Why this can't be the end
the last thing I want is for people to get their hopes up about the lost special or the missing episode or whatever you want to call it, only to be disappointed again afterwards.
Which is why I wouldn’t write this if I wouldn’t be utterly convinced that this is going to happen. Johnlock is endgame. The series isn’t finished yet. And I’m going to tell you why.
Because it doesn’t make sense.
Ohh sure, that’s a good reason, you might say, why should anyone on the show care about logic or offer any kind of follow-up explanation? After all, they all showed us in the last episode exactly what they think of that.
And you could think of a lot of reasons why they would suddenly change their minds and turn everything around, why TJLC may be dead after all and everything was a lie and didn’t matter etc.
1. Because Mofftiss are assholes.
2. Because they were queerbaiting.
3. Because they chickened out and were afraid to show the real episode.
4. BBC wouldn’t let them do it so they had to alter everything.
5. A trillion other reasons that sound equally inconvincing and quite frankly, short-sighted.
I want to remind you that these people have been producing Sherlock for seven years now. Seven years. They put hard work into it, told us again and again that every little detail matters.
Metas written by brilliant fans predicted whole episodes based on said meta which concentrated on those tiny little details no one else in the main stream media seemed to be able to notice.
Do you truly believe anyone on the show, including the producers, the cast, etc. would all suddenly lose their minds overnight?
Do you really think an experienced actress like Amanda Abbington would really believe Sian Brooke playing more than one character is ‘groundbreaking tv history’ and this is what she meant by that statement? I mean, really?
Btw, Amanda is the only one who reacted on Twitter to questions about the last episode (has anyone made a screenshot of her reply? It has been deleted, which is obviously suspicious because why bother if everything’s over?)
(Btw, here is a list of actors who played more than one character in a tv show, much earlier: https://www.fromthegrapevine.com/arts/actors-who-have-played-more-one-role-same-tv-show
It happens quite frequently, actually. Do you think Mofftiss or Amanda wouldn’t be aware of this?)
‘The pure and simple truth is rarely pure and never simple.’
Going by that statement, and that is the statement they provided us with in the last episode, remember, deliberately chose to remind us of it, what we have seen on Sunday is not the pure and simple truth.
They even told us directly in the episode it’s a quote from the play „The Importance of Being Earnest“. By whom is the play? Why, Oscar Wilde, of course, the man who was sent to prison for ‘homosexual acts‘ in 1895 and who liked to wear green carnations as ‘code’ for other men to recognize his preferences.
Well then, let’s repeat once more what we have seen on Sunday so far:
A ridiculous and out-of-place parody of several famous movies or books, including
a bad imitation of whatever spy movie you can think of:
I wrote this before but here it is again:
This was the epitome of a typically heterosexual horror/action movie.
Two main characters on a death mission: Reminding themselves to be soldiers (perfected with a manly nod and a bro handshake), people dropping like flies because of a super villain no one knew before existed at all and who has the power to command everything and everyone, even the power to make rooms appear out of thin air and make them vanish again, Sherlock walking like a proper gangster whilst holding a huge gun, bad explosions, life or death decisions – could it be more fake?
This feels like a parody because it is.
And now channeling my inner Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and quoting source material (you know, the one which Mofftiss based the whole show on): „Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the truth“.
Is it improbable? Heck, yes. Even die-hard Johnlock fans deleted their blogs or have given up hope. No one expects another episode or case.
They have never done this before.
Why should they start now? Why, at the the very end, the final climax of a show that has been accumulating for seven years now, would they suddenly decide to throw everything over board overnight and forget everything they have ever worked for in these past years?
From a psychological point of view or even only from a logical point of view, it doesn’t make sense. It’s illogical. Therefore, it is impossible. Whatever remains, must be the truth.
There is going to be another case, addressing the not so simple and not so pure truth.
And we all know what that’s going to be about, right?
