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One thing I love about A Scandal in Belgravia is how the episode exposes heteronormativity. We are presented with a man showing absolutely no interest in a woman besides the interest he has in solving the case she’s involved in. He never responds to a single text she sends him until it’s hinted that perhaps his refusal to answer is a sign of interest, then he immediately replies. He keeps telling her not to be flattered by anything he says, not to give him compliments and not to think that he’s interested in ‘having dinner’. Meanwhile, a self-proclaimed lesbian tries to manipulate a man into helping her commit a crime by coming on to him and drops him the moment she gets what she wants (‘Not you, junior, you’re done now’). And yet people still think they’re in love because intelligent hero + sexy intelligent woman = straight romance.
Another thing I love (?) about A Scandal in Belgravia is how the episode exposes indifference to sexual harassment and abuse. This romance that people see is not just between an uninterested man and a manipulative woman. Irene sexually harasses and abuses Sherlock clearly and repeatedly all the way through the episode. She approaches him naked. She personalises her text alert noise to a moan that he can’t switch off. She repeatedly asks him to ‘have dinner’ when he’s quite clearly told her multiple times that he isn’t interested. She texts him repeatedly through a period of several months (that’s called stalking). She repeatedly touches him without his permission - straddling his lap in the nude, caressing his shoulder, touching his hand, kissing his cheek - and every time we see that his reaction is clear discomfort. She continues to come on to him very strongly even after he’s clearly told her not to (‘Please don’t feel obliged to tell me that was amazing or fantastic. John has expressed that sentiment in every variant available to the English language.’ - ‘I would have you right here on this desk until you begged for mercy twice.’) She drugs and hits him, which is assault by any definition and sexual assault when taking into account that she beats him with a riding crop. And yet still people think they’re in love because intelligent hero + sexy intelligent woman = straight romance.
Mark Gatiss on the relationship between Sherlock Holmes and Irene Adler.
JOHN IS ALREADY SO JEALOUS IN S1. ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
His reaction in the first gif is almost the same when Janine kissed Sherlock. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Victorian proof!
Ms. Wenceslas: It’s not a fake. Sherlock: It is a fake. I don’t know why, but there’s something wrong with it.
This is my entry for mid0nz’s contest :) I hadn’t drawn anything Sherlock for a while so I decided to pick one of my favourite lit and framed scenes.
This is a bit different from what I usually do as I don’t really draw full scenes because I get frustrated with all the details, but this was oddly relaxing. I missed drawing this show and I gave it my very best try :) If you look closely you’ll find Mr. Blue Skull in there somewhere ;)
Mary vs. Soo Lin Yao (a.k.a. they knew how to make Mary sympathetic, but they didn’t)
Okay, so I was actually just drafting a different post (about how TST focuses on Mary) when I came to a realization: they knew how to make Mary’s story sympathetic. And I’m not just saying that they hypothetically could have told her story better, I’m saying that we know they are capable of this because they’ve done it before, in the form of Soo Lin’s story from TBB.
The recurring mentions of tattoos in TST was what caught my eye at first: Sherlock tells DI Dimmock that he can identify a limbless corpse based on its tattoos, for “the Circus Torso” case; later, he deduces a client’s feelings towards his Japanese ex-girlfriend based on how much effort the man had put into removing a tattoo of her name. The biggest instance of tattoos on the show was in TBB, where they were used to identify (often deceased) members of the Black Lotus.
…but hang on, wasn’t there also a secret tattoo included in Sherlock’s initial deduction of Mary?
(I’m cracking up at the lucky cat/cat lover connection, but that’s probably irrelevant. The ordering of words also suggests that Mary is “secretly clever,” or maybe has a “secret lover,” *cough*David - but anyway, the “secret tattoo” part is pretty clear.)
Beyond the tattoos, Mary and Soo Lin have quite a few things in common. Both are mysterious women with a shady past, who have managed to blend in and are currently trying to live normal lives in London:
But unfortunately, neither one can escape her past. Interestingly, although they have similar backgrounds, they are painted in different lights: Soo Lin is more of a victim than Mary is; and Mary doesn’t hesitate to leave Sherlock and John out of her plans, while Soo Lin is pretty solitary already, so it’s not really a surprise that she doesn’t confide in Andy.
Both are orphans, involved in an international criminal group (smugglers, assassins) which includes a “family” member. This brother figure comes after them, and ultimately tries to kill them.
The big difference, though, is that Soo Lin and Mary don’t fill their roles in quite the same way. Soo Lin is a Sherlock mirror (dedicated to her work, socially isolated, trying to overcome the negatives of her past), while the Sherlock mirror in TST is Ajay, not Mary. Ajay was betrayed by Mary (remember, Mary deceived Sherlock and then shot him dead), and then brutally tortured (bonus connection: he was tortured by “amo,” or love, which is the same concept that tortured Sherlock/pushed Sherlock through his own torture in Serbia).
Now, I can’t really say whether the viewer is supposed to sympathize with Ajay or Mary (I’ll admit I’m a little biased; weigh in if you’d like), but we’re definitely meant to view Soo Lin as the innocent victim. Mary is a little more ambiguous.
Judging from how the backstory was told, I got the feeling that Mary had screwed Ajay over more than vice versa; he wasn’t coming after her to pressure into rejoining the dark side or whatever, but rather to get revenge for what he perceived as her betrayal. And this, I think, it why we get the divergence in storyline:
Zhi Zhu killed Soo Lin, but Ajay didn’t kill Mary. Instead, she jumped in front of Vivian Norbury’s bullet. (This is probably because she’s a major character, and so her death had to be big, not like Soo Lin’s; it also included a very active element of self-sacrifice, while Soo Lin’s was more passive.) Ajay is killed by a minor character, and Zhi Zhu dies when John kicks the crossbow out of Sarah’s way. Interestingly, both conflicts arise from a case of mistaken identity: John is mistaken for Sherlock, setting off the whole crossbow hostage incident; Ajay mistakes “the Englishwoman” for Mary, propelling him on his mission to track her down. If you look at these two scenes, the pattern is a little more clear: Ajay and Soo Lin (the two Sherlock mirrors) become casualties earlier in the episode, in a mini-climax scene that isn’t the big confrontation; Mary and Zhi Zhu are both killed in the big climax of the episode, by a weapon that was meant to kill someone else. The roles are reversed.
TL;DR: Even though some details are different, the general outline is still the same: Sherlock and John investigates a case that turns out to be linked to an international crime group, and we hear the story from a normal-seeming woman who had managed to escape that life, but who still ends up dead due to her past involvement.
I think that this mirroring was at least partially intentional, since series 4 is full of recycled material (TLD has explicit flashbacks to ASIP; TFP feels inspired by TGG; THOB seems to be echoed in both TST and TLD), but what I find most interesting about it is that it proves that if Mofftiss wanted to show Mary in a sympathetic light, they could have easily done that. TBB shows that they know how to tell that kind of narrative. But instead, they chose to make Mary’s actions more ambiguous, and so many viewers were left feeling slightly uneasy about her character.
(a few more random connections under the cut)
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Just a quick reminder that John and Sherlock literally walk into one another in TBB, that’s like the oldest romantic comedy cliche in the whole world.
Just a quick reminder that John and Sherlock literally walk into one another on Shaftesbury Avenue 20 m from Piccadilly Circus, the exact spot where homosexual men historically would come looking for partners and/or meeting up with their partners.
i too talk to my lock screen sometimes
“[Episode 3] is the culmination of everything we’ve building up for for the past 6 years of Sherlock, all kinds of clues and red herrings are finally paid off in episode three, which features…lots of extraordinary things I can’t tell you anything about, and possibly things will never be the same again.”
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Mark Gatiss, Sherlock Series 4 Preview (x)
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didn’t know I needed John with beard untill now :D
anyway this is sort of a thank you for all of you who followed me bc of johnlock and have stuck by me ever since and also a thank you for ur support bc of the explicit flag
*falls over* This is BEYOND!!!!
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Benedict Cumberbatch as Sherlock Holmes in “The Great Game” - so many pencils in my paperblanks sketchbook, soo many hours. thanks for looking ♡
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