#johnlock hell week

Thank you for saying this, kind Anon. You’ve got the kind of voice that makes me wonder who you might be on the other side of that icon, to be honest. But, yes: Johnlock was clearly where they were going. 

If they don’t release some additional explanation or episode, my assumption is that something went wrong, and that the recent shift in political climate meant they couldn’t do it anymore. 

If (or when) they got this news, Mofftiss likely realized they had two choices: 

1) Try and make believe it wasn’t a romance all along by putting a big, stomach-churning, normativity-approved “Best Bros Forever” band-aid on the gaping plot vortex they knew it would create, or…

2) Send the message that they are as disgusted as we are, by showing what the show would look like if they hadn’t been putting so much time, love, and social progress into it. What it would have looked like if Johnlock hadn’t been their ultimate goal: total gibberish.

If you stop and think about it, it really can’t be more obvious that they’re as miserable as we are with this ending. They destroyed the show in every possible way, sending up every red flag they could in the process, to let us know something had gone wrong. 

Because where are they? They’re not trying to defend it…there’s total radio silence. You can’t even reach them. Mark even canceled his writing workshop. Likely not because he’s got no skills to teach, but because everyone’s accusing him of it, for something that was entirely out of his hands.

Make no mistake, if this is the end, the creators of this exquisite piece of artwork are as appalled and heartbroken as we are. 

I really cannot stress enough that we shouldn’t go after any of the actual cast and crew. We need to focus on the BBC corporation, to try and hold accountable whoever it was in the chain that pulled the plug on the original show mission statement.

Mark and Steven don’t own BBC. As was said about poor Mycroft, “He did his best,” but, “[they’re] very limited.”

Please do not vent your feelings at after Mark and Steven. You wouldn’t blame Sherlock for having to fake his own death to save John, you’d put the blame on Moriarty and his network, or the TV executives who’ve been making their lives hell the last few series, where it belongs.

I mean…don’t you all think it’s odd that all of a sudden all the enemies were TV corporation personalities? 

It’s important that you take care of yourself however you need to. Definitely turn off Anon messaging, take a break if you need to, but remember this:

We’ve built a tremendous community around this show. Even if it does turn out that this is the end, don’t forget that the friends you had before the episode aired are still here for you, probably more than ever. 

The connections we’ve made together, and all that we’ve learned, can’t be taken away by anyone or anything, and we are the ultimate testimony to the fact that there is an enormous amount of people who believe that you, however you identify and whoever you are, are important and 1000% deserving of representation.

You’re important, no matter what ends up happening--for better or worse, with this show and out in the world. 

It does fit in with the overall story theme, I mean, it’s not entirely out of context. Sherlock was being forced to choose between his mind and his heart, and for anyone who’s ever tried to bury their feelings and live entirely in their mind, coming to contact with emotions feels like torture, hence the Saw-esque theme.

If you’re going to face your feelings you have to face the ones you’ve buried, it’s inevitable that they’ll come up again. If you loved someone and they died, and now you love someone else, you’re gonna have to face fearing losing again. You’re going to have to forgive your demons, to forgive and embrace the things about yourself that you hate, and you have to start nurturing the parts of yourself that you tried to leave behind. It’s only by doing this that you can become something stronger...the ending images where they’re rebuilding 221B, that’s Sherlock starting over, this time with a much stronger emotional foundation beneath his feet.

This whole episode is a metaphor, and it’s actually a very nicely crafted one if you look at it from the point of view of human psychology. This is Sherlock working through the shit that prevents him from really being with John (as John has always doubled in metaphor with Sherlock’s heart). 

This episode was about destroying the life Sherlock knew, where he trusted only intellect and stayed away from all the pain associated with an emotionally traumatic childhood. From here he’ll be able to move forward. He’s got his life, more completely, his mind and heart, in order so that he’ll be able to be something better from here on out.

But there must be an additional episode. This is the climax of the story, where he’s overcome his villain, but the hero hasn’t returned. (Edit: see The Hero’s Journey sequencing, this just cannot be over.)

This story isn’t over. That was not the end of it. It simply was not. 

Sometimes, yeah, they’re all problematic. I’m definitely not going to defend everything they’ve ever done or said, but they wouldn’t do this. A gay man and his best friend simply wouldn’t do this. 

After all the blood, sweat, and tears the whole crew’s put into this show year after year...no one would end it all like this voluntarily. This isn’t about someone’s “artistic vision” not matching the rest of the world’s, it’s about the episode not even matching the show’s artistic vision.

If this turns out to be it then I sincerely assume Sherlock’s creators must be right in this boat with us, mourning the death of this show like the death of their own child. If this is the end of the series then, in real life, some behind the scenes Moriarty figure won.

This whole episode read like we were still in the middle of the story.

It’s not done...and I just won’t believe it’s done. 

I agree.

We all agree…

It’s like the curtain went down for intermission, but never came back up. The entire audience is just standing around going, “what’s happening? is…is it over?” And you can leave if you like, but you paid a lot of metaphoric money (in time and love and emotional investment) for this performance so you really don’t want to…and all the staff is still standing around?? And for some reason no one will just say, “Yeah, I’m sorry, the rest of it’s been canceled,” or “That’s it for the evening, thanks for coming,” or, “Yes, sorry, we’re having technical difficulties but we’ll be back in a moment,” so we all. just. keep. waiting. and grow increa si n g l y   p i s  s  e  d    o   f    f    .    .      . 

Should we be angry that they took our (emotional) money for this? Why did they not finish the story? It’s entirely possible that we have been robbed. But by who specifically, and most of all…why won’t they give us any information??

At least if we knew we’d been robbed we could all just confront the criminal, grieve, and get on with our lives, but instead we’re rotting in this weird purgatory where we don’t know how to feel about anything, so I mean…the default feeling is bad.