The Reichenbach Fall Game
Honestly, all I can think about when I see this is The Reichenbach Fall.
Snipers having their eyes on John, Mrs. Hudson, and Lestrade. The reticle of the sniper rifle, the human eye.
And while it makes me think of the Reichenbach Fall, it leads to me to suspect the transmission to be from around that time as well.
“The Game Is Now” also reminds me of the fact that there have been (and still are) things happening in the show that we can’t see, because either Sherlock’s been in extended mind palace since HLV or at some point John changed the narrative.
And if we’re to follow the nature of the Sherlock hashtags they’ve given us in the past, perhaps we can understand what this one’s about:
#SherlockLive (The live game they played on Twitter, in which Sherlock took over a BBC account and gave the public a mystery to solve.)
#Sherlocklives = #JohnWatsonlives (taken from John’s blog)
#TheGameIsNow
The first few relate to the word “live”, one as a play on words. #TheGameIsNow doesn’t seem to fit the pattern. Maybe it doesn’t at all, but if it does, it would imply that we might finally be shown what’s going on under the surface, and Sherlock’s real health state. If Sherlock is in his mind palace for season four, and the last half of season three (starting at His Last Vow), then just as the characters (Charles Magnussen [especially in deleted hospital scene on youtube], Janine) have told us, he’s been unable to solve cases for awhile. He’s been in the hospital for most, if not all of this time.
#Sherlocklive, #Sherlocklives = #JohnWatsonlives can apply to this, because right now, if EMP (extended mind palace theory) is right, John and Sherlock are still in danger of Mary, Sherlock being physically unwell. And while season four seems to forgive Mary, I believe the narrative is very much played around with, as a way to imply to John (or someone) that Mary didn’t have ill intentions.
Sherlock lives, survives the fall(s) (Reichenbach, being shot by Mary,) John Watson lives (revived from grief, saved from Mary.) #TheGameIsNow
They told us to look elsewhere other than John’s blog now that it’s done, and we have. Now they’ve given us this. It seems likely that this is truly a legitimate game that they’re making, since the company they’ve made five-six months ago (The Game Is Now Ltd) is a gaming company..
But I have a hard time believing it’s that simple when they’ve given us the hashtags, and are expecting us to play the game. Unless perhaps, it’s going to be a long ongoing game. An AR game like people have said, where they’ll find clues.
If it’s a game like the past game they had, it will follow the Reichenbach pattern too, because the previous game was called The Network. The use of the word “network” as a collective would usually refer to Moriarty’s network, which Sherlock had to dismantle during his time away from London after the fall. This leads back to the transmission again and the patterns mentioned before with the hashtags.
