2) vanité and trompe l’oeil for an entire episode focused on the illusions created by sherlock’s mind
3) the new version of the skull, close to the original one until you realise what you see is not the real skull we have been used to see in the show until the end of s3…. it is an altered skull just like the reality of s4 has been altered to fit one narrative.
look, i’m telling you guys, until you accept into your heart that TST is an intentional James Bond-themed parody of their own show, you can’t fully appreciate its comedic genius.
for example, i realized today that the little girl swimming for no reason in TST is their version of the Bond-Girl-Emerging-From-The-Water bikini shot, and i haven’t been able to breathe for three hours
d’ya ever think about why they bothered to name sian’s character “elizabeth” in the credits of tst and tld? this is a show with a long history of characters with credit names like “blind lady” and “beautiful woman” and “creepy guy,” but no they credited her as “elizabeth.” and it’s not like just calling her “e” would’ve tipped us off about the “eurus” connection since they’d already given the whole thing away by the time we first heard the name “eurus” and also the bus lady just signed her name as “e” and more people saw that than bothered to read the credits so if we were all that clever they already gave us the hint anyway.
yeah it’s not like i still think about that either, that was a year ago hahahha ha hah ha h
Actors/writers Ian Hallard and Mark Gatiss by Felix Clay
‘We met online – back when that was odd’ … Mark Gatiss and his husband, Ian Hallard, star in a play about a gay party that turns toxic. They spoke about new threats to equal rights, the Sherlock backlash – and their dog-sitting issues.
“He believes a Sherlock backlash was inevitable – a “familiar pattern” with anything so successful. “We toyed with calling one of the episodes Backlash, because it’s time.” He points out that the third series of The League of Gentlemen, “though now regarded as a classic, was very controversial. A lot of people hated it.”
There hadn’t been any intention to go off piste with Sherlock, he insists. “It goes for any artistic endeavour – all you can do is your best. Sometimes you have to have an unpleasant amount of attention. But I’m stopped in the street two or three times a day by people saying how much they’ve enjoyed it. What more could you want?””
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