You know how there’s only month/day on John’s blog, but supposedly it was written in the span of three years. BUT. What if that’s not the case? Let’s use ASiP as the fixed anchor because that’s where it begins – I left the before the same, and rearrange the after in chronological order using only month/day. Needless to say, It’s…… fascinating. I’m not sure where I’m going with this, but the beginning actually fits ACD canon’s publish date better, and the end certainly feels like where we were in series 4. Sorry to be redundant if this is already been done; if nothing else, it’s kinda entertaining to think about when these cases supposedly have taken place:
1/1 Actually, Happy New Year
12/31 Happy New Year
12/25 Christmas
12/19 The Six Thatchers
11/7 The Empty Hearse
10/5 Many Happy Returns
9/15 By Royal appointment
9/3 The Inexplicable Matchbox
9/2 The Aluminum Crutch
8/12 Hat-man and Robin
8/11 The Sign of Three
8/1 Sherlock Holmes Baffled
7/21 The May Fly Man
7/13 The Speckled Blond
7/2 The Hollow Client
6/29 The Bloody Guardsman
6/17 Murder at the Orient Express
6/16 The Geek Interpreter
6/16 Untitled
6/10 The Elephant in the Room
6/3 Happily Ever After
5/30 Tilly Briggs Cruise of Terror
5/30 Life Goes On
5/27 The Poison Giant
5/23 Death by Twitter
5/12 The Deadly Tealights
5/1 Quick Update
4/26 A Few Pictures
4/20 A New Beginning
4/1 The Great Game
3/28 The Blind Banker
3/27 FYI
3/23 A Rant
3/23 Diamonds are Forever
3/16 Hello Boys
3/16 The Hounds of Baskerville
3/12 The Woman
2/7 A Study in Pink
2/1 Secret Code
1/31 My New Flatmate
1/29 A Strange Meeting
1/28 Serial Suicides
1/25 Drinks
1/21 Happy Now?
1/20 How?
12/15 Pointless
12/14 Nothing
This kind of freaks me out. Wow.
Okay but how does this work… @darlingtonsubstitution could you please explain this to me… thanks
@harryismyfirstname I’m so sorry it took forever to reply… been working way too much and neglecting fandom activities (sob). Anyway… I was kinda half-joking when I made the post, but the more I think about ACD canon, the more… this starting to make sense. Not sure if you read my elephant in the room and the curious incident of the hounds meta, but if what I think happened indeed happened, it is conceivable that TBB occurred after ASiB and THoB. Because… in a twisted way it’s more canon-compliant then the episode chronology presented to us, as the relationship between Holmes and Watson was resolved fairly early on, albeit via subtext.
I can’t find the link right now but pretty sure @the-7-percent-solution wrote a meta about John’s shirt representing his sexuality. As far as I can recall, there were only two occasions where John was wearing “not-straight” shirts – in TBB and ASiB:
Interestingly, John was wearing a not-straight tie in TRF:
The conversation John had with Sherlock in TBB about cracking the “book cipher” was basically… the reason for Sherlock, I believe. The exchange was alluding to the secret codes within ACD canon, and both our Sherlock and John knew the true story all along—they have always been part of it after all. But we’ve been led on this journey because every version of the Holmes and Watson story to-date has been incomplete, and as much as we want to “solve” Sherlock as a stand-alone show, it is an adaptation and the tale of Sherlock and John cannot be complete without ACD’s Holmes and Watson.
In short… it is possible we’ve been feed “doctored footage” longer than we thought; ACD did it via words on the pages, Mofftiss is still doing it via moving images and dialogues on film; playing with chronology has always been part of the Sherlockian game.
So… what is the “true” story? There is a method to this madness and the game… is always afoot 😀
[edit] I meant to include John’s “straight-date” vertical stripe shirt as contrast – since horizontal lines can be read as “straight line” as well, oops. But since John’s checkered pattern shirt represents bisexuality, a vertical line and a horizontal line can only represent one thing each……
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