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impossibleleaf:

sianbrooke:

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totallysilvergirl:

starlitsecrets:

The point isn’t that John is thrown a rope despite being chained to the bottom of the well. The point isn’t that they managed to leap to safety from an exploding flat. The point isn’t that Mycroft, previously referred to as the ice man, is terrified and repulsed to the point of vomitting. The point isn’t that we never saw the contents of John’s letter. The point isn’t that the timeline for Eurus meeting Moriarty doesn’t actually make sense within the previously established narrative. The point isn’t that a kid went missing and no adult authority thought to check in the nearby well. The point isn’t that John’s hair grew seemingly overnight. The point isn’t Sherlock failing to notice missing glass. The point isn’t that John strong moral principle Watson could have an affair and beat his best friend to a pulp. The point isn’t that we never found out who the “mutual friend” was. The point isn’t that there was a dog bowl. The point isn’t that paper somehow survived the flat going up in flames.

The point is that all these things happened together. There isn’t just one singular thing to look at and go “that’s why series 4 sucked”, it’s all of these inconsistencies put together. I just keep seeing people say things like “omg obviously we didn’t need to see John getting unchained to know that it happened” and “would people get over the fucking letter, it wasn’t important what it said its just about the drama” and I’m like that’s totally valid if we were just looking at any one (or even a couple) of these things happening throughout this series. But we’re not. All of these things happened. Yes people are making a big deal out of little things, but it’s because when you actually add up the amount of little things…well turns out that list isn’t actually that little.

This series displayed some truly lazy writing, and not on a small scale.

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I completely agree with everything.

Still, let’s see if we can bring some sense into this together:

• on John being thrown a rope despite being chained to the bottom of the well, we can suspect that someone went down that well to unchain him and that’s what they actually wanted us to believe
• they managed to leap to safety from an exploding flat. Oops. Can’t do it.
• The point isn’t that Mycroft, previously referred to as the ice man, is terrified and repulsed to the point of vomitting. A facade? It’s one thing to have intellectually made a choice and being faced to their consequences. But then again, that’s an excuse.
• we never saw the contents of John’s letter. Still hoping we will see its content, because I think this’d be interesting
• the timeline for Eurus meeting Moriarty doesn’t actually make sense within the previously established narrative. It can make sense, if this christmas five years ago refers to the one during ASiB and his former imprisonment refers to THoB (who happened apparently somewhere during ASiB),
• The point isn’t that a kid went missing and no adult authority thought to check in the nearby well. Sure, doesn’t make sense, but then again, everyone is stupid
• The point isn’t that John’s hair grew seemingly overnight. No comment
• The point isn’t Sherlock failing to notice missing glass. …he’s dumb
• The point isn’t that John strong moral principle Watson could have an affair and beat his best friend to a pulp. He’s a traumatized army doctor who has trust issues, he can snap and have an episode. It’s not forgivable but it can be understandable
• The point isn’t that we never found out who the “mutual friend” was. At this point, it must have been Moriarty.
• The point isn’t that there was a dog bowl. Sherlock told her he thought Redbeard was a dog, she’s trolling him
• The point isn’t that paper somehow survived the flat going up in flames. No comment.

Basically, our problems aren’t so much these inconsistencies shows that there is lazy writing, it’s that some contradictions cannot be solved.

So basically, our real problems lie here:

• They managed to leap to safety from an exploding flat.
• Mycroft, previously referred to as the ice man, is terrified and repulsed to the point of vomitting.
• John’s hair grew seemingly overnight. No comment
• Sherlock failing to notice missing glass.
• Paper somehow survived the flat going up in flames.

The point isn’t even that there are too many inconsistencies, it’s that they turned their back of what they established for three seasons. It’s that, for how clever the people working on set wants us to believe they are, for how obsessed they are with details, they’re letting enormous gaffes slip. Many of them. And it’s not our job to try to salvage their mess, to find explanations for every little thing they messed up with.

We also have unfired Chekov’s gun that aren’t on this list:

• what about Ajay’s injury? A quick study proves he didn’t kill the woman
• Ajay, Gabriel, Rosamund, Alex. We know what happened to Alex, Rosamund and Ajay, but where the fuck is Gabriel?
• romantic attachment would complete Sherlock as a human being?
• Okay, I’ll put John’s letter here
• appointment in Sumatra, what was the point?
• Can Samarra be avoided?

Continuity errors too:

• since when does Mycroft call John ‘Dr Watson’? It was always John since TGG.
• Why would Mycroft ask him to look after Sherlock?

This is a utter mess and yes, it is cumulative. We aren’t paid to resolve this, but it was their job to make a good season without all of those msitakes.

And considering these gems they give about ACD lore, former adaptations and a keen attention for detail and love for their job (like that bloody skull) we need to tell them something important.

Stop focusing on details when this happens. Because, right now, they can’t see the forest for the trees.

Also to add to the “content of letter doesn’t matter what matters is drama” point: the content of the letter MATTERS to Sherlock’s reaction. Omitting the letter and only having Molly say John doesn’t want to see Sherlock gets the point across quite clearly. What does John’s letter accomplish that this action doesn’t already?

There are a lot of things that don’t quite add up throughout the series, but S4 has a ginormous amounts of nonsense packed together. And honestly? You can chalk up a noise outside your window as a stray cat crashing at your boxes, but you can’t gloss over a racket that goes on for eight hours per day for a week. You’ve got to figure out what causes it. Stop rationalising the ghost. Start investigating if it’s a burglar.

Oh believe me, I have many things to say about the letter.

Because it should have lost any meaning by now. Whether we like it or not, any problem that happened between them in TST should have been solved with TLD. Watching how it reacts to it now should be meaningless because whatever John wrote should now be ‘in the past’. Carry on, it’s useless.

‘What does John’s letter accomplish that this action doesn’t already?‘ Nothing, and that’s the point. We spend a whole episode where the two barely interact. Sherlock deletes his texts, John doesn’t answer his phone, Sherlock doesn’t read the letter to our knowledge. There is no genuine communication except the memory stick and even that happens off-screen.

I think this is an unfired Checkov’s gun and that we will see it again. But that, whatever is inside, will be a major game-changer. That’s the only way it can come back.

We have too many inconsistancies to not call it a pattern within S4.

You’re right, we need to investigate the murder. Time to figure out what is the cause of all of this, that’s the only way we’ll make it stop. Thankfully, we’re not the police.

We just lack the arrogance to ignore details.