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(Primer: Why is Yorke’s book relevant to BBC Sherlock?)

Five-Act Structure: 3-D (x)

Five-Act Structure: 2-D (x)

A bit of context from Yorke himself (x)

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Notes:

Ok, obviously I’m obsessed with this book and have a lot of ideas about this myself, but I still have a couple future metas with slightly different foci that are much closer to fighting shape than any of my episode-by-episode thoughts on these diagrams, plus this is so so fun, I literally have an enormous spreadsheet and a mind-map dedicated just to this, and just based on that there’s at least two full 3-D arcs and a 2-D arc that I can make out, possibly like ten if you got even more specific, I mean there is SO much material here for us to mine because we stan a beautiful, painstakingly constructed, and infinitely complex masterpiece of a show.

So like, hopefully this will get some of you guys started and isn’t too much of a spoiler, but for example I’m pretty sure the “problem” at the center of the 2-D diagram is none other than the final problem, i.e. “stayin’ alive.”