im just lkasjdalkj LAUGHING imagining telling my past self about… any of this… like any of it imagine going back in time telling yourself from three years ago this
well if we’re looking at old promo pics wheres that one that makes it look like sherlock is wearing trophy husband earrings
THANKS
omg
TLD: romantic entanglement… would complete you as a person
TFP: CHOO CHOO B*NCH IT’S THE MURDER SISTER TRAIN HAVE YOU HAD SEX I’VE HAD SEX WHO CARES TBH WHO YOU REALLY ARE DOESN’T MATTER
i have like. a lot to say about why sherlock failed as t.v. show bc i think as a writer it’s a really crucial study in how to ruin a good premise/beginning and tbh if not to just … study how not to handle characters it’s pretty fascinating bc there are some truths which i feel it’s necessary to point out:
nobody likes to feel cheated at the end of the story.
death only matters if it’s forever and it’s rare.
on that note, there should be consequences for actions.
trust your characters to be interesting without unnecessary drama.
throwing plot at your characters feels less real than having their desires make them walk fully into the glass door of plot
if you’re going to make one of your characters “a sociopath” or disabled with ptsd or any other mental or physical illness, do extensive research into the personal experiences of those who suffer it and handle it with gravitas; don’t just vanish a character’s disability because it’s inconvenient to have them use a cane etc.
when there’s a good plot twist with nice foreshadowing, the audience loves it. when there’s just always plot twists, the author loves plot twists more than his own story.
surprise isn’t always a good thing.
“it was all a dream/joke/mirage/spell” is literally the weakest form of writing yourself out of a corner and is incredibly annoying to read/watch
queerbaiting is ugly
ride rollercoasters, not a broken elevator. have some stretches between plunges. your story can speed ahead and stay interesting without diving into hell again.
having a Big Bad Evil doesn’t make the story interesting; in fact having “monster of the week” problems feels more authentic and enjoyable
write your women like people and let them have plots that have nothing to do with men.
just because you’re good doesn’t mean that you are above critique or getting better. you should always be challenging yourself to outdo your previous self, not resting on the laurels of a previously effective moment
characters don’t have to be overpowered to be interesting
if a character’s emotions all exist on a scale of 1-10, 10 being the most emotion that an emotion can be (the saddest/angriest/broodiest), do not let that character hit a 10 until you are ready to be done with them forever
Why hurt your characters for years, why put them through torture, mental, physical, and emotional pain, WHY subject your characters to their past inflictions why treat your characters badly when you won’t give them a good character arc why not tie up all the loose ends when it comes to who this character is as a person why do you make a show about a character and then say who they are isn’t important why why why why why wh
Just because the writers turned out to be assholes doesnt mean i didn’t actually see that love story though???
Now it just feels like the wirter died and never finished it, or went through a suden conversion where they dont like their work anymore, or they got suddenly fired and someone new came in to make some new episodes that no longer feel like canon
It just feels like the show never got renewed for a 4th season so the plotline of pining-sherlock, closeted-john, evil-mary and secretly-alive moriarty just never got to close due to outside influence
I don’t AT ALL feel like ‘they were never going to get together’, ‘you misread it’ or ‘that wasnt the creators intent’
Because honestly i usually don’t give much of a shit about the writer of a story unless im interested in their other work, which i’m decidedly not interested in now.
like
I still read a bunch of ACD stories and saw love there
I still read a million fics and saw love
i still watched TPLOSH and saw love
like
Just because BBC Sherlock is DEAD doesnt mean Sherlock and John dont love eachother?
it just means i never get to SEE it
Which is awful
but we’ve all loved a show that died too early, or who fired its writers
So lets do what fandom has ALWAYS done
Finish the story ourselves
(((i think we just need a new tag))))
THIS. SO MUCH.
We weren’t blind, we listened and we heard right, and it’s up to us to write and paint and draw and blog and imagine the REAL ending to the story.
I rewrote this site’s Sherlock S4 episode summaries.
THE SIX THATCHERS
Sherlock solves the mysterious death of a young man, but the case leads him to another mystery when a bust of Margaret Thatcher owned by the dead man’s father is smashed. Further busts are smashed and Sherlock discovers that the mystery is linked to Mary and her past as a corrupt, backstabbing, conniving assassin. A figure from her past is bent on revenge in the belief that Mary betrayed him and two others. Sherlock offers to help Mary, but she ruthlessly drugs Sherlock and goes on the lam. Sherlock and John chase her down, but the pseudo-brother assassin she betrayed finds her first and kills her in cold blood. When John learns the true extent of Mary’s moral decrepitness, he turns to Sherlock for comfort. It is the longest recorded hug in television history.
THE LYING HOSPITAL DUDE
Sherlock is contacted by the daughter of entrepreneur Culverton Smith, whom she claims has confessed to a murder of an unknown person. Sherlock deduces that her father is a serial killer and he and John set out to expose him. When Sherlock confronts Smith, Smith injects him with a dangerous drug. While recovering in the hospital, Smith appears in Sherlock’s room, confesses and then tries to kill him. John bursts in just in time to save Sherlock, who clings to John and confesses his love for his blogger. Sherlock and John individually seek counseling to come to terms with their undeniable feelings for each other. During therapy, Sherlock uncovers repressed memories about a secret sister named Eurus. He confronts Mycroft with these memories, and Mycroft confirms that Eurus killed the family dog and then died in a fire that she set while trying to burn down the ancestral home.
THE FINAL PROBLEM
Sherlock deduces that Mycroft is lying about Eurus’ death. He and Watson go to Sherrinford, a maximum-security psychiatric facility that is not on an island where Eurus is housed. Sherlock and John discover that Eurus has compromised the staff and controls the entire Sherrinford asylum. Realizing that she will continue to test him until he masters a complicated violin piece, Sherlock tries to connect with her on an emotional level, offering her the love and relationship with a brother that she never had. Eurus stands down and goes on to raise Irish Setters for a living. Sherlock and Watson return to Baker Street, where Mrs Hudson admits that she disguised herself as each of their therapists, and implores them to admit what they know to be true: they love each other. Yes, like that. A time lapse montage shows them moving all of John and Rosie’s things into the flat and setting up a nursery in John’s old bedroom before retiring to their shared bedroom for the night. The final problem is solved when John and Sherlock decide who gets which side of the bed. The scene dissolves as the two share a heated kiss.
Read the notes on this. Read the denials. Read the continued unshakeable belief that they’re still lying, that a fourth ep is on its way, they need to hold onto the secret just a little bit longer….
Once again. Once AGAIN after a direct, clear, concise answer to their question they insist it’s “fake”, that “there’s something more coming”, that “there’s a LOST SPECIAL” – because they didn’t get what they wanted.
The creators of Sherlock are not doing this to them. They are doing it to themselves.
You were told.
The parallels with the current international political scene are inescapable. Reality has been subsumed into wishful thinking. And truth no longer matters.
@theleftpill Although I share your concern about this, it’s not entirely their fault, or their decision. This is massively the result of the discours the creators have with the fandom, and especially one rule they repeated many times: We lie.
A few days ago I thought back on all the interviews JKR gave, before HP7 was published. And she didn’t need this stupid rule of everything could be a lie. If she didn’t want to answer a question, she just said that it would spoil too much. It’s so easy. Mofftiss chose a different route, that in my opinion wasn’t a very healthy one for the creator/fandom relationship.
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