Musing on a Water meta

welovethebeekeeper:

welovethebeekeeper:

I know many of us are working on cracking this one, jus like we did with the tea metaphor, so wanted to post my thoughts in order to add to the endeavour. To be honest I am tired of looking at it. Water is all over the series. Here is where I am at this point:

Rain = In S1 & 2 rain is present when John is called out on his feelings for Sherlock:

Wet floor, post rain, in the meeting with Mycroft at the warehouse in ASiP, Mycroft questions the instant attraction and bonding, hints at it being romantic.

Snow [frozen rain] all the way through the Xmas scenes in ASiB where John is jealous over Sherlock and Irene. Melted snow on ground as he enters Battersea and the confrontation with Irene who calls him out on his relationship with Sherlock

Rain as John meets with Mycroft in ASiB at Speedy’s and they discuss Sherlock’s emotions, and again Mycroft tries to draw John out on his true feelings for Sherlock. John is drenched in this scene, he is so in love by now, that he stops dating after this.

Rain as John is called out on his true feelings for Sherlock by Ella post the fall.  

But here is where I started to get crazy because if the above rain/snow is a metaphor for John’s repressed feelings for Sherlock and he is being asked to face them, then there should be rain at the scene when John goes to Sherlock’s grave!! However, I realised the scene is different, as John confronts his own feelings, allows himself to cry. In the other scenes he is being challenged by others. 

Season 3 is from Sherlock’s perspective and we don’t get the rain/snow metaphor as we move to a different vehicle when viewing Sherlock’s hidden emotions.

As in the tea metaphor which cascaded into a beverage metaphor, the rain metaphor then led me to water in general.

The Waters Family = The primer. The family are criminal and appear to evade the law. I think Water equals crime and criminals.

Myrcroft = The Iceman; frozen, cold, hard, incased in protocol and the British Government. His knowledge and access is far reaching, he KNOWS about crimes and criminals, but manipulates them to his own advantage. He can melt, however, and may do so if the heat is on his little brother which will be his downfall.  The Umbrella; protection from water, he carries it wherever he goes. Protection is part of his power/armour, his position puts him, and those he loves, above the law. I believe in M-theory, and do think Mycroft is under Moriarty’s thumb, so he’s committing crimes within the auspices of government. 

Moriarty = Rich Brook. A brook is a shallow body of water fed by a spring or a source. It’s at the start of the river’s journey, almost the genesis, Moriarty initiates crime, facilitates it, yet remains slow, shallow. Brooks have stones, they babble. Our Moriarty certainly verbally babbles.

CAM = He sweats; he leaks perspiration just as he leaks knowledge, he is a blackmailer. He controls his world by knowing about crimes, just like Mycroft, but they are opposites; Mycroft frozen keeping secrets in his role as the British Government, CAM leaking secrets via his newspaper.

Mary = Wet Jobs; she’s up to her eyes in assassinations.

Then we have the water fowl metaphor.

Sherlock =  Ugly Duckling, his code name from The British Government. A duckling paddles away on the surface of the water, following it’s Mother [Mycroft; a whole childhood in a nutshell] Sherlock solves crimes but only makes little ripples in the great scheme of things in his work as consulting detective. But the original Ugly Duckling tale is really about a cygnet, mistaken for a duckling, and the cygnet grows into a beautiful swan. Sherlock has started to become a swan, we are seeing Sherlock become more; evolving into that ‘Good’ man. Mycroft protects him and so far has kept Sherlock safe [all swans in the UK are protected by Royal order and free to roam under protection of the crown] I feel that Mother Duck will need to be sacrificed in order for this swan to fulfil his full potential.  And of course, our Sherlock is a black swan, he mates for life with another male. The whole arc of BBC Sherlock in a code name. 

[They even have a red bill; the button hole?] 

Reposting due to the water clues we are getting from setlock 4. 

Sharks: graffiti, shark tank at Aquarium 
http://welovethebeekeeper.tumblr.com/post/143573682088/the-sharkArwel’s clapper board which appears submerged in water suggesting  filming underwater. http://welovethebeekeeper.tumblr.com/post/143338016403/underwater-note-the-ink-dissolving-the-particles Have a look at a tank Arwel constructed on Houdini and Doyle: 

Plus we have:

Sherlock alone on Vauxhall Bridge; a bridge over water. Sherlock alone on the banks of The Thames.

Love the black swan imagery!