I get that Moriarty and Irene Adler are fascinating characters given so little canon (both appear in only one story) so it makes sense that remakes always want to throw them together but listen. Listen. Irene Adler beat Sherlock Holmes. And Sherlock Holmes beat James Moriarty. Therefore, Irene Adler should be able to beat James Moriarty. So why is she always working for him?
I love the s4 score because it is beautiful and basically confirms M-Theory in the best possible way.
I’m talking about that one scene where John flirts with “E” on the bus in TST. Now, the melody that is playing (TST score; chapter “59 Missed Calls”; 0:46) is interesting because you get a version of MORIARTY’S THEME out of this.
Moriarty‘s theme: d# f# f g# .
The (let’s call it) “E”-theme: a# g f g# .
If you transpose it becomes: g# f d# f# .
Let’s put these notes together: d# f# f g# (g#) f d# f# .
As you can see, it looks like the melody is being “continued” by the “E”-theme.
So, the melodies aren’t the same but they share the same “content”.
That shows us A LOT. Let’s get from the score to the actual scene..
“E“ is a Mary mirror (I wrote a meta about that here), even though “E” is later to be revealed as Eurus, a Moriarty mirror.
(It you have no idea why I think that, here is a picture that might help:)
“E” has got the Moriarty theme but not, since it is a different version.
So, “E” is not exactly Moriarty but still has the same “content”, the same intentions as our mad villain.
i can’t add anything but encouragement and admiration, because i only even hear the most blatant themes (like john’s distinct four note theme and the main title), i never would have identified what i just think of as “creepy music notes” here and there as moriarty’s actual theme. But @holmesianscholar has done some really great close listening music metas.
“No, no, he would never be that disappointing. He’s planned something, something long-term” “It has to be him. It’s too bizarre, it’s too baroque. It’s designed to beguile me, tease me and lure me in. At last, a noose for me to put my neck into”
Sherlock remembered Moriarty 13 times in just one episode. It’s killing me.
BECAUSE THE WRITERS NEVER PUT ANY THOUGHT INTO THEIR OWN SHOW
He’s got my whole life story.
TRF
I have been wondering about this sentence since 2012 because we never learn anything about the very private things that are revealed in the article. No one ever mentions them. In TEH for example John does not even know Sherlock’s parents were alive. But this is not the most curious thing about the article.
Because at this point Jim had already met Eurus. I am quite sure that Jim did not say hello, recorded the videos, and went away. Eurus must have given him something in return and I suppose it was information about his beloved adversary. Which means that Mycroft as well as Eurus told Jim all about Sherlock’s life story.
Question: So what was in the infamous article by Kitty Riley? Neither Redbeard the dog nor Eurus, Victor Trevor, Uncle Rudi, the fire, nor anything else of importance could have been mentioned because then John and everyone else would have known about Sherlock’s past. And if Jim knew all about Sherlock, why did he not use it against him?
The only one who tried to use information about Sherlock’s childhood is Magnussen. Think of that.
Here’s another question, why the hell would Culverton Smith show anyone the letter to begin with??? He could have just torn it up and Faith would have forgotten about it. It doesn’t make sense.
Moriarty was the person I thought of, too, @hufflepuffpentaholicinthebau. Especially given how the entirety of S4 was billed to be some sort of ‘showdown’ concerning him. I believe it was @loveismyrevolution that thought it was meant to be Mycroft? I’m still on the fence with just how ‘bad’ he might have been, but that is another possibility that I think might hold water.
Because your question, @sherlock-meta-collection is one that has bugged me as well. What exaclty was the point of ‘whomever’ it was giving the note to ‘Faith’? Culverton took the letter from the ‘real’ Faith (though, how do we know that really since TD12 compromises memory, and how did Sherlock know about that whole meeting? To recreate it on the street perfectly? Are we to infer ‘Faith’ described it in such detail?) So, Smith took the letter to keep his daughter from ‘remembering’ (almost a kindness, in his twisted way) But, then gave it to ‘fake Faith’ in order to have Sherlock come after him? WHY? And how did Smith and ‘fake Faith’ know each other in order to be of use to one another??
All this is to me is another case of Sherlock re-using events, playing them out over and over in his head because haven’t we had this sort of thing before?
HOLMES: One small detail doesn’t quite make sense to me, however. Why engage me to prevent a murder you intended to commit?
It never made sense that distraught Lady Carmichael went to Mycroft for help with her husband, who then sent her to Sherlock in order to prevent his murder by ‘the bride’ only to actually go through with it herself. It didn’t make sense because Lady Carmichael didn’t kill Sir Eustace.
So, why would we believe Smith had, in a roundabout way, asked Sherlock for help in ‘preventing’ more murders?
(Pre-warning, this got a bit longer than I had intended)
@monikakrasnorada I also think that most, if not all of S4 is taking place in Sherlock’s head/MP. Even before I heard about EMP, I always got the feeling that the note in TLD was somehow from Sherlock and the deductions he was supposedly making about Faith, he was actually making about himself:
SHERLOCK: Well, you’ve changed. You no longer top up your tan and your roots are showing. SHERLOCK: Letting yourself go?
Says the scruffy, unkempt Sherlock who is usually immaculately dressed and primped.
SHERLOCK: Oh, of course you don’t own a car. You don’t need one, do you, living in isolation, no human contact, no visitors.
Remember what John just told his therapist in the beginning of the episode?
JOHN: I haven’t seen him. No-one’s seen him. He’s locked himself away in his flat. God knows what he’s up to.
Then, Sherlock goes on to deduce:
SHERLOCK: Cost-cutting’s clearly a priority for you. Look at the size of your kitchen: teeny-tiny. (He walks past her towards the right-hand window then turns back to her.) Must be a bit annoying when you’re such a keen cook.
Says the man that, although his family seems to be wealthy, needs to have a flatmate for some reason, and so far as the small kitchen/keen cook goes, I’ll just submit these stills from later in the scene:
Then, later when Sherlock and Faith are sitting at the bus stop eating chips
SHERLOCK: You see the fold in the middle? For the first few months you kept this hidden, folded inside a book. (He looks at it closely. Beside him, Faith is eating from the carton of chips on her lap.) SHERLOCK: Must have been a tightly packed shelf, going by the severity of the crease. (Brief flashback to the folded piece of paper being put inside the pages of a book.) SHERLOCK: So obviously you were keeping it hidden from someone living in the same house at a level of intimacy where privacy could not be assumed. (As he speaks there’s a flashback of a hand putting the closed book back in its place on a shelf amongst many other books.) SHERLOCK: Conclusion: relationship.
This is referring to when John was living with Sherlock in 221B. So if the note is real, Sherlock kept it hidden away.
P.S. Does anyone else think that those hands look like they belong to Benedict Cumberbatch???
Also, that shadow sure as shit looks like Dr. John H Watson by the way, and I think others have addressed this fact, but I’m not sure who at the moment.
(More under the cut, this got reeeeeeeaaaaalllyy long)
So, there are some of the Sherlock
comparisons, but what about the note, what exactly is the note and what is it
trying to tell us? That’s where I’m having a difficult time. I have noticed
that there is a list/note theme in the show (others as well, I think there are
even meta’s, but I’ll have to check later). We have the conversation between
Mrs. Hudson and Sherlock in TSoT:
MRS HUDSON:
Your mother has a lot to answer for. (She takes the cup and saucer over to him.)
SHERLOCK: Mm, I know. I have a list. Mycroft
has a file.
And of course the many instances of list
conversations in TAB:
MYCROFT HOLMES:
You’re in deep, Sherlock, deeper than you ever intended to be. Have you made a list?
HOLMES: Of what?
MYCROFT HOLMES: Everything.We will need a list.
And in the “real world” on the plane:
SHERLOCK: Maybe there are one or two things that I know that you
don’t. (He looks across to Mycroft, who returns his gaze.)
MYCROFT (pointedly): Oh, there are. (He
pauses for a moment.) Did you make a list? (Sherlock has looked away again and is chewing on a thumbnail. He
turns to look at his brother again.)
SHERLOCK: You’ve put on weight. That waistcoat’s clearly newer than the jacket
…
MYCROFT (angrily): Stop this. Just stop it.Did you make a list?
SHERLOCK: Of what?
MYCROFT: Everything, Sherlock. Everything you’ve taken.
…
MYCROFT (his face turned away): We have an agreement, my
brother and I, ever since that day. (Sherlock bites his lip. In a cutaway flashback, a much younger
Sherlock is lying on a mattress on a floor. Nearby, candles are burning in
bottles. Sherlock is writhing and grimacing under the influence of the drugs
he’s taken. Mycroft, apparently in his early/mid-twenties, is sitting on the
mattress near his brother’s feet and now reaches down to a piece of paper lying
next to Sherlock’s legs.)
MYCROFT (voiceover): Wherever I find him … (In the present, Sherlock closes his eyes.
In the past, Mycroft picks up the piece of paper and unfolds it to read it
while his young brother continues to writhe in agony.)
MYCROFT (voiceover): … whatever back alley or doss house … (In the present, Mycroft sinks back in his seat.)
MYCROFT: … there will always be a list.
I am not sure exactly what to make of it, but
it does seem to me that Faith’s note actually looks like a list. If you try to
imagine for a minute that you don’t know the story behind Faith’s note
It says:
Police Office
Judge
Broadcaster
Me
I need to kill
someone
Who?
That looks like a list of people that someone
needs to kill, and notice that ME is crossed out in blood, like the person has
chosen to kill themselves from the list.
I don’t have concrete conclusions, I just
wanted to put down all of my thoughts on Faith’s note. I will have to clean
this up later and make a proper meta out of it.
Me: “Of course it doesn’t make sense. Is this silly enough for you yet? Gothic enough? Mad enough, even for you? It doesn’t make sense because it’s not real. None of it.”
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