@gosherlocked I was reading the threads of your post of how drowning in BBC Sherlock is never the actual cause of death – if anything it’s a distraction. A red herring. Alex Woodbridge in TGG, The Dusty Death case in the beginning of TST, Carl Powers in TGG… Underwater is just where they go after something deadly has been administered.
But the original Sherlock Holmes didn’t drown either, even though it looked like it. Doyle threw him into the water in The Final Problem and everyone thought he drowned. Needless to say, I don’t think Victor Trevor actually drowned in The Final Problem. @shylockgnomes I believe is on the right track when they say Trevor is dead but died a different way. The “drowning” is just a second mask for the real death, like all the others were.
And considering all of the underwater imagery of series 4, I think it’s reasonable to argue series 4 IS Sherlock’s drowning. But he’s not really drowning, it’s just a cover up for something deadly that’s already been administered. Which would play back into @monikakrasnorada, yours, and my original EMP and possibly all of @sagestreet‘s wonderful analysis on a dying Sherlock.
Series 4 is a drowning. And it’s consistent to the other water “deaths” in BBC Sherlock. There’s first the real danger, then the corpse thrown underwater, then it’s recovered and the real danger is reassessed. Steps one, two, three. We watched Sherlock get shot (or fall off Bart’s, or shoot up cocaine after the wedding) and then we watched him drown himself in TAB by jumping off the waterfall. But the drowning has gone on so much longer than we would have ever guessed, which is why series 4 is BURSTING with drowning imagery and references.
Only step three is left – we gotta break through the watery red herring and assess the real cause of death. Which means we go backwards in time. Like with all the others. Like with the original The Final Problem/The Empty House.
At the cocktail party our group talked to Steven Moffat and apparently
he is writing a play at the moment! He has no idea if it will ever see
the light of day, but he’d never written a play before so decided to
before him n Mark start properly writing Dracula to hone his writing a
bit and just to give it a go. Sue said she’d read the first half and
said it was good and really enjoyed it, but Steven of course played that
down by saying ‘she’s my wife! Of course she has to say it’s good! !’
The crazy thing is that this would make so much sense in the context of what they did in S4.
I’m trying to imagine how badly Moffat would want to out-subtext Jeremy Paul’s The Secret of Sherlock Holmes, and… it’s a lot.
@devoursjohnlock yeah we were talking about that with @waitedforgarridebs! Imagine Ben channeling Jeremy. And this is a perfect thing for them to do in this moment of the narrative. The possibilities for that plot! And the sheer chance to witness the johnlock dynamic live onstage would be A LOT.
@marcespot Seriously, so many possibilities! If they decided to do this, I bet it would be in the style of Paul’s one-off: deep, deep subtext, a parallel recap of events. It might answer all of our timeline questions. And, as always, 99% of the audience would remain completely unaware of what they just watched.
@marcespot@devoursjohnlock it would be such a logical reason for why the end Montage of TFP was the actual set crew creating a stage from scratch in front of all of us.
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