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beingallmysterious · 3 months
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Okay I’m late to this as it has already been out a year but I just discovered the series A Better Story on the TJLCExplained YouTube channel by the always lovely @victorianpining and I cannot scream loudly enough when I say that if you haven’t watched it, stop whatever you are doing and watch it now.
Rebecca’s analysis is as piercing and intelligent as it is open-minded and thoughtful and at every step there is so much heart.
If you were hurt by season four, it is time to heal and A Better Story is exactly the medicine you need. You will be held with complete compassion and understanding as you come to terms with it all
Even if you never want to come back to BBC Sherlock, consider taking the time to heal anyway. I’ve seen the old Sherlock pain rise from the deep like a monster in other fandoms and it really does spoil things— sucks out all the fun and corrupts the interpretation. We need to heal.
And if you don’t have any lingering trauma, damn watch it anyway. It’s joyful and intelligent and brilliant. The game is on.
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teapotcode · 10 months
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now that I think more about it, I think I get why sherlock falsely assumes Irene is in love with him in ASIB. 
Earlier in the episode he wrongly assumes Molly’s interested in another man at the Christmas party, but finds out he’s wrong and feels bad and apologizes to her. He clearly didn’t know and didn’t mean to hurt her. So now having learned from his mistake, he *overcorrects* and falsely assumes Irene *must* be in love him. He misinterprets Irene’s racing pulse as fear instead of love despite feeling Mrs. Hudson’s pulse and knowing she was afraid when it raced, so this tells me the Molly thing is clouding his better judgment.
 So he’s wrong the first time with Molly (he thinks Molly doesn’t love him when actually she does), then based on that he makes the same assumption but reversed with Irene (he thinks Irene loves him when actually she doesn’t) to avoid hurting her despite his kinda harsh “you should never let your heart rule your head” speech. He’s clearly upset about the idea of love being dangerous and humiliating in this scene and not mad at Irene since he goes on to save her at the end of the episode. sherlock isn’t any closer to understanding human emotions or their motivations by the end of the episode, he just unfortunately hammers home his own belief about love being dangerous. 
this also explains how he was able to figure out her password. Irene isn’t actually in love with him (she wants protection, she’s “playing the game”). so sherlock’s *reasoning* for figuring out her password is wrong, but he still ends up getting the right answer (i.e., that is was meant to be an unguessable password bc he’s a clueless virgin).
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buckingham-ashtray · 3 months
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Hello just a friendly reminder that Eurus used a bomb to make Sherlock say “I love you” to a John mirror and Sherlock also using a bomb to make John “say something nice”.
have a wonderful day xx
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catlock-holmes · 3 months
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During the stagnight after Sherlock vomits there is this very weird cut straight to a closeup of John's mouth and eye when they wake up in a cell.
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And they are both in the same cell. Is that common practice to lock people up together in just one cell that also only had one bunkbed and John had to sleep on the floor? Or did they do that with Sherlock and John specifically because they knew him at the police station?
And then they wake up in the cell the next morning with their clothes all rumpled and messed up, so what did they do there? Sherlocks whole shirt is pulled out of his trousers thats something we never saw before because usually its tucked in there very neatly. So what did they do there that resulted in Sherlocks shirt pulled out of his trousers, both of them all rumpled? Anyone have some ideas? Sounds like a fanfic idea
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dinner--starving · 1 year
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OH MY GOD
Do you need more proof that S4 is fucking fake? And more likely a drug induced coma fever dream?
Remember E? The woman on the bus that "Eurus" pretended to be and had a text affair with John? How did she give John her number? Written on a piece of paper. And what was her number?
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I always wondered if there was a signiificance to this phone number. I looked for meta on this but never found a one with proper proofs, forgive me if I overlooked any and please let me know if so. As is with this ridiculous show that even after re-watching it for the 143rd time, I still get baffled at things I didn't notice before!
And I cannot believe that this number comes from
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The Hounds of Baskerville
Henry Knight's napkin with the train girl's phone number on it.
Sherlock: The girl – female handwriting’s quite distinctive. Wrote her phone number down on the napkin. I can tell from the angle she wrote at that she was sat across from you on the other side of the aisle. Later – after she got off, I imagine – you used the napkin to mop up your spilled coffee, accidentally smudging the numbers. You’ve been over the last four digits yourself with another pen, so you wanted to keep the number. Just now, though, you used the napkin to blow your nose. Maybe you’re not that into her after all.
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E was sitting across from John on the other side of the aisle on the bus. And it seemed she already had the number written down the way she is looking at the piece of paper, she probably just wrote Exx at the bus stop scene. John contemplated throwing her number in the bin but then decided to keep it after all.
What does this tell me? A clear indication that S4 is an amalgamation of what THoB is essentially all about - re-written memories due to childhood trauma, drug induced hallucinations, doing therapy (Sherlock's recurring dream), on the verge of suicide, not knowing what's real and what's not, betrayed by someone close - we know what Henry Knight saw was never real, the HOUND was never real. We also know Henry Knight is a Sherlock mirror.
If you notice the phone number screen grab from THoB, the 3rd last and 2nd last number seem to "1 and 5" that is rewritten by Henry, the last number is not visible to us. The last three numbers on E's number is "552".
"You’ve been over the last four digits yourself with another pen..."
This is Sherlock's version, he has rewritten this with his pen. All of S4.
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tjlc-hellven · 1 month
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Johnny! There is no baby!
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Hello I'm just here to remind you the flash drive Mary gave to John wasn't the one he threw into the fire
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Hey so you know how House MD was based on Sherlock Holmes, right?
This has most likely been pointed out before but I just found some pictures from the last time I watched House and I just can’t stop thinking about this —
Patient: You really as good as everyone seems to think you are?
House: Are you really as miserable as everyone seems to think you are?
Patient: I just want to do something that matters.
House: Nothing matters. We’re all just cockroaches, wildebeests dying on the river bank. Nothing we do has any lasting meaning.
Patient: And you think I’m miserable.
House: If you’re unhappy on the plane, jump out of it.
Patient: I want to but… I can’t.
House: Mmm. That’s the problem with metaphors. They need interpretation. Jumping out of the plane is stupid.
Patient: Well, what if I’m not in a plane? What if I’m just in a place I don’t want to be?
House: That’s the other problem with metaphors. Yes, what if you’re actually on an ice cream truck and outside are candy and flowers and virgins. You’re on a plane! We’re all on planes. Life is dangerous and complicated and… it’s a long way down.
Patient: So you’re afraid of change?
House: No, you’re afraid to change. You’d rather imagine that you can escape instead of actually try. ‘Cause if you fail, then you got nothing. So you’ll give up the chance of something real so you can hold onto hope. The thing is, hope is for sissies.
— Season 4 Episode 14, “Living the Dream” (aired 08 May 2008)
So I’m sure you know where I’m going with this…
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“Look how brilliant you are. Your mind has created the perfect metaphor. You’re high above us, all alone in the sky, and you understand everything except how to land.”
So House says you need to find the courage to let go of “hope” (spending your life in daydreams that won’t come true if you don’t do something to make them happen), JUMP out of the plane (do the risky thing) in order to be more happy with your life… but holding onto hope and possibility of something better is preferable to the reality of failing and crashing to the ground.
Because after all,
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It’s not the fall that kills you… it’s the landing.
Being gay isn’t dangerous. It’s other people’s treatment of you that is.
Loving someone isn’t scary, it’s the possibility that they won’t love you back.
But you’ll never find out how happy you could be if you don’t make that jump.
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Oh and the next two episodes are called “House’s Head” and “Wilson’s Heart” and have House having all kinds of medical and memory issues, buried memory retrieval, hallucinations, talking to himself through other characters in his mind, shadowy lights to visualize being inside his mind, mystery woman with a false identity his mind creates who represents Wilson’s girlfriend, “I’m the answer”, “you believe in reason above all else, there must be a reason”, overdosing on drugs to solve the mystery, playing out scenarios completely in his mind, almost dying himself, Wilson restarting House’s heart after it stops (heart restarting a heart anyone?), House saying Wilson’s girlfriend’s name as soon as he wakes up after coming back from almost dying, hallucinating Wilson’s girlfriend in a pantsuit and having conversations with her as though she’s there, and then of course Wilson’s girlfriend dying and Wilson blaming House (since he called and she came to meet him), Wilson isolating himself from House, House keeping his distance, and then trying to guilt Wilson into being his friend again…
And here’s an interesting coincidence with the opening scenes from House’s Head and The Final Problem…
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Yeah this haunts me.
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coffeeteaitsallfine · 9 months
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Appointment in Samsara Part 2: Secret Twins, Through the Looking-Glass
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A re-examination of the show within the context of fatalism, the Ghost Driver, and Secret Twins.
Preview:
In order to know what our Storyteller has gotten up to and what it means, we have to look back at all the many examples of the Car and Driver metaphor throughout the show. You likely already have an interpretation for a lot of these examples. However, in many if not all, there exist double readings — secret twins. Let us begin with an honorable mention: The Gay Pilot, the gift that keeps on giving.
John: You haven’t eaten today? For God’s sake, you need to eat. Sherlock: No, you need to eat. I need to think. The brain’s what counts. Everything else is transport. John: You might consider refueling. … John: So, you don’t…do…anything. Sherlock: Everything else is transport.
The body is transport. We also learn throughout the show that food is sex, refueling the body like you refuel your car to keep it running. Similar to Julian English in Appointment in Samarra, one’s sexuality is one’s vitality.
There are cars that pass like ghosts, unseen, unremembered. There are people we trust, always, when we’re alone, when we’re lost, when we’re drunk. We never see their faces, but every day we disappear into their cars and let the trap close around us. I give you the perfect murder weapon of the modern age: the invisible car.
Read the rest on Medium
Need to read Part 1? Find that here.
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inevitably-johnlocked · 3 months
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HELP STEPH!!
I’M STARTING TO DOUBT TJLC??!?! (is that even possible?? Shame on me my parents are starting to contaminate me with their heteronormativity)
Anyway,
I KNOW that you can put faith in me again and remind me that it’s there so idk could you pls pls, anything, something… I need some good proof of Johnlock that would even make the straightest most boring person ever believe in it.
<3
Hey Lovely!
OH GOSH, I'm probably the worst to restore faith since I have maintained some skepticism since S4 aired myself, HAHAH. A lot of people have left me because of it, sadly misunderstanding that my skepticism comes from other external factors rather than JUST the show. Because I do genuinely believe that it WAS supposed to be a Johnlock ending but then ~~THINGS~~ happened, lies were told, and shit was stirred behind the scenes. Just various happenings OUTSIDE of JUST the show made me skeptical, is all. If you're only looking at JUST the show, I can see how one remains hopeful (minus S4, but that's a personal opinion, LOL)
I do, though, have some posts made after S4 that I have either written or compiled here:
S4 Meta Masterpost (Aug. 3, 2018)
Convincing a Friend of TJLC
Is There a Difference Between TJLC and Johnlock?
Johnlock Isn’t Just a Coincidence
Is Johnlock Canon After S4?
Do I Still Believe in Johnlock After S4?
ASK: I’ve Been Away for Awhile; Do You Think Johnlock Will Happen?
ASK: Do you think S4 was Queerbaiting?
General Meta On S4 Masterpost (Feb 2020)
Johnlock / TJLC Meta (All the Gay Subtext Masterlist June 24/19)
TJLC Analysis of ACD Canon?
The last link has lots of amazing links to other meta that should help restore your faith :)
Sorry I'm not much help otherwise, Lovely! <3 I have tried my best, because I just want you happy <3
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stilldisqualified · 8 months
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You know your Sherlock obsession is back when you’re reading meta for fun
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I was rewatching TEH and I noticed something. Probably, it was already clear to everyone but I realized it only today.
When John realizes that they're going to die, he gets angry and the first thing that he says is:
"I wanted you not to be dead."
In that moment, he didn't care about himself. He didn't care about Mary or anyone else either.
He was wrecked because the worst thing that could happen was going to happen; Sherlock was going to die. That's the only thing he could think about in his last moments.
In my opinion, that's the demonstration of the purest form of love.
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asherlockstudy · 1 year
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Hi!
Do you know why does Mycroft lie to John about Irene's fate in Karachi in ASIB?
Also, why does John say that Sherlock nearly despised her in the end when he clearly didn't? (I mean, this thing was the primary source of John's jealousy in the whole episode, wasn't it?)
All these weeks have been super crazy for me, sorry for this delay!
So, this was a question that really tormented me back in the day but I hadn't landed on a conclusion I deemed 100% safe. However, I am now leaning towards the realisation that we should take this scene at face value because Mycroft did NOT lie to John.
Mycroft waits outside 221B, hoping to meet John returning home. John is surprised to see him. Mycroft clearly is anxious to tell Sherlock himself: a) he can't decide which version of the story to tell Sherlock and b) he dreads that Sherlock might get emotional and he won't be able to deal with it. Given all the Eurus / Trevor context, we now know that Mycroft is terrified of how Sherlock will take the death of another person who is significant to him. We also know now that Sherlock considered Mycroft a terrible actor, which makes Mycroft even more anxious to lie in front of Sherlock. Mycroft points out that he neither smokes nor frequents cafes, making clear that he gets out of his way with all this situation.
Mycroft tries his story to John, Irene managed to get into a witness protection program in America. The fact that he uses promising speech like "She will survive... and thrive but he will never see her again", shows genuine sentimentality by Mycroft and not any mood for scheming. He asks John to convince Sherlock that he won't meet Irene again but at least she will continue having a happy life. There is no reason for Mycroft to say "she will survive and thrive" other than that he truly believes this would make Sherlock happy, as clearly neither Mycroft nor John cared whether Irene would survive and thrive. This is further proved by Mycroft's conviction that Irene was THE woman for Sherlock. He suspected that in the mortuary and he fully believed that when he told Sherlock "I drove you into her path. I am sorry. I didn't know (that you also like women)." Mycroft was effectively misled that Sherlock was in love with Irene. Of course Mycroft did not know Sherlock deciphered the email for John and not Irene and Irene did exactly nothing to correct his false impression. But this is why Mycroft is sorry. When John cedes to tell Sherlock, Mycroft tells him sadly that Irene is actually dead, and he does mean it as a truth This gives John a pause too, because even though he initially claimed Sherlock didn't care about Irene's fate, a finality like her actual death is something that even John fears it could sadden Sherlock. Mycroft is clearly lost and asks John what they should do.
If Mycroft wanted to mislead John, then he wouldn't ask his opinion. But, also, there's no reason for Mycroft to mislead John in this case. Whichever version was true, the result was the same; Sherlock and Irene would not meet again, so it's not like John had any antagonism, let alone that Mycroft wouldn't care so much about it. Besides, Sherlock and John had gone on with their lives normally during these two months, there was no reason for Mycroft to add a lie out of nowhere, especially since John seemed confident Sherlock despised Irene in the end.
So, the face value truth is:
John: Was it definitely her? She's done this before. Mycroft: I was thorough, this time. It would take Sherlock Holmes to fool me and I don't think he was on hand, do you? John swallows hard.
John Watson, always right. I understand that Mycroft sounds so suspicious here but perhaps it's a false perception because we know exactly this is what happened. However, it must actually be just tragic irony. Sherlock managed to fool Mycroft and he helped Irene disappear. Irene is NOT in a witness protection program in America. This is the lie Mycroft came up with because he thought Irene was dead. The only accurate information Mycroft has is that Irene was caught by terrorists in Karachi two months ago. Sherlock was secretly and independently following Irene's moves as he knew she was in mortal danger. He disguised himself as a terrorist, pretended to behead her and helped her escape while he confirmed her to be dead to the other terrorists. Since the terrorists believed her dead, this is the information that reached Mycroft. This means that after Irene fled, her and Sherlock's ways parted forever. Sherlock thought he paid her back, in a way, for her love.
It's interesting that John swallows hard when Mycroft doubts Sherlock could have saved Irene. He is pretty stone-faced throughout his encounter with Mycroft but now worry creeps in. Perhaps John remembered that Sherlock wasn't home for like a couple of days two months ago and deep inside John fears that Sherlock is the type of person who would run to Irene's rescue? He hopes he is wrong and he suppresses this momentary suspicion.
John is also torn about what to do. He hesitantly follows Mycroft's advice. Sherlock looks genuinely interested in what has become of Irene. He asks whether she's back in London, whether she's back on the game. This proves that they parted ways for good after her rescue and also that Sherlock didn't have anything to do with sending her to America or collaborating with Mycroft for it or whatever. No, Irene's traces are lost for good now. Neither Mycroft nor Sherlock know where she really is. When John tells him where she supposedly is, Sherlock appears a little surprised, but then mostly believes it if with a little hesitation. However, it seems that later Sherlock was able to decode Mycroft's lie as we see in "TSOT" that he says "God knows where she is". As a sidenote, Irene sends him a black rose when Sherlock is hospitalized in HLV. She is most likely pretty close to Sherlock, and certainly not in America, but she never shows up in Sherlock's life again.
Once he learns her case is closed, Sherlock shows disinterest in anything else, including the prospect of seeing her again. (He also does not wish to see her case file, as he knows everything inside it will be crap from the point of Karachi onwards.) Seeing this growing disinterest, John tries to tell him the "truth" just to not be a liar to his best friend since Sherlock doesn't care much anyway but Sherlock breaks him off and asks for her phone. John perceives this as a love gesture and eventually doesn't tell him what Mycroft told him.
Now, as to why John thought Sherlock despised her, I think that was mostly wishful thinking on his part. Sherlock had been played by Irene and this wounded his ego and then John chose to see everything in his reaction as evidence of Sherlock's anger. But this wasn't the case. John actually contradicts himself in front of Mycroft. I already wrote he looks pretty stone-faced, distant, he has a somewhat defensive posture. Mycroft tries to open up about Sherlock's sentimental nature but John shoots his attempt down. Perhaps it is too much for John at the moment to consider that Sherlock has emotions (and romantic ones), and especially to contemplate this in the presence of Mycroft. "He's not like that." "He doesn't feel things this way." "I don't know." And yet, in just the previous episode it's revealed to us that John thought and hoped Sherlock was a hero who wanted to do the good thing. And two episodes later, John confesses he thought Sherlock was the most human human being he ever met. So... his attitude towards Mycroft was closed-off, guarded and fake.
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buckingham-ashtray · 3 months
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the most amusing part of being a johnlock/tjlc fan is that for the majority of the time it hurts SO DAMN MUCH you quite literally want to throw yourself off a building and then when you actually reach the rooftop you discover you have company: “hey isn't that sherlock”
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lesbianaang · 2 years
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anyone else ever think about how (if you include sherlock) there are 5 cabbie victims in asip, but in the unaired pilot, which was originally set to be part of a six episode run, there are 6 cabbie victims. such a strange detail to change in your rewrite, unless the jefferson hope murders are somehow connected to the overall story structure 🤔
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I just had an awful thought (well, awful for me, anyway). We never see John Watson going to therapy between ASIP and TRF (and he confirms that he hasn't been going). I think it would be fair to assume that he either stops going to therapy or reduces his visits (as per his comment to Sholto in TSOT).
The thing is, we see John go back to therapy in TRF because he's just lost the love of his life his best friend.
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And then we see him go back to therapy at the beginning of TLD when his lying wife dies as well.
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If we take into account the fact that Sherlock and Mary are supposed to be mirrors for each other, then the opening scenes (and the rest) of TLD have potentially devastating implications for John's life between TRF and TEH. Namely, this:
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If John is hallucinating Mary's presence in the home they shared after her death, then it stands to reason that he likely did the same in 221B after Sherlock's "death".
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