- Sherlock calling Molly and her not immediately picking it up:
- Tie to this odd scene in T6T where someone is calling John after Mary dies, but the name is too blurred to make out (at least for me)[Sherlock calling him?]
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Molly answering the phone in TFP and upset Sherlock wants her to say, "I love you". Read Molly as a John mirror for the following exchange:
MOLLY: "Why are you making fun of me?"
MOLLY: "Leave me alone"...[flashbacks to when Molly answers the door with Rosie and says about John, "He said he'd rather have anyone, anyone but you"
MOLLY: "I'm not an experiment"
MOLLY: "Please don't do this, I can't say that to you"
MOLLY: "Not to you. Anyone but you" [flash back to the TLD "anyone" echoing sequence]
SHERLOCK: "Why?"
MOLLY: "It's true, it's always been true"
[I love you]
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Basically, this parallel would be significant in the theory that S4 is a dream-logic twisted version of events that did actually happen in some form but is narratively disguised with a fuckton of mirrors/ subtext/ symbolism ("painted over to disguise another smell") because it is in John's head.
The "ANYONE" repeating word significance: I can't say I love you, not to you Sherlock, anyone but you, because it's true". AND ALSO why John wants ANYONE but Sherlock to visit him...
Basically, Sherlock and John had SOME sort of discussion related to these emotional themes that is being represented in John's mind, AND/OR John is mulling the idea around in his head (because he is unsatisfied with his marriage with Mary and has a lot of tension about that and his relationship with Sherlock)
In confessing to Sherlock why he's not o.k., John thinks he will push away the one person he loves and cares about ...
For how could such a confession, not?
But what if Sherlock had no idea what John was going through ... until now? And knowing ... he takes his time, gently ... slowly ... to show John that he is listening ... ? And that he's been here waiting ... the whole time ...
I am not sure if all Brits pronounce it as "nai-ther" (Please correct me if I'm wrong) but I have not heard anyone else say it as "nee-ther" in the show, which is usually how Americans pronounce it. A very specific choice, to make Amanda pronounce it as "nee-ther", I believe her natural accent would make her say "nai-ther". They established here that "her current accent is English" but she "is not". And we know Sherlock missed or chose not to see a lot about her while being conflicted with his own emotions.
Mary - Sir Eustace being projected as her mirror - having spent time in America (hence the "nee-ther"), knowing why she is to be punished, always underestimating and lying to the spouse (Lady Carmichael - John's mirror. Her name "Louisa" meaning a "renowned warrior"), refusing to take Sherlock's help.
The spouse (Lady Carmichael/John) sick of being lied to, tired of being considered a weakling, being taken advantage of, taking Sherlock's help while already having a plan, showing fake concern, playing the innocent card the whole time, killing the spouse (Sir Eustace/Mary) and blaming Sherlock.
One small detail doesn’t quite make sense to me, however. Why engage me to prevent a murder you intended to commit?
The question that comes to my mind is - Was Sherlock in on it?
If yes, John's Alibi theory is very much on the cards. If not then is Sherlock dreaming all of this in his OD'ed EMP while John goes off and kills Mary?
I was rewatching The Six Tatchers and noticed that, from the very beginning, there were subtle messages directed to us via Sherlock.
In this meta I’ll try to show you the most noticeable examples of that, so welcome to my first analysis of Sherlock.
1. One of the first lines we have in the episode, “that’s not what happened at all’’.
We are Sherlock and Mycroft and his super secret gang are Mofftiss.
This may be one of the most blatant evidence, as a lot of us have already pointed out in emp theory or john’s tab theory.
Here, Mofftiss the “British Government” is showing us Sherlock fake footage. Sherlock, or rather us, immediately knows that all of that isn’t real, it’s made up. It’s a distorted version of reality.
Despite us Sherlock knowing and saying it’s fake, Mofftiss Mycroft carries on with the lie, telling us that now, it is the only truth.
2. Mofftiss’ plans
We are Sherlock and Moriarty is Mofftiss (how ironic, huh)
Moriarty Mofftiss filmed the message the series/lost especial before (t)he(y) “died”, dying as of disappearing. Now they are ghosts, lurking in the dark and making our pain prologue more and more, waiting for the perfect moment to announce the fifth season.
Lady Smallwood: You also say you know what he’s going to do next. What does that mean?
We know what Mofftiss are going to do, we know tjlc is the endgame of the series, even though Moffat and Gatiss themselves refuse to explicitly tell us.
Sr. Edwin: Perhaps that’s all there is to it. Perhaps he was just trying to frighten you.
Sherlock: No, no, he would never be that disappointing. He’s planned something, something long term.
They are trying to convince us that that’s all there is to it, that s4 is all we have, and we’ll just have to take it on the chin. But we know that they would never do that, they aren’t that disappointing, they are Mark Gatiss and Steven Moffat for God’s sakes! They’d never do that to us, they’d never queerbait.
They have planned something (johnlock) from the beginning of the series, since the gay pilot. And those plans are still on.
3. Our plans
“What are we going to do in this long, exhausting hiatus?”
Well, what we’ve always done. We are the targets, targets wait, right? Mofftiss are the owners of Sherlock and we have to wait until they decide to start again.
But in the (painful) meanwhile, we’ll do what we are excellent at: we’ll rewatch the series again and again and go deep into the incredible layers of subtext.
4. Trick? Obviously
The trick is the released season four and the surprise is our predicted season four.
Sherlock: The trick was meant to be a surprise.
Mr. and Mrs. Welsborough: Trick?
Sherlock: Obviously.
The trick aired S4 was meant to be the foretold s4 a surprise (not to us, obviously, we knew what was going to happen, but rather to casuals and antis); but in the end, it didn’t take place.
The surprise expected season didn’t get executed, we didn’t have the explicit Johnlock we were hoping for. But we know that, unlike Charlie’s surprise, which didn’t happen; we will get our so deserved happy ending, with TJLC finally confirmed and Sherlock and John parenting Rosie as a happy couple.
5. Acronyms
Sherlock: AGRA’s an acronym.
Mycroft: Oh, good. I love an acronym. All the best secret societies have them.
Well well, how do I start with this? It is clearly and blatantly about TJLC.
This scene works similar to the group of women in TAB and Chris Melas, Mofftiss are telling us they know about us, they know who we are, and they like us.
Mycroft (Mark) is not only saying he loves acronyms, but he also thinks that all the best societies have one! And even better, he is holding a pen!!
Ladies and gentlemen, this is evidently Mark Gatiss himself telling us he knows and appreciates TJLCers, this is him saying all of that directly to us, this time not even through Sherlock.
6. The butcher’s
Sherlock is we are more than certain that it has to be a ploy made to confuse and mislead us.
Season four is too bizarre, too baroque, even Bond-esque and with countless plotholes. It has to be fake, IT IS FAKE. There is no other explanation to its fuckiness and nonsense.
It is also a rope to put our neck into, it’s a test we have to pass. And in a way, we like it, we have fun making theories and writing amazing metas; we enjoy it, that’s how we are. Just like Sherlock.
Well, here finishes my first meta (omg I thought I’d never be writintig that). This was all I could extract from the episode, I hope you’ve liked it!! If there is anything more you’ve noticed about T6T, please let me know. I’ll be more than glad to hear it.
I’ll leave some ‘must read’ links to emp and john’s tab theories:
John’s alibi masterposts by @/inevitably-johnlocked: link one / link two / link three
Friendly reminder that in the original version of "Appointment in Samarra" the man who gets scared away by Death is not the merchant... but his servant
