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chibienvychan03 · 3 years

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A Spooky Surprise

Since you know many have plans for Halloween night, yourself included, you schedule the Halloween shoot the day before the holiday. Little do you know that you’re in for night of nightmares.

Your show features experts on the paranormal and psychics. Since it’s a holiday special, they allow you more time than the usual for the final edit. You decide to shoot more than less as you can always edit stuff out, but if you don’t have enough, needless to say filler material is a sign of an unprofessional. You’re a professional. After each expert and psychic gives their presentation, you open it up to the Q&A section of the program where the audience can asks questions to either the entire group or a specific person.

The question that you dread hearing the answer is the one about their scariest experience or encounter they ever had. You’re not paying full attention to the guests but rather glancing around to see if anything funny is happening. Maybe you’re reading too much into this. Yeah. So you turn your attention back to the shoot, not noticing random objects being moved without anyone touching them, and it can’t be the wind as the shoot is indoors.

After you finish the shoot, the audience swarm your guests, wanting to ask more questions. You gather your crew to get some semblance of order before anyone becomes injured. It takes awhile as everyone is in high spirits, and they’re eager for more information, namely their futures or answers from loved ones who are no longer there. Your team manages to corral people into different lines as opposed to a huge mob. Order has been restored or so you think.

Once the guests and audience leave, your team and you begin putting your equipment away and cleaning up after them. Goodness. For such a “small” audience, they make such a big mess. With many hands on deck, you clean up the set in no time as well as take care of your equipment. You decide you want to check up on a few things while you’re there in preparation for your next shoot.

Minor, Kiki, and Willow hang around as they’re concerned about your safety especially Minor for some reason or another. You’re not sure why. Maybe it’s because the two of you used to be classmates. As the Q&A section has run longer and the audience have several personal questions, it’s late. You’ve already taken up much of their day. At this point, you’re all doing overtime. You insist they head home. Minor reluctantly leaves with the girls, however, unbeknownst to you, he gives a lame excuse to linger around longer and out of your sight.

You’re engrossed with ensuring you have what you need and that it works you’re unaware of an entity that’s becoming angry that you’re ignoring it. When you’re certain everything is in order, you decide it’s high time you head home. You check your watch only to realize it’s much later than you thought. The temperature drops, and you’re shivering. Such a drastic change in temperature could only mean... but isn’t that the stuff of movies? That’s what you tell yourself or rather attempt to convince yourself until...

Your heavy and large camera starts floating higher and higher. At first you think it’s Gavin. “Very funny, Gavin. It’s not Halloween yet...” You check your watch. “You have half an hour.”

However, you know there’s a limit as to what Gavin can do even if he’s very talented with his evol. In addition to the large camera, chairs, stage props, the background, and things that you know have been bolted to the ground start floating. He would never do anything to hurt you on purpose, and even if it’s an accident, he would keep blaming himself for not keeping you safe. So when the floating equipment and other stuff start crashing near you, you know it’s definitely not him. This is completely opposite of him.

Scared out of your wits, you pull out your phone in attempt to call or text your knight in shining STF uniform. The thing slaps your phone out of your hand, sending it crashing into a nearby wall and destroying it. You’re ready to cry at this point, but you’re not given a chance as you apparently now have a bullseye on you and everything is aiming for you even the kitchen sink. Not really. It feels like it. Somehow you’re managing to dodge most of of the flying projectiles, some of them coming very close to your body. Thanks to your clumsiness, you keep this up for some time. That is until you jump out of the way of falling light. You attempt to stand up only for your ankle suddenly decide to not support your weight. Great you’ve twisted your ankle or worse sprained it.

The thing is far from being finished as it picks up the damaged equipment and prepares to send it your way again. With no way to dodge, you’re out of luck. You mentally and physically brace yourself for the impending pain. Closing your eyes and shielding your head with your arms, you wait for the inevitable. But after a minute of nothing happening, you open your eyes and remove your arms from protecting your head.

What you first see is a very, very, very pissed off Gavin, flying in all his STF uniform glory. He places a wind shield around you before dealing with whatever has tried to harm you.

Gavin fiercely glares at it or where he believes it to be. A killer aura surrounds him, but you’re not afraid. In fact, you feel completely safe in spite of what’s happening around you. Your knight has arrived and just in time too.

“Do you wish to die a second time? Because I WILL make it happen.” The way Gavin says it sends chills down your spine. You’re extremely thankful you’re not on the receiving end, not that he’d hurt you, but it’s still a scary experience.

Whatever it is must have decided Gavin is not someone to mess with and flees the studio, dropping everything it has floating where they are. You’re not sure how long Gavin stays flying and scanning to make sure it has really left. It feels like an eternity before he’s by your side. Forgetting your injured ankle, you stand up, only to cry out in pain and fall, but you never feel the floor. Instead you feel the strong arms of the reliable and protective Gavin.

Gavin inspects your ankle and wants to immediately take you to the nearest hospital, but the tears start falling. He starts panicking as he believes he’s done something wrong or something to offend you. In between sobs, you tell him you’re happy to see him and relieved he has come to the rescue. You omit the fact you’ll have to spend a lot of money repairing or replacing any damaged equipment. He still insists on getting you medical treatment.

“I just want to go home,” you sniffle.

“Okay, I’ll take you there.” Gavin scoops you up and carries you bridal style out of there. You’re too emotionally exhausted to be embarrassed and/or complain about being carried out. Not to mention, a lurking Minor who is giving Gavin the thumbs up and go for it signs.

When you arrive at your place, Gavin places you on your bed before grabbing your first aid kit (how he knows where... who knows) and tending to your ankle. He wraps it as if he’s done it a thousand times.

“Wow, you’re good at this.” It dawns on you. “I hope you’re not wrapping your own ankle.” You hate it when he hides his injuries.

Gavin freezes for a few seconds. His next statement hits you hard. “I don’t want to lose any more teammates.”

You practically throw yourself at him. “I’m sorry.”

“Don’t be. I wasn’t strong enough then, but I am now. I won’t let it happen ever again.” Gavin says it as if he’s making a promise, but the both of you know battles and disasters are completely unpredictable. Nothing is guaranteed in life except death and aging.

“Still... You shouldn’t be the only one to shoulder this.” You want to be there for him, but you know there’s not much you can help him with when it comes to his work. It’s frustrating.

He pulls you closer to him. “It’s the thought that counts.”

Once you’re settled in for the night, Gavin is about to leave when you grab his jacket. “Please don’t go.” You’re still scared.

“I won’t if you ask me.” True to his word, Gavin stays the entire night. He does, however, move into the next room as to not disturb you. Many people owe him big time, and he’s calling in those favors for you.

The next morning, you don’t want to get out of bed as it’s comfy and you really don’t want to face your friends/coworkers to explain what happened last night. They probably won’t believe you. You even don’t believe it, and you lived through it. As you’re curled up underneath your blankets, you hear some noise near you. Then you realize it’s Gavin and you blush big time. You had asked him to stay, and he did stay.

“Good morning.”

You peek out from underneath your blankets. “Not a good morning.” You know you have bed head, but at this point, you don’t care.

Gavin frowns. “You must be hungry.” As if on cue, your stomach growls. “How about I take you to your fave breakfast cafe?”

Very tempting. Warm, comfy bed versus a very yummy breakfast.

Your stomach wins this duel. You’re about to ask Gavin to step out so you can change, but he’s already exited your bedroom. Yes, trust Gavin to be respectful, something you love about that man. You hobble over to your dresser and closet. This time you manage to get changed without face planting onto your floor. How embarrassing it would be for Gavin to rush into your room with you half-dressed.

After breakfast, Gavin insists on taking you to work, but you shake your head. You’re not ready to face them yet. “I don’t think I can... How am I going to explain it to them? They’re all going to laugh at me.”

Gavin tightens his grip on you. “I won’t let that happen.” He says what he means and means what he says. You know with him there, there’s nothing to be afraid of, yet, there’s still that irrational fear.

“You’ll stay with me?”

“All you need is to ask.”

“Please?”

“Yes.”

When he lands outside the building, you cling to him or as much as you can from your position in his arms. He’s carrying you bridal style again. Seems to be his favorite. You close your eyes, not ready to see it.

Gavin uses the key you handed over to him and unlocks the door. Very carefully he maneuvers the two of you inside. Having been there several times (more like practically living there during those projects), you already know where he’s going. You can walk there in your sleep.

When he stops, you’re hesitant about opening your eyes. It’s not that you’re afraid of being injured or scared... you just don’t want to see the aftermath of that paranormal attack. But after some gentle coaxing form Gavin, you open your eyes to see...

nothing has happened. Your set looks like it hadn’t been through World War III. It’s back to normal. Tears begin falling.

Gavin panics as per usual. “I’m sorry. Did I get anything wrong? I can fix it. Just tell me what to do.”

You shake your head, telling him these are tears of joy and that you’re completely relieved you don’t have to explain this to anyone. Trying to pull a joke, you mention something about them locking you up in the funny house. Unfortunately it backfires as Gavin takes it literally. “It’s a figure of speech.”

“Oh.” Gavin’s now blushing.

The awkward moment stays awkward until you hear someone.

“Man, is it getting hot in here or what?”

Trust Minor and his ‘perfect’ timing.

“Don’t mind this idiot.” Ah trust Willow to keep him in line. She drags him out by the ear with him whining the entire way out.

As if it couldn’t get any more awkward.

While you’re working with your editing team, Gavin assigns himself a mission. He somehow manages to track down that spirit, entity, whatever that not only caused you so much trouble but injured you as well. What happens next... well that’s up to your imagination.

But somehow Gavin persuades it to never cause trouble, not harm anyone, and to stop any property damage. How he managed to injure it? Who knows.

This man makes the impossible possible.

#mlqc #mlqc gavin #mlqc haku

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may-shepard · 7 years

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tfp, the ring, and the art of the false climax

(ETA: This post is causing trouble on mobile...sorry!? Many of the images are cut from mobile for some reason, and apparently it’s crashing the app. I’m wondering if it’s just too long. In any case, view on a computer for a more complete experience; reblog to avoid the inevitable Mofftiss curse. If I have time in the next little while, I’ll publish it in shorter segments.)

TFP had a number of different intertexts--mainly, specific movies--which it drew upon for its motifs, themes, moment-to-moment imagery, and plot points. As approximately a million people noticed in the TFP aftermath, many of the movies referenced in this episode are horror films. Predominant among them was The Ring.

(For the purpose of this post, I’m going to focus on Gore Verbinski’s 2002 film, rather than the Japanese source film Ringu / Ring, because the former is much better known in the West, and I think it’s more likely that it’s The Ring, and not Ringu, that Moffat is talking about in this interview, where he mentions watching it. However, since the broad strokes plot outline of both The Ring and Ringu are very similar / the same wrt the idea of the false climax, the argument I’m making holds either way.)

The Ring is well known for being a really beautifully done horror film. It looks incredible, for one thing--it’s visually gorgeous and thematically dense. But mostly, it does something with the concept of hauntings, ghostly origin stories, and the standard horror plot that, at the time of its release, was incredibly stunning and exciting.

In short, The Ring fakes out its audience by presenting a false climax that appears to resolve the story, in a way that is emotionally nice, if a little unsatisfying, before pulling the rug out from under its own plot.

Because The Ring is such a standout intertext for TFP, i.e., TFP not only draws on it, but resonates with it in multiple ways, via names, repeated motifs, the framing of certain shots, as well as relying on it for nearly its entire climax, I really think the story of s4 and the series as a whole is not over. Even if you think there aren’t any further episodes coming down the pipe, I’m hoping this discussion might help people understand why the story feels incomplete. (Because it is).

If you’ve been trying to sit with the idea that the Redbeard reveal / presentation of Eurus’ backstory / resolution of Sherlock’s story is real / supposed to be taken at face value, but that reading isn’t working for you, maybe this will help.

Basic premises: the reading I’m doing here is a mind bungalow reading. The rationale for The Ring as a major intertext of TFP is that John has been shot, and TFP is the content of his hallucination as he’s bleeding out, which offers an understanding of why it’s so bizarre and tonally shifted from everything else we’ve seen in Sherlock. This reading pulls on the newly revealed information, in TST, that John is a horror movie buff--enough so that he feels the need to correct Mary on the difference between The Omen and The Exorcist. John’s proclivity for horror films offers one justification for why they not only seem to inform TFP, but practically take it over.

I’m hoping to show, for people who aren’t familiar with The Ring, exactly how wildly it dominates TFP, and to talk about how we can use this fact to make some sense of the episode, and possibly the future of the show.

Ridiculous levels of detail under the cut:

An Intro to The Ring

This is Rachel.

Oops.

This is Rachel (Naomi Watts). She’s the main character of The Ring, and an investigative journalist.

Sidebar: I might have developed a bit of a crush on Naomi Watts when this movie came out. Crush, as it turns out, still active.

Rachel’s a career-driven single mom of a son who spends his time apparently engaging in extrasensory perception normal kid things and drawing seriously disturbing totally normal pictures at all times:

(Not yet, Eurus!)

The story of The Ring starts when Rachel’s teenaged niece dies under mysterious circumstances, and Rachel’s sister, the dead girl’s mother, asks Rachel to investigate. The trail leads Rachel to what sounds like an urban legend about a cursed videotape.

She finds the tape at a creepy mountain resort, and watches it. It is, in essence, a mishmash of images set to an unsettling minimalist soundtrack:

Sorry, wrong creepy recording. This is the one from The Ring:

Yeah me too. (Note the nearly-fourth-wall-breaking gaze...remind you of anything?)

Hi, John. (Via @inevitably-johnlocked, specifically this answer.)

I’ll just say here that, in addition to seemingly casting himself as Plane Girl and Eurus throughout parts of TFP, John’s role as John in TFP overlaps with much of Rachel’s in The Ring. Rachel’s standout characteristics are her dogged attachment to the investigation and her somewhat deadbeat qualities as a mom. I’ll leave you to your deductions about why John probably identifies with her.

Immediately after Rachel watches the tape, the phone rings. When Rachel answers, a voice says, “Seven days.” We already know, from her previous investigations, that people die seven days after they watch the tape. Now she knows there’s something to the story, and we have a ticking clock motif--a handy thing that builds extra tension into any plot.

Tick tick tick, Jim!

I’m going to skip most of the investigative twists and turns in The Ring, because this movie is a treat, and half the fun is watching the evidence pile up that something supernatural is responsible for the mysterious deaths.

Long story short, Rachel’s investigations lead her to discover that the videotape is linked to a horse-loving couple whose possibly weird-scientifically conceived daughter caused a lot of trouble during her brief lifetime.

Oh, and they live on a remote island that you can only reach via boat.

Sorry, wrong island.

This weird island is the one from The Ring. Totally different island. This is the one where, while the weird girl with psychic powers was still alive, she seems to have subjected the residents to her whim. (*cough cough cough*)

ANYWAY--

Rachel interviews the girl’s father and gets nowhere, but the island’s doctor is a little more talkative.

Important Backstory Alert:

Doctor: She wanted a child more than anything, poor Anna. They tried hard for years, but sometimes it’s just not meant to be. Then one winter they went away, and when they came back, it was with Samara. [I have to interject here to say you could argue that watching the tape means you have an APPOINTMENT WITH SAMARA, lol] ... Everything was fine, ’til Anna started coming to see me. Said she was suffering visions, seeing things, horrible things, like they’d been burned inside her. It only happened around Samara, that the girl put them there.

Okay. I just want to put a pin in that and go to TFP, because this is where we get some major intertextual action:

MYCROFT (firmly): I am aware of the dangers Eurus poses, and equipped to deal with them. JOHN: What dangers? MYCROFT (straightening up): Eurus doesn’t just talk to people. She ... reprograms them. (John turns back to look at the screen.) MYCROFT: Anyone who spends time with her is automatically compromised.

(all transcripts via Ariane de Vere)

Eurus is like the little girl from The Ring, putting ideas in people’s heads. As many, many people have noted, her hair and clothing in TFP are very close to Samara’s.

See what I mean?

Like Eurus, we see Samara through a television screen. Here, Samara is depicted in old footage of a psychiatric interview:

One of many iterations of televisual Eurus:

(The Ring plays very substantially with the uncanny nature of television, its habit of invading our domestic spaces, and the way that we can be manipulated and even threatened through the set. I suspect there’s something similar going on with TFP, especially in light of increasing evidence that it’s the setup to an ARG--TFP is the bait, the inciting incident, that leads us into the game.)

In any case, Eurus, as we have her in TFP, is an interesting mix of Samara from The Ring and a figure from John and Sherlock’s past. In The Ring, Samara manipulates people by “showing them things”--she puts pictures in their heads. But Eurus “talks to people,” and, somehow, makes them do things.

In TAB, on his way to his death, Sherlock read John’s blog, the story of how they met. Here, in TFP, on the verge of death, John is hallucinating a blend of motifs from horror movies and that same story--the story of how he and Sherlock met, with their first bad guy (Jeff Hope) blended together with their most recent (Eurus), and a substantial dose of Samara in the mix.

All of this evidence is plentiful enough to say there’s definitely a connection between The Ring and TFP. None of this begins to cover the sheer lunacy of the climax of TFP, and its very, very strong resemblance to the penultimate plot points of The Ring. Buckle in for a trip to bonkersland.

The Ring’s False Climax and The Non-Finality of TFP

The action of The Ring comes to its first, and fake, climax, as Rachel is running out of time. It’s the seventh day of her seven-day adventure, and she’s on Murder Moesko Island trying to figure it all out. Even as her previous ex-commander ex-boyfriend, Noah, struggles to dig up some information on the Morgans’ daughter at a nearby mental hospital, Rachel sneaks into the Morgan family farmhouse and watches a tape from the hospital’s archive:

Interviewer: So what is it that’s keeping you awake? You must sleep sometime. Do you dream about something? Samara?

Interviewer: Let’s talk about the pictures. How did you make them? Samara? How did you make these pictures?

[Sidebar: the pictures are amazing]

Samara: I don’t make them. I see them, and then, they just are.

Interviewer: Samara, I need you to start telling me the truth, okay?

Samara: Can I see my Mommy?

Interviewer: No, Samara, not until we understand what’s wrong with you.

Samara: I love my Mommy.

Interviewer: Yes you do. But you don’t want to hurt her any more, now, do you? You don’t want to hurt anyone.

Samara: But I do, and I’m sorry. It won’t stop.

Interviewer: Well that’s why you’re here. So I can help you to make it stop.

Samara: He’s going to leave me here.

Interviewer: Who?

Samara: Daddy.

Interviewer: They just want to help you.

Samara: Not Daddy.

Interviewer: Your Daddy loves you.

Samara: Daddy loves the horses. He wants me to go away.

Interviewer: No he doesn’t.

Samara: But he doesn’t know.

Interviewer: He doesn’t know what? Samara?

[The tape cuts off.]

This is lovely horror movie stuff, well done. (If anyone wants to explore the above text in terms of potential connections with John, Mary, and Rosie, or in light of Eurus’s nonsense monologues / psychiatric interviews in the background of TFP, go ahead. I’m not planning to, but I think it’s a potentially rich vein.)

We have the evidence that there was something very wrong with Samara, and the witness (Rachel) who interprets what she sees as evidence of child abuse. As The Ring builds to a series of reveals, we’re pulled in two different directions: we have the evidence that this child has powers, that she’s used them malevolently, and, on the other hand, the idea that she should have been protected, she was just a child, and therefore can’t be responsible for what’s happened to her.

Rachel, persisting in her idea that Samara just needed / needs to be understood, and that she’s uncovered some terrible story of abuse, continues to investigate.

Similarly, the narrative of TFP pulls us in two different directions. Eurus is both a little girl who somehow just needs a hug, and the demon seed who had, and has, no trouble killing wantonly.

Since Eurus can be read as a proxy for John (and this is part of where TFP takes on serious dramatic weight), we have both sides of him, as well. John needs to be rescued.

John is also full of self-blame.

He casts himself in both roles, with one resolution: his own rescue.

In The Ring, Rachel, now joined by her previous ex-commander ex-boyfriend Noah, first SEEK MY ROOM find Samara’s room, which is located in a symbolic Rapunzel’s tower hello damsel in distress at the top of the world’s tallest barn:

After approximately fifteen minutes of climbing, they find this oddly-normal-looking-for-where-it-is little girl’s room:

Compare:

Samara’s room, like Eurus’s apparently normal childhood bedroom, hides darker intentions and secrets. In this case, hidden under the wallpaper:

The burning tree image they uncover is a clue that leads them back to the inn where Rachel first watched the tape.

There, in the cabin, Noah and Rachel search desperately for the reason why they’ve been led back to this place. Rachel makes an impassioned plea for Noah to help their son (who has also watched the tape, and is under the same curse). Noah temper tantrums spectacularly--

--Noah temper tantrums spectacularly, knocking a conveniently placed vase of glass beads onto the floor. They roll and form an arrow that points to the solution:

(Did I mention that the room in The Ring is “painted red” by the setting sun shining through the red leaves of a tree? Just saying.)

Rachel and Noah figure out that there’s a hidden well underneath the floorboards on the cabin. Noah fetches an ax and smashes up the floor, an act that takes approximately a million years of screentime but is very manly:

Go, Sherlock!

Go, Noah!

What is it called when you break through the floor instead of the fourth wall? Lol.

Here’s where things get really ridiculous.

A tv, possessed by the spirit of the dead girl, knocks Rachel into the well.

No, really:

I know, totally different from being put in a well by a person who broadcasts herself through a tv and who everyone thought was dead, but you know.

The fall knocks Rachel out. She wakes up in the well:

Rachel: I’m here.

John: Yeah I’m here.

Rachel finds gruesome evidence that Samara was trapped in the well, alive, for a while.

The lid slides over the well--Rachel is trapped. She pulls up a handful of hair from the water, a hand emerges to grip her wrist, and we’re off into flashback territory:

Rachel receives a vision, presented as a flashback, about Samara’s murder. At first we see what seems to be a childhood idyll, accompanied by Samara’s singing:

Round we go The world is spinning When it stops It's just beginning Sun comes up We live and we cry Sun goes down And then we all die

[x]

But, we find out that this is actually the scene of her murder, as her mother approaches from behind her, puts a plastic bag over her head, and pushes her into the well:

Meanwhile, at the bottom of the well, Rachel pulls Samara’s body up out of the water. She comforts her:

Rachel: It’s okay now. It’s okay.

This parallels Sherlock’s puzzle solving on the surface, so he can find Eurus and save John.

SHERLOCK: I ... am ... lost ... Help ... me ... brother ... Save ... My ... Life ... Before ... my ... Doom. (He continues swiping the words away.) SHERLOCK: I ... am ... Lost ... Without ... your ... love ... Save ... My ... soul ... seek ... my ... room. [x]

The gravestone puzzle allows him to find Eurus, and comfort her.

SHERLOCK (in a whisper): You’re not lost any more.

Here we have it: a clear emotional climax for TFP--the climax that happened instead of the emotional resolution we were looking for, between John and Sherlock, but a climax nonetheless, if only in strictly structural terms.

In The Ring, this is the moment Samara’s body dissolves into bones:

Meanwhile, in John’s Well of Feels:

This moment in The Ring offers an escape from death for John Rachel. The curse doesn’t kick in: she doesn’t die, even though her seven days are up. She believes that, in discovering the true story of Redbeard Samara, she’s solved the puzzle and broken the curse. She contemplates the importance of understanding Samara, in the aftermath, as a surprising number of emergency workers and police crowd around this remote location, no doubt in response to Noah’s and Rachel’s call.

The Ring:

TFP:

Noah talks with Rachel about what happened, comforting her as she’s wrapped in a shock blanket, looking tired and worn out and damp:

Rachel: [About Samara] She just wanted to be heard. Sometimes children, they yell or cry or draw pictures.

In case you’re having trouble telling at this point, this is from TFP, not The Ring:

John: Well, you gave her what she was looking for: context.

Sherlock: Is that good?

John: It’s not good, it’s not bad. It is what it is.

[And what it is, is shit, friends, or, more hopefully, about to go to shit in the most amazing way possible. Hang on: this meta has one more loop around the track to go.]

In both The Ring and TFP, this looks like closure, doesn’t it? It looks like the show’s over. TFP certainly did its darndest to pantomime an ending after this. And yet--

WHY IT ISN’T OVER YET

Now we come to the point, the entire point and the thing that inspired this post. If John is drawing inspiration from The Ring in his hallucination--and I am certainly convinced that he is--then we ARE NOT DONE.

The above is not the climax of The Ring. It’s a nice version of a ghost story: if someone could only just learn the truth, then we could put the haunting to rest.

What a tender world that would be.

Rachel goes home, and tells her son, who has also been cursed, that she solved the puzzle.

Aidan: What happened to the girl?

Rachel: Samara?

Aidan: Is that her name?

Rachel: Mm hm.

Aidan: Is she still in the dark place?

Rachel: No. We set her free.

Aidan: You helped her?

Rachel: Yeah.

Aidan: Why did you do that?

Rachel: What’s wrong, honey?

Aidan: You weren’t supposed to help her.

[^ my approximate feelings immediately after watching TFP for the first time.]

Okay so, let me fill you in on how freaking amazing The Ring was, as a first time viewing experience, when it came out. Horror had, as horror does, gone through a particularly shitty slump at this point. The decision to import motifs from J-horror was among one of the best things that could have happened to Hollywood, however you feel about cultural appropriation / this style of collaboration. The above moment, in which the not-at-all-creepy child informs Rachel that she is wrong, that she has in fact made a terrible mistake, was, simply put, a really standout moment in the history of horror cinema. It was the thing that people talked about when they talked about The Ring.

The false climax of The Ring is the thing that distinguishes it. Borrowing that false climax to the point where, beat for beat, it informs the climax of your horror pastiche episode, as Moftiss have done in TFP, is akin to jumping up and down and screaming, THERE! IS! A! TWIST! COMING! THIS! IS! NOT! OVER!

So, what’s still to come?

In The Ring, the twist is that Rachel actually avoided the curse when she made a copy of the videotape, during her research. Like a smart virus, Samara’s curse forgives the person who propagates it.

If you don’t pass it on, you die. The curse is very much still active in the world of The Ring, which we find out when it gets Noah (poor Noah!). Here we learn the true nature of death-by-Samara. Basically, she breaks the fourth wall, climbing through your television set to come get you:

A fourth wall break so extreme, it’s lethal!

I know, Noah, this is how I feel about the ARG too.

Noah dies, leaving Rachel to figure out that the key to saving her son from the curse is to have him copy the tape:

This is Moftiss, showing you how to hit reblog on those ARG posts that you find scary, but which somehow seem increasingly important to your survival, post s4.

Bottom line, the ending of TFP, in copying the false climax of The Ring--in addition to its numerous other signs that it is not seriously offering any kind of resolution or closure for its audience--indicates that it is fake as hell. The story is not over, there is more coming for our heroes, and much more coming for us.

tagging:

@devoursjohnlock @marcespot @waitedforgarridebs @221bloodnun @jenna221b

I should probably tag others but I’m exhausted, please feel free to pass this on.

#sherlock meta #s4 speculation #the final problem #mind bungalow #john is hallucinating

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brennantalbot · 7 years

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CHARACTER’S FULL NAME:

B R E N N A N: irish origin. meaning: “prince”.

T A L B O T: english/german origin. meaning: “messenger of destruction”.

BIRTH DATE:

October 29th.

STAR SIGN/ZODIAC: s c o r p i o.

Your element: Water

Your ruling planets: Pluto

Symbol: The Scorpion

Your stone: Topaz

Life Pursuit: To survive against all opposition

Vibration: Resilient

Scorpio's Secret Desire: To triumph

About: Scorpios operate on three levels of soul evolvement; adding up to three distinctively different types of Scorpios. The first level is the Scorpion. This is the least evolved and most drawn toward using their powers the wrong way. The criminal element of Scorpio comes under this level. Then there is the eagle - the highflying, entrepreneurial, successful Scorpio, who seems able to rise above adversity and transform bad-times into good. Then the highest expression of this sign is the Phoenix Resurrected. These Scorpios are detached and extremely powerful. They are wise beyond their years and act as leaders and are an inspiration to others. Quite frequently a Scorpio goes through the three levels of evolvement in one lifetime - but the levels can operate out of sequence.

MYERS-BRIGGS PERSONALITY TEST: PROTAGONIST (ENFJ-A)

82%EXTRAVERTED || 18%ENERGY

57%INTUITIVE || 43%OBSERVANT

19%THINKING || 81%FEELING

87%JUDGING || 13%PROSPECTING

93%ASSERTIVE || 7%TURBULENT

ABOUT: Protagonists are natural-born leaders, full of passion and charisma. Forming around two percent of the population, they are oftentimes our politicians, our coaches and our teachers, reaching out and inspiring others to achieve and to do good in the world. With a natural confidence that begets influence, Protagonists take a great deal of pride and joy in guiding others to work together to improve themselves and their community. Protagonists are genuine, caring people who talk the talk and walk the walk, and nothing makes them happier than leading the charge, uniting and motivating their team with infectious enthusiasm.

STRENGTHS: Tolerant, Reliable, Charismatic, Altruistic, Natural Leader

WEAKNESSES: Overly Idealistic, Too Selfless, Too Sensitive, Struggle to Make Tough Decisions

ENNEAGRAM PERSONALITY TYPES: (The Enthusiast and Adventurer)

Adventurers are energetic, lively, and optimistic. They want to contribute to the world.

How to Get Along with Me

Give me companionship, affection, and freedom.

Engage with me in stimulating conversation and laughter.

Appreciate my grand visions and listen to my stories.

Don't try to change my style. Accept me the way I am.

Be responsible for yourself.

Don't tell me what to do.

What I Like About Being a Seven

being optimistic and not letting life's troubles get me down

being spontaneous and free-spirited

being outspoken and outrageous. It's part of the fun.

being generous and trying to make the world a better place

having the guts to take risks and to try exciting adventures

having such varied interests and abilities

What's Hard About Being a Seven

not having enough time to do all the things I want

not completing things I start

having a tendency to be ungrounded; getting lost in plans or fantasies

feeling confined when I'm in a one-to-one relationship

Sevens as Children Often

are action oriented and adventuresome

drum up excitement

prefer being with other children to being alone

finesse their way around adults

dream of the freedom they'll have when they grow up

Sevens as Parents

are often enthusiastic and generous

want their children to be exposed to many adventures in life

may be too busy with their own activities to be attentive

CHARACTER ALIGNMENT TEST: lawful good

A lawful good character acts as a good person is expected or required to act. He combines a commitment to oppose evil with the discipline to fight relentlessly. He tells the truth, keeps his word, helps those in need, and speaks out against injustice. A lawful good character hates to see the guilty go unpunished.Lawful good is the best alignment you can be because it combines honor and compassion.Lawful good can be a dangerous alignment when it restricts freedom and criminalizes self-interest.

FOUR TEMPERMENTS TEST: sanguine

Your temperament is sanguine. The sanguine temperament is fundamentally spontaneous and pleasure-seeking; sanguine people are sociable and charismatic. They tend to enjoy social gatherings, making new friends and tend to be boisterous. They are usually quite creative and often daydream. However, some alone time is crucial for those of this temperament. Sanguine can also mean sensitive, compassionate and thoughtful. Sanguine personalities generally struggle with following tasks all the way through, are chronically late, and tend to be forgetful and sometimes a little sarcastic. Often, when they pursue a new hobby, they lose interest as soon as it ceases to be engaging or fun. They are very much people persons. They are talkative and not shy. Sanguines generally have an almost shameless nature, certain that what they are doing is right. They have no lack of confidence.

PERSONALITY TYPES: the scholar

Scholars are the integration Role, who stand alone on their axis as seekers after truth. In the process they gather, interpret and store knowledge, which they are well equipped to do, being thoughtful, curious and objective. They can be found on the cutting edge of science, technology and any branch of learning, possessing an astonishing capacity to get their heads round the toughest intellectual problems and come up with solutions. A recent example is the discovery and recording of the light that shone from the first stars in the universe. All Scholars love to share and communicate their ideas, whether as writers, teachers or trainers. The eighteenth-century Scholar Dr Samuel Johnson exemplified the Role, being a poet and wit as well as compiler of the first dictionary: ‘To talk in public, to think in solitude, to read and to hear, to inquire and to answer inquiries, is the business of the Scholar.’

The term ‘Scholar’ is strongly associated with the professional function of scholarship, but the Role is not identical with it. Scholars have developed and mainly run the education system, science and the learned professions, but other Roles have also made valuable contributions. The archetype of the Scholar at ease with solitary intellectual labour still holds true, though nowadays with a computer in the place of the quill and parchment of the medieval monastery. Yet eventually Scholars’ curiosity and adventurous spirit do lead them out of their studies, since they like to experience a wide diversity in their lives. As a result, they are likely to follow several different careers and have a number of hobbies and interests.

Scholars value knowledge, which is the positive pole of their Role. Any true Scholar will disobey the command not to eat the fruit of the tree of knowledge; it is their favourite food. The world is their school or lab, full of opportunities to study and experiment.

ELEMENT: water

Water people are emotional, intuitive, deeply creative, empathetic, spiritual and psychic. Water allows people to emotionally connect with others. And yet, water people are so sensitive that they often have a hard time unplugging from life’s chaos. Consequently, many water people suffer from addiction as they grapple for distraction from life’s pain. Thus, water people tend to be secretive and private.

It is important then, for water people to learn how to hone emotions through meditation and see the value in water. Water is real. Water makes us vulnerable and it makes us human. It connects us with spirit and with soul. If you want to achieve a happy, balanced, and beautiful life.

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