For @thepineapplering who noticed that the dates of the “serial suicides” in the A Study in Pink final shooting script were not the same as the dates on the show… they have changed to about 7 months apart ish, meaning that John and Sherlock, according to the “final script” met in June rather than the canonical iconic 29th January.
*SPECULATION AHEAD*
So, I looked up the dates, and noticed a possible clue/pattern. And again, the answer might lie in JOHN’S BLOG.
1) Jeffrey Patterson. ON SCREEN, he dies on 12th October.
Eeeek I’m so sorry I probably didn’t phrase this as best as I could have, I’ve had some questions so: basically I’m saying:
1) John and Sherlock were always going to meet on 29th January, because of the canon nod.
2) The third suicide has to have happened just before John and Sherlock meet, so the case is still relevant.
3) So why these odd dates on the “final shooting” script that was recently released? It doesn’t make sense for Beth to die in June and then John and Sherlock meet the following January.
= the dates have been changed on the script, and they coincidentally match John’s blog…?! *eye emoji*
@jesperfaehey said: “to add onto your numbers post about the asip script, the address is 29 in the elephant in the room post so it makes even more sense! :)”
🗓👀!!
@sarahthecoat said: they have to have changed the script to match the blog dates then, is my assumption… maybe to call attention to those entries.
Yeah! Okay so I’ll post my first impressions here and then folk can have jumping off points if there’s more to be found:
1) First blog post: THE WOMAN. A mention of censorship as part of the “Official State Secrets Act.” Tragically hilarious as John thinks Sherlock’s mourning Irene’s death and isn’t fine with it but “will get there.” Sherlock complains about the post and John says the case “gives people an idea about the real you.” Sherlock replies: “HOW DOES IT?” I can sense his frustration from here. Just like he’s begging John in TLD to Get the Hint Already ( “Oh for God’s sake, I don’t text her back!”), here he’s trying to get John to realise that his version of events of this case, doesn’t equal “the real Sherlock.”
2) Second blog post: A FEW PICTURES. Brings up “The Woman” again. John reminisces with some old pictures. Here’s the ones I thought were most interesting:
First picture= the graffiti from The Blind Banker. John says: “It looks like some graffiti but it was actually a secret code. It was all secret codes back in those days” and mentions Sherlock getting anonymous messages from (presumably Moriarty) via his Science of Deduction blog.
Possible double/triple meaning there with: ‘it was all secret codes back in those days’ perhaps? What do you mean, John? Something more than the coded ciphers? Did you feel like you or Sherlock were speaking a “secret code” to one another? Mixed signals, miscommunication?
Second picture= the smiley face Sherlock drew on the wall in TGG. Now popping up all over the place for s4 Promo… it was the image for the Did you miss me blog that came on here for a day… fishy…
Eighth picture= Sherlock’s Deerstalker.
We now know thanks to Mrs Hudson that anything Sherlock doesn’t understand, he stabs on the mantlepiece. John’s tone is fond and teasing: “But this is meant to be a positive thing. I’m not dwelling on the bad stuff. I’m remembering the good times.Such as how much he loved this hat…
I think Sherlock didn’t understand the hat because he was viewing it in terms of his ‘public persona.’ He didn’t understand why John insisted he wore it-does John only want to see the ‘fake’ part of him? But to John, the hat is just a hat, he just thinks it’s funny, it’s just endearing to see Sherlock wear it. (like Irene Adler’s text possibly mimicked John’s thoughts: “I like your funny hat. Let’s have dinner.”).
And the final picture is the game of cluedo John and Sherlock played:
Again, stabbed. Sherlock didn’t understand it, thought the rules were wrong. (Our reaction to TFP?) John’s last word is on Sherlock thinking the victim had killed himself: “I said at the time that it wasn’t very likely. In fact, I think I said it was impossible. And he told me that it might be improbable but nothing’s impossible. I wish I still believed that.” Taking aside that context, might that be a foreshadowing of parts of the audiences’ reactions to The Final Problem? There can’t be more, the game is over, there being more to tell isn’t very likely…. but nothing’s impossible…
3) Third blog post: THE ELEPHANT IN THE ROOM. As
@jesperfaehey says, the 29 Ryder Lane address corresponds with the date 29th January. So, the “elephant in the room” was born when John and Sherlock first met each other.
Yeah, so, calling attention to “official secrets”, codes, and sherlock stabbing things he doesn’t understand. That sounds about right. And elephants.
To add to the date differences:
His Last Vow on screen:
SHERLOCK (over phone): Mary Morstan was stillborn in October 1972. Her gravestone is in Chiswick Cemetery where – five years ago – you acquired her name and date of birth and thereafter her identity. (x)
His Last Vow “final shooting script”:
1972 to 1974: a difference of 2 years. (Sherlock left John for 2 years?) (And Mycroft says in The Reichenbach Fall “we don’t want another repeat of 1972″?!)
John has 1 blog post from October:
(x) Interestingly, this is where he mentions “finding someone” (Mary).
As @thepineapplering put it: are the wrong dates our key to the cipher… and is the cipher, instead of Eurus’s song, now John’s blog?!
@candencekismet that’s a good point, if anyone is lucky enough to have a copy of the physical script rather than the one via BBC writers room that came out a couple of days ago, it would be interesting to compare the dates! 👀
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