i have spent the last 50 minutes browsing through steven moffat, OBE’s shooting script of The Blam!! What?? Eh? Vow and my dudes my guys my lads i have read fanfic that was SO MUCH BETTER, and i don’t mean i’ve read a fanfic or two that were even better than this Mighty Original, i mean i have read hundreds and hundreds of fics that had better planning better research and better writing. i’m confident when i say this dude couldn’t write the beautiful love story we thought we were watching if he tried and everything would have gone to shit from the start if they hadn’t had amazing actors directors and a production team that made their bullshitting and gay jokes look beautiful and basically. if they hurt you, you are better than them. you are so much better and you are the future goodbye
When asked about S4 during the promotional lead-up, Moftiss repeatedly
said this new series would be about one thing: consequences. Now that we stand on the other side of S4,
what do we think they meant? It
obviously wasn’t legal consequences for shooting Magnussen, or physical
consequences of overdosing on drugs.
In this meta, I argue that TAB and S4 are above all about the moral,
metaphysical, and narrative consequences of Sherlock faking his death during
the Reichenbach Fall—an act which continues to reverberate through the story
two series later, both for the characters and, significantly, for the writers.
Finally found an aequate-quality still. Let’s fix this, people!
(Left cutout is for light background, right is for dark. *Please add a comment with your manip so I can find it among the notes!*)
Have fun~! To start us off:
If Sherlock only had a heart!
If John
only
had a brain! If they both only had one inch more!!! They’re off to see the wizard to get their dearest wishes granted and be home in time for tea.
“Hey Posh! Clever! You see this? THIS is how you survive an explosion!”
OMG I can’t wait to see more of these!
I aim to please.
“Hurry! It’s been 130 years, I can’t wait any longer!”
“But why did we take Dream-Moriarty’s advice? Didn’t we deserve a proper wedding?”
“We may not have had time! There’s no telling what the crazy Right – or the crazy writers – will do next.”
“And we’re wearing our coats all night?”
“Part of the fantasy, Sherlock. Please, would you do this one thing for me?”
‘s’fine if no one else wants to play, I’ll play by myself. (Just hope I don’t become the next Sister Edgelord over it.) And in that case, the game of choice is:
TFP: The Fearlessful Pirates – Sherlock and John try a long-considered career change, but are surprised when piracy proves more dangerous than detective work, with plot twists such as getting shot in the face resulting in real, visible consequences. Perhaps it’s not a pirate’s life for them!
“You might want to run faster, mates! Unless, of course, you fancy a matched set of those on your face. Savvy?”
It struck me as odd that Within the Narrative is tagged with both “Tragedy” and “Comedy” when it is a pretty heavy story (so far), focusing around Sherlock’s pining over John, Mycroft’s death, John’s marriage problems, the return of Moriarty… it could barely be considered a comedy.
So then @jenna221b had to go and point out that The Adventure of the Three Garridebs starts out like this:
“It may have been a comedy, or it may have been a tragedy. It cost one man his reason, it cost me a blood-letting, and it cost yet another man the penalties of the law. Yet there was certainly an element of comedy. Well, you shall judge for yourselves.“
and suddenly the description for it, “about the stuff between the lines”, now makes so much more sense.
I just needed you all to know that this person is unbelievably clever and embedded so deep in The Conspiracy that they couldn’t possibly be anyone other than One of Us, which we know they are not.
@waitedforgarridebs we got our Garridebs “””comedy”” in TFP… and now we wait…
So porl0ck suspects that the writer is actually Mark, and I have to agree (or that they’re at least someone involved with the show), because Sherlock tells John “if you ever think I’m getting too full of myself, you can always just remind me of Norbury” bUT THIS FIC WAS PUBLISHED LAST AUGUST. No way a fan could have possibly fucking predicted that. Plus all the other far too accurate predictions in some of the other fics…. So it’s obvious it’s someone on the inside (maybe you already figured that out but damn I don’t have time to scroll back through all the posts regarding this, so if this is preaching to the choir I apologize). Anyway, I started doing this the old-fashioned way of taking classroom style notes as I read the fics, jotting down anything that jumped out at me. Once I read them all I’ll sit down and actually type them up in an organized manner and we can start trying to figure what the actual *hints* are that are being dropped in these fics.
Why not? The Norbury line is canon, no? Why wouldn’t they use it at some point?
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