Two Stories: Voice of Terror and Terror by Night?
ASiB
Sherlock: It’s a story, probably not true. In the Second World War, the Allies knew that Coventry was going to get bombed because they’d broken the German code but they didn’t want the Germans to know that they’d broken the code, so they let it happen anyway.
This ends up being the basis for the Flight of the Dead, Bond Air is Go.
TFP
The same little girl in ASiB that was talking about not getting to see her granddad after he died, and to whom Sherlock explained, “People don’t really go to heaven when they die. They’re taken to a special room and burned,” is the little girl that wakes up alone on the plane.
Look at the gif above, again.
There is Sherlock talking to Irene, and then there is a mirror of him speaking the other direction. They’re giving us two stories. So, why am I bringing this up now? Because of Coventry, and where we may end up next, if they don’t revamp Voice of Terror… During the Second World War, the British were reading the Germans code. They new at one point that the Germans were going to hit Coventry with a large air raid, The conundrum was that if they evacuated the city of ambushed the Luftwaffe, then they would likely give away that they were reading the German code. As the Allies were getting an assload of intel from reading the enemy’s mail, do they let the city burn costing lives from the raid and potentially saving lives as the war went on, or save lives in Coventry but loose more later. Mofftiss have been mentioning a special with Sherlock and John fighting the Nazis, so they could bring us back to the Christmas that also inspired the Norbury scene, the Christmas Moriarty met Eurus, the Christmas the counter on John’s blog got stuck on 1895.
This could be our reset point…
Related Meta:
Terror By Night, Trains, and Sherlock ( x )
The Voice of Terror ( x ) by @finalproblem
Posted this yesterday, as it had been in my drafts for months, but hadn’t tagged anyone. It’s meant to go with:
some stuff the internet said about sherlock by @space-sapphik
1895 is definitely of great importance @221bloodnun The beginning of ASIB is also the point in the story where Sherlock dons the deerstalker for the very first time …. he takes it from the cloakroom of a theatre. And at the end of TFP Sherlock is still not back in the outside world. But in his mind he and John are running onto Rathbone Place. I wouldn’t be much surprised if that means another Mind Stage scenario - in black and white maybe? - where Sherlock and John will have to fight the Nazi’s. The ‘revolution’ isn’t over yet …. the ‘breaking free’ still not accomplished. Body and heart are working in sync now, but what with the brain …. with Mycroft? Since Musgrave big brother is more than conspicuous by his absence …..
Well, and that brings us to the 1895 disappearing from the blog before TAB, because yes, it parallels Mycroft disappearing in TFP before we’re given 221B back and John there with Sherlock once more. And of course, they’re still in 1895 when TAB ends, that whole “always 1895″ where they discuss
WATSON (offscreen): Flying machines; these, er, telephone contraptions … (The screen fades up to reveal Holmes and Watson sitting in their armchairs in the sitting room of 221B. Each of them is smoking a pipe.) WATSON: What sort of lunatic fantasy is that? HOLMES: It was simply my conjecture of what a future world might look like, and how you and I might fit inside it.
i.e. the main setting and methods of TFP. On a flying machine, communicating through a cell phone, which wouldn’t be possible.
So…yes…this B&W installment could be another version of Sherlock imagining how he and John would fit. @ebaeschnbliah @gosherlocked @ebaeschnbliah @raggedyblue @sarahthecoat
Interesting thought @221bloodnun And that thought leads me to a (probably) crazy idea. Taking Sherlock’s statement from TAB about phones and planes literally … ’It was simply my conjecture of what a future world might look like, and how you and I might fit inside it.‘ …. wouldn’t this mean that this ‘conjecture’ of Sherlock doesn’t take place after TAB but inside of it?
TAB is considered to be a drug induced fantasy of Sherlock resulting from an almost overdose on the plane to his exile.
WATSON: As for your own tale, are you sure it’s still just a seven percent solution that you take? I think you may have increased the dosage. HOLMES: Perhaps I was being a little fanciful … but perhaps such things could come to pass.
Is S4 also a drug induced fantasy of Sherlock resulting from an ‘increased dosage' of cocain in TAB? A fantasy inside another fantasy? Matroshka fantasies? And has the 'fantasy’ returned to the tarmac of HLV by the end of TFP …. Sherlock and Eurus landing the plane … or not yet? Taking ‘drugs’ is often connected to 'flying with a plane’ …. is this a pattern?’
The question is: with how many of those Matroshka-fantasy-dolls are we dealing in Sherlock BBC?
I absolutely think that’s what it is @ebaeschnbliah I think I mentioned it in the old meta about drugs and reflections, but maybe it was a discussion instead. Being ill for six months, I have to go back and read my own meta to refresh my memory. Again though, depends on whether we ever left S2. The odd camera work of Sherlock being sideways while thinking or being on drugs begins in TRF, and the Anyone idea started in TGG; both go all the way through in S4-along with details only Sherlock would know. @gosherlocked @raggedyblue @loveismyrevolution @sarahthecoat @sherlockshadow
surely the correspondence between planes and telephones is too important to be ignored. The show is a huge house of mirrors, of Chinese boxes, with stratified readings … everything is possible, a dream in a dream, perhaps even in a coma, and then turns out to be all inside a tale … Escher would be very proud
for some reason, tumblr decided to notify me about this post this morning, although the discussion is years ago now. still, a good one to revisit.