you brought me home

January 29, 2010. Two souls reunited. In another life. In another century. At last.

And it is always eighteen ninety-five.

E.xcUSEmeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee???????????????????????????

Jen can sing. Colin can sing. Adam and Eddy, I literally have one thing only to say to u: 

The Once fandom:

NO i mean well i am mark gatiss and ian hallard’s adopted daughter but here’s how i know:

it’s not a trick, it’s a plan

elephant glass shock proof

people always give up after three

moriarty saying “of course it doesn’t make sense, it’s not real” in the abominable bride

“tfp takes place in john’s subconscious” makes perfect sense-water as emotion’s and john’s Love Prison

the final problem is the name of the story with which acd ended his stories (permanently, it seemed!)

car seat boy was dead for a week

all the allusions to hell starting in trf but particularly from tap thru tfp signify that tfp was a Hell Episode

the “13th” sticky note on the empty fridge (food as sex) as mycroft says “get me sherrinford” warning us of what was about to happen

the subsequent elephant takeout menu

mark saying “i love an acronym” in tst

wiggins saying “is tea code?” in tld

mycroft watching a love story that gets interrupted by bizarre horror montage

tfp is openly antithetical to the show’s established themes in such major ways it is impossible that it’s real

why would they pass up iconic johnlock dates 22/1 and/or 29/1 both falling on sunday this year

we are eurus, the little girl on the plane screaming that something is wrong with the perfect metaphor that explains everything except for how to land but it’s not too late and they’ll take us home

the #sherlockreacts kid rebel wilson.gif’d the concept of a secret episode

anyone at bbc one mentioning this rumor in any capacity is ridiculous unless it’s true

arwel tweeted “I can’t tweet about apples in code or i’ll get in trouble”

this is the greatest surprise in television history

and it’s just for us

because they love us and this is a final parting gift

they are excellent writers and they wouldn’t fuck this up

and like of COURSE they would pull a prank like this THIS 👏 IS 👏 THE 👏 SHIT 👏 THEY 👏 DO 👏

it’s gonna be HUGE

they love john and sherlock’s love just as much as i do

if not more

we are the geek interpreters

did i mention tfp makes sense now and i like it???

radio times keeps putting that article with the headline about a rumored fourth episode on blast (written before the ep even aired)

culverton’s daughter (AGAIN, EURUS, SO US) is named FAITH in tld

the episode has a secret twin from the moment of conception

posh boy

Sherlock and John rebuilt 221b together. Mary narrated the adventure.  They go off to solve crimes together, picking up right where they left off. No questions asked whatsoever. 

It’s the perfect ending to a casual viewer. It’s the “warm paste” Mark Gatiss says BBC Sherlock would never be. It glosses over plot points and questions, literally hundreds of them, and the casual audience doesn’t even notice. 

But the loyal fans – and I don’t mean us conspirators, I mean everyone who claims to love this show – feel cheated. They were robbed of explanations. 

You can’t go back to the beginning as if nothing matters and as if nothing happened.  You can’t rebuild and go back to the way things were.  There are too many things left unsaid, too many loose threads.  They can never go back.

But they did. Somehow. And that’s why the audience feels robbed.

There was no resolution.  There was no climax.