I still don’t understand how on earth John supposedly subconsciously knew Mary was an assassin or had a dangerous life or whatever. I still don’t think he chose her. She chose him because he was her assignment from Moriarty.
I was watching this earlier and it makes ZERO sense? Why tf did she throw out that ‘receptionist’ line? She isn’t a receptionist. Could this be Sherlock’s mind ‘foreshadowing’ that it will be ‘Norbury’ in the end? Just like it came as a ‘surprise’ to Sherlock that a ‘nurse’ knew a skip code on sight? Two different types of vinyl. James or John? Sherlock KNOWS how this is going to turn our already. Death can’t be avoided.
In TEH, she acts as John’s receptionist. She’s technically his nurse too, but he doesn’t seem to have anyone else. Could be foreshadowing of Norbury as well, but this is also the sequence where Sherlock and John are using their incorrect hand for their (heart) phones. It’s not to free their dominant hand up to do something else, it only happens when Lestrade is around, and only in this episode.
The interior of the house is somewhat outdated, and I almost got the impression through this whole sequence that they were trying to call attention to the architecture & state of the respective residences as hints to the hearts of the two families. Charlie’s family home is pristine, but they were happy until he died, while John and Mary’s house is a bit of a mess, and so are they, despite still having their child. @monikakrasnorada@smoljohnlock
It still bothers me, on the surface level, though. Is this a British thing? Nurses here in the US aren’t receptionists. But, still, why does being a receptionist mean she knows about 2 types of vinyl? She ‘picked it up’? From where? That is just THE oddest thing for her to say there. Why not ‘oh, John said’?? Was Norbury even considered a receptionist, really? For some reason, I always thought of her as an assistant, but maybe that is the same thing? All in all, it doesn’t make sense to me. I never thought much about the dichotomy of the two homes. That’s interesting.
I figured it was for financial reasons. Mary doing double-duty, so they could prevent having to hire someone. By TLD, he’s working so much he has to find a therapist close enough to visit at lunch. The two types of vinyl makes me think also of truth vs facade, and Mary’s stupid overlaps with villains, especially Ian of Janus (two face god) Cars. @monikakrasnorada@smoljohnlock
If Mary is referring to herself as a receptionist, I wonder if she’s making a dig at them for leaving her out of cases, if she feels like a receptionist or assistant when she wants to be more involved. Before Sherlock texted John to ask him to come on the case he apparently texted Mary to check his availability. John texting her details seems like a good way for her to stay involved but maybe he just wants her help taking notes.
I don’t know, it’s just making me think about her role in the Work and their personal lives and how many opportunities she would have to distort information being passed between them if she was in fact playing receptionist and facilitator. (John’s cursed note again, maybe she changed amo to ammo….)
I don’t know about the vinyl that’s too weird. I feel like it should represent Mary starting to pick up on their feelings for each other (two types of vinyl, one is a fake, a disguise, something is hidden underneath ready to come out) but I’m pretty sure she already knew that….
the entire scene of sherlock using toby to follow a lead was literally useless in terms of the plot…… but it had to be here because through the john’s blog lens we can tell that craig is a sherlock’s mirror (a genius with curly hair who can find any info on anyone because he’s that good), toby is obviously john (smart dog sherlock loves even when he fails which is….. Hm) and mary keeps toby on a tight leash, doesn’t think he’s that good at finding anything meanwhile john is behind with the baby strapped to his chest…..
this scene is so thick with symbolism and mirrors and foils it’s incredible writing imo
They told us they wouldn’t do a big Hollywood shooting in Sherlock. Then killed Mary off in a ridiculous way.
They told us “Childhood trauma masked by an invented memory. Boring!” when Henry told Sherlock about seeing a Hound. Then turned Redbeard into a boy.
They told us Sherlock thinks the “best man” is Billy Kincaid, a garroter who did so much for charity and children that it “evened out”. Then wrote Culverton Smith.
They told us “If I had to hit that face, I’d avoid nose and cheekbones too”. Then wrote the abusive morgue scene.
there’s the argument that john is suicidal in s4 and there’s the argument that mary is actually alive and trying to kill him but i think it’s something along the lines of “i’m gonna talk to you and then you’re gonna kill yourself”
Like, can my whole dash please take a second to realize that a script full of super bro stuff turning into an episode full of super gay stuff does not happen by accident but by design
To clarify: I’m citing “manly embrace” as super bro stuff because although romantic embraces between two men can certainly be “manly” – a word even used by Dream Moriarty to come on to Sherlock in his mind in TAB – inserting the word “manly” there comes across as not being satisfied with writing “a proper embrace” but instead with making sure everyone knows it’s “a proper DUDE embrace,” it’s the difference between regular candles and Man Candles
But bro stuff didn’t make it to screen, instead Sherlock nearly told John he loved him and then went and sat on the plane and nearly overdosed while reading the story of their first meeting, and later they got a chance to embrace in a tender fashion instead of in the chest-bumping, back-slapping Bro Hug fashion that was implied by the word “manly” in the script
Please recognize that if this is the real version of the script submitted to the Emmys, it means they made the episode textually gay without putting any of the romantic stuff down in writing, and this comes on the heels of my pointing out just yesterday that Mark and Steven have admitted to not writing certain things down while describing my belief that Mark has quietly been doing “directing” throughout the entire show
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