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SIB pt 4 reactions (&spoilers) below~

The shoutouts while in police custody😂 prime Jonk behaviour

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[Sherlock enters] "Ya but there is a plan"

Tom "I told her not to let you in!!"

Poor Tom just trying to do his job and this chaotic trio are waltzing all over as they please lolll

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"I told her to kill it." Wait what

"I told her to kill the damn thing" oh shit😰

Well fuck Ormstein for that in particular!

"Once again. An American woman slithers into the cracks of British nobility and and breaks it all apart! Like some festering mould- If it’s not Simpson it’s Markle if it’s not Markle it’s Adler" tell us how you really feel😵‍💫

"if she wants to play an Ormstein then she will do what all the Ormstein women have done in the past and that is GET IN LINE AND DO AS YOU’RE TOLD." Didn't think it could get worse but here we are🥴 John now is your queue to punch the man

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Sherlock: "I'm going to win, M. Ormstein. I'm going to win" the King of epic parting lines reigns yet again I see

Oh also the fact that Sherlock took the second mic is absolutely setting a precedent for eventual Reichenbach and I'm not ok with that :)))))

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Giggling and kicking my feet, I love them more than anything

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Bits and I suspect… bobs :)

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If the previous episodes didn't confirm Sherlock's queerness, this one certainly did! 😂

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Thinking about bbc's Sherlock again. Thinking about how John's life so obviously revolves around Sherlock that everyone can see it.

Thinking about how Sherlock is his constant, his center. How John would follow him to the ends of the earth and the Icarus in that. It doesn't matter how badly John gets burned trailing after him. Sherlock makes him feel alive. Without him he'd be back in the dark again. Thinking about how Sherlock is John's Sun.

John is Sherlock's home. He's the one who always has more mystery, the one man who could surprise him. John is the only one who could ever keep up, the one who keeps him fed and reminds him to sleep. Thinking about how when Moriarty first threatens to burn the heart out of Sherlock it's John. How unexpectedly, bit by bit, John became Sherlock's center too, the ground beneath his feet, his steady constant, his world.

If Sherlock is John's sun, than John is Sherlock's earth.

And isn't that fitting. Because Sherlock would rather fake his death and throw his credibility away than lose John, but Sherlock is not at all prepared for how badly it hurts him. Sherlock needs John, but John should have been fine without him, right?

Because in Sherlock's world, the sun revolves around the Earth, not the other way around. A gap in his knowledge, a weak spot he didn't even know he had. Everyone else in the room knew the Earth revolves around the sun the same way they know that John revolves around Sherlock.

Thinking about how they both need each other, but don't really see their own value. How the thought of losing the other feels so terrible they can't even understand why the reverse might be just as unacceptable. Thinking about how maybe, just maybe, they revolve around each other.

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Spoilers CAM Pt 1 -

John just assaulted Milverton in broad daylight with a bunch of witnesses nearby. Milverton now has the perfect opportunity to start a smear campaign against Sherlock & co., which will probably lead into the Reichenbach storyline.

Help I'm scared 🥲

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Some thoughts about John's character lately

(light spoilers TNB 3 and LFC 2)

I love Sherlock & Co immensely, but I'm feeling all sorts of icky things about how they've been writing John. I get that he's supposed to be a bit silly and maybe a tad naive in detective work, but I don't buy for one moment that an ex soldier would run towards a potentially armed and definitely dangerous man in a foreign country where they have no backup and no way to defend themselves, WITH Mariana who is verbally stating her discomfort about the whole thing. HUH????

Of all the idiotic and naive things for this "haha oh Milton!"-type character to do, running blindly into an evidently dangerous situation with a serious disadvantage and an innocent friend on his heels makes no sense to me.

I felt the same when he started righting the wax figures in TNB 3 while an emotionally unstable armed man was actively looking to harm him and Sherlock. Never mind the army training, does this man not have common sense? Why is he somehow dragging his friends into blatantly dangerous and even deadly scenarios? "It's history Sherlock! Art!" oh give me a break.

John is obviously a bit silly and awkward but I don't buy for one second that he'd put himself and especially his friends in obviously dangerous situations for reasons of "art preservation" or with a "just trust me it'll be fine" thrown over his shoulder.

I might just be reading too much BAMF!John BBC Johnlock fanfic lately, so tell me if I'm reading into it too much or if you're seeing this too.

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"Hickory.

Dickory.

Dock."

We love a drama queen

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Sherlock getting a bulletproof vest for himself but not for Watson?? Nahhhh he'd for sure have insisted Johnk wear one too

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Dame Gwendolyn Lestrade being fed UP with Sherlock's antics and yet also interrogating him about his well-being ❤️❤️😭😭 I need to know more about their history!!!

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Gwen checking if Sherlock’s practicing basic self care and making friends Dame Lestrade I actually love you

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I wonder if Sherlock is going to realize how many times they came across Moriarty once they finally meet properly. Missing an appointment due to Eccles coming in (Wisteria Lodge), a shoutout John gave for Professor Moriarty who was "listening to every word" (Shoscombe Old Place), and a seemingly innocuous Professor James handing the Professor a chair (The Three Students)... So creepy to realize how often he's been around😖😣

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Hii so here is the spoiler that you wanted 😁 So I don't remember when it was but there was a question for Joel about how they will go about the fall, and he said that they plan to keep it light hearted (although I don't know if they will stick to it if we take into consideration how the whole vibe of the show changed after Mary) bud definitely they will not make us wait that long, because there is no way that would work, Joel said something like: we won't be that cruel, Sherlock will probably come back after few days.

Of course they might change their minds, as there is still a long time until the fall.

Oh thank goodness!! I'm glad to hear it, thank you :))

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My interpretation of Unification is that when Kirk died, because he and Spock are literally one soul/Katra in two bodies, he can’t pass on without his other half.

So he’s being sent to fetch the missing piece of himself-but he doesn’t know right away that the missing piece is Spock. Just that there’s something missing he has to find first. That’s why we get that scene with the three different versions of himself. He doesn’t know quite what he’s looking for yet, so he’s first looking inward.

And yes, obviously it’s TOS Kirk and Movie Kirk because those are the Iconic Looks for the character, but also, within the story itself? I think he’s specifically seeing the two times in his life he lost Spock-right at the end of their first five year mission when Spock resigned, and then after Spock died in TWOK. Those are the two times in his life he had felt like a piece of himself went missing, and when he realizes that, Kirk immediately understands what he’s meant to do.

His missing piece is Spock.

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Forever after all by Luke Combs.

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the fact that we always knew this should've been the way their story ended. the ending where they die alone and separated feels so wrong because it goes against everything we know to be true about them

spock refusing to give up on jim in the tholian web, in the paradise syndrome

“you almost make me believe in luck. “why mr spock you almost make me believe in miracles”

“you? at his side, as if you've always been there and always will”

“together, forever. i hope someday, with someone, you'll find out what that is”

“spock, i wish you were here...”

“this simple feeling...”

“i have been and always shall be your friend”

“if spock has an eternal soul, then it's my responsibility... as surely as if it were my own”

“if i hadn't tried... the cost would've been my soul ”

“i've always known i'll die alone” “you were not alone”

spock going to collect jim's body, but refusing to believe he's really gone

“he will return.”

“You once said being a starship captain was my first, best destiny… if that’s true, then yours is to be by my side. If there’s any true logic to the universe… we’ll end up on that bridge again someday.”

t'hy'la

they were always meant to find each other. in every time in every universe in every story

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I'm going to say something about the new unification short film that I haven't seen anyone here say yet.

I love the handholding scene. massively impactful. I love the echo of "this simple feeling" from the motion picture and the genesis reference and the idea that spock did not die alone or among strangers. it's just so satisfying after all this time to know that even shatner knew it was wrong and needed to be approached with more compassion for nimoy and the fans who loved these characters and knew they should be together at the end, whatever that looked like.

but you know what really got me?

this minute or so. kirk confronting his old selves. because that's obviously original series kirk right there in the gold uniform.

and the other? THAT'S HIM!!

(I'm linking it this way because you apparently can't add more than one video to a post and I need it here for demonstration.)

so we have present kirk walking down a dark hallway. at the end is spock, but at the end is also spock's death. how can he step forward and face that? what happened to the way he used to think about death?

yellow shirt is TOS kirk, who had always found a way around the problem and never (if the movies are to be believed) had to face death straight on. he's looking forward with confidence. there's no way spock is dying. there's a way out of this somehow, if only he can find it.

TOS kirk looks back the way he came, because he believes he can go back. he can always go back. the series always resets to the same characters who can be depended on to take similar actions, because that's what a serial is, and that's who he is. things have taken their toll on him, but he knows he can take the hit and keep moving.

but he stops when he's faces with WOK kirk. the one in the red dress uniform, who has lost spock and knows what it is to live without him. who has faced death in a way he had never had to before, because the constraints of the series never allowed it. he has been changed because of it.

TOS kirk sees that, and does that sort of posturing that he always does in front of someone who's threatening him. but WOK kirk isn't threatening him. he's just living through something TOS kirk hasn't had to face yet. it's him staring his past self in the face and telling him, kindly and firmly, you know nothing about how it will feel. you will never be the same without him.

and TOS kirk looks back again, and there's a present kirk, wearing his generations uniform. this is kirk having turned that grief to a desperate search for the most important person in his life, and emerged with spock by his side. he's not the same, but he's made it through. of course TOS kirk would look to that.

and as our kirk looks at these people he used to be, they vanish in front of him. he remembers the way he used to think about losing spock. the fear, the grief, the hope. there's no hope left. when he reaches the end, spock will be there, and it will be their last time together.

but he puts the pin back on, and reminds himself of his duty not just to a fellow officer, but to a friend, to the most important person in his life, and to himself. spock should not be alone, and he never got to say goodbye properly before. doing it now is the least he can do.

that's his ultimate responsibility in that moment: being there for spock. that's been his ultimate responsibility from the beginning. and this is shatner acknowledging that they deserved an ending that fit that truth.