Tag: bbc sherlock

It isn’t a game. No one could be that clever. I make it seem so easy. The alternative would be telling.

Your parting gift is a clear an apology. I healed you of your limp and today you’ve crippled me, so I might need it. You like to look at it now and again. The old cane. Remind yourself what we’ve done together. You don’t expect to see it again after today. Your self-hatred is palpable, so I joke. Never did have much sense of comedic timing, just discomfort with sentiment. Easier to make it all seem like a glamorous, clever deception. Twelve steps ahead as usual. But it’s a misstep, like so many others before it. I’ve been told reliably that for a genius, I’m rather often an idiot. My glib bravado fuels that anger again. You don’t trust either of us now, yourself or me.

How can I blame you when I feel the same way?

aprillikesthings:

foxestacado:

Loo and then Rupert came to Artist Alley just to say hi to me ❤ How is this my life???

I’m literally writing Loo a note when I look up and see her in front of me! She says hi and shakes my hand and introduces herself (lol as if I didn’t know). Loo insisted on buying a “We Can Do It” shirt even though I had planned to give her one. She also saw my Sherlolly Shirt and I did the full Ask Me About My Ship demo (“So, ask me about my ship! And then I do the flash reveal) and so she got to see the Johnlock too. She thought it was funny and cute.

THEN RUPERT comes in not 20 mins later, sees that I’m with a customer and INSISTS on waiting until my customers are done, even though they were happy to step aside so that he can say hi to me. SO HE STANDS AT THE DOORWAY AND WAITS FOR LIKE 5 MINUTES and I’m going nuts knowing he’s right there and he’s there specifically to see me. THEN when I finish the transaction he comes to me, shakes my hand, and says he got “my message.” I MEAN other people have told him to come see my table and I was like UH here’s a shirt for your wife. (A few weeks ago I communicated with her via @gravesdiggers and she had asked for a Lestrade shirt when I offered, and I was going to hand it to her when I run into her during the Con). I tell him “It’s a shirt with your face on it” and he goes “the last person who needs a shirt with my face on it is her!” 😂😂 So I tell him it’s for the times he’s gone on a shoot 😂😂 He thanks me and makes sure that I actually want to give him one (yes!! Enthusiastically!!). I ask him if HE wants a shirt and he’s like NOPE 😂😂

I AM SHAKING AND CRYING

AHHHHHH I’M SO HAPPY FOR YOU!!!! ❤ ❤ ❤ 

shinka:

season 1:

john has a blog, doesnt know what to write in it, finds his life boring until he meets sherlock. starts writing blog posts about his life with sherlock and the first case they have, a study in pink, john already redacts names from people working on the case, showing us already the difference between what we see in the show and what is presented as an official version of the case

moriarty who already knew about sherlock thanks to his website, gets more infos on sherlock thanks to john’s blog: sherlock already criticizes john’s blog for the way he writes about him (the great game), moriarty uses clues from john’s blog to get sherlock in the game

season 2:

sherlock gets more and more famous thanks to john’s blog: john’s blog become a real part of their jobs and twice in this season someone compliments john on his writing of a particular case: the aluminum crutch, a case about a man killing himself by accident while acting on stage, we also can see already how john distorts reality just by writing about The Woman. we also see more cases that aren’t truly talked about on the show or just referenced, full of subtext and codes. we also get multiple references to what is the truth, who is sherlock who is moriarty, the lie behind reichenbach fall and the destruction of sherlock’s reputation: a big lie wrapped up in truth

season 3:

season 3 starts with the presentation of multiple versions of the same story: the empty hearse gives us three theories about how sherlock survived, what sherlock accepts to tell us about it, we also have mary reading an excerpt of john’s blog that we never have heard before. john’s blog becomes active again, full of longing and again distortions of truth (the stag night???), tsot is about john’s blog and the story of sherlock and john seen through john’s blog and sherlock’s own memories: again we can see the difference between what is written from john’s pov and what sherlock tells us.

the main villain of this season is magnussen, controlling the media, publishing whatever he wants to pursue his own goals. we see how it doesnt matter to him if what he’s published is untrue, just the action of publishing it makes it true for the public.

tab:

john’s blog or should we say watson’s stories are part of the official narrative: sherlock in his drug mind palace is aware that what john’s writing is just an official version of the story, a public persona for sherlock that is not the truth, this episode finally makes a point of telling everyone that john’s blog is not telling the truth: it’s just something sold to the readers/audience

season 4:

finally john’s blog is the show. when before we had the line between reality and fiction, when before we could as the audience tell exactly where was the lie between what john wanted to present as the truth and what he experienced, now we have no idea: the blog has officially announced it wouldn’t be updated anymore (by the BBC) and gave a link to the actual show: the blog tells us that for more content of its nature, we had to watch the show. the promotion for season 4 was all about lie and distortion of the truth, from glitches during the relentless promo videos (an entire month before it premiered): all the videos we got from all the main characters were, in my opinion, a presentation of john’s version of these characters, hence the video glitches for each of them.