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afishlearningpoetry:

The Unfinished Act of Sherlock Series 4, The History of Adaptations It’s Working to Fix, the Larger Narrative of What’s Been Driving the Show, and the Real Final Problem.

Including the BBC’s 2009/2010 LGBT study, Gatiss’s “softly, softly”, Ben Stephenson commissioning the series, Moffat and Gatiss’s goals and plans with the show they lie about, their mutual love of The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes, The Abominable Bride taking place in 1895, ACD and Oscar Wilde In the Victorian Era of Literature, “The Adventure of the Three Garridebs” and its adaptations in relation to the show, The Lost Special, the horror homages and spoofs of series 4, these transitions shots, the TD-12 drug effect transition used in The Six Thatchers, the Five-Act Structure and how they’re using it, Mary and Moriarty being Emelia Ricoletti and the same person, Mary’s Post-T6T message and Moriarty’s Post-TFP message, John being shot, and how the real final problem is staying alive.

See also: Within the Narrative and the Hoax of Series 4, How Our Understanding of TJLC Has Evolved, Thoughts On this Transition Shot, How The Abominable Bride Foreshadowed Series 4, 2 Months Post-TFP Moodboard and Everybody Else.

finalproblem:

Therapist: What about his brother?
John: Mycroft? He’s fine. I mean, obviously normal and fine are both relative terms when it comes to Sherlock and Mycroft.
Therapist: [Chuckles.] Obviously. But, I didn’t mean Mycroft. I meant the other one.
John: Which other one?
Therapist: You know, the secret one.
John: Oh, that was just something… I said. I’m sure there’s… [He pauses.] How did you know about that? I didn’t tell you that.
Therapist: You must have done.
John: I really didn’t.

Images 1–5 above: From The Lying Detective, starting at approximately 1:02:58
Image 6: Zoom in on reaction of female agent in background when John first says the word “brother”

First of all, I need to make it clear that this catch—and it’s a great one—1000% belongs to @discordantwords. Not me. The only reason I’m building out a new post instead of reblogging the original is because when I saw the stills I went “Eh, maybe?” but when I saw the video I went “Woah, YES.” So this felt like something that needed a gifset.

The commentary that follows is my fault, though.

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Sherlock Inherits The Trickster

darlingtonsubstitution:

tendergingergirl:

“ It began with what I can only describe as the pulling aside of curtains.“ 

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Thank you for this @tendergingergirl! – in addition to the religious connotation of “vatican cameo” in ACD canon, we have an actual puppet, or a ventriloquist dummy materialized in the final minutes of TFP…

Which of course brings us all the way back to TGG…

But remember the twitter storm with Kermit the frog right before series 4 aired?