I'm sorry, The Naval Treaty and The Second Stain are meant to take place DURING THE SAME MONTH???? They had 2 separate cases where they needed to find an ultra important international document IN THE SPAN OF ONE MONTH????

Oh my god I just know they laughed soooo hard and judged those government guys soooooo bad

Okay, I'm trying to come up with an explanation and the best I can think of is that in this universe, Super Important Government Documents get lost ALL THE TIME. Like, the state administration and especially the more secret departments are SUPER CHAOTIC. So after Holmes is successful in Naval Treaty, they just straightaway send him the next problem. There probably would have been a third (and fourth, fifth, ...) immediately, but Holmes got bored of this kind of case and told Mycroft to solve it himself, as he had doubtlessly done countless times before. Or the government was just too ashamed to ask Holmes for help AGAIN.

I need there to be some crossover between these cases. I need the moment where they stumble upon them and have an epic "YOOOOOOOUUUUUU" moment. Said crossover can be a minor bub, some clerk or charwoman or courier, but bonus points if it's Mycroft.

I also need -- and I cannot emphasize this heavily enough -- for there to be fic.

SECO is especially intriguing to me, because they never uncover WHO knew that A the sooper sekrit letter in the blue envelope even existed to want to steal, and B that the wife of the man who had it in his dispatch box, was such an easy target. much is made of the small number of people who knew the letter existed, so if one of them wasn't the leak, who was? and if it WAS one of them, then hooboy, we have a bigger problem than we thought.

OH! and ETA: three guesses who the "tired captain" is and the first two don't count. ;)

What if the Metatron is scared of Crowley?

The S2 brain rot is still going strong so I have to share my meta thoughts somewhere. I guess it's gonna be tumblr, isn't it? Would you like to spend a lot of time dissecting what the Metatron says with me? Okay here we go...

So the full line here is "He always wanted to go his own way. Always asking damned fool questions, too." I think the "Always" and the ",too." are doing some pretty heavy lifting in this sentence. Because we've seen him asking questions before the fall (more on that in another post) we assume The Metatron is referencing that time before. But what if he isn't? What if he's referencing this scene from the opening of S2E1 where Crowley is seemingly now having an existential crisis that is weirdly never referenced again in the season.

"But Crowley is always asking questions!" You cry. Yeah, he is. An the metatron is getting pretty f*&?ing sick of his shit. You want to watch another time he asks a question after this scene in S2E1?

Seems like Crowley is doing some mighty fine asking already this season! After finishing season 2 I really started wondering why The Metatron was interfering with our boys now? I mean, they were right there the whole time. The Metatron clearly knows where they are for years. Even though Crowley has been asking question for all time forever and clearly some part of heaven hates that, it seems like maybe these questions at this point in time might actually be very harmful to the Metatron's plans. Remember when Jimbriel says this in S2E1?

Except Jim never gives Azirapalalah anything the whole season? The matchbox stays in heaven. He doesn't give him the box either. It stays outside and must be fetched.

So when the metatron says "You're a leader, you're honest, you dont just tell people what they want to hear. It's why Gabriel came to you in the first place, I imagine." I think we can surmise that Gabriel was trying to come to Aziraphael to give him something important, but it never happened (OR DID IT? That's for another post...). So if The Metatron is breathing a huge sigh of relief here because he thinks he's confirmed Gabriel didn't give Aziraphael anything, the last thing he needs to do is separate the really good question asker from his will to ask any more good questions.

"But how does the metatron know Gabriel didn't give him anything? What does he have like a stupid spy camera or something inside the bookshop?" Guys the art direction in this show in bonkers, I'm telling you.

OH LOOK. A WHITE GIANT FLOATING HEAD IN ALL THEIR CONVERSATIONS IN THE BOOKSHOP.

So my reading of the original line is something like : "Crowley wanted to not follow heaven, which caused him to fall with the guys. But also I've been watching him do reckless and annoying question asking right now. And that's currently ruining my plans and I've had enough. Get that idiot away from the bookshop."

"That's why Gabriel came to you in the first place" !!!!!!!

The first half of that line is all rubbish, none of it describes Aziraphale at all. He lies to God herself, definitely doesn't want a promotion, isn't a leader... but the second half! I feel like the Metatron accidentally tips his hand a little. He knows that Gabriel came to Aziraphale for a reason.

Either, the Metatron is trying to use flattery to get Azi to leak info (same as Shax tricking him in the Bentley) OR he already knows something that we the audience / Aziraphale do not.

I've seen a theory that Gabriel stole the book of life in the box when he left, but then misplaced it. Could be that was what Gabriel was going to give to Aziraphale, but honestly, that doesn't feel like a Gaiman plot line to me. And, more to the point, Gabriel said that he was going to Beelzebub but forgot. Aziraphale's bookshop was probably his first destination because Crowley hangs around and could get word to Beelz in hell for Gabriel.

So the real question for me is: what does the Metatron think Gabriel's (real) reason for coming to Aziraphale is? What was Gabriel's actual reason? Delivering something? Protection? Understanding what it's like to love a demon? Help being reunited with his demon?

Stuff no one has mentioned yet about Good Omens S2...

Crowley’s waistcoat is leather because he is a slutty snek. Crowley is not always on the left any more. The star map is written in Gallifrayan. Nina calls Maggie ‘angel’. The Bentley is all over black when in S1 it was  black and grey. Crowley calls Aziraphale Lady Bracknell - there is also an Oscar Wilde nod with the Metatron talking about casting out archangels in the same way Lady Bracknell talks about losing parents. ‘The awning of a new era’ is an under appreciated line. Why isn’t Maggie affected by Aziraphale’s miracles in the bookshop ball? Why is Nina the only one to realise the Wickber Street meeting is not normal? The Bentley tries to please Aziraphale in the same way the mobile phone does. Crowley puts CDs in the car sound system, Aziraphale just asks the Bentley to play things - possibly why it doesn’t melt to Queen. Crowley actually slaps Aziraphale’s hand away from the Bentley. The fly is in the box at the start. Ennon is so gay. Why can’t Maggie spell? Why is there a perfect statue of Gabriel in a Scottish graveyard? Why is there a witchfinder and a Scottish surgeon both called Dalrymple? Crowley pointing a paintball gun at Aziraphale and hating his magic tricks in S1 hits different after seeing S2. Technically there are three zombie nazis still shambling around London? The Metatron is dodgy as all get out. There are a lot of references to not knowing or remembering things that a character ought to know - it is very suspicious. When Crowley talks to Gabriel about not remembering he sounds horribly familiar with the process. Crowley wears his glasses during Job and Rome - when he's in a bad mood. I think Muriel saw the kiss from outside the window? Tale of Two Cities, Pride and Prejudice, and The Crow Road are books that come up in shot again and again. They can be said to have similar themes to S1, S2, and maybe S3?

wow, this. i watched the original batman tv show with adam west as a kid, and loved it. just the right amount of Peril for me. the movies started coming out at a time when i wasn't going to movies much, so i haven't seen a lot of them. i think i saw two? of the christian bale batman movies, the first one and the one with heath ledger (such a huge loss when he died). they were so unlike the tv show, i too wondered, what happened? (superhero movies in general now have zero interest for me) recently i watched a documentary on kanopy about adam west, which was just wonderful, really took me back, i remembered what it was like to enjoy something cool and wholesome and fun. i'm so glad he finally got his star, and seems to be doing ok after some very lean years.

hmm, it occurs to me that cool, wholesome, fun, and just the right amount of Peril also describes good omens.

Who is Sherlock Holmes?

Has anyone else noticed THIS and what does that mean? In the Abominable Bride, at around 1:09:15, the carriage scene, first we have victorian John asking Sherlock "So tell me, where is she?", Sherlock says "How would we pass time without your stupid questions", and THEN, for a second, at 1:09:24, we see the REAL , 21 century John asking "Sherlock, tell me where my bloody wife is?"

????????

Picture for reference:

And then

??????

What does that mean? Why is it the 21 century John all of a sudden and why is he asking Sherlock "Where is my bloody wife"?

Does it somehow compute within EMP theory / alibi theory/ others or did Sherlock actually kill Mary or what's going on???

Is there meta about this?

Talk to me, people, I won't be able to sleep until this is explained.

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yikes, finally found this, good thing lots of people rb it already, thanks for tagging me! great discussion in the notes. although, i'm not sure there is One Right Answer for anything in this show! could be reality bleeding through into sherlock's mind theater/coma, could be prefiguring TST. "mary" is such a weird complicated character, is she a mirror, or a foil, for john, or for sherlock? or all of those things at once, or depending on the situation, like a four way baby-switch? in which case, yeah, where/what/who is she? (and why is she hiding behind a pillar from them if she's supposedly leading them somewhere?)

i’ll never get over john automatically stepping in front of sherlock the moment sir eustace charges. this is the john i know. the john who shot the cabbie. the john who wanted to sacrifice himself at the pool. where’s he at?

You know how sad this truth is if S4 is real?? This is the John that Sherlock knows (since TAB is his fevered dream). So, in Sherlock’s mind, the John he knows protects and defends him - not blames him for another’s (absurd) choice to jump in front of a bullet and shuts him out of his life, gives him a brutal beating including kicking him when he’s down at a moment when he’s emotionally compromised and abandons him at the hospital of a killer requiring Mary to tell him (from beyond the grave) to save Sherlock.

Though, if S4 is all in Sherlock’s head as well (my current headcanon) then it fits well with a splintering off of that moment in TAB when they are in the back of the carriage and John becomes his modern self for a moment and, in that moment, threatens quite angrily to beat Sherlock up if he doesn’t tell John where his wife is. Sherlock seems really shaken by that moment and, when he slips deeper into his own personal MindPalce purgatory, the next level of deep-seated fear/horror is The S4 version of John.

THAT moment in TAB is like the little bit of gravel in my shoe, always poking me! WHAT is that about, when did we last see john in that shirt, what is he talking about?! Is this a fragment from HLV, to do with "mary" going ninja-missing? Mirrored in TST? WHY is he so angry at sherlock, if "mary" has run off?

In watching The Sign Of Three, I’ve noticed something. 

They made blogs for Sherlock, John and Molly, and made a twitter account for Irene Adler. 

But there’s no twitter account for Mary, despite it being mentioned.

What do you think we can deduce from that?

oh, good catch! HMMM, well, "mary" has always struck me as a kinda fake person, since the first time i watched TEH. But you're right, it is mentioned, like irene's.

Sherlock fandom at any given day

yes!

Questions for the Answertime Q&A Monday

I submitted my list of 141 questions to @221b-investigates for Monday’s Q&A.  I want to thank and credit all of the people I follow and the content they post and reblog; a lot of the newer questions were inspired by what I see here and on Twitter. 

I don’t expect any of the questions will be answered.  If any of them are, I expect it will not be seriously.  Regardless, I feel that I’ll learn something.  And the list just gets longer…

List under the cut to save people’s dashes.

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what happened to Sally Donovan? were there any consequences for her going over her boss’ head (Lestrade) and accusing Sherlock to the DCI? 

Tumblr! Sherlock’s very own Mark Gatiss and Steven Moffat will be doing an Answer Time right here at 11am EST on Monday, July 9th. We’re launching the #SummerofSherlock before the opening of The Game Is Now later this year. 

Trump in the White House, Cohen testifying, and the Magnificent Bastards on Tumblr. Welp. All of those should be interesting. And possibly nuclear. 

You can find me in my bomb-shelter until the fandom sounds the all clear. 

well, i submitted two questions, about the series overall, and not about johnlock. I have a giant list, but i chose the least snarky ones.

But why would Moriarty plan “the final problem” at Sherrinford to be enacted years later if he genuinely thought Sherlock would die at the Reichenbach 

HMMMM! :)

an escalation towards the most complete nonsense …

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Good post, @raggedyblue. Btw, the last one strongly reminds me of Sherlock scratching his head with the gun in TGG.

And let’s not forget the abominable bride, the faithful sister, the vengeful ghost and founder of the secret cult ….. Amelia Ricoletti

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That’s so true @raggedyblue! There’s been a lot of nonsensical shooting in this show; murders where the motive is unclear or completely absurd, and indeed the circle is closed:

‘Mary’ shoots Sherlock to silence him about her assassin past - but why doesn’t she shoot CAM, a press mogul who could cause her far more trouble, and whom she came to threaten in the first place?

Sherlock shoots CAM supposedly to silence him, thereby protecting assassin ‘Mary’ who almost killed him? And why doesn’t he at least try to do his job instead and actually solve the blackmail case?

Emilia shoots her husband - presumably because he ‘had his way with her’ - but we never get to know what he actually did to her. And then she just kills herself - why? She’s supposed to suffer from tuberculosis, but this fatal decease doesn’t show the tiniest bit on her!

The moroccan policeman shoots Ajay without knowing anything of the situation - but there are several armed people in the room - how does he know he kills the right assassin?

Vivian shoots Sherlock (but hits ‘Mary’ instead), for no apparent reason at all; her secret is already revealed and the police is there (unarmed??). So why does she do this in front of the most powerful witnesses possible?

Euros shoots John for no particular reason at all, then we learn that it was only a tranquilizer. But why was that, since after this John turns up at Mycroft’s home as if nothing? Why did she want him unconscious only to immediately release him?

Euros then shoots the governor’s wife - as an experiment to study how Sentiment, of all things, works on her brother? Why is she even interested in this?

But I think Moriarty is still the worst of them all; he kills himself to silence himself so that his enemy Sherlock will have to die in disgrace. But what’s the point of that if he isn’t even planning to live to see it happen?

Yes - complete nonsense. Anyone who still thinks this show is about solving crime cases needs to re-think, I believe. :)

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YES, all of this! The only thing i can think of, is as a commentary on how absurd and useless most of the shooting in media (and RL) is too.

That moment when you’re rewatching The Empty Hearse and hear that the Jubilee line lost the entire seventh car between Westminster and St James Park that nobody but the guy who binge-watches footage noticed, and then realize that there are six episodes after that moment and all these fans who relentlessly binge-watch think something is wrong because the 7th could be missing….

The huge subtextual significance of The Empty Hearse and everything that happens in it is either the most brilliant piece of television or the craziest, most-bizarre coincidence in modern storytelling.

For a little more explanation, realize that the story is about an insider who planted a “bomb” in a missing “carriage” in order to set chaos to the political status quo; a bomb hidden in a cavity, a bomb with four chambers with red and blue veins, a bomb beneath Sumatra Rd, a tube station that was almost completed but couldn’t be open to the public because of the **laws of the time**, a bomb that wasn’t deactivated but simply paused, a threat that no one realized was possible except for that loser who binge watches the footage….

Ouch, Gatiss, that last one stings a little, but we’ll survive

Aaaaahhhhh!

Ok one thing about this episode tho.

idk if op says jubilee line on purpose but.. as a londoner (and once upon a time a bit of a tube nerd) this very thing has always bothered the living shit out of me in TEH. The dude works on district line right. But the train on the surveillance footage is a jubilee line train! (It’s the one I use the most so I know it when I see one.) The one with the bomb in it however is a district line carriage. So. I know mofftiss like their little details so why this??? I’d say it’s quite obvious at least to people who use the tube a lot. 

Now i haven’t been in this fandom for that long so I’m not sure if this has already been discussed/explained away, someone please help me out here! @the-7-percent-solution​ @tjlcisthenewsexy​ @raggedyblue​ 

Is this a Meaningful Thing or just something as dull as them not being able to film district line for some reason or something..

Interesting! Signal boost!

signal boost, cos i have the same question. I'm intrigued by @messedupsockindex saying how recognizable the trains on the different lines are! i also assume that the carriage used as the "bomb" was a purpose built set, since they were going to mess it up with all the wires and lights. I don't know if they also blew it up to get the fireball shot, or if that was all cgi. Might be something in BTS stuff about that? But if it was a built set, then they chose how it should look.

Something Big About Mycroft

Those who have discussed with show with me will know that the whole Mycroft-Moriarty connection never sat well with me. Having him imprisoned and letting him go only to destroy Sherlock’s life - not really. (Plus - if we include TFP - he had allowed his sister unsupervised contact with this madman.) But this is what they made us believe, right? And then I realised something. Look at this dialogue from TRF:

This fascinating screenshot from TRF shows that the imprisonment we see in THoB and which is referred to in TRF is indeed the same:

The arrangement is quite similar but in TRF we do get one, but two Mycrofts which may be taken as a hint that he is playing a double game. The technique of superimposing or mirroring characters is used very often in the show but I cannot remember this constellation. This is the only time one character is not mirrored but shown in two different situations while being paired with a second character. To me this means that THoB Mycroft is different from TRF Mycroft, that he is not what is appeared to be in the earlier episode. And there is more. 

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This is an absolutely stunning discovery @gosherlocked   I busied myself a lot with characters in this story who are reflected twice or more times in one mirror … like Irene, Magnusson, Mary, Sherlock, Sholto, Eurus and of course Mycroft …. but I can’t remember an occasion where a character is mirrored in two different poses at the same time. Not one!  This is outstanding!!!

And the super secret 'keycode’ …. even if Mycroft investigated Jim during the timeperiod between Jim’s arrest after Tower Hill and his acquittal by he jury …. Jim mentions that keycode for the first time at 221b in Sherlock’s presence. And this happens after Jim goes free!

Exactly how often has Jim been in custody then? And when? It is shown how Jim Moriarty is …

This looks very much like big brother Mycroft managed to catch the dangerous criminal mastermind probably three times …. and he let him walk free again three times. Well, well ……

yeah, there's a lot of unanswered questions about both mycroft and jim. SO much of what is shown or said about them doesnt add up.

UNDER  THE  MICROSCOPE  -  PART  THREE

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In part one of UNDER THE MICROSCOPE I wrote about the Clostridium Botulinum bacteria Sherlock discovers on Carl Powers shoelaces in TGG.

Part two is about the glycerol molecule Sherlock finds when he examines the residue left behind by the shoes of the kidnapper in TRF.

Part three is a comparison of that what Sherlock - and the audience - sees when looking through the lens of the microscope … and some musings about it.

The Great Game

Sherlock looks at Clostridium Botulinum … brightly colored in blue and green on a black background. As I mentioned in part one, bacteria on slides, viewed under a microscope would look most likely a bit different. Propably more similar to the picture on the right. (X)

What Sherlock actually looks at is a colorized picture of Clostridium Botolinum taken from the internet. I found a completely identical one on Microbe Wiki. And because Sherlock looks just at a picture …. nothing moves. It gives the illusion of something that is dead.

TGG is the case that will lead Sherlock to Jim Moriarty at the pool.

The Reichenbach Fall

In this episode Sherlock looks again through the lens of a microscope. And again that what he sees (although diminished in size) is coloured blue and green on a black background.

This time though it is not a motionless picture … the specimen on the slide are rapidly moving around. The audience is given the illusion that Sherlock is watching something that is very much alive.

Immediately after that shot, Sherlock identifies four chemical traces left behind in the footprints: chalk, asphalt, brick dust and vegetation.

When Sherlock starts working on the fifth sample he looks again into the lens of the microscope. Once more the slide is full of rod-shaped, rapidly moving specimen …. but this time they are coloured bright red …and just like the blue ones, they look very much alive.

At this moment Sherlock soflty murmurs to himself:  ‘I … owe … you’

…. and he wonders what the fifth substance might be …. ‘it’s part of the tale’ ….

 What Sherlock finds is … first glycerol and then PGPR  (part two)

Summary:

In TGG Sherlock looks at a picture of bacteria:

In TRF Sherlock looks at specimen of something that is:

And something else that strikes me as rather odd is this:

What might be the reason for including shots of those slides … full with brightly coloured, rapidly moving, obviously living specimen … into an analysis of chalk, asphalt, brick dust, vegetation and glycerol? They seem to have no meaning for the story. Sherlock deduces nothing from them. Additionally both shots appear just for a short second. Very easy to miss. So the reason why they have been included is probably not their impressive look either.

But despite of that, someone decided to include them and someone took the time to create those shots. What for? The plot of TRF wouldn’t change one bit if they weren’t there.

Maybe it’s the place where those shots appear that matters? And the colour changing from blue/green to an alarming red? After all, red is THE signal colour …. used to warn, to be cautious, to call attention to an imminent danger.

And this last sample will lead Sherlock to the abducted children and subsequently to Jim Moriarty on Bart’s roof. Definitely dangerous!

THOB: Sherlock coloured red by the flashing alarm lights of Baskerville

I leave you to your own deductions. Thanks @callie-ariane for the scripts.

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Really interesting observations, @ebaeschnbliah - food for thought. 

As far as I know, the problem with Clostridium botulinum and poisoning is that these bacteria can form endospores, which is a dormant state that allows the creatures to persist for a very long time - I guess 20 years would be no problem for them - and resist temperatures up to 100 degrees Celsius. They wouldn’t move in this form, though, but the rods would probably have a bump on them. The neurotoxin is produced when the environment becomes right for the spores to activate and the bacteria start proliferating (anaerobe conditions, pH 4.6-7.0). 

To produce a picture like the one of C. botulinum that Sherlock looks at in TGG, you need to first prepare the specimen for the SEM (scanning electron microscope). I believe this preparation would effectively kill the bacteria - probably also their endospores. So with reason they appear dead in TGG :)

The colourful, moving cells in TRF are very different indeed, especially since they don’t seem to refer at all to the substances that Sherlock detects. It makes me think they’re hinting at infection rather than just poisoning - something that keeps living and multiplying (real or metaphorical). Or maybe it’s a warning sign of something worse? Sherlock is muttering “I…Owe…You” while watching them. What if it’s Sherlock who feels he ‘owes’ someone something? I’m putting this under the cut, since it’s long and also might be sensitive.

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i had assumed that the windows were papered over specifically for the light test that revealed the footprints. In procedurals, they use those lights to look for traces of blood. But it's still a choice to emphasize sherlock tearing the cover back off that window.

I also always got a "sherlock's childhood trauma" vibe off this scene. Maybe not all boarding schools are sources of trauma, or not for every child, but some stereotypes/reputations do have some basis in fact. Kids can be unbelievably cruel. And adults can be unbelievably oblivious. Or an adult could have been the cruel one, given sherlock's treatment of miss mackenzie, and using the word "intruder". Yikes. Adds something to my reading of little sherlock and victor playing with their "wooden swords".

So it started as some musings about Irene in our book club, but it turned into something bigger so I moved it here. 😁

I think we make one big mistake with the show that leads us to two smaller ones. We put to much trust into Sherlock’s jugment and we shouldn’t. Since it was compromised and biased many times.

That’s why we give to much credit to Moriarty. We like to think that he’s clever mastermind but he isn’t. He told us on St. Barts roof. He has minions who will do everything for him.

Also we like to think that Irene is a good person deep down. If Sherlock found something interesting in her, why wouldn’t we too? She loves a game, detective stories and likes Sherlock. She’s just like us. But is she?

Let’s not forget that ASIB is the only not EMP episode when we didn’t really have a villian. Why this episode should be different? Also it was Irene who called Moriarty in the pool? To save Sherlock but did she really. What if she offered Jim something better in excange for something - a great plan: a promise of love, etc. I mean it’s easy to belive that ASIB was only a way for writers to told us what’s going to happend in the future. Or was it Moriarty plan and Irene was blindly following it without even knowing - a rehershal? What are the ods? It’s Sherlock.

So we should assume that Irene known about the plan all along. I think she was the one who come up with the idea too. Why?

Sherlock was supposed to die in ASiP. He’s Jenifer Willson mirror. He sent a message as a dead person to Hope. Moriarty known that Sherlock would be interested in the case and that he couldn’t say no to a chellange. Also in Unaired Pilot there’s one more victim than in the ASiP - a man. Why change the number? He would die like Carl Powers, because of the poison. And people whould assume that he cimmited suicide because he would take the pile himself. Neat.

But something new, something unexpected happend - John Watson. The man who rewrited Sherlock’s Summara apoitment, the man who change the game. So Moriarty changed his too. And that leads us to TGG and the pool, another place when Sherlock was supposed to meet death. But Irene called and change the game again. I think it was Irene who aded emotional context to the game. She was almost perfect bait for Sherlock - clever, beautiful, tempting, so similar to Sherlock in many ways. Almost, since they didn’t realized two things: that Sherlock was a gay all along and how much at this point he was already commited to John.

But Irene make a misteake of falling in love with Sherlock. A human error. But at least they found out about the plane so they partly win.

Then TRF happend and this time Sherlock rewritted the story. But he was away and then Irene mirror - Mary showed up. Beautiful, smart, so much like John, a perfect temptation. That’s why Irene looked so much like Sherlock, and Mary so much like John? Was this what really happened or we were just lead to belive this? Maybe we just wanted to believe in lies this time?

To be honest I’m not sure what to think about Mary anymore. Maybe it was her plan all along and Moriarty was just a figure or maybe she was with John to keep him safe and then Sherlock. I don’t know how to interprete her saving Sherlock’s life in TST an episode that is about her? Maybe it was someone else who poisoned him? Janine? She looks like Irene who drugged Sherlock in ASiB? She also sat next to him at the wedding. She had better acces to poison his food than Mary. I feel like we coming back to the old - post season 3 theories.

Now. We all remember that picture and who even writers told us that they put here intentionally to show us that Mary is a devile with the horns, but… We know that behind her is the head of the bizon. Who is sacred and spiritual animal and represents power and need to survive. The symbolism and totems of bizon represents strenght, survivale, change, fortitud, honor, respect, vision, endurance. The bison caries the energy of medicine. Represents warm and protection. So is Mary really a vilian here?

And why in HLV Janine is standing in front of the same horns?

What she’s even doing in Sherlock’s EMP in the first place and playing such a huge part? Shurelly she didn’t make that impresion on Sherlock. And why she looks so much like Irene and her story is similar?

And why in TAB Mary is the one who is on the good side when Janine is part of secret society who wants rights and revenge? Why is Janine helping the Abominable Bride? I mean the AB of this story is Moriarty? Why is she the one helping Moriarty?

I don’t know. Do you have any logical explenation?

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all good questions. I don't have definitive answers, but many of these issues were discussed after s3. I only wish i had made a tumblr already, to make it easier to look up the older metas. Have you watched the tjlce videos yet? they explain a lot, at least from one angle. I think to some extent the show may be purposefully ambiguous, which makes it harder to arrive at a single reading.