I love how Martin just straight up ignores the scripts. He’s like, “HELL NO, John wouldn’t be grief stricken. He’d be murderously pissed. Any grief would come later.” And so he gave us this.
Martin is an actor this scripts and writers did not deserve. He knew John better than they did.
do u ever think about the fact that sherlock jumped off the roof of barts hospital and went undercover for two years to dismantle moriarty’s network and was subjected to torture and abuse and neglect all to keep john watson safe and alive and even after all of that he still didn’t know john thought of him as his “best friend” ?
‘’A proper, manly embrace’’. Best clarify it is a ‘’manly’’ embrace instead of just, I don’t know, a hug? I know, novel concept!
This pisses me off terribly.
But they didn’t hug, tho. How dare.
Ben and Martin couldn’t contain themselves. They were not manly and bromantic enough. It had to be cut.
Stopping by on a very brief break from a very busy life and a country being destroyed from the inside that is all keeping me away from here to say,
Never EVER forget John’s hand after they shake hands and he watches Sherlock walk away.
This is so like the Janine in 221b scene. And so many others besides. Martin’s hands, whether he does it consciously or not, are never not acting. His hands are always telling a story. And that story is either something he is not saying or his emotional state and more often than not: both.
I think perhaps “I love Martin” will be the most appropriate comment to add to every single post I reblog from this moment forward.
This sounds crazy, but hear me out because this would make for a great fix-it fic even if none of this is real and I’d love to read it.
So. Remember the beginning of His Last Vow? We see John dreaming and Sherlock doping again? These two ideas hold a lot of weight in the narrative of series 4 and TAB. I believe we’re seeing alternate realities converge into one to create a mind palace sequence that doesn’t belong to any character, but belongs instead to the viewer.
Remember when Molly said “Forward or Backward?” as Sherlock got shot? The answer was backward. I think everything shown from that moment on has been something either Sherlock or John has fantasized before that moment – in the month of their separation. We saw the narrative as going forward, when really we were being filled in as to what happened “backward”.
deviant-doll said to inevitably-johnlocked: Hi there! I just noticed something while rewatching HLV and I don’t know what to make of it (or if someone already noticed), but when they are in CAM’s office, Janine is lying on a carpet which looks exactly like the one in the therapist/Eurus’ office, the big blood red one… it’s fleeting but it’s definitively there… could this fit in one of the theories going on around here? I’m not used to write meta, but just had to share the thought with someone ☺
Okay, I don’t know if you’re both the same person, but these two asks came in only a couple days apart, and only took so long because I didn’t see the rug in CAM’s office, since there’s no above-shot of it at all. This was the best I could get:
Which actually I think is the EXACT same rug as the one in TLD:
It’s got the same little sploochy ends on it (just go with it okay LOL), so I do think they reused that prop. The questions now are:
Was it deliberately done as a foreshadowing of events (John will be shot, which is what I think the surface symbolism of the rug is in TLD), and is symbolic of blood / injury?
IF TLD is part of John’s TAB, is this something John placed in his story because he has seen it before when he helped Janine?
If TLD is part of Unreliable Narrator, is this something Sherlock added as a detail?
If this is Sherlock’s mind palace, is this a little detail he plopped into his story because he had seen it before when John was helping Janine?
Or is it just a nice prop that was expensive and they wanted to give it more screen time?
All are pretty valid thoughts, I think. Either way, there must be a reason it’s SO prominent in TLD. It shows up very glaringly in many scenes with the therapist, and I think it’s mostly foreshadowing John’s possible gun-shot.
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