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If anyone wants to see the low attendance numbers for themselves at the LA Sherlock con, notice that this is the main stage and the talk occurring right now is with Mark, Steven, and Sue. This is nothing like the London event last year.

Karma.

there are more notes on this post than people attending.

Kind of weird to think my blog has an exceptionally larger fan reach online than this con does in person. The same can be said for many other people attending. I wonder if TPTB know this. That we’re all connected and all stick up for each other here. That we cross-reference information at lightning speed. That our reach collectively is more powerful than theirs at this brief moment.

WE ARE THE FANDOM WITHOUT US THEY ARE NOTHING

This speaks volumes

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totallysilvergirl:

starlitsecrets:

The point isn’t that John is thrown a rope despite being chained to the bottom of the well. The point isn’t that they managed to leap to safety from an exploding flat. The point isn’t that Mycroft, previously referred to as the ice man, is terrified and repulsed to the point of vomitting. The point isn’t that we never saw the contents of John’s letter. The point isn’t that the timeline for Eurus meeting Moriarty doesn’t actually make sense within the previously established narrative. The point isn’t that a kid went missing and no adult authority thought to check in the nearby well. The point isn’t that John’s hair grew seemingly overnight. The point isn’t Sherlock failing to notice missing glass. The point isn’t that John strong moral principle Watson could have an affair and beat his best friend to a pulp. The point isn’t that we never found out who the “mutual friend” was. The point isn’t that there was a dog bowl. The point isn’t that paper somehow survived the flat going up in flames.

The point is that all these things happened together. There isn’t just one singular thing to look at and go “that’s why series 4 sucked”, it’s all of these inconsistencies put together. I just keep seeing people say things like “omg obviously we didn’t need to see John getting unchained to know that it happened” and “would people get over the fucking letter, it wasn’t important what it said its just about the drama” and I’m like that’s totally valid if we were just looking at any one (or even a couple) of these things happening throughout this series. But we’re not. All of these things happened. Yes people are making a big deal out of little things, but it’s because when you actually add up the amount of little things…well turns out that list isn’t actually that little.

This series displayed some truly lazy writing, and not on a small scale.

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I completely agree with everything.

Still, let’s see if we can bring some sense into this together:

  • on John being thrown a rope despite being chained to the bottom of the well, we can suspect that someone went down that well to unchain him and that’s what they actually wanted us to believe
  • they managed to leap to safety from an exploding flat. Oops. Can’t do it.
  • The point isn’t that Mycroft, previously referred to as the ice man, is terrified and repulsed to the point of vomitting. A facade? It’s one thing to have intellectually made a choice and being faced to their consequences. But then again, that’s an excuse.
  • we never saw the contents of John’s letter. Still hoping we will see its content, because I think this’d be interesting
  • the timeline for Eurus meeting Moriarty doesn’t actually make sense within the previously established narrative. It can make sense, if this christmas five years ago refers to the one during ASiB and his former imprisonment refers to THoB (who happened apparently somewhere during ASiB),
  • The point isn’t that a kid went missing and no adult authority thought to check in the nearby well. Sure, doesn’t make sense, but then again, everyone is stupid
  • The point isn’t that John’s hair grew seemingly overnight. No comment
  • The point isn’t Sherlock failing to notice missing glass. …he’s dumb
  • The point isn’t that John strong moral principle Watson could have an affair and beat his best friend to a pulp. He’s a traumatized army doctor who has trust issues, he can snap and have an episode. It’s not forgivable but it can be understandable
  • The point isn’t that we never found out who the “mutual friend” was. At this point, it must have been Moriarty.
  • The point isn’t that there was a dog bowl. Sherlock told her he thought Redbeard was a dog, she’s trolling him
  • The point isn’t that paper somehow survived the flat going up in flames. No comment.

Basically, our problems aren’t so much these inconsistencies shows that there is lazy writing, it’s that some contradictions cannot be solved.

So basically, our real problems lie here:

  • They managed to leap to safety from an exploding flat.
  • Mycroft, previously referred to as the ice man, is terrified and repulsed to the point of vomitting.
  • John’s hair grew seemingly overnight. No comment
  • Sherlock failing to notice missing glass.
  • Paper somehow survived the flat going up in flames.

The point isn’t even that there are too many inconsistencies, it’s that they turned their back of what they established for three seasons. It’s that, for how clever the people working on set wants us to believe they are, for how obsessed they are with details, they’re letting enormous gaffes slip. Many of them. And it’s not our job to try to salvage their mess, to find explanations for every little thing they messed up with.

We also have unfired Chekov’s gun that aren’t on this list:

  • what about Ajay’s injury? A quick study proves he didn’t kill the woman
  • Ajay, Gabriel, Rosamund, Alex. We know what happened to Alex, Rosamund and Ajay, but where the fuck is Gabriel?
  • romantic attachment would complete Sherlock as a human being?
  • Okay, I’ll put John’s letter here
  • appointment in Sumatra, what was the point?
  • Can Samarra be avoided?

Continuity errors too:

  • since when does Mycroft call John ‘Dr Watson’? It was always John since TGG.
  • Why would Mycroft ask him to look after Sherlock?

This is a utter mess and yes, it is cumulative. We aren’t paid to resolve this, but it was their job to make a good season without all of those msitakes.

And considering these gems they give about ACD lore, former adaptations and a keen attention for detail and love for their job (like that bloody skull) we need to tell them something important.

Stop focusing on details when this happens. Because, right now, they can’t see the forest for the trees.

Also to add to the “content of letter doesn’t matter what matters is drama” point: the content of the letter MATTERS to Sherlock’s reaction. Omitting the letter and only having Molly say John doesn’t want to see Sherlock gets the point across quite clearly. What does John’s letter accomplish that this action doesn’t already?

There are a lot of things that don’t quite add up throughout the series, but S4 has a ginormous amounts of nonsense packed together. And honestly? You can chalk up a noise outside your window as a stray cat crashing at your boxes, but you can’t gloss over a racket that goes on for eight hours per day for a week. You’ve got to figure out what causes it. Stop rationalising the ghost. Start investigating if it’s a burglar.

Oh believe me, I have many things to say about the letter.

Because it should have lost any meaning by now. Whether we like it or not, any problem that happened between them in TST should have been solved with TLD. Watching how it reacts to it now should be meaningless because whatever John wrote should now be ‘in the past’. Carry on, it’s useless.

‘What does John’s letter accomplish that this action doesn’t already?‘ Nothing, and that’s the point. We spend a whole episode where the two barely interact. Sherlock deletes his texts, John doesn’t answer his phone, Sherlock doesn’t read the letter to our knowledge. There is no genuine communication except the memory stick and even that happens off-screen.

I think this is an unfired Checkov’s gun and that we will see it again. But that, whatever is inside, will be a major game-changer. That’s the only way it can come back.

We have too many inconsistancies to not call it a pattern within S4.

You’re right, we need to investigate the murder. Time to figure out what is the cause of all of this, that’s the only way we’ll make it stop. Thankfully, we’re not the police.

We just lack the arrogance to ignore details.

A view from a casual perspective

welovethebeekeeper:

Just home from a professional dinner/awards do. I met up with a friend who I only see occasionally and she watches BBC Sherlock but is not in the fandom. She’s a casual and loves talking to me as she is amazed by my obsession with Holmes and Watson. Anyway, tonight she made a bee line for me and asked me WTF had happened to the show. She herself was disgusted with the inconsistencies of the characters, and the about face in the narrative. Her view had been that Sherlock was gay, any viewer who didn’t see it was choosing not too, he was heartbroken over John marrying, and that S4 would have seen Mary turn into a kickass villain. I of course spoke with passion about my opinion of S4 (she was somewhat alarmed at my vehement hatred of the writers) but finally, as if to counsel me she laid her hand on my arm and said; the obvious answer is the writers were stopped from finishing their story, as S4 was so much in opposition to the 3 seasons preceding it, that it was a fuck you to someone. And that the ‘terrible last ep’ was a parting fart as they walked away. This from a 50 year old psychologist, with zero knowledge of all our ideas and viewpoints, does not know Moffat or Gatiss, and who just watched the show as pure escapism.

Sigh!! Just wanted to share.

And I discovered all sorts of things that I could do if I had had the opportunity to do it. So I said ‘yes!’, with enormous temerity, and a certain amount of fear, and an element of excitement. We approached the scripts. I said, ‘But you’ve asked me to do Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes. These aren’t Sherlock Holmes – Doyle’s stories.’ I mean, the adapters had gone so far away. And the script editor said, ‘Jeremy, you’re here to act. Just get on with it’. And I tipped the table over and my Dover sole landed in his lap. And that was the beginning of the tousle. I used to take the whole canon with me to…the beginning of each film, and fight for Doyle. After about a year and a half I said, ‘Listen, if you don’t start taking care of me I may lose interest’, because it was such a tousle. But than Granada Studios stepped in and were so remarkable and wonderful and gave me two weeks rehearsal instead of the one. So the first week I could fight for Doyle and the second week I could work with my fellow actors. And that’s basically how it’s been ever since.

Jeremy Brett

(November 1991 interview, on deciding that he wanted to play Holmes, after rereading the entire canon).

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punkl0ck:

literally the only reason sherlock holmes was made a man who repressed all his urges and liked to appear like he had none, a seemingly emotionless machine, someone who hid his true personality from the public is that he was a gay man in a time when that could have cost him his life. like literally, that’s the only reason, it’s queer coding, that’s it

Don’t tell me that Sherlock Holmes doesn’t care

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“My dear doctor,” said he kindly, “pray accept my apologies. Viewing the matter as an abstract problem, I had forgotten how personal and painful a thing it might be to you. I assure you, however, that I never even knew that you had a brother until you handed me the watch.”

— The Sign of the Four

We sat in silence for some minutes, Holmes more depressed and shaken than I had ever seen him.
“That hurts my pride, Watson,” he said at last. “It is a petty feeling, no doubt, but it hurts my pride. It becomes a personal matter with me now, and, if God sends me health, I shall set my hand upon this gang. That he should come to me for help, and that I should send him away to his death—!”
He sprang from his chair and paced about the room in uncontrollable agitation, with a flush upon his sallow cheeks and a nervous clasping and unclasping of his long thin hands.

— The Five Orange Pips, The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes

“I hate to meet her, Watson, when I have no news of her husband. Here we are.”
[…]
“In your heart of hearts, do you think that Neville is alive?”
Sherlock Holmes seemed to be embarrassed by the question.
“Frankly, now!” she repeated, standing upon the rug and looking keenly down at him as he leaned back in a basket-chair.
“Frankly, then, madam, I do not.”

— The Man with the Twisted Lip, The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes

“But have you told me all?”
“Yes, all.”
“Miss Roylott, you have not. You are screening your stepfather.”
“Why, what do you mean?”
For answer Holmes pushed back the frill of black lace which fringed the hand that lay upon our visitor’s knee. Five little livid spots, the marks of four fingers and a thumb, were printed upon the white wrist.
“You have been cruelly used,” said Holmes.
The lady coloured deeply and covered over her injured wrist. “He is a hard man,” she said, “and perhaps he hardly knows his own strength.”
There was a long silence, during which Holmes leaned his chin upon his hands and stared into the crackling fire.
“This is a very deep business,” he said at last.

— The Adventure of the Speckled Band, The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes

When it was concluded he settled our new acquaintance upon the sofa, placed a pillow beneath his head, and laid a glass of brandy and water within his reach.
“It is easy to see that your experience has been no common one, Mr. Hatherley,” said he. “Pray, lie down there and make yourself absolutely at home. Tell us what you can, but stop when you are tired and keep up your strength with a little stimulant.”

— The Adventure of the Engineer’s Thumb, The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes

And it’s only some examples from two books. Yes, Sherlock Holmes is arrogant, but he also knows when someone is hurt, and if he’s the cause, then he apologizes.
Some people would say it’s manipulation, I think it’s his human side.

YES, over and over, he is kind to people, protective of the vulnerable. He may be blunt about the truth, but even that he can soften where necessary.

Exactly that.
So, what excuse was groundbreaking and history making about Sherlock BBC?

“Johnlock wasn’t canon in the original books”

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gryssenielsen:

victorian-sexstache:

victorian-sexstache:

You know what else “wasn’t canon in the original stories”?

-The modern day setting

-Mobile phones

-Texting

-Watson having a psychosomatic limp

-Watson having a therapist

-Watson and Stamford getting Starbucks

-Molly Hooper

-Mrs. Hudson being married to a leader of the drug cartel

-Mrs. Turner and her married gay couple (Mrs. Turner WAS Mrs. Hudson)

-Blogs

-Laptop computers

-Taxi cabs

-John’s gay sister

-Sally Donovan and Philip Anderson

-The lady in pink (the victim was a man)

-The scratched message (it was written in blood)

-The case being solved in one night

-Angelo’s

-Holmes and Watson sitting around inquiring about each other’s sexualities and history of significant others

-Mycroft kidnapping Watson

-Mycroft being in the first story at all (Holmes’ background was pretty much a mystery to Watson until the case of the Greek interpreter; he only made appearances in a couple of the 60 stories, not almost every Goddamn one)

-Watson murdering Hope to save Holmes

-There was no case of the Blind Banker

-Nor the Great Game (there were canon elements tied in – West and the Bruce-Partington Plans – but never in canon did Moriarty challenge Holmes to solve a series of puzzles to save people from being turned into suicide bombers)

-Moriarty kidnapping Watson at any point

-Moriarty was really only in one story, and foreshadowed in another

-Irene Adler being a dominatrix

-Adler was involved with the King of Bohemia, not Kate Middleton

-Adler being romantically/sexually interested in Holmes

-Adler elopes and escapes with her blackmail material in the end of “A Scandal In Bohemia”; she outsmarts Holmes

-The fear gas from The Hound Of The Baskervilles
-Baskerville being a secret laboratory
-The glowing rabbit
-Holmes was barely in The Hound of The Baskervilles at all
-Moriarty stealing the Crown Jewels
-Holmes testifying against Moriarty in court
-Kitty Riley or whatever that ginger reporter’s name was
-Moriarty publicly discrediting Holmes
-Moriarty went over the side of a waterfall in Switzerland; Holmes did not willingly jump from the top of a hospital in London. And Watson was not there to witness it.
-Holmes was gone for three years, not two. Before his disappearance, Watson married Mary Morstan and moved out of Baker Street and she passed away some time during Holmes’s absence.
-Mary is a governess, not an assassin, and initially a client of Holmes before marrying Watson
-Sebastian Moran attempts to assassinate Holmes, not Mary
-There is no bomb threat on Parliament
-Subways
-Watson is not thrown into a bonfire
-Holmes actually explains himself to Watson upon returning and Watson forgives him. He does not beat Holmes repeatedly (in fact, he faints).
-There is no wedding celebration story for Watson and Mary (ACD could barely remember her name)
-James Sholto and Watson have no connection (professional or otherwise)
-Mary and Watson never have children
-Billy Wiggins is a street urchin, not a drug dealing adult
-Charles Augustus Magnussen is actually Charles Augustus Milverton
-Holmes doesn’t court CAM’s PA, he courts her maid (under the guise of a plumber)
-Lady Smallwood does murder CAM, not Holmes
-Mary doesn’t shoot Holmes
-Airplanes
-The entirety of The Abominable Bride
-Twitter
-Mary never goes along on cases (outside of The Sign Of Four, she barely gets any dialogue at all)
-Some kid doesn’t disguise himself as a fucking car seat
-Margaret Thatcher
-The AGRA team
-Mary doesn’t die by gunshot
-Watson doesn’t blame Holmes for Mary’s death
-Mrs. Hudson never stunt drives a Martin Aston
-Culverton Smith only kills one person that we know of, his nephew Victor Savage. There is no mention of a daughter.
-Smith attempts to infect Holmes with a deadly virus, not drugging and smothering him
-Holmes fakes his own illness for Smith’s sake, not for Watson
-THERE IS NO EURUS
-THERE IS NO EURUS
-THERE IS NO EURUS
-Drones
-Baker Street getting blown up by a grenade
-Sherrinford is the third Holmes brother, and only in paracanon
-The Three Garridebs is totally wrong
-Musgrave is not the Holmes’ summer home
-“Redbeard”/Victor Trevor is not a little boy who was Holmes’ childhood friend. He was Holmes’ friend for university whose dog bit Holmes.
-THERE
-WAS
-NO
-EURUS

So don’t tell me Mofftiss couldn’t have Sherlock and John be in an openly romantic relationship because it wasn’t in the original canon.

I’m reblogging this from myself because I’m still bitter.

And the funny thing is that ACD wrote Watson and Holmes so much in a relationship as he dared. Even I, as a child, reading the original books in the 1960′ties and 1970′ties did read Holmes and Watson as two men in love and almost married. So ‘not in canon’? Hmrf….sorry if I’m laughing a bit 😉

No, I agree with you, they were in love, but ACD couldn’t be open about it, obviously.

alexxphoenix42:

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toxicsemicolon:

Remember when Martin was on SNL, and [the writers wanted to do a sketch making fun of the homoerotic undertones in Sherlock, and Martin and Mofftiss had to spill the johnlock beans to the SNL writers to convince them that this is serious business and they are not allowed to spoil it, so instead] the writers wrote Martin a skit with lines like “I didn’t want to talk about that tonight,” and “I’ve been instructed not to talk about it,” and “I’m not supposed to talk about it, ok,” and “I’m just here for the gig, my man,” and Kenan says, “wow! It is really happening! Look at this lovely couple down here,” and gestures to a couple obviously dressed as Sherlock and John[, and then I screamed for a thousand years the end].

Here’s the video, for those who want to Understand:

Holiday Gig – Saturday Night Live (Season 40, 2014)

FUCKIN LOOK AT THIS SHIT

THIS IS SUBLIMINAL PROPOGANDA

HOW DO SNL AND @pizzahut GET TO KNOW ABOUT IT BEFORE WE DO

“okay, so just the cast, crew, SNL, and a thousand pizza hut employees”

“don’t be ridiculous. 250 at most”

Can I ask, after the decimation of S4 … what was the point? If they were never going to make Johnlock canon in the show, and it was just a big funny gay joke, why couldn’t they do a parody about John and Sherlock being (tee hee) gay for each other on SNL? I mean a jump and kiss wouldn’t have spoiled anything for the “glory” that was series 4. I mean WOT???????

This makes me think everyone (especially Martin) was down for JLC but mofftiss were not. This was as much as Martin could talk about the issue. A parody of not being able to talk about the thing. Ironic.

teaandqueerbaiting:

This is just a gentle reminder that

  • Mark Gatiss and Steven Moffat agree that the primary appeal of the Sherlock Holmes stories is the relationship between Holmes and Watson
  • They’ve said this since the beginning and have been doing so for years
  • They believe their adaptation is faithful to the original stories in this way
  • There is only one moment in the entirety of the original canon in which readers are allowed to see the true nature of this relationship in The Adventure of the Three Garridebs, a moment which they’ve spoken highly of on several occasions
  • This moment has not happened in BBC Sherlock and they have actually rewritten scenes to avoid the John-is-in-danger Garridebs setup
  • You don’t have to ship Johnlock to know that the reference to this story in The Final Problem goes against everything they’ve said in the past and built their show around

References listed in chronological order below the cut because there are a lot:

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If anything this is a reminder that mofftiss done did goofed. Big time.