I just added this under the cut as well, but like–
Golf Whiskey X-Ray
TECHNICIAN: Golf Whiskey X-ray, you are off course. Are you receiving? (The radio from the other end activates.)
JOHN’s VOICE: Yeah, receiving you. This is a distress call, repeat, distress call. We’re in trouble here.
Not sure what significance G-W-X might have on its own, but if you just take the words literally, as in…
[an economy 4-door hatchback, such as Volkswagen’s] Golf,
Whiskey, and
X-Ray,
… they paint another bleak picture of how we ended up in John’s deathbed dream episode. Add in the distress call, and it’s hard not to read this very literally right alongside all the other drinking John mirrors, erratic drivers on phones, and distress calls picked up at the last second we’ve seen in S4.
TECHNICIAN: Golf Whiskey X-ray? Where are you now?
JOHN’s VOICE (over radio): We’re headed for the rocks. We’re going to hit.
i hate this show
Also: There are Brainscans on the Screens in the last Picture!!!!!!!!
And Jim came back for the sake of shoving in a lot of train references…
And the big final shot was John and Sherlock running out of a building named Rathbone Place…
Which is, of course, a nod to Holmes actor Basil Rathbone as well as the name of a real street in London…
But which, as the name of a large building, has only existed in recent memory as the Rathbone Place post office that was one of the few stops on the Mail Rail network…
And if the writers introduced a metaphor about demons being under roads that would be a really good and fairly literal way to describe bad guys traveling around in London’s Mail Rail tunnels…
But would be a weird-ass phrase to even come up with while writing the episode if you’re only using it to refer to someone held underground, yes, but very specifically not under any roads and especially not ones Sherlock has ever walked…
A rifle hanging on the wall AND fresh paint, which is commented on specifically but never explained? It’s getting hard not to believe something’s up with that…
If the Garridebs moment wasn’t happening, it shouldn’t be hanging there?
IS THIS CHEKHOV’S GARRIDEBS, I AM LIVING
Not just there … also on the S4 DVD cover picture (as I added to the other post about Chekhov).
Are there more rifles in S4?
Though let’s point out their not the same guns. Did the AGRA team use this rifle?
The full lyrics to Eurus’ song and a quick breakdown of how Sherlock pulled the hidden message from it (I am not the first to post either) under the cut.
still hemorrhagging internally from even the thinnest possibility that the “special hair band” conversation is about john stealing his mom’s queen albums and listening to them in secret and getting his ass beat by his homophobic military dad
EURUS: My hairband. Did you bring it like I asked?
SHERLOCK (hesitantly): I’m not one of the … I-I don’t work here.
EURUS: My special hairband.
SHERLOCK (more firmly): I’m not one of your doctors.
EURUS (sounding exasperated): The one I made you steal, from Mummy. (She turns to face him.)
EURUS: It was the last thing I said to you, remember, the day they took me away.
like i’m sorry but WHAT ELSE could this be if we’re not in JOHN’S MIND talking not about hairbands but hair. bands. aka BABY JOHN’S LOVE OF LATE 70s/EARLY 80s GLAM ROCK AND HEAVY METAL AS EVIDENCED BY DROPPING BOTH IRON MAIDEN AND QUEEN SONGS INTO HIS DEATHBED DREAM SOUNDTRACK
and FURTHERMORE WHY was that the last time that Euros/Eros/Love spoke to him before being taken away from him forever IF NOT BECAUSE OF BABY BI JOHN’S SWEET CRUSHES ON/EMULATIONS OF ANDROGYNOUS GLAM FRONTMEN I’M THROWING A CHAIR
Sherlock: This isn’t going very WELL for u
John: Sherlock
Sherlock: I mean, WATER u doing down there
John: Sherlock plz im drowning
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