Sherlocked & Loaded

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“This scene isn’t supposed to be sexual. Stop doing that.”

“Guys, you’re making everyone uncomfortable. Could you take it down a few notches?”

“For the love of god, just look at each other like normal people. Please.”

“Pretty sure the script didn’t say anything about eye fucking.”

It’s okay. It’s not okay. No, but it is what it is.

SO as many of you might know, Andrew Scott recently said in an interview that season 5 of Sherlock will not be realeased for a while - specifically around 2019 or 2020, which brought me and many others back to a hopeless state of TJLC mind.

However, @the-sad-snek and I have conjured up a theory about this.

As many of you might know, the Sherlock cast, crew, and of course, writers, are known as liars, manipulators, and cover-ups. They lie to surprise us or confuse us, which they’re FULLY aware throws TJLCers off the rails. Now, everyone on the Sherlock cast has told some decently sized lie about the show’s upcoming events. Everyone, except for Andrew Scott .

@the-sad-snek and I agreed that Andrew wouldn’t lie to us simply because he has never told a lie.

After all, Why would precious Andrew Scott tell a lie?

WELL. At first we were led to believe it was true. He never lied, he wouldn’t lie - but maybe that’s the point.

Theoritically, Mofftiss may have selected Andrew Scott specifically, as the one cast member who has never lied. The most trustworthy. To broadcast this message to the fandom in order to derail us slightly. However, knowing Sherlockians, not all of them will calm down. They haven’t since the 1800s.

But if Mofftiss can throw a few hundred, or rather, thousand, they can make the impact of a surprise so much greater.

They want to surprise us. They want to make us question our deduction skills, but the most effective way to do so, is to throw us off.

But who knows. Maybe Andrew Scott was telling the truth. Maybe not. But from my point of view, I can’t trust anyone on the Sherlock crew.

I mean- The Moriarty glitches on BBC One and BBC America are STILL happening. It’s excruciatingly obvious that the glitches happen for a reason, and that it isn’t genuinely a glitch. (BBC could fix it if it was).

1. They tell blatant lies.

You know it’s an outright lie. Yet they are telling you this lie with a straight face. Why are they so blatant? Because they’re setting up a precedent. Once they tell you a huge lie, you’re not sure if anything they say is true. Keeping you unsteady and off-kilter is the goal.

2. They deny they ever said something, even though you have proof.

You know they said they would do something; you know you heard it. But they out and out deny it. It makes you start questioning your reality—maybe they never said that thing. And the more they do this, the more you question your reality and start accepting theirs.

3. They use what is near and dear to you as ammunition.

They know how important your kids Johnlock are to you, and they know how important your identity is to you. So those may be one of the first things they attack. If you have kids, they tell you that you should not have had those children. They will tell you’d be a worthy person if only you didn’t have a long list of negative traits. They attack the foundation of your being.

4. They wear you down over time.

This is one of the insidious things about gaslighting—it is done gradually, over time seven years. A lie here, a lie there, a snide comment every so often…and then it starts ramping up. Even the brightest, most self-aware people can be sucked into gaslighting—it is that effective. It’s the “frog in the frying pan” analogy: The heat is turned up slowly, so the frog never realizes what’s happening to it.

5. Their actions do not match their words.

When dealing with a person or entity that gaslights, look at what they are doing rather than what they are saying. What they are saying means nothing; it is just talk. What they are doing is the issue.

6. They throw in positive reinforcement to confuse you.

This person or entity that is cutting you down, telling you that you don’t have value, is now praising you for something you did. This adds an additional sense of uneasiness. You think, “Well maybe they aren’t so bad.” Yes, they are. This is a calculated attempt to keep you off-kilter—and again, to question your reality. Also look at what you were praised for; it is probably something that served the gaslighter.

7. They know confusion weakens people.

Gaslighters know that people like having a sense of stability and normalcy. Their goal is to uproot this and make you constantly question everything. And humans’ natural tendency is to look to the person or entity that will help you feel more stable—and that happens to be the gaslighter.  

8. They project.

They are a drug user or a cheater, yet they are constantly accusing you of that. This is done so often that you start trying to defend yourself, and are distracted from the gaslighter’s own behavior.

9. They try to align people against you.

Gaslighters are masters at manipulating and finding the people they know will stand by them no matter what—and they use these people against you. They will make comments such as, “This person knows that you’re not right,” or “This person knows you’re useless too.” Keep in mind it does not mean that these people actually said these things. A gaslighter is a constant liar. When the gaslighter uses this tactic it makes you feel like you don’t know who to trust or turn to—and that leads you right back to the gaslighter. And that’s exactly what they want: Isolation gives them more control.  

10. They tell you or others that you are crazy.

This is one of the most effective tools of the gaslighter, because it’s dismissive. The gaslighter knows if they question your sanity, people will not believe you when you tell them the gaslighter is abusive or out-of-control. It’s a master technique.  

11. They tell you everyone else is a liar.

By telling you that everyone else (your family, the media) is a liar, it again makes you question your reality. You’ve never known someone with the audacity to do this, so they must be telling the truth, right? No. It’s a manipulation technique. It makes people turn to the gaslighter for the “correct” information—which isn’t correct information at all.

The more you are aware of these techniques, the quicker you can identify them and avoid falling into the gaslighter’s trap.  

(X) 

This felt important to share at this time. I do not appreciate being made to feel manipulated by a couple of over-privileged men who think they are smarter than me. I know what I saw and interpreted in this Godforsaken show! I am not some delusional tween that wants to fetishize two men by having their dicks touch. I am a smart capable grown-ass woman and I will be damned if I allow these two pos keep trying to make me feel as if I am wrong.

Whatever happens- or doesn’t- regarding another series, we should ALL stop making excuses and excusing their lies and manipulation as some kind of game. I will continue to read this show and analyze and love it, but because of what I see and understand with my own two eyes.

Occam’s razor. There’re simply too many signs that TJLC is real. The universe is rarely so lazy and I don’t believe in that sort of coincidences. I’m convinced that S1-S3 were all leading to the big Johnlock reveal.

But the forth season was a mess. Not only did it not bring us closer to Johnlock, it left people thinking that the series turned rubish. Even if Johnlock happened in S5, it wouldn’t be revolutionary or history making.

I just couldn’t wrap my head around it. I didn’t believe that Mofftiss would destroy their own creation so fundamentaly.

The only thing that could have saved the situation was an immediate additional episode that would have made sense of S4. Otherwise, come S5 with all the explanations, anyone could argue that TPTB are just trying to save their asses after S4 fiasco. Johnlock would be doomed.

The Lost Special really seemed like Sherlock’s only hope. I turned all TFHC and posted enthusiastic devotion declarations. I calculated the date over and over again. I searched for signs.

What I missed in all this was something I dismissed as crazy a long, long time ago. EMP Theory.

I remember fandom jokingly discussing the possibility of the whole episode of the S4 taking place in the mind palace after TAB and the Tie Hell. I thought “Nah. Mofftiss wouldn’t spend another whole episode on showing us the inside workings of Sherlock phyche”. I didn’t like EMP theory because I didn’t see the value in going deeper into Sherlock’s mind.

After TAB my fandom days went as before: slow hiatus mode on. Metas about TAB and TJLC, fanart, fanfiction and an occasional EMP post in the background. I even saw the one about that reversed pulse monitor and thought it was interesting, but still didn’t consider EMP theory important or relevant.

Oh, how relevant it has became now, when The Lost Special hasn’t happened! EMP has something that proves that it was planned since TRF, and that gives Mofftiss the chance to get away with the mess of S4.

So here you go, friends. The Lost Special didn’t happen and I’m glad it didn’t. EMP is a simpler solution and it gives TPTB the chance to tie up all the lose ends of the series. I’m in peace now, because TJLC is safe.

I see a lot of posts since S4 aired saying that we shouldn’t be mad at them just because they didn’t make our ship canon.

So to all the people out there who say stuff like that, you are totally missing the point. It’s not about the fact that Johnlock didn’t become canon, it’s about the representation in Media they promised us since “A study in Pink”.

Which leds me to the second point people seem to love to bring up which is that we couldn’t blame the writers just because we read something into subtext that isn’t there.

Well, maybe there never was anything going on between John and Sherlock. Maybe we actually read to much into that, but as I stated above they did promise as representation and they totally implied all the time that Sherlock is gay.

I won’t list all the scenes that proof my point. Just let me tell you this. My mum is 50 years old, doesn’t even know what LGBTQ is and I never told her about Johnlock, because I know she wouldn’t care at all. However after we watched the first episode together she just naturally assumed that Sherlock’s gay. I know this because two days later when I told her about The Imitaion Game, she said that BC is pretty good in playing gay characters and when I looked surprised, because the only thing she ever watched with him was that one Sherlock Episode she litterally said. “Well, Sherlock. He’s gay, isn’t he ?”

So yeah that much about “subtle” and “subtext that isn’t really there”

I personally couldn’t care less if they make Johnlock canon or not when at least they would have offically stated in the show that Sherlock is gay.

I’m not trying to defend these people who hated at mofftiss that was wrong and you shouldn’t do that. But all those people who hate on Tjlc, because we are mad, disapointed  or leave the fandom or whatever haven’t seen what happened in the community in the night after TFP aired. People were crying, I was cying, there were lists with suicide hotlines, and everyone just tried to comfort each other, because they litterally said to our faces, that who we are doesn’t matter.