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“Dad, take those things off! “No, I shan’t. It’s Christmas!”

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Don’t worry if you couldn’t make it San Diego Comic-Con 2017. We’ve got the full Doctor Who panel right here!

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Oh my fuck. It’s happening.

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IT HAPPENED. 

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OH MY GOOOOODDDDDD

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[anotherwellkeptsecret]

Daffodils represent forgiveness, new beginnings and a rebirth.

[the-7-percent-solution]

So we’re told in episode 4 that British intelligence broke the terrorists’ code, but they couldn’t let them know they broke the code so they were going to let the plane fly anyway but instead just filled with dead people – now we realize once The Final Problem gets here, that same plane with the same actress from 5 years earlier is now *flying*, presumably they broke the code but didn’t leak any information about who knows what. So they know the code and are working around it to trick the terrorists into thinking they have the upper hand, only to snatch it away and win in the end.

But what codes could they possibly know about in Series 4? What did they break without telling anyone?

“That poster says the secret will be unleashed March 8th! The other posters in the past series were clues, why wouldn’t this one be?”

“An Easter clue would be perfect considering the Christian symbolism in the show!”

“What about Chekov’s Gun???”

“Why is there vanishing elephant glass??”

“Why ask ‘is tea code’???”

Yeah. It’s almost like the codes all point to one thing but then it doesn’t occur. They know what we know, and are not playing the usual game. That means we should not predict any actual dates or occurrences. If anything extra is to happen, it will be on their time and we’ll have no idea. No use pretending we have any semblance of control.

[timelordthirteen]

It means… life. It means… what the hell.

[not-a-bit-good]

TEH rewatch

ie bloody hell in hindsight it’s obvious what we’re seeing in this episode isn’t real

I’m rewatching TEH after S4, with the mindset that S3 and S4 are Sherlock’s coma dream after he jumped for real from Bart’s rooftop

And. Holy shit! It makes so much sense!

1) The weird “coffee cup to John’s eyes” transition. We knew that this was taken from @ivyblossom‘s “The Progress of Sherlock Holmes”. We failed to notice that the fanfic opens on Sherlock dreaming that John has cups for eyes.

2) In the same scene with Lestrade and Anderson, the way the reporters who tell us Sherlock’s name has been cleared are filmed is… fucky, to say the least. Glitchy. That’s weird. 

3) The “how sherlock survived theories” parodies. In all of them, Sherlock is awfully OOC. Why? Because Mofftiss were pointing out that Sherlock surviving the fall and not telling John is, in itself, OOC, because that would break John’s heart (which Sherlock knows since ASIB). Sherlock didn’t fake his death. SHERLOCK REALLY, ACTUALLY JUMPED, AND IS NOW IN A COMA BECAUSE OF HIS INJURIES.

4) Mycroft as one of Sherlock’s brain hemisphered gives… interesting insights into Sherlck’s psyche.

5) Sherlock just can’t stop thinking about John touching people’s genitals all day as a doctor – aka he’s jealous af of the women John had intimate contact with.

6) Sherlock never says why he didn’t tell John he was alive. Hint: that’s because he’s dreaming, and everyone who’s seen Inception knows that one way to tell whether you are dreaming or not is retracing your steps as to how you got where you are. If you can’t, that means you are either amnesiac, or dreaming.

7) The last restaurant Mary, John and Sherlock visit on the night of Sherlock’s return is suspicious: the lighting is blue. And there’s a useless blue screen on the far wall. Kinda reminds me of the glowing blue skull painting in s4.

8) Sherlock finds “How I did it”, a fake book allegedly written by Jack the Ripper. Hm. The episode itself keeps trying to explain how Sherlock did “it” (ie faked his death). The answer is right fucking there: he didn’t. He really jumped. He’s dreaming, and his subconscious is trying to get him to realise that.

9) LESTRADE: “Please, insult away!”. aka Lestrade taking as a compliment something that ought to be taken as an insult. That’s so reminiscent of his characterisation in TAB, in which we know Sherlock is dreaming/hallucinating, I’m crying laughing. We were so blind.

10) Dreamspeak.

11) The off-switch thing. That’s just plain unbelievable, because that means anyone could deactivate the bomb. It’s in the terrorists interest that only they can deactivate it. Hence, rather than a switch, a code would be more credible.

12) Sherlock’s mind-palace is blown out of proportion. Literally. Sherlock recreates a whole train station in his mind. That’s way different from the last time we saw him using it (THOB), where there was just text and images and sounds superposed to Sherlock’s hand movements in the real world. And every time the mind palace is used after that, it’s the same. Sherlock’s MP takes over Sherlock’s reality. So it should follow that the reality Sherlock is in, is his own mind.

13) Mary is dressed in red. And wearing earrings. Mary is a red herring (because she doesn’t exist and is the dream representation of one of Sherlock’s worst fears: John Watson marrying someone other than him – that’s literally her name: Mary Watson… Marry Watson.)

14) How come the little girl (again!) knows John is in the bonfire before it’s lit, but the crowd around her doesn’t. I mean… John can’t talk, or scream, or anything, so…. Is she a psychic? or something? (Eurus foreshadowing)

15) Sherlock’s parents. His dad doesn’t want to get a chain for his glasses…. because it’d be like Larry Grayson’s, a known gay celebrity? And Sherlock says that his parents’ being “ordinary” is a cross he has to bear… Hm. If that doesn’t spell homophobic parents I don’t know what does.

16) “Sometimes a deception is so audacious, you can’t see it even when it’s staring you in the face”. Sherlock says, with his own reflection on his computer screen. Now, that obviously refers to TJLC… but that could also refer to the fact that Mofftiss have been dropping hints that what we are seeing is not real left and right. And that gets even more obvious in the following episodes.

17) Science fiction heart-shaped bomb. No, really. That thing would look more at home on the USS Enterprise than in a more “realistic” show like BBC Sherlock.

18) An abandoned/never actually built train station… with the lights on. And live electricity. I’m skeptical.

19) Sherlock’s explanation of what happened in TRF makes no sense. Sherlock clearly did not know what was going to happen on Bart’s rooftop, and I think that TEH, the whole episode, was his brain trying to find an explanation as to how Sherlock was still alive after jumping, and ultimately deluding itself into thinking Sherlock had planned everything (false memories are an oddly common phenomenon). Which led to Sherlock feeling guilty for breaking John’s heart intentionally (although the guilt could also be a sign of his subconscious feeling guilty for almost dying and still causing John pain)

20) What’s more, in Sherlock’s retelling of TRF, John never figures out that Sherlock is still alive right after he jumps. But this directly contradicts TRF: the fact that the camera “rights itself” and that John gets back up after feeling for Sherlock’s pulse, compounded by the fact that medical personal immediately takes Sherlock inside the hospital, strongly indicates that John knew Sherlock was still alive, because he’d felt his pulse.

21) Sherlock’s parents, part 2 : His dad refuses to buy himself a chain for his glasses because then he’d be imitating a gay celebrity. Mycroft (ie a part of Sherlock’s brain) suffers going through something his parents enjoy but he hates, because he promised them. And Sherlock says there’s nothing he can do to help. “You don’t understand the pain of it, the horror”, Mycroft says through the phone. And Sherlock hangs up on him. Now, of course, this scene is supposed to be funny, because Mycroft is talking about going to a musical (we hear the music through the phone’s speakers) as though it’s torture, but, remember: on BBC Sherlock, the funny moments are always used to hide something. I read this as Sherlock having homophobic parents (you can look like a nice person and still be horribly homophobic). And I think Sherlock’s parents did something terrible that made Sherlock repress his sexuality. This is confirmed by things in the following episodes (TSOT and TFP come to mind, although it’s all shown through metaphors and Redbeard).

22) Sherlock voluntarily puts on his cap before facing the press  at the end of the episode. Exactly like in TLD.

23) The episode ends on Magnussen watching Sherlock save John from the bonfire, in what later turns out to be Magnussen’s MP. 1) Mind palaces do not work that way, you can’t recall something as visually precise as a video and 2) the episode that depicts Sherlock’s return to London ends on a scene that happens entirely in the mind of one character. What’s more, this character is a (creepy) Sherlock mirror.

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[onebronzelumos-blog]

This is actually really good meta. But I´m still little bit skeptical - what would be Gatiss and Moffat´s motif to create seven movies and one miniepisode in Sherlock´s MP? I know, shock, surprise of audience, etc. but it´s quite weird from narrative side of it. They have limited time, limited money, limited count of episodes… so why wouldn´t they tell actual story instead of making more than half of show in MP? Don´t get me wrong, I love your interpretation and the idea that Sherlock would wake up to universe before s3 and s4, is lovely, but I´m unsure about if authors would really make it.

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@onebronzelumos

I’ve been thinking about it for a while now, and I think there are actually several reasons Mofftiss chose to film 8 episodes worth of “dream sequence”. Be warned, this is going to be long.

Why making Sherlock actually jump from Bart’s rooftop is necessary to Mofftiss’ gay agenda

This has to do with ACD’s canon, and how the meaning of The Final Problem changed over time. 

Before The Adventure of the Empty House was published, ACD’s TFP meant one thing: Sherlock Holmes had sacrificed himself to take down Moriarty, because he loved John Watson – you only need to read Holmes’ final note to realise that. This was ultimately a (bitter) victory for gay love, which was criminalised in England at the time, but still subsisted in clandestine clubs in reality and in the subtext that could be found in stories like Sherlock Holmes’s. Sherlock’s sacrifice was, in the end, an act of love.

HOWEVER. 

ACD ultimately gave in to popular pressure (because he had children to feed) and eventually wrote and published The Adventure of the Empty Hearse. And that story turned Holmes’ noble sacrifice into utter, senseless cruelty to Watson in the eyes of the reader, as Doyle explained that Sherlock had spent 3 years in Europe without ever thinking to tell John he was alive, while John mourned for him AND lost his wife as well. 

I think that’s one of those canon things that Mofftiss seek to correct, ie, by making Sherlock actually jump, they would restore TFP’s original meaning – which would mean, of course, that Sherlock would end up unconscious for a significant amount of time due to his injuries.

Side-note: I did some research, and apparently you can have fair odds of surviving a jump from a 7-stories building, given that you don’t fall on your head/damage your brain. Bart’s hospital is, at most, 5 stories high, and I’m being generous, so Sherlock could survive such a fall, although he would probably suffer severe injuries to the legs and spine… and we know Sherlock’s back was injured when he was being tortured in Serbia, and also that Mary’s enemies broke AJ’s friend’s back… As I said, I’ve been thinking about this for a long time.

TL; DR: if Mofftiss want to correct ACD’s canon and make Johnlock explicit with a happy ending, they need to make Sherlock jump at the Reichenbach Fall and really risk his life for John.

So then, why would Mofftiss choose to show us what goes on in Sherlock’s head when he’s in a coma?

I can think of several reasons: 

1/ They took a lot of inspiration from House MD.

It is also a Holmes adaptation – a medical, modern setting AU of Sherlock Holmes– which features a shit ton of Johnlock/Hilson, and ends… kinda well for Hilson. House MD is, basically, the Holmes adaptation that got the closest to what they’re trying to do, ie canon Johnlock in a modern setting. 

And one important theme of House MD, is reality, dreams, and hallucination. Products of the mind are used to reveal things about the character of Gregory House himself, and also for hilson subtext. I suggest you watch the episodes No Reason, House’s Head and Wilson’s Heart, if you haven’t already, those are my favourites and they show a brilliant use of hallucinations and dreams.

2/ The most important of all reason of all is, of course, TJLC.

By making s3 (and MHR) extra gay, they informed us subtext readers that their endgame was Johnlock. I mean: we saw Sherlock crash John’s proposal, a wedding episode where the focus was John and Sherlock’s relationship and we never even saw the wedding ceremony, and they made Mary (ie John’s heteronormative mustache) a despicable villain who nearly killed Sherlock, despite knowing exactly what it would do to John. 

And as you can see above, they also left a ton of clues that S3 was not actually real – it’s not a coincidence that people started complaining about a drop in quality after s3 aired. So essentially, with s3, they recruited us into the “conspiracy”. And since s3 is not real, they could go all out with the subtext and neglect realism. (think of the delayed action stabbing in TSOT… that’s complete bs).

In TAB, they gave us a decoder ring for the series as a whole; the episode tells us that:

Neither s3 nor s4 are real – remember, TAB ends with a scene in the Victorian setting, setting that we know isn’t real.

Johnlock is endgame. The episode also reassures us that Mofftiss love us TJLCers. (watch the Rebekah TJLC Explained episodes about TAB, they go into great details about this)

what about s4 then? Well, everyone agrees that it’s awful as a whole (and that TFP is esp. terrible). That’s intentional on Mofftiss’ part, as well: 

on the one hand, they show the StraightsTM how awful what they’re asking for in a Sherlock Holmes story actually is.

on the other hand, through subtext and metaphors, Sherlock resolves deep seated issues in his psyche in regards to love and relationships – judging from Eurus, Culverton and Moriarty, Sherlock is clearly terrified of his gay feelings for John (methinks it’s because his homophobic parents sent him to conversion therapy when he was younger, Sherlock exhibits all the markers and the subtext says so, but I cant be sure until s5, I guess – and my heart will break into a thousand pieces if they do confirm it, again)

on the third and last mutant hand, I think Mofftiss thought it’d be a good idea to “Reichenbach” us to give us the same experience as 19th century Holmes fans ie make us think Sherlock (the show) was dead, only to resurrect it later. This one is pure speculation on my part, but given how writers like Mofftiss can be… I’m pretty confident that something like that crossed their minds at some point.

A side-note on material concerns:

I’m going to assume you’ve read Softly, Softly: The BBC’s 2009 LGB Research Commission and The Johnlock Conspiracy by @loudest-subtext-in-tv. and this meta from @skulls-and-tea

Basically, I think that Mofftiss wrote their show so they wouldn’t have to compromise the story they wanted to tell even if the show was not successful. This was a long term project after all. So they planned to have 3 seasons of real stuff, and 2 seasons of Sherlock’s coma dream since the beginning:

- if the show was successful after 2 seasons, and Mofftiss ended up getting 5 seasons in total to tell their story, they’d include 2 seasons of Sherlock’s coma dream in order to build up Johnlock, “tell” LGBT+ fans that Johnlock was endgame on their show, make the casuals root for Johnlock, make tons of money AND prepare the biggest fucking rug pull of the last decade for the whole audience (that Sherlock has nothing has been real since TRF and that Sherlock and John are in love – because no way is John staying quiet about his feelings when Sherlock wakes up).

- but if the show wasn’t successful and they got only 3 seasons in total, they could just scrap the 2 seasons of Sherlock’s coma dream, use their last 3rd season to get John and Sherlock together and defeat the true villain of the show, and tell the story they wanted to tell anyway, although on a smaller scale and with a smaller plot twist at the end.

In the end the show was internationally successful, so I guess we have the dubious honour of having our hearts broken and then witnessing the biggest fictional rug pull/resurrection of the last decade.

TL;DR:

Mofftiss would do it because:

it corrects canon

they take inspiration from every Holmes adaptation, even the unofficial ones

it gives them time to have sherlock deal with his deeply ingrained fear of love and relationships

it allows them to temporarily ignore realism/credibility in favour of pure subtext – and their subtext is the gayest subtext to ever gay

that way they can give hope to LGBT+ fans and make the StraightsTM root for Johnlock

it’s the biggest rug pull ever

they wanted to give us the same experience as 19th century Sherlock Holmes fans

it enables them to plan their show whether it’s successful or not

Sorry that got so long! I had a lot to say on the subject.

Tagging @frosty-chatterbox as well.

So what do you think?

[onebronzelumos-blog]

Thank you so much for such a long explanation! <3 It really seems probable when I think about it. To be honest, I like this version of EMP more than the one when Sherlock wakes up after Mary´s shot - this seems to be more linked to canon. But one thing is unfortunately still not clear to me (I don´t want to bother you, feel free to ignore me if you don´t want to spend another time with answering my questions xD ) - what about John´s blog? I tried to figure out if it could be somehow linked to mistakes surrounding blog since the beginning of s4 but I have no idea how they could write actual blog posts for audience if it is just part of Mind Palace. And one last question: TRF is narrated mainly from John´s point of view. In the start of the episode, John talks to Ella about Sherlock being dead. Is this part of Sherlock´s MP too?

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@onebronzelumos​

You’re not bothering me at all! :D  I don’t often have the opportunity to discuss about this kind of things with other people tbh, so not screaming into the void for once is a welcome change of pace :)

Concerning John’s blog: your guess is as good as mine, because I have no idea what’s going on. 

My first guess is that TPTB enjoy screwing with us *shrugs*

But there are some fucky things going on in the blog and on Twitter:

You might have heard of @contact_SH and @contact_JHW: these are twitter accounts that roleplay Sherlock and John as a couple, in a very carefully in-character way, and there have been suspicions that TPTB themselves were involved in the creation of those accounts. 

There is also an unnofficial ARG (alternate reality game) going on on Twitter. I didn’t follow it in detail (I don’t have a twitter account), but it is… interesting.

On John’s blog, the post that talks about Sherlock’s death, Untitled of June  6th, is right after the Hello Boys! one, ie the post one that Jim wrote when he hacked into John’s Blog. My theory is that since Jim/Moriarty is a hacker, he could probably falsify the dates on the thing he posts on John’s blog, making them appear as if a few years have passed instead of a much shorter lapse of time.

Evidence:

What’s more, there’s this on the post entitled Death by Twitter, dating from the 23rd of May:

It seems improbable that John’s own sister would not recognize a fake account impersonating her brother, even if they’d lost contact :/

So my guess is that in-universe the contact_ Twitter accounts are actually Sherlock and John’s; the blog has been hacked since the Hello Boys! post, and in-universe people read them knowing full well that what is in the blog isn’t true… exactly as we, the audience of BBC Sherlock, do (and that’s one hell of a 4th wall break if I’m right).

Or it could all have been a red herring to keep us from realising S3 is fake *shrugs again*. These guys lie to our faces constantly, so I doubt they’d have scruples giving us false leads.

Regarding John talking to Ella in TRF: 

Again, I don’t know whether this scene is poetry or truth, but given that Ella’s office is different from the one she has in ASIP, and that Ella appears in yet another office in S4 (in TLD, if I remember correctly), I’m inclined to think that it’s a part of Sherlock’s dream. ASIP did open on John dreaming of the war, after all, so why wouldn’t the episode that transitions to Sherlock’s POV open on Sherlock’s dream? 

I think, however, that everything that happened between the title sequence and the moment the sniper’s POV shot of John moves away from John was reality, from John’s perspective. 

screencaps source

After this POV shot, I think the perspective shifts to Sherlock (who is then unconscious and dreaming because of his injuries). I mean, look at the “sniper” that was threatening John’s life:

The man is literally a Sherlock clone. And he exits down the stairs. Which is something we mostly see Sherlock do – there’s another interesting symbolism to stairs, but that’s for another time, I guess. (John is mostly shown going up stairs, btw)

(And like, barefoot John? John not seeing Sherlock standing not 10 meters away from him when we know from TEH that he’s been seeing Sherlock everywhere for 3 years? a dateless tumbstone?)

I hope that answered your questions :) 

[nightingveilxo]

I think @not-a-bit-good has read enough of my metas to know I think we may have never left the roof or it’s right after, but Moffat did basically change everything from a viewer standpoint in a Dr. Who 50th Special that altered seven seasons of the show @onebronzelumos and since he keeps bringing Dr. Who/Torchwood elements into Sherlock (props, cast, interview mentions, etc), I could see it happening.

[sherlockshadow]

I am a firm believer that S3 is MP. Balloon John cannot be in Sherlock’s head unless TEH is fake too!But I cannot fathom Sherlock jumping off that roof and surviving. If somehow he could, he would never walk again. My theory as of now is EMP started at the pool. Sherlock has been in a coma for awhile.

[nightingveilxo]

Well, but Sherlock could just be going over the thirteen possible scenarios pre-jump, and the Cereal Killer article from TLD is on Sherlock’s wall in TEH @shadow3214

[sherlockshadow]

Possible. However, I think we have to consider Greg’s “good man” line at the end of TFP being reality seeping in…so how would he hear it on the roof? I feel like he must be unconscious. A lot of hospital references in S4 as well.

[nightingveilxo]

My alternative to that involves TFP being John, because Sherlock asks Lestrade to look after Mycroft just as Mycroft asked John to do in TAB, but John didn’t. If it’s John’s brain saying Mycroft and Lestrade, two upstanding men can have a relationship like that, then it’s ok for he and Sherlock. But, it depends on whether all of TAB was fake, because Sherlock wasn’t present when Lestrade said Sherlock might be good someday or when Mycroft asked the favor of John. @shadow3214

[the-7-percent-solution]

Holy SHIT. This would explain the painting in Mycroft’s office in TEH being the same painting in A2A and signifying their dream-tell. I’ve always feared we’d go back to TRF if EMP was proven real. It would make sense – The Final Problem is The Reichenbach Fall. Yikes. I’m exhausted.

[space-time-and-solving-crimes]

Made TARDIS cookies with my friends today. One ended up being an exploding TARDIS… Mine is the entirely blue one and the Tenth Doctor

[bluebluenova-deactivated2026021]

Problematic Promos

Now that some time has passed, I was taking a look back through the promotional materials for Season 4, and I noticed something. I apologize if someone has already mentioned this stuff! I looked around for a meta with this topic, but I didn’t find one, so here we go!

I recall that when the promotional materials for Season 4 were released we all sort of commented on how dark everything in the photos appears, what the hair looked like, how the burned out flat photo with just Sherlock and John in it looks like a heart, and how the smiley doesn’t show up in the reflection in the flooded photo. I also recall intense discussion about the three photos in the chess themed set, and how the leak of the final photo drew so much attention from The Powers That Be. All of these are valid catches, but I noticed a few other things relating to the promos.

I’m not sure what they all mean, to be honest, but I do know that everything on this show is deliberate, so…

1.       There are still no photos of Eurus/Sian Brooke in the official photos on the BBC One Sherlock site. Surely by now it would be ok to release some. I mean, Sian Brooke is attractive and well known enough to warrant some photos! They have certainly included her in some of the post season videos. But if you’re looking for a lovely, composed, high resolution shot of Eurus or any of her personalities, you’re going to be disappointed. I think this is weird, especially given that we see both Culverton Smith and Jim Moriarty (and he was a big secret) in the photos.

2.       This photo is NOT of 221B. Look closely.

The smiley is different than the original! It’s tilted wrong and aligns with the wallpaper differently.It’s just not the same. I know I have seen a meta on the Miss Me Smiley from this image: 

The burned out smiley almost looks like a mirrored version of this one, doesn’t it?

So what about this bumped out area in the wall in our 221b? Not there in the burned out flat.

Where are the windows on either side of the room? Again, not there. 

And what about that trim high up on the burned out left wall? Not there in 221b.

The people in this show KNOW their set. This can’t be a mistake or something where they thought, hey…that’s close enough.

So what does it mean?

3.       Now on to the seven images that they released the week before the season started. One a day, a right? Burned out flat in the background. I noticed a few things about these images. 

But first, this image for reference: 

Every one of these characters is wearing the same clothing as the group shot, but with a coat/jacket added in the individual photos, with one exception. 

Take a look:

(Greg’s photo is missing from the BBC One Sherlock site. A little odd, given the wind-up they gave these each day…but anyway.)

Molly. 

Molly is the exception. Her clothing is completely different under her lab coat.

To me, it seems like this singles her out in some way. Just like they single Mycroft out in another way. 

Can you see it?

It’s the smiley again. In each of the other six photos, the smiley moves around, but it is the original smiley from 221b. The size, shape, and orientation are correct.

But Mycroft’s smiley is different. 

It’s the strange, new smiley from the burned out flat photo, and unlike the other character shots, this smiley isn’t on the 221b wallpaper. 

I think it may have been @the-7-percent-solution who commented to the effect that if you want to mess with people’s heads, just mess with their surroundings. Make things a little bit off, and that will make the audience uncomfortable, and they probably won’t even recognize why. Maybe that’s what’s going on here. Or maybe there is some deeper meaning. 

I don’t know for sure, but I do still believe that these weird details are part of a larger plan. The cast and crew are too attuned to the details of the show to overlook errors or do things half-assed. 

Thoughts?

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[happyblueberrypancake]

Wow okay these are some really cool points I’m so happy you tagged me @bluebluenova!! <3  One thing that stuck out to me was your mention of the smiley face being reflected in the burnt down flat photo. That got me thinking…what if the burnt flat photo is a literal reflection from a mirror, possibly the mirror above the mantle? Two reasons why I think this:

1) The skull is on the mantle under the mirror, and we clearly see it by Sherlock’s feet in the burnt flat photo. Also, the first thing I think of when I see that photo is that Sherlock and John are in front of where the fireplace and mirror should be, except there’s a hole where it’s blown out - but what if they are meant to symbolically stand in for the missing mirror?

2) This is the realization that really freaked me out. Do you guys see that weird hallway with stretching into the distance behind John and Sherlock? With occasional rectangular frame/column things? Here I’ll even outline it for you:

When you mentioned the smiley face on that wall being a reflection, i made a connection between those hallway/door frames and mirrors. Because look what happens to the reflection when you place two mirrors parallel to each other:

(Literally just googled parallel mirrors reflection, hope no one sues me)

Infinite mirrors. Infinite reflections.

THE HALLWAY LITERALLY LOOKS LIKE THE FRAMES OF THE REFLECTION OFF ANOTHER MIRROR AS IT GOES INTO INFINITY I’M KIND OF FREAKING OUT.

To make it worse, you also see bits of the infinite frame/mirror/reflection motif in the close-ups of the other characters hahahahahaaaaaaa   

What does it all mean? Is everything and everyone in s4 a dream? What’s the metaphorical significance of parallel mirrors? Is the whole season literally a distorted of infinite reflections from the mirror on top of the mantle piece? Can you hear my internal screaming from across the internet? 

@the-hopeless-existentialist @consultingfangirl @ebaeschnbliah thought you might be interested!

[the-7-percent-solution]

Brilliant!!!!

[space-time-and-solving-crimes]

And now let’s say each parallel mirror is like a parallel universe- An alternate ending or a change in the story line. 

This fits with another post I saw which mentioned the game ‘Clue’ (AKA Cluedo) and how each time you played it the ending was different. The post suggested that Sherlock was like Clue in that there may be more than one ending (which I believe was also hinted at by Gatiss?)  The idea of mirrors here could be showing us that the mirrors in Season 4 might be pointing towards another version of the story; another ending to our game of Clue.

(If you know the post I’m talking about could you please let me know so I can link to it?)

[ducktaleswoo-oo]

Whenever someone asks me about Sherlock Series 4

[its-always-you--john-watson]

I’ll be holding on to you

[love-in-mind-palace]

― F. Scott Fitzgerald, This Side of Paradise

[watsonianbumble]

IM SCREAMING

[doctorwho]

Doctor Who returns in exactly TWO WEEKS, April 15th at 9/8c on @bbcamerica. What are you most looking forward to seeing in the new season? 

[argillaforma]

Stats Britain knows what’s up

[bitsybubbles7]

Stats Britain makes me happy

[space-time-and-solving-crimes]

I just wanted to say-

Even if March 8 comes and goes with no new information about a special, another season, or even anything Sherlock related, I’m so proud of the fandom. I’m proud of us all for sticking this out and keeping hope. Because by doing that we created stories more real, complex, and perfect, with deeper meanings and more emotion than Moftiss did.  From the little we had to work with, we created masterpieces. Not just fanfics and fanart, but also all the theories and ideas branching off of them.  Had the fandom been left to google-doc-write the scripts for season 4 together, image what we could have created. 

So here’s to hope- that we get some new info on Sherlock, or, if needed, find another day of significance to wait impatiently for. And all of you, continue to be your brilliant selves.