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isitandwonder:

gosherlocked:

monikakrasnorada:

sockenpuppe:

(just ignore the “click” sounds, they’re coming from the keys of my electronic keyboard and my phone was too close to it while recording)

TFP is so fakefakefake lalalaa~ ♪

I have no idea if someone’s already pointed this out but let’s just begin:

Funny coincidence. I was looking for a song to play on the electronic keyboard. It’s been a very long time since I last played (and I never really managed to use both hands at the same time *laugh*) so it had to be an easy one.
I stumbled upon one that was called “Rousseau’s Dream”, listened to the first few notes and was like: Wait! You know that tune!

Turns out it was the tune of Eurus’ song.

And here we go:

The original tune is part of the French opera “Le devin du village” (The Village Soothsayer) by Jean-Jacques Rousseau.

This is what it sounded like originally:

And this is what the opera is about:

(taken from here)

Okay, I won’t go into detail about how the infidelity plot of the opera and Sherlock series 4 may be connected. What I find the most interesting is the soothsayer the protagonists seek advice from.

Remember what Mycroft said about Eurus?

“There is, in this facility, a prisoner whose intellectual abilities are of occasional use to the British government.”
“She predicted the exact dates of the last three terrorist attacks on the British mainland after an hour on Twitter.”

This can’t be a mere coincidence. It just can’t. The universe is rarely so lazy.

But it gets better! Because this was just the original tune.

In 1819, Johann Baptist Cramer published a version of the tune – and this one’s much more similar to Eurus’ version – under the title “Rousseau’s Dream”.
Rousseau’s. DREAM! (I burst out laughing when I read the title since I’m still convinced that not everything we saw in series 4 is real and that TFP, at least, takes place in Sherlock’s mind palace or is John’s TAB.)

But there’s still more!

It is also the tune of “Go Tell Aunt Rhody”, an American folk song. It’s about the death of Aunt Rhodey’s goose. A goose that died in a mill pond.

(And can we please talk about how similar “Aunt Rhodey” sounds to “Uncle Rudy/Rudi”?!)

And this still isn’t all!

Because THIS.DAMN.SONG plays heavily in “Resident Evil VII”, a survival horror video game!

And what is it about?

“The game proper takes place after the events of Beginning Hour [A/N: the teaser demo], which ended with the murder of a three-man TV crew by the possibly-infected Baker family members Jack and Mia. It features a new protagonist named Ethan Winters, a civilian who offers fewer combat skills than most previous Resident Evil protagonists. Ethan is searching for his missing wife, Mia, which leads him to a derelict plantation mansion, home of the Baker family.” (source: http://residentevil.wikia.com/wiki/Resident_Evil_7:_Biohazard/plot )

Now, listen to the song:

“I was raised in a deep, dark hole,
A prisoner with no parole,
They locked me up and took my soul,
Shamed of what they’d made.”

asdfsgdsjashfkghjkljdsfkl

I can’t … I …

They could have easily composed a new tune for Eurus’ song. But they didn’t. They used this one! And all this can’t be a coincidence! (Because that would be one helluva one!)

This … TFP has to be fake/Sherlock’s mind palace/John’s TAB/etc.! It has to!

Tagging some people under the cut, I hope you don’t mind.

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Love this! Being from the rural south in the US, I grew up hearing / singing “Go Tell Aunt Rhody” so Eurus’ theme has always been familiar to me. What I didn’t know was all the rest of this and the horror game tie in. Just. Wow. I need NO CONVINCING that all of Series 4 remains in Sherlock’s mp (and if we get a secret 4th ep or series 5) that that reveal will be the rug pull they’ve been talking about. But it continues to be gravy to keep finding all these things that back up my thoughts on this theory. EMP lives on.

What an amazing find, @sockenpuppe! This cannot be a coincidence, especially since the song appears in so many versions. And you know what this reminds me of? The Appledore theme from HLV which is very similar to the “Cold Song” from Henry Purcell’s opera “King Arthur”. I have written a little meta about it: X.

So there is a precedent of Arnold and Price using a piece of Baroque music as a template for a key theme in Sherlock. 

@ebaeschnbliah, @loveismyrevolution, @isitandwonder

And remember the convo we had about Bach! Btw, when I read your cold song post, I was reminded of eldritchhorrors fic with the same name, never finished but left in 2013, before shooting for s3 even began. That story describes Sherlock playing the Chaconne… I wonder when this piece will feature in the soundtrack…