EMP, Planes, And What It All Means

isitandwonder:

gosherlocked:

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.