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Order of events in BBC’s Sherlock

If you want to see the whole flowchart in one image, download it here.

Creating this flowchart has required me choose what to include and what to leave out. If you think that I have missed something, I’d be happy to hear from you, but please read the comments first, in case I had excluded that information for a ­reason.

This project has been made so much easier thanks to the Sherlock timeline at bakerstreet.wikia.com and the wonderful transcripts by @callie-ariane. Go look them up at arianedevere.livejournal.com!

Thank you to my wonderful proof reader @wetislandinthenorthatlantic!

I have completely lost track of who is discussing what in the aftermath of s4, but I’ll tag a few people under the cut anyway, hoping that you are interested. Let me know if you don’t want to be tagged in the future!

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The Mystery of Hudders

Remember this tweet back in June?

Then after TFP aired we got this:

Have we discussed why Una was on set for the Sherrinford scenes? Here ‘she’ is in front of the bed in the glass cell. She was supposedly on set June 30th in the first tweet, as Arwel was using the presence tense to state the events he was watching unfold. However Una was out shopping in London on the 30th June:

Eos was on set June 30th doing her Eurus bit:

As Arwel tweeted after TFP aired:

So the Sherrinford set was up and in use on June 30th. But what was going on with Mrs H? If it wasn’t Una who was it? And what occurred to the scene? 

Was Hudders in the original scene with the coffin? Steven said it was someone locked in the coffin. Was this a stunt double for Mrs H? Was the reason they changed the scene because nobody could bare Mrs H coming to any harm? Any ideas just jump in, if anyone has discussed this before let me know, it’s driving me nuts.  Send help.

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Pornhub comments on Sherlock screencaps:

↳ “wow wonderful. these actors either are just fantastic actors or they actually have a thing for one another.”

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This is a friendly reminder that Holmes canonically uses the word ‘doggy’ when talking to his favourite furry friend

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John’s hair conundrum

I’ve had a lot of spare time to simply think over the last couple of weeks and my wee little obsessive brain just can’t let go thinking about John’s fucking S4 hair! Honestly, it drove me mental that it was never hinted at, poked fun of, or tangentially mentioned that John Watson had this super massive make-over practically overnight. The most observant man in the world didn’t see fit to mention it? Or that the wife’s had grown several inches in the span of days???

What gives????

As I lay sick as a dog, this is the thing that haunted my idle hours, until it hit me. Duh! Like, we’ve been staring the reason in the face for ages now and I kind of feel foolish that it took me this long to realise (because, surely, someone else in fandom has figured this out and I’ve missed it, and if that is the case, all the apologies for being late to the game here and I do not mean to step on any toes)

Remember where we left them.

TAB

Holmes and Watson, together at Baker Street as it should always be. I know there is still fandom leanings that not all of TAB was mind palace, that some of the plane scenes might have been real, that some of them weren’t. I’ve seen it stated that this end scene was merely ‘decorative’. The bridging gap between the modern and Victorian. I agree that it is that, but that it’s also real. This ending was the same as the one of Moriarty at the end of HLV and I believe it’s meant to be read in the same way. 

This scene is our connection (bridge) to S4. 

Oh, but they did, Sherlock! Because he then gets up and moves to the window overlooking Baker Street and we see it in modern times.

We go from this, straight into The Six Thatchers. A wholly enthusiastic Sherlock, Twittering up a storm, taking advantage of multiple electronic platforms to solve crimes, spinning all those plates. 

S4 Sherlock truly is a man out of his time. The Victorian sensibility let loose in the modern landscape. It’s no wonder he seemed high. 

Where does this leave John? (and Mary??)

For me, understanding that when we look at S4 we are seeing Holmes and Watson as they would be in the modern era, helps tremendously in understanding their characterisations this series. The number one complaint I had immediately (and I’ve seen echoed in other comments as well) was just how wrong John’s character seemed this time round. If he is inhabiting the more stoic and staid Victorian Watson personality throughout S4 it becomes, not a case of character change, but perception change. This is Sherlock’s continued vision (EMP) carried over from TAB.

Hence the hair!

The hair is the same as TAB because this is the same John Watson as TAB. And that is why there is never any comment about it, imo. Why would there be? This is a dream / mind palace journey, so there is no right or wrong; there is no reason to make note of it for Sherlock (or anyone else) because it just is.

It goes for Mary, too. Transferring all of her TAB characteristics make perfect sense of her characterisation in S4. The sudden WTFery of having her character do a complete 180 now becomes, not sloppy careless shitty writing on Mofftiss’ part (and I am not looking for a reason to excuse Mofftiss for being complete asshates to fandom, this is has nothing to do with that at all) but the continued heart-wrenching need for Sherlock to make sense of who and what she is and what she did to him. Sherlock cares too much, too deeply and I believe, doesn’t have it in him to believe the truly worst in the people he has decided to love and trust. Much to his continued detriment.

So, looking at Mary through this lens starts to make sense. She’s in no way been redeemed. It’s merely that Sherlock hasn’t seen the light about her yet.

MARY (voiceover): My darling. (John sits in a chair at home reading a handwritten letter.) MARY (voiceover): I need to tell you this because you mustn’t hate me for going away.

That’s a enough to be going on with, don’t you think?

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this review on the sherlock s4 dvd is my biggest mood

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THE  BLOOD  CARPET

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LIKE A BIG PUDDLE OF BLOOD ON THE FLOOR

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Someone else has mentioned rather early on that the fur carpet in the therapists office (TLD) displays a great resemblance to the one in CAMs office (HLV) on which Janine is lying. 

Probably a cattle coat - due to the size - colored in a dark, burgundy red.

Both - the color and the way it is cut creates the impression of a puddle of blood.

Very fitting for that what happens at both locations. As a very similar event occures also at the London Aquarium in TST I’m including this one too.

Three guns are fired: 

The first one is from HLV where Sherlock is shot by Mary and almost dies.

The second one is from John’s dream at the beginning of TLD where he is reliving Mary’s death. She gets shot by Vivian Norbury at the end of TST.

The third one is from the end of TLD where John is shot by Eurus. As it turns out at the beginning of TFP Eurus used a tranquilizer gun - therefore John is not hurt.

 If S4 is a continuation of TAB and happening inside Sherlock’s head then the shootings in TST and TLD are probably re-enactments of the traumatic incident at CAM Tower. The shooting of Mr. Ricoletti in TAB  could be included here as well, I think.

Quite similar situations. People get shot. A pool of blood on the floor. In TST actually was a big pool of real blood that looks a lot like the ‘blood carpets’ It is placed very surreal right in the middle of a pedestrian zone - where it has not the slightest reason to be in real life.

Completely understandable that a horrible experience like getting shot, lying in a pool of one’s own blood, dying …. results in haunting visions and nightmares that repeat themselves over and over.

The mind creating scary things like carpets in the form and color of blood on the floor …..

There is one thing though that seems a bit strange to me.

Sherlock sees the ‘blood carpet’ at CAM Tower BEFORE he gets shot.

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I leave you to your own deductions.

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Benedict Cumberbatch for Jaguar, 2015 (x)

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This is too cute. (https://twitter.com/ContactSH/status/839447877797756928)

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Who you really are, it does matter.

Sherlock 7 word story (via love-in-mind-palace)

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SAVE THE ELEPHANTS OF SUMATRA

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me: [reading some things, far away from tumblr]

me: doot doot doot

book:

[ x ]

me: 

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sherlock is jesus 

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I was watching a cooking show (recorded today) and this came up! Are they replaying season 4, or is this really a new episode?!

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I’m screaming