#sherlock arg

[myanarchicjoy-blog]

I'm back to say one fucking thing:

I MISS SHERLOCK SO MUCH.

[may-shepard]

@devoursjohnlock

[unicornglitternutellacookie]

Something about this The Game Is Now thing has been bothering me...

Specifically concerning the audio transmission. Mycroft says that the network numbers have dwindled.

What happened to them?

Remember the game they put out? (Sherlock: The Network)

Does this have anything to do with it?

Should we have the app to go along with this ARG?

Is going to be another disappointment?

I don't know. I'm just throwing ideas out there.

[artfulkindoforder]

OMG A REAL SHERLOCK ARG

https://www.thegameisnow.com/

[redvanillabee]

Sherlock and the MCU: Thor Ragnarok VS S4

WARNING: The following piece basically spoils the whole movie. So if you haven’t watched Ragnarok yet, don’t read this piece.

[Originally published in November 2017]

[Now available on Medium]

Below are some quick notes on the Sherlock similarities, parallels, and references I have found in the latest Thor movie. They are very rough notes, and are mostly musings of whether something is connected.

I will go in this order: main plot, smaller plot points/scenes, and tiny references and callbacks.

MAIN PLOT

Here we go: there are these two brothers, who have never really quite got along. They don’t even look that much like brothers. One day, it is revealed that they actually have a secret sister. This secret sister is a formidable force. She has got boundless destructive powers. She is locked up by her parents because of the destruction she could bring. Now, tired of her imprisonment, she escapes to take revenge on her brothers and destroy everything they love.

Now, am I describing Sherlock, Mycroft, and Eurus, or Thor, Loki, and Hela the Goddess of Death? (Both, the answer is both).

The minor difference, in this case, is the involvement of the parents and the brothers. In Sherlock’s case, Mycroft knows of Eurus’ existence. She is alone in her destruction, and Mycroft and his parents decide to lock up Eurus. Whereas with Hela, both Thor and Loki are unaware of her existence. She has formerly fought wars with Odin (Thor’s father), and was, according to her, locked up only because Odin had a change of heart and decided to start being a benevolent king.

ENDING

Vaguely similar to Ego the Living Planet in Guardians of the Galaxy 2, Hela feeds off Asgard to gain her powers. The movie ends with Thor reaching an epiphany, that home is where the heart is, that Asgard is where its people are, and not just this golden planet. So after having evacuated the Asgardian population onto a spaceship, he lets Loki let Surtur loose, fulfilling the prophecy of Ragnarok, and letting it destroy Hela and the planet of Asgard in one go. Thor, along with his people, live on as a less tangible form of Asgard.

A Sherlock meta written earlier this week by @worriesconstantly echoes this idea of something being able to live outside of its apparent form. In the meta here, she points out that ‘Sherlock references can and will be found in other forms of media, and it’s up to us to search out all the different mediums they’ve branched off into.’ The idea that Sherlock themes and plots can exist outside of Sherlock is akin to the idea of Asgard isn’t Asgard just because of the planet itself.

And in fact, if you look closely at the movie, you can find a few Sherlock references and parallels in it…

DR. STRANGE’S ADDRESS

After Dr. Strange made Loki disappear with one of his portals, he left an address for Thor. That address is 177A Bleecker Street. It’s so Sherlockian it made even my friend, who only loosely follows the show and doesn’t read any metas, say that it sounds like Baker Street. Bleecker, Baker. Both 177 and 221 have got one single number and two repeated numbers. And, while it sounds really conspiratorial, if you write 177 in a fancy, curly way (like the way it appeared on the address card), and turn it upside down, it looks a bit like 221 too. 

DID YOU MISS ME? 

During the final fight at Asgard, when Loki arrives with Korg and the other ‘revolutionaries’, he utters this infamous line as he steps off the spaceship. 

‘Did you miss me?’

(I almost screamed in the cinema while my friend went ‘oh hi Moriarty’ next to me. This sentence is cursed.)

IS THOR A SHERLOCK PARALLEL?

The movie opens with Thor being imprisoned while on a mission to stop Ragnarok. While not exactly similar, it reminds me of how TEH opens with Sherlock on a mission to bring down Moriarty’s network. While both were shown to have short hair in the promo, we start with them having long hair. Getting their hair cut is part of the ‘series of trials and then return home’ process for both Thor and Sherlock. 

Besides, at one point. Christ imagery is applied on Thor (I don’t exactly remember which bit; I’ve only watched the movie once). As we now know, Sherlock is associated with Christ in the show. So that might be a parallel. 

THOR LOST AN EYE

During his final fight with Hela, Thor loses his right eye. Now, I’m pretty sure that is significant on its own in the Thor universe, given how Heimdall is supposedly blind but can see all of Nine Realms, and that Thor’s father has also lost his own right eye. 

But listen. With the theory of John losing his left eye floating around since the end of The Lying Detective, I am latching onto any mentions of losing eyes. 

[flickerghosts]

Sherlock & the Durrells in Corfu

So, I'm killing time sometime week before last(I think. I do not have a good sense of time, so correct me if I'm wrong)and I decide to watch the Durrells in Corfu before Sherlock comes on.

Ah surprise! Una Stubbs is on as-wait a second, Mrs. Haddock? Funny name, that. Sounds a little like 'Mrs. Hudson,' and puts me in the mind of red herrings.

"But, no, there's nothing weird about that," I think, "It's just a name, nothing more."

And then I get proved wrong.

Bear with me for just a moment, if you will, as I recap a bit.

Mrs. Haddock is a nice lady that their aunt meets on the way to the Durrells' house. The aunt invites her to stay with her at the Durrells', & she agrees.

She claims to be a medium, and thus prompts Louisa Durrell(the mother)to try to reach out to her dead husband.

Soon, they decide to hold a séance.

Then, it happens.

Just as the seance begins, the windows fly open, a pan gets mysteriously thrown across the room, & Louisa feels ectoplasm on her hand. Leslie tries to take a picture, in hopes to see his father’s spirit.

But in the flash's light, they see that Mrs. Haddock is holding a syringe of slime.

The youngest boy, seeing the trick for what it is, he yells, "This is a HOAX!"

"This is an outrage!" Mrs. Haddock cries, before fleeing to get her bags.

(Said the fandom to creators, am I right?)

The family has a fight here, and a few reveal that they've paid Mrs. Haddock for her "services."

We see a scene of Mrs. Haddock running down the drive in the rain, bags in hand, not caring about the hurt or confusion she's caused.

*Cough*

A bit later, the Durrells are looking to see how she did it.

The youngest boy holds a string up that's tied to the pan, and says something like, "So, that's how she made it move," to his brother.

The older brother scoffs, "Yes, thank you, Sherlock."

The kid stares at him, confused.

"Sherlock? Sherlock Holmes?" The older brother asks, surprised, then settles into annoyance again.

"Read one book," He says, then leaves.

~~~

Let me tin-hat for a moment here.

It seems to me that Mrs. Haddock is something of a mirror of season four in general-there's promises of good things to come, that this will be best the long run, and then she ultimately screws them over.

But, not before being audacious enough to tell them that they are the ones who are wrong, when they're clearly right, and that her 'plan' was so plainly shown to them.

Then, she runs off into the dark, never to be seen or heard of again.

Kind of how our writers are looking, eh?

Then, there's that obvious shout out to Sherlock, & as if it wasn't plain enough the first time, he repeats it twice. Just to let us know a mirror or a clue when we find one, I guess.

Thoughts, anyone?

[watsonianbumble]

um. what.

[i-can-dungeons-your-dragons]

Evolution of The Fandom

Fandom PreSeason 4: I'm so excited to see more Sherlock and Watson!!

Fandom During Season 4: John and Sherlock do not act like this... who are the imposters

Fandom Post Season 4: So.... Lost Special? Twitterlock? All Fake? 4? (Rapidly searching for clues in the ARG)

Fandom as of today: (deadly silent in disappointment)