Mr. Boddy Did It

"It's not possible for the victim to have actually done it, Sherlock."

[bob-belcher]

'Brooklyn Nine-Nine' Eyes New Life After Fox Cancellation

Hulu, TBS, NBC and Netflix have expressed interest in the now former Fox comedy.

In the Peak TV world, one network’s canceled show may be another’s new arrival. Such could be the case for Brooklyn Nine-Nine which, hours after being canceled at Fox after a five-season run, has become the talk of the industry with other outlets taking notice of the worldwide outpouring of support.

Sources tell The Hollywood Reporter that Brooklyn Nine-Nine producers Universal Television have fielded a number of incoming calls from other outlets including Hulu (where the Andy Samberg comedy has an SVOD deal), Netflix (which has business with the studio including Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt), TBS (whose president, Kevin Reilly, developed the series) and network sibling NBC.

Sources note that the studio has plans to fight to revive the series at another outlet following the wave of support from critics and stars including Lin-Manuel Miranda and Mark Hamill, among countless others. Universal Television declined comment.

[youdontoutgrowpunk]

@fox yall really fucked up huh

[marcespot]

Sherlock’s reverencial silence.

As if this moment wasn’t already painful enough, I wanted to relive it from Sherlock’s pov. Look at the reverencial way in which he watches John make such intimate confession. Live those eternal seconds of silence from Sherlock’s perspective and tell me he doesn’t treat John’s feelings with the outmost respect, patience and understanding. He gives John the time and space he needs, watchful for the right moment to step in to offer him comfort.

The most human human being, indeed.

[sherlock-pressure-point]

i’m crying now

[thelostsmiles]

This is it. This right here. This is who Sherlock is. Now you know.

[brokenxbucky-blog]

plot twist: bullet misses Sherlock and Mary, breaks aquarium glass. cue the fight with sharks.

[mrbodydidit]

ben c: sherlock loves john

fandom: *inarticulate screaming*

TJLCers: *raises eyebrow*

fandom: *sets room on fire*

TJLCers: *sips tea quietly*

fandom: *throws laptop out window*

TJLCers: ...

TJLCers: so going back to an absurdist reading of series 4, applying brecht's techniques of dramatic symbolism, what is the function of the glowing skull?

[aa-ww-deactivated20180826]

[sidneypagget]

this was the mood for like 6 months

[keagan-ashleigh]

true I’m going to put my tinfoil hat on, because that’s the mood: the painting looked so real, to reveal the truth it only took one little detail that required an extended knowledge about a very specific subject to spot it (or in  Sherlock’s case a little bit of luck, being attentive, and a good memory). If s4 is fake, then it’s kinda the same, people don’t see the trick because they don’t see that tiny anomaly that is glaring for people who have an extended knowledge of the subject that is narration + characterization + subtext in Sherlock. In other words: people wouldn’t know it’s fake unless they catch the anomaly, because the whole picture looks genuine. That is a pretty nice parallel.

[immaculate-benediction-batch]

Its that damn sherlock skull..

[bulecelup]

Avengers Academy AU Doctor Strange / Everett Ross!!

I hope they’ll add Everett for real in the future. also I wish he and T’challa are best buddies www

[fellshish]

The Five Pips

I believe Moftiss are playing the Great Game for us, and they have laid out the groundwork in their season 1 episode aptly entitled The Great Game ;) They did, after all, draw attention to the five pips again in TAB, which is leading me to believe that the show is following a five structure arc, in five seasons. If the five pips in TGG were a form of foreshadowing, here is how I think it has played out so far:

Season 1: Like the first pip, the Carl Powers Case. This case ties Moriarty and Sherlock together as arch enemies that go way back (to Sherlock’s “very first case”), just as season 1 established them to be.

Season 2: Like the second pip, Janus Cars helping a man fake his death. I mean… Season 2 is literally leading to Sherlock faking his death.

Season 3: Like the third pip, tv personality Connie Prince gets murdered because the housekeeper didn’t want to abandon his lifestyle with the brother. Connie represents the media here, as did Magnussen, who got murdered because Sherlock didn’t want John to have to change his lifestyle.

Season 4: Like the fourth pip, where the painting is a fake. Season 4 is a fake, and we have to figure out why.

Season 5: Like the fifth pip, John Watson’s life being threatened by Moriarty. My deduction: John Watson is definitely in danger…

EDIT: This idea has been explored more extensively by @Sagestreet, go and read it

[sarahthecoat]

YES, this is not the first time i have seen the connections drawn between the five pips and five series, but i like your take on it.

[monikakrasnorada]

Yes, @fellshish. This has long been a fandom theory but I love that you are bringing it back to the forefront here. The way you’ve laid it out makes all the more sense. John’s life will definitely be in danger in S5.

[nightingveilxo]

In T6T, Sherlock becomes left-handed, and John becomes right-handed, but only in scenes with Lestrade. Related to Nothing to Edit or How Lestrade Helps the Editing Process.

[mrskolesouniverse-deactivated20]

Oh my freaking god, what an amazing observation. One more fact to the list of all mirrored/distorted images from S4

[whimsicalethnographies]

What the fuck

[wildflower182]

Do you remember at the beginning of Secret Window the camera goes through the mirror and only comes back out at the finale? The audience literally got taken through the looking glass & saw everything from the protagonist’s skewed perspective. 

Did we follow the white rabbit from ASIP through the looking glass into the Wonderland of s4 wher nothing makes sense and the characters are inconsistent [john doesn’t hold a grudge (against mary), yet kicks sherlock while he’s on the ground, mary sacrifices herself, mycroft is squeamish, neither john nor mycroft protest of move a muscle when sherlock threatens to shoot himself etc)

[sherlockshadow]

This.

[monikakrasnorada]

Holy shitballs, @221bloodnun!!! That is a catch!!! It’s freaking Bizarro world!!! @gosherlocked @ebaeschnbliah @tjlcisthenewsexy. I know this is right up your strasse. 

[antisocial-otaku]

WHAT THE FUCK? amazing @221bloodnun I didn’t notice. It’s all mirrored. John an mary in bed, Sherlock & John possitions at the final scene of TFP, etc, etc.

[nightingveilxo]

I added a note on that didn’t make it into most of the reblogs, and it does involve the bed scenes (both versions). @antisocial-otaku @monikakrasnorada @whimsicalethnographies @mrskolesouniverse @sherlockshadow @wildflower182 Sherlock even takes John’s phone away with his right, then passes it over to his own left, to continue Face Timing with Mary. Lestrade is on that side of Sherlock. I did take into account things like tables, proximity of other people or objects, etc. Ex: Not counting John alone reaching for his phone with right hand, because to use the left would require an awkward backward reach to the bedside table, and not counting his passing paper to Lestrade, because Lestrade is already seated on his right, so using the right would make sense. I have a separate meta about the TLD scene that is partially filmed from the perspective of the mirror over the mantelpiece in 221B, but I’m on mobile right now.

[sherlockshadow]

I need to rewatch TST. This is some brilliant stuff. John with his heart in his right and Sherlock with his heart in his left…like that’s love. 😍

[impossibleleaf]

Ah, but is John Watson 100% left-handed?

And the worst imo:

As you can see, he has no problem using his left hand and then using the right one for the exact same task. Make up your mind for god sake!

Sherlock is using his left hand a couple of times to drink because he’s holding his phone in his right hand but John? He has no excuse.

Moreover, if we follow Sherlock’s logic on how to deduce a lefty, the whole thing points how John is not one. Well, not entirely.

SHERLOCK: Tea stains from the bottom of mugs, where he’s been resting them on the arm of that chair. The leftarm. Pad and paper on the leftside of his phone, means he could hold it in his right hand and take messages with his left… All his expensive, favourite suits on the left side of his wardrobe, because he’d open the left-hand door.

If we follow this logic, even the little table next to his chair should be on his left. Sure, we can take a Doylist approch and say “filmography”! We need to see the scene from this angle so now you’re right-handed bu, as you can see, this doesn’t explain all the facts.

Why would John even be left-handed? Sometimes, one take a glass with his left hand, sometimes with his right one. Why should he even have to say which way he swings?

Sometimes, you just want to punch someone with your right hand.

Or you shoot your gun with your right hand. Van Coon supposedly was murdered because a lefty would never kill himself by putting the gun in his left hand on his right temple but guess what? Nothing was stopping him from placing the gun in his right hand. John does that all the time.

John Watson is bi ambidextruous.

Or maybe he’s a lefty who’s learnt to adapt in a right-handed world. He’s learnt how to fight, how to carry a gun by well-meaning right-handed people and that’s why that’s how he fights.

[nightingveilxo]

The unfortunate thing about Sherlock’s logic is that it’s often wrong. I’m a lefty that had to adapt, and he makes some assumptions he shouldn’t. It’s not uncommon at all for lefties to use their right for shooting and punching, so they don’t hurt their dominant hand. When that episode aired, he did get slammed by a few reviewers for making the gun assumption. And yes, sometimes John trades out, but the part about Lestrade got lost in some of this. I’m working on a series of meta about him, and his influence on events. Except for the two instances named in my added note above (and even one of them if we figure it’s easier to hand over paper using the hand closest to the person), John keeps using his left in T6T (even for his phone), and Sherlock is usually consistent with his right for his phone. Something about Lestrade changes things, but only in this episode. @impossibleleaf

[disregardedletters]

Moriarty in the very last seconds of Behind 221B: The Final Problem video in the Sherlock Series 4 behind the scenes. 

@welovethebeekeeper, @just-sort-of-happened @the-7-percent-solution, @inevitably-johnlocked @tjlcisthenewsexy @marcespot

[disregardedletters]

Going back to the idea of s4 being an embellished retelling of the past, this certain scene parallels very nicely with the end of hlv

[holmesianscholar]

Yo WHAT is the point of this

[words-in-starless-skies-deactiv]

Have you seen this. It’s hilarious

[heimishtheidealhusband]

Real talk I laughed till I cried, mandatory reblog

[skulls-and-tea]

[jon-lox]

alright i had to stop at this point in this genius gifset and just stomp around my room because reading this felt like a vertebra clicking into place in my spine

“romantic entanglements” is such a specific phrase and it appears in these incredibly climactic scenes. both of these emotionally charged conversations are prompted by john’s searching questions.

let’s say i did believe that mark and steven’s “insane wish fulfillment” idea they had since the beginning was to give sherlock holmes’s personality the context of his long lost sister killing his best friend. then these two scenes — specific, repetitive, and obvious dramatic parallels — would make zero sense. the fact that they make zero sense would bother me less if these scenes didn’t matter so goddamn much in their respective episodes. even as a casual viewer, you know there is a breakthrough on the horizon during these moments.

sherlock’s confessions are always are aborted; by the case in TAB and by john’s self-loathing in TLD. the confession is aborted, yes, but THIS WHOLE CONVERSATION is interrupted, unresolved. (and don’t get me started on HLV’s aborted love confession). it cannot be resolved by sherlock having a conversation with someone else, it has to be a scene exactly like this — man-to-man, alone with john.

i have to tell you, some days i waver and think, “maybe they’re just terrible asshole writers. maybe they think people wouldn’t notice. maybe they’re counting on people not thinking this hard about this story.” but then someone like @afishlearningpoetry​ will lay all the evidence out like this and i’m just like. “of course. of course they’re going to be together.”

there will be a third conversation. and there will be a kiss at the end.

[welovethebeekeeper-deactivated2]

I had the same epiphany.

[may-shepard]

I am not big on predictive argumentation because people have been hurt and disappointed in this exact context before, but for real, these two scenes represent the first two beats of a three-part structure. In a classic three-beat, the first establishes the pattern (John makes intrusive statements; Sherlock talks about romantic entanglements in a negative way; they are interrupted); the second expands on that pattern (same dynamic, but this time it’s clear it is about them: John makes intrusive statements; Sherlock talks about romantic entanglements in a negative way but tries to make the conversation about his feelings for John; John blurts his confession about himself, interrupting).

The third beat (if there were to be one), repeats the pattern and inverts it. Maybe Sherlock will make the intrusive statements; maybe he will tell John he’s been lying to himself about romantic entanglements; most definitely, there will be no interruption this time.

This is a tried and true structure so ingrained, we can hardly fail to expect it. A writer who withholds the third beat is letting down their audience. I personally can’t imagine mofftiss suddenly being *this* absolutely terrible at their craft. We’ll see? We’ll see.

[mrskolesouniverse-deactivated20]

This is my favorite post on this site, by the way

[meta-lock]

Three-beat structure - absolutely, finally it can be told in the third repeat.

[shamelessmash]

@may-shepard @jon-lox @meta-lock If this turns out to be correct, which would be AWESOME, I somehow tend to believe the intrusive statement Sherlock could make about John’s romantic entanglements in a negative way may refer to John’s most recent partner.

… You know, the partner that killed saved Sherlock.

[may-shepard]

Ah! Thanks for bringing this post back, Mash! (ily!)

And oooOOOOOooo for the additional speculation, how delicious!

[sociopathicsherlock-blog]

Eurus’ eyes counteract with the theory that The Final Problem is all in John’s mind. The last thing John would have seen would have been Eurus with a gun just before she shot him.

John would have to then imagine a little girl that he has never seen before. He would have to imagine Sherlock and Mycroft imagining a little Eurus. He would also have to imagine a Eurus within Sherrinford.

But John doesn’t know what Eurus actually looks like so he pictures Eurus looking different twice. When Eurus is little he pictures her with hazel eyes and light brown hair cut in a bob with bangs. When Eurus is older he pictures her to have long dark hair with icy blue eyes.

The last thing John sees before falling into a trance is Eurus with one contact in and one contact out: one eye blue and one eye brown. John doesn’t truely know what Eurus looks like so he has to use his imagination to picture her.

Theory thought up w/ @sick-pineapple and @johnholmescouldwork.

[femlocks]

[graceebooks]

[sherlock-totally-loves-john]

My moms reaction to Sherlock S4

For clarification : My mom is a super casual viewer but she knows I ship Johnlock. After we rewatched S 1-TAB she low key ships them, too. (but she doesn’t know about tjlc) She doesn’t speak English so we watched it in german. Everything in this post is translated.

The six thatchers

Sherlock pretends he doesn’t know Thatcher: Mom (suspicious): Why is he pretending?

Car seat boy: Mom: Is this real? That’s the weirdest thing I’ve ever seen. Me (in my head): just wait until you’ve watched everything…

Sherlock tells Mary how he found her: Mom: couldn’t they have found her sooner. What did they do the whole time? Were they busy kissing?

Mary gets shot: Mom: WHAT? Lets watch this scene again.

We watched it again: Mom: Tell mevwhat really happened! Me: This is what happened. Mom: NO!

Mary dies Mom: This was obviously staged. It looked like a play.

End of the episode: Mom: Why wasn’t John in this one? The show isn’t called ‘Mary’

The lying detective

Mary appears on screen: Mom: Not her again…

“but he’s our monster” Mom: No Mary, you’re the monster!

“Is cup of tea a code?” Mom: It is a code, isn’t it? Why should they mention it if it’s not? Me: *dies*

John beating up Sherlock: Mom (stops episode): John would never do that. Did Sherlock take that strange memory drug?

After the hug: Mom: Did I miss something? Did they kiss? It looks like it…

End of the episode: Mom: The child is dead. Me: WHAT? WHY? Mom: John imagines his dead wife and now his cjild conveniently disappeares when he’s busy?! The cild is dead.

The final problem:

“Welcome to the final problem” Mom: It’s already satire.

Umbrella-sword-gun: Mom: So when does the real episode start?

Patience granade: Mom: The show is over. Either they’re dead or the show got so unbelievable they should just stop.

Mycroft reveals his captain disguise: Mom: That’s too much! Mom: *stops episode and walks away* (She came back with cookies)

Every time Eurus is on screen: Mom: I don’t get it. Me: me neither. (By the end of the episode it was an inside joke)

Sherlock hugs Eurus: Mom: Why didn’t Sherlock ‘magical hug’ John, after Mary died. The whole second episode could have been avoided.

After the episode : Mom: so they’re married now?