conspiracy

Is Sherlock Running Scenarios?EMP/EDT in HLV and TAB

isitandwonder:

keyscodesandmotifs:

Inspired by tjlcisthenewsexy’s John’s Choice meta and xistentialangst’s EMP - Just Might Be meta, I’ve been going back over HLV and TAB (and even TSoT) looking for clues that help to either prove or disprove the Extended Mind Palace or Extended Dream Time. I did find some interesting things and came up with a few theories.

If we assume that the vow of “His Last Vow” is this line of Sherlock’s from TSoT:

“… here in front of you all, my first and last vow. Mary and John: whatever it takes, whatever happens, from now on I swear I will always be there, always, for all three of you.”

Then HLV must refer to Sherlock taking care of and protecting John and Mary (and the baby). Perhaps after Mary shoots him and he is in his morphine induced dreams in the hospital, he is running scenarios to figure out how can keep that vow and then, going deeper, realizing he might not be able to.

Remember this from The Empty Hearse:

SHERLOCK: I calculated that there were thirteen possibilities once I’d invited Moriarty onto the roof.

…(Sherlock rapidly looks around the roof and all the surrounding buildings, visually calculating trajectories, angles and even the possibility of a ladder being lowered from a helicopter.)

SHERLOCK (voiceover): The first scenario involved hurling myself into a parked hospital van filled with washing bag…….

So we have precedent that Sherlock runs through different options visually, with detail whether you want to call this Mind Palace or not) when he is trying to decide on a course of action.

So lets say that in HLV Sherlock plays out the scenario where he protects Mary even at the cost of his own life. He sees by the end of this scenario that he will still be leaving John in danger if he chooses that path.

Now let’s look at TAB.  One of the mirroring theories for TAB (and I’m sorry but I can’t find the original posts) was that Lady Carmichael was a mirror for John and Sir Eustace a mirror for Mary. In this scenario, Sherlock is looking at what would happen if he doesn’t protect Mary from the people in her past. Would John blame him?

LADY CARMICHAEL: You promised to keep him safe. You promised! (The maids take hold of her arms.)

LADY CARMICHAEL: You … (Holmes stares wide-eyed at her as she begins to sob. He turns away.)

LADY CARMICHAEL: You promised!

An interesting point - Holmes never really promises. Here’s what he had said:

HOLMES: Now, listen: you must go home immediately. Doctor Watson and I will follow on the next train. There’s not a moment to lose. Sir Eustace is to die tonight.

WATSON: Holmes!

HOLMES: … and we should … probably avoid that.

WATSON: Definitely.

HOLMES: Definitely avoid that

Seems like “promise” from TAB fits better with, “I swear” from his vow in TSoT.  This is showing that past conversations and ideas influence the scenarios he creates.

Then we have this from the initial consult with Lady Carmichael:

LADY CARMICHAEL: I – I thought long and hard as to what to do, but then, er, it occurred to me that my husband was an acquaintance of your brother and that, perhaps through him …

That sounds very familiar.

JOHN: I’ve thought long and hard about what I want to say to you.

(He draws in a long breath through his nose as she raises her eyes to him.)

JOHN: These are prepared words, Mary.

Now we could have this callback just to make the mirroring connection of Lady Carmichael to John, but what’s really interesting is that other callbacks in TAB seem to be because SHERLOCK is making the connections (like “dead is the new sexy”) and he gives Sir Eustace characteristics that he sees in Mary (dismissive, emotionally abusive, secret past) and Lady Carmichael characteristics he sees in John (insightful and caring).  But Sherlock was not in the room when John said “I’ve thought long and hard” to Mary.

So is that from his previous script/scenario that he ran in his EMP/EDT?

Transcripts by Ariane DeVere 

tagging @tjlcisthenewsexy, @xistentialangst, @isitandwonder, 

@ebaeschnbliah

trying to tag @monikakrasnorada but it’s not working

Nice work @keyscodesandmotifs! You mentioning Sherlock running through different options in TEH in regard to The Fall reminded me that he does it again in HLV - when he and John are about to break into CAM Tower: The first option is to use a card that identifies as wrong and being dragged away by security to get his head kicked in. Then, as Sherlock ponders the second option - the card reading as corrupted - the guards just vanish.

Sherlock says to John in this scene ‘Do we really need so much colour?’ as John mentions the kicking… but we don’t see it. So Sherlock definitely incorporates John’s ideas into his visual run through but not to the last bit. When conscious Sherlock seems able to filter what he wants to see / experience. He’s in charge.

I love this! Especially this:  

So we have precedent that Sherlock runs through different options visually, with detail whether you want to call this Mind Palace or not) when he is trying to decide on a course of action.

So true. And that goes way back, things like when Sherlock says “I can see three, no four possible ways it was done.” That would definitely support the idea of him running through scenarios in his head/dream state.

Interesting!

Some Theories on S4, S5, and Narrative Structure

someabominablemeta:

tjlcisthenewsexy:

someabominablemeta:

So I haven’t been keeping up with Set!lock or fandom metas… I fucked off to my main fandom not too long after TAB. But I’ve recently become Sherlock obsessed again, and I’ve finally grasped a lot of narrative structure things (shameful for a writer, I know) so I thought I’d make a predictions essay based on narrative structure.

So of course, in basic plot structure you have:

1. Hook
2. 1st Plot Turn
3. Pinch Point 1
4. Midpoint
5. Pinch Point 2
6. 3rd Plot Turn
7. Climax
8. Denoument

(7 and 8 are sometimes broken down into Black Moment | Climax | Denoument {the wrap up})

I’m working off the assumptions that they’ve got a five series arc planned, and also that M-Theory is real. (And Johnlock of course, duh.)

So this puts things something like this:

ASiP - The Hook + Inciting Incident. 
TBB
TGG - First plot point.

ASiB
THoB
TRF - First pinch point. 

TEH
TSOT - Midpoint Reversal. 
HLV

TAB - 2nd Pinch. 

???1 - 2nd Pinch.
???2
???3 - 3rd Plot Point 

???1
???2 - Black Moment into Climax.
???3 - Climax into Resolution.

The Hook + Inciting Incident. John and Sherlock meet, the introduction to the series and it’s themes. 

First plot point. And by that I mean the real introduction to Moriarity and his evil plots that continue through the entire series. 

First pinch point. Pinch points are kind of difficult for me to define even now, but basically, they are there to remind you of what’s at stake. They give a character an opportunity to show what his core is, and often they give him the means to make a choice that will define him and his arc. You can also use pinch points as a reminder of the nature of the bad guy. Anyway, TRF does both. Sherlock is directly reminded of how ruthless and crazy Moriarity is while affirming that Sherlock, indeed, has a heart - and that specifically that John is very important to him. But in this stage, Sherlock is also still not comfortable communicating and still doesn’t recognize all of his emotions for what they are. 

Midpoint Reversal. TSOT is smack dab in what many presume to be the entire series, and you can’t get a better midpoint reversal in a romance arc than the hero marrying someone else. Midpoint Reversal means that the circumstances of the story reverse - in this case, things have been looking well for John and Sherlock throughout the series, even in TEH really, but then you have Mary knocking everything askew. 

2nd Pinch. I’ve listed the 2nd Pinch here because TAB was *huge* in moving along Sherlock’s arc and showing who he really is.


But I do think it’s possible that the pinch will carry over into the beginning of the first episode of S4, possibly with a love declaration of some sort, and of course, some Moriarity event. 

3rd Plot Point - At the third plot point, you reveal your final piece of information. I mean, case fic is one thing for the rest of the show, but this would be the moment you reveal your final “omg” fact that you need to get you to the climax and beyond. In this case, since I ascribe to M-Theory, I think that this is when it will be revealed that Mycroft has been caught in Moriarity’s web. I also believe that Moriarity is coming back (but we’ll probably get a glimpse of him before this). It’s either Moriarity, or it’ll be a double whammy and if there’s someone behind Moriarity, that’ll come out here. I have other reasons for believing it’s Moriarity, but for the purposes of this post, it’s because you don’t change main villains in the middle of a story! It could be that Mycroft dies here, as well, possibly in a redemption arc. 

Black Moment into Climax. If we haven’t visited The Three Garridebs in S4, then I think they’ll be saving it for the Black Moment, and then propelling that into the Climax of the series. If Mycroft is going to die and doesn’t die in S4, then I think the Black Moment will also include Mycroft’s death after some sort of redemption arc. Note that I don’t think that Mycroft *needs* a redemption arc in terms of he’s not actually a villain - but I believe that Mycroft would believe he needs one. 

Climax into Resolution - This is pretty self explanatory, but I just wanted to mention that I think we’ll get some sort of ending with John and Sherlock in the country with the bees, romance firmly established. 

This is awesome. About that midpoint reversal; I love that we get Sherlock’s romantic revelation of dropping the champagne glass one moment, then he literally says “Part Two” as he jumps over the table (crossing a threshold), telling us that we’re entering part two of our story. This moment is also in the middle (ish) of the episode (about the two thirds mark, I think). 

I’m curious about the second pinch point, because I think you’re bang on that it’s TAB, plus the beginning of S4, but does Mary shooting Sherlock count as a plot point? Or is it the start of the second pinch point? Because while it’s an injection of new information, it’s also a “what’s at stake” moment, where we see the consequences of the choices our characters have made. So do you think the entire second pinch point could be a “this is what’s at stake when you don’t choose wisely”? And you said it could involve a love declaration, so could that be about John and Sherlock both choosing each other over their facades? Like… Sherlock tosses the deerstalker as a symbol of throwing away his facade, and meanwhile John chooses Sherlock over Mary (during the missing months perhaps)? All during the timeline of the missing months+TAB+beginning of S4? Because each of them choosing each other could certainly lead to a love declaration like you say, or even perhaps an unspoken committment which will then lead up to a declaration in Ep 2? (or 3).

I hope that makes sense. I love your analysis <3

Part Two! I love it :)

Mmm… honestly I don’t think Mary shooting Sherlock counts as a major plot point within the greater narrative structure. I mean, it definitely is a plot point, and it’s necessary to move things along re: Sherlock’s arc. But I don’t see it as being a major plot point for the entire series. Does that make sense? 

But in terms of structures… I mean there’s the greater narrative arc, then the season narrative structures, and then the episodic narrative structures. So I’d see Mary shooting Sherlock to be a major plot point within the season and episode structures. (I may go and chart some of those just for fun. Depends on how much work I get done today :) 

I think we’ll probably get some flashbacks into those missing months, but I don’t think that the months themselves will figure into the second pinch re: love declaration. That is, I don’t think that HLV would have gone that way if there had already been a commitment/declaration - I see S4 picking up from the tarmac and any declaration coming after that. 

Oh! Also I wanted to add that I’d read someone’s narrative structure meta earlier, and then closed out my tabs :( But someone pointed out that in romance plots, the 3rd plot point often has the characters breaking up with each other. I’d like to say on record that I don’t currently think this will happen. We’ve already had Sherlock leaving in TRF and John marrying Mary. I don’t see them turning away from each other now - and I see Sherlock’s awakening in TAB giving rise to more communication from his part, not less. 

Yes. When John marries Mary, that’s already the “boy loses girl” part of the romantic arc. (It’s boy gets girl, boy loses girl, boy gets girl back in the most simplistic of romance arcs). Sherlock appears to have lost John forever at that point, esp with baby on the way. So we should see Sherlock get John back next. Not sure how fast it’ll be though.

constancecare:Since @ruther2 on twitter has talked about it on...

constancecare:

Since @ruther2 on twitter has talked about it on spoilercast, here is a compilation of what we know about the wedding/christening that was filmed at Margam Park Orangery on April 15th.

We have twitter confirmation that Louise Brealey, Una Stubbs, and Rupert Graves were on set as well as Martin Freeman, Amanda Abbington, and Benedict Cumberbatch.

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