#tfpb

Ok so someone I follow on twitter tweeted something interesting and I think it worth to be shared. I don’t know if he has a Tumblr account but if you recognize the name or else make me know so I’ll credit him properly. (here’s his twitter account).

I think this is an interesting catch. ^^

What I answered to them is that I remember in TRF Mycroft sells Sherlock to Jim, so even if it was not for Christmas I think this is very similar. So the three siblings have been “offered” to someone else ,can we call that a coincidence? Not really imo, but the question is: what does it mean?  I have to admit I don’t have a clear answer, maybe you’ll have an idea? :)  Maybe reminding the intents can be useful, so: - Mycroft gives info about Sherlock to Jim (basically gives his brother entirely), to make an arrangement with him. So to speak to tear information out of him.  - Sherlock gives Mycroft to CAM apparently to save Mary from the info he has on her - but beyond that he saves John and their daughter because it would have also affected them. Basically he does that to extract information out of CAM. - Mycroft gives Jim to Euros because she demands treats in exchange of help she gives to predict events like terrorist attacks and such (still makes me laugh but meh), so to speak in exchange of information. (Also: in a way I think Mycroft also sold Euros to Jim, because that’s definitely something he can use in his vendetta against Sherlock, and the imagery of the meeting scene suggest they both are equal and find satisfaction in this). In all three occurrences the reason is: to obtain information. And I think that somehow there is also here the expression of Mycroft and Sherlock trying to protect people, even if Mycroft’s motivations look a bit colder (only in appearance, as we know), because the nature of those informations can hurt people and especially people they’re close to (namely Sherlock, John, the kid, and even Mary).

uses a rifle

- Mary / AGRA - that we for a long time believed was in fact Moran aka the sniper at the pool in TGG:

rifle

-  in TFPb that is possibly all hallucinated (by me it certainly is, it has to be because honestly... anyway), probably John’s dream if it’s the case :

rifle

I’d like to know if we see more rifles in the show - I don’t really count the scenes where it’s obvious it couldn’t be any other weapon like the guard in Serbia and the guys aiming at Sherlock in HLV, because it’s not like you can substitute it for any other weapons. But in the case of AGRA it would have been realistic anyway with any other kind of gun, and in the Garrideb part the guy literally could have used any weapon but had a rifle so why this choice and not another? Showing this rifle was completely useless if there is not a meaning to it. And there is probably a meaning to it because of this:

and because the expression “Chekov’s gun” makes it have sense: “ If you say in the first chapter that there is a rifle hanging on the wall, in the second or third chapter it absolutely must go off. If it's not going to be fired, it shouldn't be hanging there.” - Chekov (Chekov’s gun should be called Chekov’s rifle and that’s exactly what it’s called in French btw). Actually in TFPb it’s not the “first chapter”, the rifle was shown way earlier.