Okay okay okay hold the phone. Slow down Steven. Did anyone pick this up after Moffat’s comment…..was it at the London Sherlocked?? And it was to a fan or something? He said that “Mary shot Sherlock nicely.”
Blink, DW season 3, 2007, written by Steven Moffat…
“DOCTOR: Fascinating race, the Weeping Angels. The only psychopaths in the universe to kill you nicely….
….No mess, no fuss, they just zap you into the past and let you live to death. The rest of your life used up and blown away in the blink of an eye. You die in the past, and in the present they consume the energy of all the days you might have had. All your stolen moments. They’re creatures of the abstract. They live off potential energy.”
THEY ZAP YOU INTO THE PAST (Forwards or backwards? Backwards! Into the past (symbolically i mean….the past where society required the platonic version of johnlock). Mary did that when she “shot him nicely”. THEY LET YOU LIVE TO DEATH. She sent him “back” to live out his days, like the final TFP montage shows. Stolen moments. That sounds familiar. The rest of Sherlock’s life, used up and blown away. Send help.
STEVEN.
Jesus.
Clues like this make me hope that the writers are really careless and not connecting things in their own writing. Because this would be a horrible thing to do to their own characters even metaphorically. And yet it seems that Sherlock and John are getting hit really hard both on the screen and beneath the surface. Free them!
Tag: nicely
Sherlock: and then as I was offering to help her, she shot me. Right in my gay sensitive heart.
Rosie: whatthefuck ?
Sherlock: oh don’t be she shot me n*cely
Rosie: but how ?
Sherlock: I don’t know ask Mark Gatiss i did not write this fucking show
But lol sorry he died a little totally his fault
I’m trying to think of what to do with my Sherlock DVDs. eBay seems like too much of a pain (and there are lots on there anyway) and I don’t want to donate them anywhere because then I feel like I’m contributing to someone actually watching them. Is there something cathartic or symbolic I could do?
hang them on a string from an eave of the house to keep the woodpeckers away. Toss them like a death frisbee. Shoot them nicely. Beat them with a tire iron. Kick them while they are on the ground. Bury them like our feelings. The possibilities are endless
shoot them nicely
Nicely
As always, I’m on the periphery of conversation, but I overhear that Moffatt described Mary as having shot Sherlock nicely. That’s a relief, because I thought it was a savage, cold blood attempt on his life. But it was nice, so I worried needlessly.
I wonder if that is a consideration in sentencing a convicted nice shooter? “Your Honour, she shot him at close range and blasted his hepatic artery open, but she was pregnant, and she was very polite about it, and she wore this really interesting black beanie, so it was a nice shooting. I recommend a suspended sentence and some booties for the new baby.”
It opens up a whole new genre of assault and homicide, doesn’t it?
To shoot someone nicely.
To stab someone nicely.
To run over someone nicely.
To burn someone’s house down nicely.
To throw someone under a bus nicely.
Or have I misunderstood? Is shooting someone nicely subtext for we forgot what happened in the other series, so we just took a guess and filled the rest in with approximations?
John beat and kicked the shit out of Sherlock nicely.
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