Sherlock Holmes didn’t live at this address. He lived on Montague St in Bloomsbury, just around the corner from the British Museum.
“When I first came up to London I had rooms in Montague Street, just round the corner from the British Museum….“ MUSG.
Michael Harrison, in The London of Sherlock Holmes (Drake Publishers: New York, 1972), decides that Holmes lodged at 26 Montague Street, because his researches turned up an intriguing fact: in 1875, a certain Mrs. Holmes (Sherlock’s mother?) leased the house next door at 24 Montague Street. This is accepted Holmesian theory.
156 Montague is in a different part of London, near Spittalfields, and is not canon compliant. So why this address on the envelope in 221B? Two Holmes nerds would not make this mistake. It’s one of those things that any Holmesian would have picked up on.
Oh. 156-26=130 – a 130-year-old case, still unsolved?
And then TFP featured MUSG and Victor Trevor/GLOR, both pre-Watson – is it a hint that we have yet to see John’s version of The Final Problem then?
Nice thought! Maybe.
There was a screencap going around that Google Maps shows Faith’s flat at 156 Montague?
Yes. Thing is that address is 156 OLD Montague Street, which is a different street. Google maps brings it up as there isn’t a 156 on Montague Street, I think the highest number there is 30. Basically the British Museum is the canon link to the Bloomsbury Montague address. Not sure how we got over to Spittalfields for Faith’s flat.
Google Maps defaults to Faith’s flat because there’s no higher number than 30? Coincidence? Shall we add this to the list of intentional fuckiness?
Think so!!!
156 Old Montague Street is a red brick house but doesn’t look very much like Faith’s house we see in Sherlock’s window deduction. There’s some very scarce info on the building here.
Old Montague Street was called just Montague Street until 1874. In it’s vicinity stood one of the Whitechapel workhouses, that later became an infirmary. On it’s site was also the Whitechapel morgue, described as just a shed, where, in 1888, at least the body of one Ripper victim, Mary Ann Nichols, was examined. Other sources name even more victims who were brought to Old Montague Street morgue. Read up on it here.
That brick shed was accessed via Eagle Place. It’s all been since demolished, but I found a pic that shows where this mortuary was located, compared to the modern outlet of Old Montague Street. To me, this looks awfully like the block of houses to which 156 Old Montague Street belongs.
This is just the Google Maps location:
This overlay shows where the morgue was located:
So, there was a morgue, connected to Jack the Ripper, about 30 metres away from 156 Old Montague Street. Coincidence?
I’m not a Ripperologist, though, so I don’t know how reliable this research is. I tried to look up Eagle Place on the Booth Map but couldn’t find it. This is how the above area was mapped in 1889:
Green is the location of the workhouse/infirmary, red is the alleged location of the mortuary.
Any thoughts from people who know more about this?
how and why is that supposed to be true if he can’t even remember her
no????
nope
what the fuck
you can’t make shit up as you go along and then pretend the random backstory you wrote into episode 13 has been some sort of unmentioned character arc from the beginning
During the Molly scene at roughly 60:20/60:25 minutes, we hear Mrs Hudson’s voice saying “softer Sherlock!”. Why? I thought that if we had ever heard Mrs Hudson talk in Sherlock’s head it would only be “Norbury”. Is it only a sign of his new better, more “human” behaviour?
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Ah! I’ll need to listen with headphones on…
Mrs. H coaching Sherlock by John’s bed? Comforting him as he tries to tell John what he needs him to hear?
I JUST LISTENED TO THIS BIT THREE TIMES AND I REGRET TO INFORM YOU IT IS INDEED MARTHA LOUISE HUDSON
Assuming that TFP is John’s near-death moments- I can only imagine this to be at John’s sickbed, Mrs Hudson telling Sherlock to speak to him softer because he isn’t responding. He isn’t “picking up his phone” and it went to the voice mail, in which molly (the mirror) tells him that she’s in “dead centre of town.” John is dying.
(On a separate note, if anyone sees this, could you please confirm in TLD if Sian does a voiceover on Gina Bramhill – the morgue!Faith – during the scene in which she’s td12’d and trying to remember? “I can’t remember, can’t remember who you’re trying to kill” I think it’s Sian’s voice but please tell me I haven’t lost my mind)
@holmesianscholar I listened to the TLD td12d Faith and it seems the voice of the orignal Faith not a voiceover but maybe someone else can listen to it?
just gonna leave this here again
I don’t care what anyone says, that is 100% Mrs Hudson holy shit.
Hi fam. I want to talk about Sherlock soundtrack from S4. I finally got my hands on the soundtrack and I’m shook. If I can do anything “meta,” this is it. Music is my division…
I have to talk about Eurus and John. Here are my two large points of concentration, followed by the musical evidence:
1. According to the music – all four personas that Sian Brooke plays (E, RedDress!Faith, Therapist, Sister Edgelord) except Faith have the “Eurus” theme, either in entirety or in bits. This is fucky™ because Faith is also the most suspicious one, as she’s associated with TD-12 and also has no trace of Eurus theme in the background. Who the fuck is she? Faith, instead, has a new theme during her hangout with Sherlock, and this is musically unusual and irregular. This has to be intentional. 2. Something terrible has happened to our John. He is not well, perhaps on the brink of death, as most of us are worried. And I’m afraid TFP is really the near-death shit that John is hallucinating.
Musical evidence: (interrupted by some random spewing of thoughts) – all track names are italicised!
(FYI I AM CRYING FRESH TEARS SO FORGIVE ME IF I AM REPEATING THE OBVIOUS or someone had already pointed all this out.)
Listen to “Who you really are” from TFP if you’re not sure what “Eurus” theme is. The first time we hear this shit is VERY early in TST, in major key, from the track called “59 missed calls.” The EURUS theme in major key. Fuck. It’s in the first bus scene with John and E.
You know where else the Eurus theme is played? “Cheating.” That’s right, the second bus scene when John’s all “I’m not free, can’t do this shit with you.” At the end of this track, the pitch pattern of “Eurus" is clear. BUT THIS TIME in minor key (WHY??), though it’s supposed to be the same girl. God I hate this show
“Gunshot” (Mary’s death) has John’s Theme in it, but every time a chord plays it’s accompanied by a note that is half step lower. Like John is faltering, breaking down. This hurts.
The soundtracks from the scenes in TLD where Faith Smith is in don’t have the Eurus theme. She seems to have her own separate theme. If this Faith has indeed had chips with Sherlock AND is John’s therapist AND is E, she’s supposed to have the Eurus theme. (Sidenote, Sherlock actually sees Culverton and Faith’s photograph, which clearly shows the Morgue!Faith, not RedDress!Faith- but it’s just odd that he cannot tell that they’re different people even though he’s apparently a human weight scale even when he’s high)
I AM SCREAMING because “Anyone,” as in “I need to kill someone- who? – anyone,” HAS JOHN’S THEME HIDDEN, AUDIBLE BUT IT’S PURPOSEFULLY HIDDEN UNDERNEATH THE ORCHESTRA. WITH THE FOOTAGE OF JOHN’S FLAT. THIS IS A FORESHADOWING OF JOHN GETTING HURT BADLY I THINK. (however, still no Eurus theme)
Also, end me because the track called “Favourite Room” has John’s theme spread out in augmentation and it sounds like a fading heartbeat. Uh oh.
THIS PART IS FUCKY AF. “No Charges” in TLD also has the Eurus theme spread out. But guess where this music is played? This is when Lestrade and John watch the video in which Culverton Smith is “pressing no charges” and we see a footage of John starting to pin Sherlock to the wall. THE EURUS THEME. What the actual hell is this? Why use it here and not for Faith Smith while she was with Sherlock? ???????????
(crack theory: is the Eurus Theme actually “TD 12″ theme? Is that why every time we hear this theme involved, shit gets fucky?? Is that why Sherlock doesn’t hear the Eurus theme because he’s already high on other types of drugs? Is that why the entire TFP is laden with the Eurus theme? I’m so tired I’m just going to leave these questions here)
“In the Tower,” of course, has a blatant Eurus theme when the therapist turns out to be ~none other than Eurus.~ Also John’s theme in ~shocked~ pitches of high strings. #shook
TFP. Literally the entire soundtrack set is a variation of the Eurus theme and not much else (other than occasional Sherlock and John themes), which is worth noting. We immediately hear Eurus from “She was Different,” continuing in “3 suspects,” “The Hall,” “I had no one,” “Open your eyes,” etc. …ALL THE WAY through the end. It’s as if they wrote this theme first and then used it strategically throughout the whole S4, but TFP is (in musical terms) theme and variations, instead of having multiple themes.
Excuse mE? “Pick Up” is the track during Molly’s phone call, but then as soon as Molly says “I love you” and the tension is resolved… why…are.. they.. using OBVIOUS snippets of the TLD HUG™ motif???????????? SUPER BLATANT that this is MEANT. FOR. JOHN. I REPEAT. THIS WHOLE SCENE IS MEANT FOR JOHN. THE COFFIN WAS MEANT FOR JOHN, “I LOVE YOU” WAS MEANT FOR JOHN. OH MY GOD. ok sorry that was obvious even without the music
“Bones” is John’s well scene and, as you can expect, John’s theme is extremely subtle and weak. You can barely hear it. Another supporting evidence for John’s near-death theory.
UM??? “OPEN YOUR EYES” on screen was meant for Eurus but WHY AM I HEARING JOHN’S THEME? I MEAN I KNOW HE’S IN THE WELL BUT DOESN’T THIS MEAN THAT JOHN IS THE ONE WHO’S SUPPOSED TO OPEN HIS EYES like @marcespot‘s amazing videos?!?!?!?1
I’m so tired that I cannot go on right now. BUT LORD are we in trouble.
John agrees.
There has to be an explanation for this.
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Like is it just me or are the red walls in the Garridebs room strangely reminiscent of the walls in the building where John and Sherlock solved their first case?
@jenna221b did a meta about Eurus’s cell looking like the morgue from TLD, but there is this element as well. The furniture is the same design as from Sherlock’s fight scene with Ajay.
There was foreshadowing about this in TBB.
The same visual memories are being recycled. So far, I’ve written or contributed to six metas on this topic, but it just keeps popping up. This links to a few of them. ( x ) @teaandqueerbaiting@may-shepard
There’s been a lot of bantering about how it could be possible that Sherlock didn’t notice there was no glass in Eurus’ cell, so I thought I’d have to try to explain this fact to you.
Have you ever been really stressed? Do you know what happens to your brain when you are confronted with a really stressful situation?
Your cognitive abilities shrink, your vision field is limited to the point in which you can get your vision tunneled.
All your senses can become tunneled when you are stressed. For vision, it means your visual attention can be focused on one small geographic area of an emergency scene or one task being performed at a scene and you miss seeing things in your periphery.
When you are suffering from tunneled senses your situational awareness is vulnerable because you are likely to miss important clues and cues.
No wonder, even for such an observant person as Sherlock, that in those extremely stressful circumcstances – seeing his long forgotten, psychopatic sister, after he heard (and ignored) “vatican cameos” from John, he lost his usual abilities to see details, he was doing his best but his it was his humanity, normal physiological and emotional reactions that didn’t allow him to use his brain to its fullest, as usual.
I am really not surprised Sherlock didn’t see there was nothing to see.
I was thinking, what’s the point of having Eurus become unresponsive after she opened up to Sherlock and everything’s okay? What does that add to the plot? Ansolutely nothing. Not it you don’t add emotional context to it. Now, we know John is most probably hospitalized while dreaming up this story and that Eurus is John’s mirror (watch this if you didn’t already know all that). This is all in his head, mixed with his perception of what’s really happening around him. So, if we apply emotional context and change imaginary Eurus for the real John, we get this exchange about the condition he’s in at the end:
MYCROFT: There’s no possibility he’ll ever be able to leave the hospital. MR. HOLMES: When can we see him? MYCROFT: There’s no point. MRS. HOLMES: How dare you say that?! MYCROFT: He won’t talk. He won’t communicate with anyone in any way. He’s passed beyond our view. There are no words that can reach him now. MRS. HOLMES: Sherlock? [Montage of Sherlock taking his violin with him to hospital every single day, to play a special piece he composed for a comatose John, always hoping he can hear him, and that he’d eventually wake up.]
The shots and their order also drive home this idea. As soon as Eurus responds to Sherlock’s playing, she stands looking like a hospitalized patient
–white gown and all–
next to that bed, from which she grabs her own violin. Then they cut to John talking to Sherlock over the phone, asking him to come to where he is, to reach him, while literally looking at the words “Miss You”. And immediately after, we get a shot of Eurus, eyes closed, repeating the same melody Sherlock is playing; because John’s actually learned it by heart and re-playing it in his head. He’s in that hospital bed missing Sherlock and wishing he’d return soon to see him and play for him again.
He even imagines Sherlock’s parents and Mycroft giving him a visit, because of course they would support Sherlock in a time like this! And I do think Harry went as well–but they couldn’t possibly have shown us such a spoiler. Enough was with the “tell my sister I’m here” message in the sand!
I just think his interpretation is the only one that adds a logical, poignant meaning to this scene and the story. ‘No words can reach him now’ becomes a statement on the power of ‘words unspoken’ between Sherlock and John. And of course, not only means Sherlock can actually reach John’s ears–unlike what he may be told–, but that he could always reach John’s heart.
John eagerly waits for Sherlock’s visits, everyday.
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