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.