His face when he says “That’s everything”… So softe, he sees what a beautiful love these two characters share. And his expressions in this interviews are SO different from pre and post s4 ones.
TAB was a warning to TJLC to be quiet. There are stills that literally say ‘absolute silence’ that hang on screen for a good two seconds. John is bodily silenced and dragged off screen by two men (hi dads) before he’s shoved into a room with mycroft essentially telling him to uphold the tradition. Like… That’s pretty meta, my guys.
There’s so much that TAB tells us but the most pressing is its foreshadowing of series 4. ‘It’s always 1895’ is a statement of denial. 1895 was the year that homosexuality was forcibly prosecuted in the UK and the year of Oscar Wilde’s trial.
TAB explains that should TJLC continue spreading the good gay news, they will need to actively undercut us with the ‘nasty’ pill in order to ‘restart’ the public consciousness as far as sherlock goes. But, uh. We didn’t get the message, hence an act four that was quite devastating for many of the hardcore tjlcers
We tried to pull the rug when it wasn’t ours to pull, and s4 is the response to that. We were too clever and they had to discredit us before we ruin the plan they’ve had in motion for years.
So, basically what I’m saying is they put the entirety of TJLC in the basement. Hope you guys enjoy cold cellar floors because you’ve been sitting on one for months
if nothing else like, johnlock and tjlc specifically really stretched the bounds of my own creativity made the idea of “what’s possible” virtually meaningless in terms of crafting layered and multidimensional and relatable and important stories, and even if i didn’t explore that freedom and create stories myself as a result, i think that in and of itself was worth every single minute i’ve spent here. to stop asking what’s possible and instead ask what’s imaginable, and to discuss how i might see my imagination brought to life, has been profoundly powerful.
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