SanMaryt

Gosh, Louise is on fire with tweeting weird and completely random stuff isn’t she? 

15/04/2017 - Freddie Mercury

We all do, don’t we? But hey, we’ve at least got this: 

29/03/2017 - Tulips

Yours or…

Ooooh. Well, in that case you might want to return. Just saying :) 

11/03/2017 - Potatoes

https://sanmaryt.tumblr.com/post/158969988208/potatoes

02/03/2017 - Hound & Wig

11/05/2017 - Bluebell

Uhm.... 

“Thirteenth stroke of the clock or “thirteen strikes of the clock” is a phrase, saying, and proverb to indicate that the previous events or “strokes to the clock” must be called into question. (x)”

So, we must call into question all the previous events in The Six Thatchers!

Also of interest: “Tick tock” Mycroft tell us in TAB…but is his ‘watch broken?’ Is he not aware of future events?

“Accordingly, with very rare exceptions, when a clock rings thirteen times it is indicating an impossible time and that the clock is not functioning correctly. A children’s riddle asks “What time is it when the clock strikes thirteen?” The answer is “Time to get a new clock!” (x)”

I’ve slowly been working my way through a reread of the canon stories, and although I am used to finding phrases and plotlines among the stories that have been adapted within Sherlock, what surprised me towards the end of the canon is that the writers of Sherlock appear to be adapting the way the stories are written, as well. We’ve talked a lot about the idea that Mofftiss have Reichenbached the show in Series 4, but I’m beginning to think they have Case-booked it (and His Last Bowed it, a little, too). This will probably sound grim at first, but I remain an optimist when it comes to Sherlock, so bear with me. These are Princess Bride “pit of despair” times; I figure if we have to be here, we may as well look around.

As a quick reminder, Doyle published the short stories as:

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (1892) The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes (1894) The Return of Sherlock Holmes (1905) His Last Bow (1917) The Case-book of Sherlock Holmes (1927)

I’m going to start at the end of His Last Bow and the later stories, because they best parallel Series 4, then look back very briefly.

Breaking the fourth wall

His Last Bow breaks the pattern of the Sherlock Holmes story collections in a few ways. It begins with a brief preface written by John H. Watson; he addresses the reader directly to explain that he and Holmes are still living, though ageing:

”The friends of Mr Sherlock Holmes will be glad to learn that he is still alive and well, though somewhat crippled by occasional attacks of rheumatism… Several previous experiences which have lain long in my portfolio, have been added to ‘His Last Bow’ so as to complete the volume.” (His Last Bow, preface)

… lots more under the cut.

Gosh, Louise is on fire with tweeting weird and completely random stuff isn’t she? 

15/04/2017 - Freddie Mercury

We all do, don’t we? But hey, we’ve at least got this: 

29/03/2017 - Tulips

Yours or…

Ooooh. Well, in that case you might want to return. Just saying :) 

11/03/2017 - Potatoes

https://sanmaryt.tumblr.com/post/158969988208/potatoes

02/03/2017 - Hound & Wig

Did you guys notice that TFP Mrs.Hudson had the same outfit as S1E1 Mrs Hudson?

S1E1:

S4 TFP: [x]

“But it doesn’t stop here, we’ll be back very soon with a brand new show looking back to Sherlock from the very beginning, joined by some special guests”.

Lol, don’t apologize!

For Amazon Video, when there’s a new season/series of something and they’re contracted to run it as episodes are released, you can buy each episode or buy a “season pass,” which means you’ll automatically get any new content released for that season/series when it’s available.

Season passes are only available for seasons/series that still have potential new material waiting to be released. The season pass goes away as soon as there’s nothing new; for most shows, this is literally the day after the last episode.  Then it becomes “buy season.”

As you can see, S3 , buy season.

S2, buy season.

And in the middle there, S4, buy episodes or buy season pass.  This means there’s still content coming.  Of course, it could be BTS stuff, or interviews, but let’s all remember that Amazon was part of S4 marketing when Moriarty hacked the website in December.

Currently freaking out about @monikakrasnorada’s td12 meta, on the heels of @shamelessmash’s tld extravaganza, absolutely entranced over @221bloodnun​’s work on The Woman in Green, and still alarmed and concerned about Doyle’s The Parasite as an s4 intertext.

Is there a mind control theme running through BBC Sherlock, that is lowkey coming to fruition in s4?

Further thoughts on @monikakrasnorada’s idea about the hospital scene in hlv:

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If we read Mary’s words as mind control / hypnotic suggestion, then Sherlock is being programmed here not to tell John that she shot him.  

Does the theory wash?

Well, let’s take some gun surgery to the chest a stab at it and see.

I started thinking Mycroft after a random idea popped into my head the other day as to just who or what POV we are in during S4. The idea continued to plague me as I skimmed this amazing meta series by @shamelessmash. Looking into it, I thought I would have a clear a ha! moment that would lead straight to Mary, in spite of my previous questions concerning Mycroft. 

It did and it didn’t.

Reading @antisocial-otaku‘s post this morning, I went and looked more closely at the Mary hospital scene. No one is surprised by just how damning that scene is. She’s such a creepy uber villain there, looming over Sherlock’s bed, threatening him. It’s nothing short of assault and you can clearly see the terror in his eyes. Lying there helpless and incapacitated. Which she seems to relish? (shudders)

Between these hypnotic demands we are shown this shot, of the ‘glowing’ IV, front and center:

Knowing what we know now, it would seem a logical assumption that we should definitely pay attention to this. SO, this scene begs the question: Is this our smoking gun? Is this when we can definitively say this is when Mary started influencing him? Did she make Sherlock kill CAM for her only to have th Moriarty video thwart her plan to have Sherlock eliminated once and for all? 

I want to shout, ABSOLUTELY!!! Because give me evil nefarious villain killer nurse assasin Mary all day long-

But- then the thought I had earlier reared its ugly head and whispered, “Mycroft” in my ear, so I continued watching HLV and ugh. What have I done??

Mofftiss are cagey SOBs. I know S4, on the surface, looks and feels like a train wreck, but I don’t believe anymore, though immediately after watching I was in the deepest pit of despair and by no means am I stanning them EVER AGAIN, but I will give talent its due they lost their ability to make sense. And this scene kind of proves that point. 

During the Christmas smoking scene, Mycroft asks Sherlock do decline the MI6 job offer to Eastern Europe as it would “prove fatal to you in, I think, about six months”. But, as we see above, there is never a mention of what the alternative would be. We assume its the Eastern Europe assignment- and it could very well be- but it wouldn’t have been giving anything away to say it is such, given that 1) it was already mentioned, and 2) the very next scene we are shown Sherlock about to board a plane.

So, we get the ‘farewell’ scene, all Casablanca-esque. We all waited with baited breath and still bawl over the aborted love declaration-

BUT, is it possible there really wasn’t meant to be one???

No, wait, hear me out. 

The look on Mycroft’s face always read to me as a sort of “holy shit, brother mine, you’re going to do this now?” UNTIL I started thinking of ‘alternatively’. 

Now, is it possible, this is the face of a man that is thinking his plan may not be working?

“All lives end, all hearts are broken. Caring is not an advantage.”

Mycroft offered that platitude up so succinctly in a ASiB, that it seemed almost like a mantra than a piece of advice to me. It would seem Mycroft would feel as if all his brother’s troubles only started to rear their ugly heads when John Watson waltzed into his life. 

So, what to do about that little problem? He had already admitted losing him would break his heart, so does it seem his only alternative would be a fatal mission to Eastern Europe??

Shit got real in TAB. We saw Sherlock’s mind as never before, until S4. Whoa! What a ride that shit was.  So, is it possible that the alternative was TD12? 

The very beginning of The Six Thatchers puts it all our there, but was it a double bluff- telling a lie to disguise the truth. 

Honestly, wtf? A little video editing and presto change-o! What we see is not what we are seeing??? 

Ha! Even that is blowing my mind because if something like TD12 is at play here, then what is real?

If Sherlock’s memories have been “interferered” with then that could go a bit in the way of explaining why Johnlock seems to have all but disappeared completely from S4. Because, it wasn’t completely erased. There are glimpses of it now and then. Is that the answer to Sherlock’s question to Smith?

Is Sherlock fighting whatever has been done to him in order to ‘remember’?

I’ve been a steadfast believer in EMP theory. Even as I write this up, my brain is trying to figure out a way to make this ALL piece together. Hell, I don’t know if we can figure out just what is going on in S4 until we get please please please don’t leave us hanging like those fucking Garridebs, either drop us or set us free, Mofftiss  a ‘lost special’ or S5. That aside, I can’t help but try.

As a kid, growing up with two gay Dad’s in 1960′s Liverpool, I heard the derogatory term ‘potato’ used for Irish immigrants a great deal, but also my Dads told me they were referred to as ‘Potato Queens’ in the gay culture meaning Irish gay men. It was a nasty slang term. In today’s gay slang a Potato Queen refers to an Asian gay man who prefers white caucasian men. Basically the term ‘potato’ refers to the white gay male. In Victorian times it was in use in polari and can still be heard in gay polari today. 

I was rewatching TLD and I don’t recall this being talked about. When Sherlock is in hospital we can see this scene

OH LOOK, The damn serum is glowing, by it’s own apparently! As you can see the bed light can’t hit the serum, or at least can’t hit it in a way it would glow like that. And there is no light source behind or beneath, you can even see how it’s glowing by the shadow on the ceiling.

And of course it reminded me to

Yes! TD12. Then I remembered how some people have talked about Mary possibly injecting the TD12 when Sherlock was again in hospital in HLV, so I searched for the scene. I didn’t recall if we could see the serum or not in that scene and I found this 

The damn serum in the foreground and iluminated with a light like the TD12 just before Mary appears.

Also it makes me thing about the glowing skull as some people have already pointed.