me as a film critic praising ben c for shaping sherlock into an absurdly realistic human person who exists completely independent of him, changing his voice, posture and overall demeanour to the point where i instantly recognize whether he is in character in a picture: that boy and the other boy?? ??? 2 different boys… ..amazin
So, yeah, the thing that ultimately shook
me out of my “I can’t believe this is the real episode 😭” reaction and got me back on the It’s Fake bandwagon was the irregularities with setlock. When the episode first leaked, it was described to me by more than one person who watched it (I did not watch the Russian leak myself) as looking like it could have been filmed in a few days. The actual airing of the episode rattled me for a day or two, but ultimately, seeing the episode with my own eyes didn’t change my opinion that it could have been filmed in less time than was allotted for it. I even told a friend who works on film sets and has watched the whole show that TFP filmed from late June to early August and she responded by laughing and saying “okay, yeah, something is fucked up.”
There are also a LOT of missing scenes from setlock. Some of them appear to have been alternate versions of scenes which actually made it into S4 (different versions of the birth-in-the-car scene, for example) but some of them were quite elaborate. The scene with all the extras ducking/flinching and running away from 221B Baker Street, which people speculated was in response to gunfire or explosion sounds and/or special effects which would be filled in later, required A) the closure of North Gower Street, B) a production set-up on North Gower Street, and C) the hiring of those extras. It would have cost money and required careful advance planning. And yet that scene is missing. There is no “people run away from the building” shot when 221B “explodes” in TFP. We have fan-made video of the very realistic “passersby react to a sudden calamity” scene being filmed. And yet the scene is
missing.
Is it possible they ended up with footage they just couldn’t use? Maybe they couldn’t get the CGI/special effects to work, so they scrapped an exterior reaction shot that they’d set up and paid people to enact just for that purpose? Maybe, but…LOL. Nah. In TGG they blew up 221B from the outside in, and they blew up the Houses of Parliament in TEH. They also transitioned from the Victorian era to the modern era through the window in TAB. There are not many sensible reasons I can think of why they’d scrap that entire scene.
And that’s just ONE scene. It’s not even the only one that’s missing! Though it is all the more conspicuous in its absence because of the expense involved and because we didn’t even get an alternate version of it.
I can’t predict specifics and I can’t say with certainty that they’re going to Beyoncé the “lost special” right into iPlayer or whatever, but I do absolutely believe that it is neither silly nor illogical to suspect based on the evidence that there could have been enough footage produced during setlock – particularly during the “TFP” block – to produce another episode of at least 60 minutes’ length, if not the full 90.
This is the bedrock of my participation in
the “fourth episode” theory. Moffat’s quip to Radio Times about the “lost special” certainly adds a lot of strength to the force of the belief, but setlock itself is quite enough to be going on with, in my opinion.
Either they’ve got another ace up their sleeves, or they are going to break some kind of record for the most wasted resources /“deleted scenes” generated by a single TV production.
“Sergeant Donovan just told me about the two pills. Dreadful business, just-” *Sherlock pulls John in for a kiss*
“We’re going out tonight.” “Great. It’s a date.” “A what?” “It’s where two people who like each other have fun?” “I know what a date is, John.” “Great, so I’ll see you at 8?” “…yes.”
“Don’t be alarmed – it’s to do with sex.” “Sex doesn’t alarm me.” “*smirk* How would you know?” (John)“Well he certainly wasn’t alarmed last night. *bigger smirk*” *Mycroft’s eyes bulging out of his skull*
*Sherlock writing happy music and eating properly because he’s not moping over “the Woman”, he’s with John*
*John and Sherlock sharing the bed at the Cross Keys Inn*
*John comforting Sherlock when he was scared by the Hound*
*the press applauding Sherlock and disdaining Moriarty*
*Sherlock returns from the dead and John kisses him instead of punching him*
“John Watson. My husband, John Watson.”
*Mary gets put in jail and John and Sherlock live happily ever after*
well thank you satan
John and Sherlock getting married, and dancing together at the reception. 😭
> spends actual money buying a domain > spends ‘5 minutes a week’ updating things despite the blatant contradictory facts spelt out in that long ass ‘probably took them an hour to write’ wall of text > spends actual time making up codes (IE dancing man, that took ages to crack, so no way it took 5 minutes to make) > spends time making a twitter and a tumblr > spends time making pixel art in paint which def took more than 5 minutes. I’m an artist. i would know > links a website and then tells us nOT TO LOOK (why bother linking??) > spends time compiling a whole load of posts proving that they’ve been actively paying attention to fandom and the responses we’ve been giving
ONCE MORE UNTO THE BREACH, DEAR FRIENDS, ONCE MORE
this is gorgeous and i hurt
What a blast from the past! I haven’t seen this post in a while. This is THE post that made me join the fandom. (If anyone was wondering. It’s truly a fandom relic…for me at least).
I finally completed Part 1 of data – comparing our favorites! Data used here was taken Feb 7, 2017. Please take a look at my TJLC Survey Assumptions post before considering this data!
For this section of data analysis, I compared Questions 10, 16, and 17. Here’s how those numbers panned out, in beautiful rainbow circles and bars:
BBC Sherlock is by far TJLC’s most favorite Holmes adaptation coming in at 79% of survey participants. Participant’s second-favorite was Arthur Conan Doyle’s original Holmes at 7%, and third is Jeremy Brett from the Granada Sherlock Holmes at 5%.
There were 13 responses in the area of “Well it used to be BBC Sherlock… then TFP happened”, and 6 that specified BBC Sherlock except without either TFP or the entirety of season 4.
TJLC’s most favorite part of BBC Sherlock is the characters, no surprise there, with almost half the votes. Next up is Ben and Martin’s acting at 18%, and third is the plot and story line (10%) with the writing (9%) close behind.
Three responses specifically mentioned the soundtrack.
Finally, TJLC’s favorite episode is The Sign of Three (20%), followed by The Reichenbach Fall (16%), and a fandom classic A Study in Pink (12%). The Six Thatchers came in last (even behind The Final Problem and The Blind Banker!) with a total of 3 votes. [Please note that I couldn’t get Excel to stop correcting “TEH” to “THE”, so yes, I know that all abbr. for The Empty Hearse are misspelled.]
Out of my own curiosity, I decided to compare these three questions to each other. I put the raw data for this in 2-way tables, which you can view here (x)(x)(x) – it’s fairly easy to understand how 2-way tables work, but you can always ask me, or Google it if you need some help interpreting them.
The following charts represent the proportions of each variable. To read them, compare the sizes of the colored sections to sections of the same color on other bars:
shit I totally forgot tags!!!!! lmk if you want to be removed or added to future updates!! you can also track the “TJLC survey” tag, which i will be tagging all updates with!
You have a husband. A man licks your face. Your husband is dead.
A man threatens you with blackmail material that doesn’t exist. You ask another man for help. He commits a murder that never happened.
You have no vices and hold a position of great power. Clearly you are a victim. Or maybe you are a perpetrator. You are confused.
Your secretary is a criminal mastermind posing as an ordinary old woman. A man accuses her of being an ordinary old woman posing as a criminal mastermind. She draws her gun. You no longer have a secretary. You are very confused.
A co-worker confides his family troubles. You have history. You give him your card. He doesn’t call. You can’t remember you’re not interested in sex.
Your card states your name is Alicia. A man calls you Elizabeth. You can’t remember your real name. Maybe you don’t have a name at all.
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