#or at least just doesn't want to be talking about holmes at this precise moment

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This sort of case would have interested our old friend, Mr. Sherlock Holmes. Yes, indeed.

#granada holmes #inspector lestrade #john watson #granadaedit #i like this moment a lot. i like lestrade trying to lighten the conversation after bringing up holmes #bc while he's in a place where he can talk about holmes he eventually notices that watson isn't #or at least just doesn't want to be talking about holmes at this precise moment #and so he makes his silly little remark to make watson smile. and i love him for that #bc you know he doesn’t seriously think he’s good enough that it would be unusual for holmes to get the better of him #he knows what he’s saying is ridiculous and he knows watson knows it too #he even watches for watson's reaction. and i adore that little look they share at the end #and i just really like lestrade as someone who doesn't mind making a small joke at his own expense if it means cheering up a friend #thank you colin jeavons and edward hardwicke 🫶🏽 #lestrade #sh #i also like lestrade talking about holmes at all because of course he does. of course he still thinks about him #they both miss him they’re both remembering him fondly in this moment #mine

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I've been trying to convince my friend about tjlc and blog theory and season 5, but she's more of the 'do you really think it was THAT elaborately planned and anyway even if they had a plan wouldn't s4 bd different and s5 be announced by now' take. Any favourite bits of evidence I could share with her? Ty!

well first of all you can tell your friend that series 4 is the way that it is precisely because they have an elaborate plan.

here is a post that links to bunch of interviews or posts where they talk about series 5 as a part of their plan. my favorite quote is that S4 would leave fans "desperate for series 5." and ain't that the honest truth hiding in plain sight. also I can't find it but I recall moffat one time correcting an interviewer who assumed post-s4 that s4 was intended to be the last season (if anyone can confirm or correct me please let me know). Wild given that the show itself makes it "feel" like an ending that rings hollow and that's done on purpose.

you can draw a parallel between fan reactions to the original story "The Final Problem" and the episode itself. People were very upset and would write to doyle asking him to bring holmes back because he couldn't really be dead... Now, however, everyone already knows he wasn't really dead hence trf so seemingly killing off the Show-Sherlock is kinda the next best thing.

trf kinda foreshadows this in a way or at least echoes how the GA are supposed to feel about S4/TFP.

"And soon they began to wonder...‘Are Sir Boast-a-lot’s stories even true?’" "‘I don’t believe Sir Boast-a-lot’s stories. He’s just a big old liar who makes things up to make himself look good.’"

Then there's the fact that the "final problem" is staying alive. Either Sherlock get's 'the heart burned out of him' or he stays alive. just look at all of s4 and then the dvd cover and tell me that doesn't look like the heart is being burned.

Other than that it's hard to succinctly describe blog theory in an already long post but we do talk about this on the first episode of our podcast

Here is a (non-exhaustive) list of quotes from the show which really lay out their Plan or some aspect of it:

a fourth. there's been a fourth. something's different this time.

Ah, four serial suicides, and now a note!

we’d better upgrade their surveillance status. Grade Three Active.

John: Well, maybe that’s over, too. We’ve heard nothing from the bomber. Sherlock: Five pips, remember, John? It’s a countdown. We’ve only had four.

The painting is a fake, but how can I prove it? How? How?...The Van Buren supernova!

I don't care how you faked it, I wanna know why

Is this silly enough for you yet? Gothic enough? Mad enough, even for you? It doesn’t make sense, Sherlock, because it’s not real. None of it.

Bond air is go / Flight 007

1) The promise of love, 2) the pain of loss, 3) the joy of redemption, 4) then give him a puzzle. 5) Watch him dance...

From the moment of conception? How breathtakingly prescient...

of course it's not a trick, it's a plan

Sherlock: That’s not what happened at all. Mycroft: It is now.

If James Moriarty can hack every TV screen in the land, rest assured we have the tech to, er...doctor a bit of security footage. That is now the official version. the version anyone we want to will see.

and i'm sure i could keep going but alas. we have yet to discover a one size fits all formula for presenting convincing evidence but this is a start