do you have (or by the way, know) any meta on why the pictures mrs hudson was taking in tst weren’t coming out right? i’ve been seeing your blog and there is some brilliant stuff in there🤩
Hi @wizardlysherlok!
I personally don’t yet, but I do remember reading one post (which I will reblog with a link to if I find) mentioning that the photo John has as a wallpaper in his phone during the bus scene is a screenshot from the show. Meaning, the angle in which John and Mary look at Mrs Hudson’s camera [in the photograph John uses on his phone) fits the angle of them being photographed as they’re being photographed.
It’s a weird choice because when Molly sees a previous photograph when she deletes the fuzzy one, so there is in theory a photograph where the angles make sense.
This fits JPG blog ‘incident’ and the number of instances we see cameramen and soundmen in the episodes in S4, in the sense that it’s a sort of a reverese broken fourth wall, if you will - the show’s production revelas itself ‘on stage’.
Some would call that theatre of absurd, some would describe this as BBC’s Sherlock undertanding he’s a literary character and tries to break free out the story he finds himself locked in. If this is EMP, some (well, that’s the general tone of @loudest-subtext-in-tv‘s EMP meta) would say that Sherlock’s mind couldn’t get a clear picture of John, Mary and Rosie together because Rosie isn’t real so his mind falters. If this is John’s alibi/blog theory, you could say the picture doesn’t come out because it’s all a lie it was never taken - Mary doesn’t show up in the photo because she wasn’t there, either because she’s dead or ran away.
I tend to think re: John’s alibi that Mrs. Hudson is being used, knowingly or unknowingly in the conspiracy, and that’s why we're shown she's the one taking the photos. It’s a theory I currently call the Paisley Theory, lol.
So anyway, I don’t have proper theory but it seems have been created to confuse us. The one photo that I actually find interesting and intriguing, though, is a different one. See the one hanging between Sherlock’s head and the balloons? There’s an earlier shot where the text ‘fresh paint’ covers it. It looks like the outdoor of a building with an awning pertrubing from it.
I don’t know what it means but I’m willing to bet it means something. It was there in MHR, so it's not new, but it sticks out to me every time I see it.