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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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Sherlock, The Six Thatchers, 1.1.2017

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I swear I live under a rock, sometimes.

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 Early draft of  The Reichenbach Fall

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Willing Suspension

So, six months later… *cough*

Fans have had a lot of issues with alleged inconsistencies in Sherlock Series 4–especially The Final Problem. Some I agree with, many I don’t, and others I’m undecided on or just don’t care about.

But there is one issue that, to my mind, carries more weight than any of the others.

It starts with the “missing glass” scene.

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It's interesting to note that...

When Eurus wanted John’s attention, she impersonated a vivacious, confident woman who found him attractive.

When Eurus wanted Sherlock’s attention, she impersonated a slightly awkward, pretty, but vulnerable woman who needed him to save her.

What, therefore, might we deduce about Sherlock’s “type?”

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“You want everything to be clever.”

One word puzzle per Sherlock-episode.

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Deleted shot from TFP of Sherlock after he smashes the coffin. He’s a real mess here when compared to the actual shot they included afterward. Though he was visibly shaking in that one as well. Makes me wonder exactly how long he sat there when John finally thought it was safe to get him to talk again. And if this is not enough proof of how much Molly means to Sherlock, I don’t know what does. Hats off to Benedict’s performance. 

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Sherlock, Cinematography, Sex, and Gender

Proposed: The cinematography of BBC Sherlock sexualizes and objectifies Sherlock/Benedict Cumberbatch in a manner traditionally associated with female stars.

The following is a close reading of the visual choices made in BBC Sherlock, read through Laura Mulvey’s essay Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema [pdf]).

Mulvey’s argument is that cinema is structured so that women are always being looked at in a sexual way, both by the camera/audience and by the men in the movie, and that men never are. Even if a man is attractive or glamorous, the viewer is meant to identify with him in desiring and possessing the women in the movie. The man is never objectified or directly sexualized. Mulvey was writing in the 1970s, and her examples in that essay are drawn exclusively from Golden Age Hollywood movies.

My argument is that Sherlock/Benedict Cumberbatch, despite being male, is objectified and sexualized by the camera on Sherlock in the same way as the actresses Mulvey mentions in her examples. To demonstrate this, I’m going to compare shots from Sherlock with shots from Golden Age Hollywood movies. 

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WHY John Watson fails to see Sherlock's feelings for Molly

Sherlock knows Molly even before he has met John. John is introduced to Molly during their interactions at St. Bart’s. Unfortunately though, John witnesses only the mortification of Molly Hooper time and again by Sherlock and hence completely ignores the undercurrent of feelings running through his friend.

In TGG when the Jim from IT scene happens, John is standing behind Sherlock. So he totally misses the look Sherlock throws at Molly when she’s gushing at Jim. He also misses the look of irritation that crosses Sherlock’s face when he realises that Jim’s left him his number because he is facing Sherlock’s back. Sherlock I think is irritated with Jim for two reasons.

One which he realises: Jim’s gay according to him and is using Molly, probably to get to him. He feels protective.

AND the other which he does not: He doesn’t like Molly giving Jim that look of adoration which was only reserved for him until now.

Both these reasons are connected to Molly and so his deductions about Jim are also based on his feelings, whatever they are at that point for Molly. He misses the message, the very man he’s tracking, gives him openly. Because of Molly.

And John is oblivious to both these reasons. He sees Sherlock sarcastically commenting on Molly’s weight and calling her boyfriend gay and then giving her irrefutable proof of it. Though John doesn’t know Molly well, he feels sorry for her and even stands up for her. However in the end when Molly runs off, he once again misses the confused ‘I was only looking out for you’ look that Sherlock gives her. Obviously when John admonishes Sherlock for his rudeness, John is convinced that Sherlock’s hurt Molly without a care in the world and feels no remorse whatsoever.

I think Sherlock’s indifference about the woman who is going to die, a conversation John and he have just before Molly enters the lab also colours John’s opinion of how Sherlock treats Molly.

Season 2, Enter Irene Adler. Sherlock is obviously attracted to her. John can see that too. She’s beautiful, sexy, intelligent, a criminal, apparently all qualities in a woman that John himself is drawn to. He witnesses her beating Sherlock at his game. It is important to note that John does look up to Sherlock and greatly admires his intellectual poweress. Maybe in his head, he even sees Irene as Sherlock’s equal and hence assumes that they are well suited.

Then comes the Christmas scene with Molly and John realises that Molly is in love with Sherlock. And of course everyone present there assumes that it’s one sided. John witnesses the never seen before apology that Molly gets and is clearly shocked but before he can process that information fully text number 57 arrives from Adler and John’s attention is drawn back to her.

He’s not there in the morgue when Sherlock compassionately looks at Molly and says, “You didn’t need to come in Molly.” He is clearly concerned about her and John has not witnessed it.

In TRF, once again John witnesses Sherlock cancelling Molly’s lunch date because he needs her help. He looks uncomfortable and utterly embarrassed by Sherlock’s behaviour. But he misses one of the most important Sherlolly conversations of all time. The ‘I don’t count’ scene. He misses the first time his best friend sees Molly Hooper in a whole new light. He is not there when sherlock tells Molly “You do count. You’ve always counted and I’ve always trusted you.“John will never learn about that even in the rest of the seasons that follow.

In TEH, when Sherlock informs John with apparent hesitation that Molly Hooper also knew that he was alive and she was part of the plan, he is clearly surprised, shocked. Even then he doesn’t understand what Molly is beginning to mean to Sherlock.

Again he is totally absent when Sherlock asks Molly out on his crime solving adventure and doesn’t see the endearing conversation between them in the hallway.

Though he observes that Tom looks exactly like Sherlock (Not really, BC is BC!!) and shares his observations with Sherlock, there’s nothing in Sherlock’s reply to make him feel suspicious. So his previous theory still holds true in his head. Molly loves Sherlock but Sherlock doesn’t give a damn.

In TLV, it is when Molly slaps Sherlock, thrice that every one in the room other than Sherlock and Molly look utterly shocked and speechless. John realises that Molly can see through his bullshit.

The most important conversation happens in TLD.

p>SHERLOCK: Well, you’re a doctor.

JOHN: No, I need a second opinion.

SHERLOCK (exasperated): Oh, John, calm down. When have you ever managed two opinions? You’d fall over.

JOHN: I need the one person who – unlike me – learned to see through your bullshit long ago.

SHERLOCK: Who’s that, then? I’m sure I would have noticed.

JOHN: The last person you’d think of. (Sherlock looks up at him silently.)

JOHN: I want you to be examined by Molly Hooper. (Sherlock looks down, biting his lip.)

JOHN: D’you hear me? I said Molly Hooper.

SHERLOCK (cringing a little): You’re really not gonna like this.

And Molly Hooper rings the door bell. John doesn’t realise how much Sherlock has come to trust, rely upon and respect Molly Hooper. Even when he has evidence that Molly is not the last person Sherlock think of. He lectures Sherlock about Irene Adler and how Sherlock should not lose this great chance at love. It’s Ironic that John says these words:

JOHN (loudly): She’s out there … (he points towards the stairs) … she likes you, and she’s alive. (His voice starts to get angry.) JOHN: … and do you have the first idea how lucky you are?

and then a little while later…

JOHN: Just text her. Phone her. Do something while there’s still a chance, because that chance doesn’t last forever. Trust me, Sherlock: it’s gone before you know it. (Firmly, emphasising each word) Before you know it.

All this he says about Irene Adler. Because somewhere John is influenced by Sherlock’s thought process. And while Sherlock has accepted his feelings, his attraction, his intrigue for Irene Adler, he is blissfully unaware about what he feels for Molly, not until the coffin scene in the final problem. John lends a voice only to what Sherlock already knows.

It’s no wonder to me that John thought that the somebody who loved Sherlock was Irene Adler in that coffin scene. But it was all about Sherlock and Molly. A love, Sherlock realised was always there deep down inside his heart only was not known to him until that very moment. Hence Sherlock corrects John when he calls it torture, he calls it a vivisection.

JOHN (loudly): She’s out there … (he points towards the stairs) … she likes you, and she’s alive. (His voice starts to get angry.) JOHN: … and do you have the first idea how lucky you are?

JOHN (leaning closer to him): Just text her. Phone her. Do something while there’s still a chance, because that chance doesn’t last forever. Trust me, Sherlock: it’s gone before you know it. (Firmly, emphasising each word) Before you know it

This conversation now makes so much sense. Only, it’s about Sherlock and Molly now.

I hope John recognises the Love that his best friend has for Molly (if there’s ever going to be a season 5. Fingers crossed ) because even after all that was said and done, he didn’t see Sherlock’s face when he said I love you the second time!! If he would’ve seen it, we’d have the biggest Sherlolly shipper ever in Dr. John Watson!

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Sherlock/Molly: 3 reactions to the men that she dates. [Requested by celticmoonbeam]

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Molly Hooper treats people kindly because she knows what it’s like to feel sad and alone. Sherlock treats people cruelly in spite of knowing what it’s like to feel sad and alone. Molly loves unconditionally even though she’s been hurt in the past, while Sherlock tries desperately to detach himself from all love and emotion because he fears being hurt again.

Now tell me, which is the weak one?

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Passive-aggressive tea time.

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sherlock wearing: the paul smith (s1) scarf

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“Taking your own life. Interesting expression. Taking it from whom? Once it’s over, it’s not you who will miss it. Your own death is something that happens to everybody else. Your life is not your own, keep your hands off it.”

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