Maybe I’m just in denial
but unless there is some magical fourth episode to fix everything I think we should legitimately consider that the BBC squashed the idea of airing a gay romance. Consider:
I’m going to assume that everything was on-track through S3 and TAB because really nothing but TJLC explains that part of the narrative
BBC has some serious funding issues now. Sherlock is a massively successful show with an international following. Sure, BBC may have been fully onboard when whey the show started with a pilot and two relatively low-profile actors, but things have changed.
Mark and Steven and Sue are being soldiers, and they are going down with this ship. So they wrote and produced a bizarre S4 that is fun (for the majority of the audience) on first go through but rapidly falls apart with any analysis. They either get the show canceled or convince BBC to let them go back to telling their story
There was no foreshadowing of the content of The Final Problem…why the heck was that title such a spoiler that they had to release it late?
Mary’s totally implausible death and not even remotely explained character redemption
The combination of editing and transitions that will probably win awards combined with sloppy work like cameras in frame in TST and disappearing blood during the morgue scene in TLD
What is Sherlock’s recurring dream, or the content of the note from John? Eurus shoots John but it’s just a tranquilizer (and why)?
All the water and deep memories but Sherlock has no memory of what happened?
Also…just all of the plot?
So I am just going to believe for now that they are trying to tell us not to believe this is the story they wanted to tell.
Mark going on about warm paste and saying that “Sherlock” is the villain of S4 - and the victim of it’s own success
Mark apparently in tears about the hug during the TLD screening Q&A because it wasn’t the culmination he wanted
With Brexit and all the political and funding stuff maybe at comic con they still didn’t know that the story was going to have to change
Easter eggs for us about acronyms and drink code
I know people are angry about queerbaiting and the “who you are doesn’t matter”…but consider that they are just as angry as we are and lashed out.
Anyway thats enough ranting for now. Maybe it is just queerbaiting, but this theory makes me just the tiniest bit less mad so I’m sticking with it for now.
I literally had a moment in TST when I thought Moftiss was trying to imply that what happened to Charlie (died before he could come out) had happened to the show :/
If any of this is true, surely it’ll come out?
