HOLY MOTHER OF– THIS IS TRUE. THESE ARE THE CLOSEST SCREENCAPS I COULD GET.
This is the most meta thing….someone’s hacking the doctored footage of the doctored footage… the episode itself has been tampered with, just like Mycroft’s film. “That’s not what happened at all.”
Please have a look at this. I actually wanted to make screenshots of the end of ASiP and compare it with the above scene from TFP. And then I realised that the pilot ending is much more similar to TFP than the end of ASiP. Here TFP serves as a mirror to the pilot.
In the pilot and in TFP we get Sherlock, John, and Lestrade talking to each other.
In the pilot we get Sherlock wearing the blanket when talking to John. In TFP we get John wearing the blanket when talking to Sherlock.
In the pilot Sherlock is still wearing the blanket when walking away with John. In TFP John is still wearing the blanket when walking away with Sherlock.
So they are going back to the very beginning here, not in an identical fashion but with changes roles. Interesting. And they did not go back to the first official episode but to the unaired pilot. Which, for some unfathomable reason, is affectionately known as the Gay Pilot.
Ahhhhh …. I love this comparison @gosherlocked . The end of TFP is so obviously connected to the PILOT. But with switched roles regarding Sherlock and John (and why did they do a panel for the PILOT last year at SHERLOCKED?) I wonder what all that might mean. There is still a lot of thinking and digging to do with this show. Brillilant find!
It’s actually quite sad because the besotted looking at each other is clearly missing- for reasons, I assume.
pitch themselves through the window – onto the awning of Speedy’s. Boop, and they’re fine.” – from ‘Sherlock behind 221B: The Final Problem’
THAT IS RIDICULOUSLY IMPOSSIBLE BECAUSE:
Anyone hurling themselves from such a height would need to be hospitalized (which is in fact something they made Sir Edwin say about Mycroft, who merely took the stairs– it’s like they’re being sarcastic on purpose), and yet Sherlock and John magically reappeared without a scratch. Everything about it defies the laws of Sherlock’s universe – but of course, we already knew that.
My point is that this man sounds desperate to point out how nonsensical this episode was. Just look at his face, how he looks at the camera -at us- to give us that ludicrous explanation. He’s teasing and enjoying it. There’s absolutely no logical explanation for any of this.
“Which is strange and awful and exciting (…) Boop!”
And also …. the Belstaff … faithful and devoted … jumped with them. Snuggling itself round Sherlock’s shoulders. Unmarred and without the slightest burn marks. Ready for the next adventure. :)))))
Regrettably Mofftiss couldn’t hire a Windjammer. That would have been a picture to die for! :)))))
do you ever think about how fucking fake that garridebs scene was. john literally walks in like “oh dang that fresh paint smell” like if i were looking at the camera like i were on the office any harder, i’d be the starring role of seasons 1-9
this shot of Sherlock in TLD (in the morgue of Culvertons hospital, when he realises that Faith never was at 221B) is very prominent in choice of framing and lighting….
we saw this kind of lighting only twice before
Sherlock in HLV in his MP after being shot by Mary
CAM in HLV in the “Appledore vaults” which are in fact his MP
Both times related to mind palaces…
I know he is shattered in TLD
and devastated by drugs
…. but what he experiences in that scene is (on the surface level) actually NOT the realisation of having been in his MP! If anything fake!Faith has been an illusion!! And his MP has never been an illusion!!!
But couldn’t that moment of horror in TLD also be a crack in the surface… ?
Sherlock realising that this doesn’t make any sense if it is not in his MP, one of his mind experiments, the script of a mind play… Sherlock realising that he isn’t really living and experiencing all this, but that it takes place in his mind and why… because he’s actually still back here:
sidenote (and maybe he even then realises that he has to wake up…?)
sidenote 2 (is it possible that that’s the reason everything goes wild afterwards?? Sherlock “going wild” in his mind, exhaust the boundries to “break free”??? Just a thought…)
That’s exactly how I always took that moment of your first pic, @loveismyrevolution. On first viewing, I was just as gutted as everyone else by John’s actions in that morgue scene, until I re-watched and paid attention to that flash of Sherlock there. We don’t get a ‘deduction’ from Sherlock in that moment, so why are we shown it unless we are to make the same connection to the shot in HLV? Where that moment was a mp scene within a mp scene.
What further sold the unreality of that moment was that John tells Sherlock to wake up! It felt- if we were supposed to take that scene as real– it would have been a better choice to say “snap out of it!” Wake up is so very telling as a reality bleed-through moment, or even just a subtle clue to the audience to remember that Sherlock isn’t awake.
As to your sidenote, again, I have to agree. @the-7-percent-solution said TFP was the equivalent of a nervous breakdown and I think that is so close to what happens. Sherlock’s been out and suffering for a while (I imagine there really has been quite some time has elapsed) and the longer a patient remains in coma / unconscious the greater the risk to the brain and its recovery. I really feel like that is a bit of the why of Skull hell. I think it reflects Sherlock’s brain and the damage that may be occurring to it. I made a post months ago (which of course I can’t find at the mo but will try to link it late if I do) about just this idea and used this photo as an example:
I mean, are we not supposed to make the connection to this???
Only to add this bit of WTFery on top:
WHY is there a monitor with “someone’s” brain activity being broadcast to the dudes that are in charge of maintaining the security of Sherrinford??
TFP has always felt (and looked) like the last throes of Sherlock’s ability. It’s all he can do to keep it together, the deterioration of his brain function at critical levels. It’s why the ending of the ep felt and looked so final and dreamlike- Sherlock’s version of heaven and going towards the light.
Okay, I just made myself really sad there. I don’t believe Sherlock is dead but very very close to it by the end of TFP.
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