I’m comparing “alone is what I have. Alone protects me” to “there’s always two of us” and I’m…just…so,,fucked up.,,fucking dying someone help me, I
This is the tipping point in their relationship.
We only advanced a few minutes in the timeline of the show, but everything is different now.
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I’m telling you – 2016 television is downhill from here on.
From a negligible half-line in one of the 60 stories by Arthur Conan Doyle about Sherlock Holmes – the detective mentions “the case of Ricoletti of the club foot and his abominable wife” as he’s going through old files in The Adventure of the Musgrave Ritual – Mark Gatiss and Steven Moffat built 90 minutes of the fastest, funniest, flashiest, cleverest, most demanding, ridiculous and brilliant drama there is likely to be until … well, possibly until the next Sherlock comes along, sometime in 2017 we are told…
It was never twins. There were doubles, and doublings-back, and parallels aplenty, there were storylines nesting inside storylines nesting inside storylines, dreams inside realities and out again, there were riffs on the riffs we know from the “real” series – the detective plucks imaginary cuttings from the air instead of websites and images and Watson is summoned by Holmes via telegram instead of text (“Come at once. If convenient. If not convenient, come all the same” – because Sherlock is a constant) – but never twins.
It was an utterly dazzling display, with bravura performances from the actors – Cumberbatch and Scott’s first scene together being among the finest they have ever had – and the plotting (if you stayed with it, and if you didn’t – no matter. That’s what the rewind button’s for. In the meantime, just marvel at the treasures being poured out before you) was a thing of wonder.
…In the meantime, let’s enjoy the fact that there was a joyous and sumptuous celebration of what television and talent that trusts in itself can do, all tipped out in one gorgeous, unstoppable rush. Watching it was like plunging down the Reichenbach Falls.
Missed you.
The Guardian, “Sherlock’s back and it’s fast, fun, flashy, fantastic,” [x] (via thecutteralicia)
Emilia Ricoletti – beloved sister beyond death – died December 18 1894
Did the conspiracy friends who put up the gravestone called her “sister”? Or was it the secret twin after all?
She had a brother
She had a brother who died four years ago, which if you’re looking at the timeline…two and a half years of Sherlock being away + the year and a half approximately that accounts for s3, would put Moriarty’s death at right about four years ago, I’m just saying.
Wow
oh… @watsonshoneybee the reference to the final problem in 1891 might be even more obvious then the modern timeline. And it’s the only reason I’ve seen so far, why it was even necessary to place TAB in a specific year.
Sherlock’s “of course” realization at the waterfall scene, when he realizes that MP!John isn’t oblivious like he originally thought is so precious for several reasons.
1. For the first time in a long time, he recognizes and fully appreciates MP!John’s (and, by extension, Real!John’s) intelligence and accepts MP!John as a teammate, an equal. So many of the missed opportunities and misunderstandings in the show come about because one of them tries to do something without the other. The recognition that John is worthy of inclusion in all plans is certainly a shift from earlier, when Sherlock disparages John for his intelligence.
2. He realizes that his MP can now be a safe haven for his fantasies because MP!John has acknowledged that it is not reality. John’s inquiry about the “other me in the other place” more explicitly displays that, but the storyteller line was proof enough.
3. Notice how MP!John reacts to Sherlock’s big secret. He’s not disappointed or angry or passive-aggressive. He’s understanding and curious. I think that this is indicative of the way that Sherlock wants John to react when he tells him the truth about his romantic/sexual history and orientation, but he’s scared that Real!John won’t understand and that he will leave. This scenario is one that I often reenact in my head with crushes; I play out all the scenarios I can think of, saving the most positive one for last.
4. MP!John is capable of letting Sherlock go back to the real world, even encourages it with the “time to wake up” comment. I think that Sherlock probably resisted indulging himself in fantasies of himself and John together because he was afraid that he would never want to return to the real world with Real!John. He tests that theory by jumping Inception-style over the edge. What does MP!John do? He lets him go.
In conclusion, this scene does a lot to reaffirm TJLC, but it does more than that. It breaks down barriers in Sherlock’s mind, barriers that he had set in place to protect himself. He realizes that he doesn’t need those barriers anymore because MP!John will protect him…and perhaps, Real!John will too.
