#sherlock season 4

[divinity-in-chaos]

In light of the immense amount of love my Mycroft posts are getting, I have made some more :)) and obviously, the first is Mystrade

#mycroft bbc #mystrade #mycroft #mycroft holmes bbc #greg lestrade #bbc sherlock #sherlock season 4 #text posts meme #text posts

[oppiexnheimer]

"'This is family' what do you mean my husband is not our family." - sherlock probably after that

"The Final Problem" S4E3 - Sherlock (2010 - 2017)

#sherlock #bbc sherlock #sherlock series #sherlock season 4 #sherlock s4 #the final problem #tfp #sherlock holmes #mycroft holmes #john h watson #john watson #johnlock #benedict cumberbatch #mark gatiss #martin freeman #gifset #*i just love this scene okay #like. 😱😳

[buckingham-ashtray]

Can we sometimes just take a step back and remember that John never learned what happened on the roof of Bart‘s and why exactly did Sherlock jump and who he jumped for and the snipers and Sherlock‘s tears and the two years of impossible work and the Johnlessness and Serbia and the scars and Sherlock.

John never learned about any of these things. He thought Sherlock left him for a little bit of adventure after stepping off a roof right in front of his eyes, he thought Sherlock enjoyed his little joke of playing dead, he thought Sherlock never trusted him, he thought he has never been important to Sherlock after all.

Even though he has no right to land those blows and kicks on Sherlock, he still has the right to be angry and remain angry.

Remember, unlike us, John has never learned about these things.

#IF THOSE ENGLISH MEN COULD JUST STOP BEING SO ENGLISH FOR ONE MOMENT AND TALK TO EACH OTHER #johnlock #johnlock headcanon #sherlock holmes #john watson #221b baker street #bbc sherlock #i am sherlocked #sherlock #sherlock fandom #sherlock headcanon #tjlc #sherlock s3 #sherlockbbc #sherlock season 4 #john is a bit not good #buckingham-ashtray

[whothehellisrosee]

Wait,

HOW has it already been 7 years since season 4?

HOW?

#me searching for the audacity of time #why did it do that #why so quick #almost ten years #bbc sherlock #sherlock #sherlock holmes #john watson #johnlock #greg lestrade #mycroft holmes #mrs hudson #steven moffat #mark gatiss #molly hooper #jim moriarty #sherlock season 4 #the six thatchers #the lying detective #the final problem

[lesbostomping]

okay so after the whole james somerton situation i ended up watching a few more videos from hbomberguy, including his sherlock one and... i'm sorry but he fuckin ate?? like i've seen the thumbnail pop up several times over the years but always assumed it was just some right wing asshole dunking on the latest thing that's popular with women. it is most definitely not. i recommend it for all y'all ex-tjlcers' healing journeys

#what do i tag this #hbomberguy #james somerton #anti mofftiss #tjlc #anti moffat #sherlock season 4

[poetrybypuck]

So… ah… it’s my time to confess that I didn’t know about the existence of BBC Sherlock’s season 4 until this year when I decided to ship johnlock out of nowhere 😀

And apparently everyone is traumatized because of that season lmao. I’m gonna figure it out why. Stay tuned.

#johnlock #bbc sherlock #sherlock season 4 #john x sherlock #sherlock x john #sherlockbbc

[kajaono]

I mean I am bitter, but I am mostly sad

Because BBC Sherlock is not a difficult show to wrap up. This isn’t GOT or Avengers. This is a Sherlock Holmes story. You always knows how that ends. The ineffable Husbands will end up in a cottage, OFMD will end with an Inn and a Sherlock Holmes story will always end in 221B, with John and Sherlock both living there. Simple as that.

And they didn’t even managed to do that. Instead they blew it up… they literally blew 221B up! With a Bomb.

Okay Sherlock moved into 221B again eventually. But John Watson? He lives god knows where. I think not even Mofftiss know where.

John already moved out of 221B in season 3. 221b was already incomplete and broken. Season 4 should have been about them making 221b a home again.

And it doesn’t matter if you see John and Sherlock as best buddies of romantically involved. This is just how a Sherlock Holmes story ends. But #nohomo, John and Sherlock are not raising a child together in 221b. *me, waves aggressively towards CBS Elementary*

#bbc sherlock #johnlock #221b baker street #sherlock Season 4

[rey-jake-therapist]

The Lying Detective, self hatred and acceptance of abuse

There's something I need to let out of my chest about Sherlock and this episode in particular, cause it's the one that really opened my eyes about something very important regarding Sherlock: he hates himself. He really does, and because he hates himself he believes he deserves all the abuse he gets from the persons he loves.

At some point he says he believed he thought he was an idiot, because Mycroft kept repeating he was the smartest one when they were younger. That was until he met "ordinary people" and realized he was actually, you know, very smart compared to others. And yet, he kept believing that Mycroft was way above him in terms of intelligence. He accepted it, and because he accepted it he trusted him to know what was better for him. And Mycroft, in return, felt entitled to let him believe that Redbeard was a dog and not his childhood friend, and to hide him that he had a sister, who was also a murderer, who had let said friend rot in a well. He felt he had to do it because he didn't trust Sherlock to handle the truth. He thought he was what? too stupid to understand? Too sensitive?

Now don't get me wrong, I love Mycroft as a character, and I know that he did all that "for Sherlock's good", but at the end of the day, lying, manipulate a child's memory and repeating him all the time that he's stupid was textbook abuse. And Sherlock wouldn't have accepted to be called stupid, and would have probably seen that Mycroft wasn't THAT intelligent if he wasn't so deep in self-loathing. But then how was he supposed to love himself if he was always treated like the "slow one" of the family by his own big brother?

When Molly slapped him not once, but THREE TIMES, because he was high, again he didn't flinch, didn't protest. It's not an attack against Molly, I understand why she was upset at the sight of the man she loved destroying himself, but my point is: he could have considered that it wasn't her business, he could have told her to stop. But again, if someone he respects like Molly believes he deserves to be slapped, then he does.

Now John. Sorry guys, that's the hard part I have to say out loud. John was an excellent friend up until a certain time, no argument. One could even argue, and be right, that Sherlock was the abusive one for a while: he treated him like an idiot -but then Sherlock thinks everyone's an idiot except for Mycroft, ruined his first date, unintentionnally (or not) ruined several of his relationships by being obnoxious around his girlfriends, played dead for two years instead of confiding in him like any good friend would do, made him believe they would both die only to hear him say good things about him, I mean... Sherlock's definitely not an angel and for quite a long time, he was rather a shitty friend too. I guess growing up without friends, not even your own sibling will do that to you, but it's an explanation, not an excuse for being an asshole to everyone.

And yet John accepted him as he was, and always forgave him, so of course Sherlock came to idealize him like he idealized Mycroft, for different reasons of course. For the record, I love Sherlock and John's relationship/friendship/bromance/romance/whatever it is. Up until TLD at least I found it... precious. Yes Sherlock was an ass, more than once, but he acknowledged it, and showed he wanted to be better: he not only apologized, but he also grew to become a better person, someone who would be worth of John's affection.

What happened in The Lying Detective, though... what the hell happened? So John was sad because he lost Mary. Understandable. Even if popular theories like to claim he never loved her, his despair and the fact that he keeps her ghost with him all the time said it loud and clear: John loved Mary, very much indeed. And he was mad at Sherlock who he considered responsible for Mary's death. It was also understandable, if Sherlock hadn't shut his big mouth, yada yada... Ah I love to see a a female character fridged so two male characters can suffer and grow thanks to her sacrifice . But then what we know... happened, Sherlock was high as a kite, to the point he was very close to losing it completely he lost it completely, he took a scalpel and John, well, stopped him. But then John lashed on him. He BEAT HIM UP LIKE A PULP, which was at this point completely unjustifiable because Sherlock was no longer a threat, and he would have maybe killed him in his effort if two male nurses hadn't stopped him. But this post isn't about John and his disturbing lust for violence, not really. It's about Sherlock.

What Sherlock did? Nothing. Not one time did he try to defend himself. He took all the hits, didn't ask John to stop, just once again... Accepted. He accepted that he deserved John's violence, even said John was entitled to do that because he had "killed his wife". And Joh doubled down, "yes you killed my wife". But HE knew it wasn't true. Sherlock didn't, though. He was sick because he felt as if he had killed Mary herself, and that's why he was so adamant to grant her her last wish. As someone who hated myself for a long time, I totally recognized the impulse to take the blame for everything bad that happens. That's what Sherlock does, all the damn time.

Violence between men is often glossed over because the old say "boys will be boys". After all it wasn't the first time that John beat Sherlock up, he had done it after Sherlock came back from the dead but it was just for laughs and giggles then, "haha so funny John assaulted him three times, look his noise's bleeding, lol", and also the audience thought that Sherlock deserved it after all, so... it was fine, sort of. Notice that there too, Sherlock didn't try to fight back and didn't ask John to stop. Like, I still don't undrstand why John punched him the last time: because he told him he missed the thrill of the chase? What was wrong in saying that? Except that it was probably true? I'm personally never comfortable with the normalization of violence between men on TV especially when only one is actually fighting the other, but that's just me I guess.

In TLD it was very different. It wasn't funny, and it was certainly not ok. And I was very upset when at the end, not only John didn't apologize to his best friend for physically abusing him, but Sherlock was the one comforting him at the end. The man had almost been murdered by a serial killer, before that his second role model beat him like a pulp for a crime he didn't commit, and he was still the one being strong for John.

I have a big problem with the way this matter was handled, because John's violence was just.... forgotten. And if it had been the only time that he had expressed his anger against Sherlock with his fists, I'd agree it was just a bad moment in their relationship even though he'd still need to apologize for making it ok. But here there's nothing that tells Sherlock that John won't do it again; nothing that guarantees that the next time Sherlock will upset him, John won't lash out on him again, and it will be acceptable because for some reason, violence against a man is somehow ok.

The idea is, I suppose, that there's no power imbalance like there is between a man a woman. If Sherlock wanted to fight John he probably could easily win, he's strong and has enough fighting skills for that. That's not the problem. There IS a power imbalance in that Sherlock will always believe that John is entitled to be mad at him, thus to beat him up if he wants. And since John apparently never apologized for assaulting Sherlock, I have no idea if he realized how wrong it was, and if he intends to change. I don't know about you, but personally I thought texting a woman in secret from his wife wasn't a big deal compared to what he did to Sherlock, and yet that was the only thing that, apparently, John felt guilty of.

Sherlock really broke my heart when he told John that by saving his life, Mary had given it a value. Which meant, basically that before Mary's sacrifice, his life had no value whatsoever, at least in his eyes. Let that sink in for a minute.

"The Lying Detective" is a very fitting name for this episode and for Sherlock in general, because Sherlock doesn't just lie about being almost killed by Culverton Smith, he constantly lies to himself.

He did it when he claimed he fell back into his drug habits "for a case" -if he wanted to attract the press/Magnussen's attention on him there was a lot of things he could have done, he did it all his life about being devoid of feelings and emotions, did it about the reason why he literally offered his life to Culverton; yeah he wanted to "save John Watson" and honor Mary, but it was also about ending his own suffering, a result he hoped to get at best by catching Culverton Smith, at worst by dying.

No wonder why when Eurus challenged him to choose between John and Mycroft, he chose to kill himself. That's actually strange that she didn't see it coming. Probably she didn't know him as much as she thought. He made that choice because he thought he was the one deserving to die. Not Mycroft, not John, not even Eurus... Of course it was also a calculated risk, as he had understood at this point that he was the only one Eurus wanted to keep alive because everything she did was about him for some reason. But I truly believe he would have rather pulled the trigger and shot himself rather than killing Mycroft or John. I saw once someone claim that Mycroft knew Sherlock would choose to save John anyway and that's why he wanted to make things easier, but I think nothing's further for the truth. Sherlock would have never chosen. It would have always been him.

#bbc sherlock #self loathing #the lying detective #emotional abuse #physical abuse #john watson #mycroft holmes #molly hooper #sherlock holmes #sherlock season 4

[demontobee]

What people thought Sherlock meant when he said he wanted to be a pirate:

What Sherlock actually meant:

#bbc sherlock #sherlock season 4 #ofmd #ofmd season 2 #ofmd 2 #ofmd s2 #our flag means death #sherlock the gay pirate #still traumatized by sherlock #this is my therapy #gay #queer #pirates #gay pirates #stede bonnet #ed teach #blackbeard #ed x stede #stede the mermaid

[inexpressiblybeautiful]

"Season 4 of Sherlock came out 7,nearly 10 years ago." No it fucking didn't.

#sherlock #bbc sherlock #sherlock holmes #sherlock fandom #sherlock season 4 #sherlock s4 #sherlock series 4 #tst #t6t #tld #tfp #text posts

[divinity-in-chaos]

Wow I’ve made more it seems. Cause hELP ME

Also another bonus Mystrade one!!! Cause I saw this post and immediately went Oh Greg.

#mycroft bbc #mycroft #mycroft holmes bbc #mystrade #greg lestrade #bbc sherlock #sherlock season 4 #text posts meme #text posts

[universalambients]

Sherlock Holmes: London (1894)

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[buckingham-ashtray]

Hello just a friendly reminder that Eurus used a bomb to make Sherlock say “I love you” to a John mirror and Sherlock also using a bomb to make John “say something nice”.

have a wonderful day xx

#tjlc #sherlock fandom #johnlock #sherlock #221b baker street #sherlock meta #sherlock season 4 #sherlock headcanon #johnlock headcanon #sherlock s3 #meta #sherlockbbc #sherlock holmes #john watson #buckingham-ashtray

[aveline-amelia]

You couldn't kill your brother (shooting script for TFP)

So, I looked into this script when someone posted links to previous versions of the s4 shooting scripts. As far as I know, this was an actual version of the script for The Final Problem. If anyone has any evidence that this might not be real or accurate, please do tell me so I can add that in.

So, onto sharing some of my thoughts.

One line was that always stuck out to me as odd was Mycroft saying he never bullied Sherlock. That was such a strange word choice for him of all people. Only it was not his wording. In an earlier draft, Sherlock says: "You turned my sister into a ghost story to bully me." In the aired version, they cut the bully part out, but left in Mycroft's response.

They also changed Sherlock's line to Mycroft from "do be quiet, dear" to "shut up, dear". Previously, it was actually John who says "Shut up, Mycroft" after he doesn't stay silent after Sherlock's line.

Now the fandom all hyperfocused on the 'dear' part, but what I found strange was Ben C's delivery. Telling someone to shut up is usually done in a snappy way, but he says it rather calmly? And he still says "be quiet" later, which seems like a de-escalation? Like, he gets less mad that Mycroft won't listen?

Now in the new version, John says nothing and is completely silent. Why doesn't he say anything, wouldn't he also be interested in hearing the phone call?

There is also some new dialogue that was cut in the scene where Sherlock is forced to choose, such as Mycroft saying "for the greater good" and the line about flowers comes earlier, John saying to Mycroft he is the right soldier for the job and the smart one and Mycroft saying he is not and confessing to the Moriarty thing. Paraphrasing.

Also before giving the "how do you want me" line to Mycroft, Moriarty adds "fair enough."

My least favourite part was the narrative agreeing with Mummy Holmes about Sherlock being the grown up. At least in the aired version, I can headcanon we are not supposed to agree, but like this... ugh. Just ugh.

Now onto what I posted. If this is an actual scene, I have a thought to share.

Why on Earth would you cut this?

It adds so much. Sherlock trying to frame his reaction as an act of logic, before saying that, yes, he wasn't able to kill his brother. This being a revelation and a moment, implying Sherlock thought he was able to do it and being surprised he could not. He knew it was going to be hard, he says so, but he is surprised he wasn't able to go through with it.

Sherlock admitting he fears Eurus killed Mycroft, when in the aired version it was only implied and wasn't clear to everyone. Which makes me even more mad we never see the Holmes brothers talk about this! I will take a handshake at this point if they couldn't give us a hug. (with them as adults, I know we got one as children). And when I say that, I should clarify I want them both to be alive at that point and both to stay alive afterwards (sorry, my snarkiness is bleeding through. you know me ;)

Also just to end on a sad note I guess, and others noticed this before me, when Sherlock hugs and comforts Eurus, he at that point still fears she might have killed Mycroft (and is in middle of attempting to murder John). Yet she gets a hug...

#the final problem #sherlock tfp #tfp #tfp script #bbc sherlock #sherlock bbc #the holmes brothers #mycroft holmes #sherlock holmes #john watson #sherlock season 4 #sherlock s4 #also thank you for the well wishes regarding covid! nothing changed in either directions #i am mostly doing fine #anti eurus holmes #anti mummy holmes #just to keep my traditions

[tulip-wizard]

thinking about mycroft and how he feels like he needs to be in control of everything: his family, his brother, his diet, his job, and how in TFP that control is ripped away from him, and he doesn't know what to do. he's supposed to be the smart one, and he's never felt like such an idiot because how did he not see this coming, how did he make such a simple mistake.

he feels like he ultimately deserves to die because of what he's done, and he knows that everyone hates him, despises him for his actions. in one fell swoop, all of his biggest fears came true. in one fell swoop, everything fell apart.

#forgive me for my 11 o clock posting #bbc sherlock #mycroft holmes #sherlock season 4 #the final problem

[so-youre-unattached-like-me]

Barely 6 mins in and John is fake typing, and not even on the "create" or "edit" page. It's a fucking screenshot. What, is John Watson 5, playing with mommy's laptop?

#i mean #what the actual fuck #oh makes me wanna punch something #OR SOMEONE #someone specific #UGHHHHH #bbc sherlock #oh I'm tagging everything related so more ppl will see this and be mad with me✌️ #sherlock #sherlock holmes #sherlock season 4 #sherlock s4 #john watson #FREAKING JOHN WATSON OMG IM SO MAD #the six thatchers #tst #sherlock bbc