#meta collection

[archangelween]

sideblog for good omens

My big Meta/idea posts:

Color Theory in Good Omens: what each color means, and their shades////////////Working on an update to this. This one isn't wrong, it's just not the whole picture.

Analysis of god's opening monologue: god's lying to us

Parallels to the War in Heaven: the paintball war tells us some of what happened with the war in heaven

Overarching season theory: s1 had a "god filter" that isn't present in s2

Inconsistencies in S1: discontinuities existed in s1 too

God's a liar: not omniscient or omnipotent: she's playing a game and you're part of it

Gabriel and omnipresence: purple eyes and the power of sight

Job's children and god's property: children are property who can be destroyed for fun, just like angels and everything are god's property

Bookshop Attack==Harrowing of Hell: parallels to the harrowing of hell, ie when Jesus went down to hell to release people from original sin

Angel Rings: they don't all wear them on the same finger in either season, and they change between seasons

What the Bowtie Design Means: the stripes change orientation

S3 predictions

Satanic messages: inverting the show tells us about the past

[221b-johnlocked-1895]

do you believe in any theories that attempt to explain s4 being the way it is? if so, please recommend me some!

Hi anon! x

Aaaaah this is going to be a veeery long list of metas.

I actually don't believe strongly in only one theory, but the one that I think represents the only way to take seriously TFP is that the entire episode is in John's mind, since he's in coma after Eurus had shot him.

Basically, some people thinks that the EMP theory is extended to S4 too, others support the EDT theory and others (like me) think that TFP comes from John's dreams during coma.

There are many theories about S4 or its episodes in particular and these are the meta I have.

It was a bit difficult to categorize them but I hope that this masterpost will be easy to use.

S4 IS A MESS

•List of the weird things that happened

•Masterpost of reasons why S4 is a mess

•Why do many people not accept s4?

•Why did they do that to John's character?

•Analysis and critique of Eurus

•Why Mofftiss should have made a fake s4?

THEORIES

EMP THEORY

•EMP theory masterpost

•HLV/TAB parallels - hospital scene

•HLV/TAB parallels - weird things that make sense only if we assume that EMP theory is true

•Alibi theory (see down) and EMP

EDT THEORY

•EDT theory

•Dream theory - doctor who parallels

•Princess bride - love story

•Princess bride - bedtime stories - nightmare

S4 AND S5 ARE TWIN SEASONS

•S4 and S5 are twin series

•"It's never twins", says Sherlock, but John is always right

•The birth scene was filmed twice in different ways

•The birth scene - Sherlock is driving and John is helping Mary

TFP IS JOHN'S MIND PALACE/DREAM

•Freud - wish fulfillment

•TFP is John's mind palace - masterpost

•John's mind palace - "Listen to the tape"

•Video - all the evidence that S4 is a dream/mind palace

TRANCE THEORY

•Trance theory

JOHN'S ALIBI

•John's alibi theory

•Culverton = dark John (the duplicate man - John killed someone/Mary)

•The texts are from Sherlock since he's narrating the story

JOHN CHEATING ON MARY

•Why does John cheat on Mary? Is it ooc? Why does Mary looks like Sherlock's partner?

•Eurus as the lady at the bus stop - she's working for Mycroft

•Sherlock is the person John is writing to

•John is writing to Sherlock - we can deduce this by the soundtrack

MARY IS A VILLAIN

•Mary is a villain -masterpost

•Is Mary the reason why Sherlock and John didn't see each other for one month?

•Mary works for Moriarty - John is Sherlock's heart and has to burn

•"You don't tell John"

•Moriarty wanted to kill John to stay with Sherlock - Mary wanted to kill Sherlock to stay with John

•Mary's revenge after her death

MARY'S DEATH

•How John reacts to Mary's death and how he reacted to Sherlock's death

•Why did John forget how to be a doctor while Mary was dying?

•Mary's death was physically impossible - contradiction with HLV when Sherlock is shot

•It was impossible for her to reach the bullet - contradictions

MISCELLANEA

•Eurus and Moriarty - Redbeard is Moriarty

•Molly is John's mirror - TFP - "I love you"

•Sumatra/Samsara music

•Mary and the pink elephant peluche - John's drinking problem

•Sherlock becomes blind

•John lost his eye

I'll keep it updated if I find other interesting meta!

If you have any to suggest, please tell me!

I hope this is what you asked for! x

[nobodysuspectsthebutterfly]

hey butterfly! I know you've talked about it before and I'm trying to find the post where someone asked if a 'if robert never went up to winterfell' au who Ed and Cat would've married their kids off to, I think it was your blog?? Hope your having a good day!

Yep, that was me. :)  Bunch of answers on this topic, here you go! 1, 2, 3, 4, 5

[whyiloverivamika]

Am I the only one who feels like levi's demeanour changes when he is with mikasa? I feel like with everyone else he is snarky and sassy but with mikasa he's gentler and more serious. I hope i'm not the only one

Oh, you certainly are not the only one. It’s one of those little things that make their relationship so interesting. Trust me, we noticed how much Levi curbs his tongue around Mikasa (or at least apologizes for being insensitive).

Here is @canon-rivamika‘s take on the subject. And this post of theirs is relevant, too.

This is my analysis of their relationship in relation to chapter 83 which touches on how Levi acts differently with Mikasa than with everyone else (and vice versa - Mikasa acts differently around him, too).

And this older post is great as well.

So yes, Levi gives Mikasa a special treatment. That’s a proven fact. And don’t get me started on their nicknames for each other....

[221b-johnlocked-1895]

META COLLECTION

MASTERPOST n.7 - IRENE ADLER and HER RELATIONSHIP WITH SHERLOCK

X (Reasons why Adl0ck is not and never will be real)

X (Why does Sherlock carry with him a picture of Irene in TAB?)

X (Irene sexually harrased Sherlock - their ship is the result of heteronormativity)

X (Irene = Sherlock's mirror)

X (Irene’s three identities: the badass woman, Sherlock’s mirror, the sex expert - her role in Johnlock’s progress)

X (Why is Irene's theme played when John returns to Baker Street after two years?)

X (Why do modern adaptations characterise Irene as a love interest?)

X (gifset - differences between Sherlock's relationship with John and the one with Irene)

X ("Dinner?" "Starving" - "Why would I have dinner if I weren't hungry?")

X (an amazing video about ASiB made by Rebekah/TJLC Explained)

Part 6 is here, part 8 is here

[221b-johnlocked-1895]

META COLLECTION

MASTERPOST n.8 - EURUS

X (violin scene in TFP - Mary is an avatar for Sherlock, Irene a symbol of his sexuality, Eurus a symbol of his rational mind, John his lead actor where emotions and empathy are involved, Jim is Sherlock’s dark side)

X (why did Eurus want Sherlock to say "I love you"?)

X (Eurus' characterization and whole story is ridiculous, misogynistic, written without respect to neurodivergent people and to mentally ill people - she looks like an x-man or a character of a horror movie)

X (about John's bisexuality - Eurus = John - the nurse)

X (Magnussen, Redbeard, Moriarty and Eurus - who did actually know about Redbeard? - Moriarty and Redbeard as metaphors for Sherlock's sexuality )

X (if TFP is John's mind - Eurus' experiment is about John relevant themes)

Part 7 is here

[221b-johnlocked-1895]

META COLLECTION

Masterpost n.5 - MARY MORSTAN IS A VILLAIN

X (Mary is introduced as a villain)

X (Moriarty wants to kill John so as to stay with Sherlock - Mary does the same but for John)

X (Mary works for Moriarty - John is Sherlock's heart and has to burn)

X (Mary = heteronormativity)

X (John's moustaches and Mary as the personification of heteronormativity)

X (Mary is the villain, not Magnussen)

X (Mary is emotionally abusive and sadistic)

X (Mary's posthumous revenge)

X (Was Mary the reason why Sherlock and John didn't see each other for one month?)

X ("You don't tell John")

X (Leinster gardens - Mary threatened to kill Sherlock for the second time)

Part 4 is here, part 6 is here

[221b-johnlocked-1895]

META COLLECTION

MASTERPOST N.9 - THE ELEPHANT IN THE ROOM

X (What's the elephant in the room and why does it refer to Johnlock?)

X (Sherlock, John and the elephant in the room)

X (The elephant in the room is "we had one night")

X (The matryoshka theory and the elephant in the room)

X (The elephant in the room is Sherlock and John's orientation)

X (an amazing video by Rebekah/TJLC Explained)