EMP/Unreliable Narrator/Alibi/Editing All Give Sherlock His Audience
First off, you haven’t read meta Sherlock S4 as Epic Theatre, I strongly recommend it.
M: You’ve met him. How many ‘friends’ do you imagine he has? I am the closest thing to a friend that Sherlock Holmes is capable of having.
John: And what’s that?
M: An enemy.
John: An enemy?
M: In his mind, certainly. If you were to ask him, he’d probably say his arch-enemy. He does love to be dramatic.
John: Well, thank God you’re above all that.
ASiP - Unlike in canon, John begins blogging in order to tell about his life, not to see that Sherlock receives credit for his work. The Detective Inspectors rotate out, rather than being limited to Lestrade and Dimmock. The press receives Wrong! texts that make them an audience. Lestrade and crew are the audience for the drugs bust, and then the moment of realization. His big fan though, is explained as Moriarty. Lestrade’s crew take photos. John thinks Sherlock is amazing, despite “This morning, for example, he asked me who the Prime Minister was.” By T6T, this isn’t amusing anymore, and John tells Sherlock he knows the answer already. Mycroft monitors Sherlock via CCTV, and communicates with John. Film noir and horror references to The Third Man and Nosferatu begin.
TBB - Seb’s staff becomes the audience, and then John, Sarah, and Soo Lin. There’s even an acting troupe. Moriarty is still a big fan.
TGG - Sherlock meets his fan, Moriarty. John and snipers are the audience to their little drama.
ASiB - Sherlock’s audience is with The Queen. It’s actually with his brother, the representative from Buckingham Palace, and Irene, but he finds out Moriarty is still taking an active interest in him. He comes in costume to meet Irene. Lestrade takes video of the outcome, and John takes care of Sherlock.
THoB - Henry, Louise, Dr. Stapleton, and John all become a captive audience. Henry through fear, and being targeted. Louise through John, and then at gunpoint, Stapleton because she has to prove she’s innocent, and John through Sherlock directly. In John’s case though, it backfires, because Sherlock not only says he doesn’t have friends, but John is left to wonder how far Sherlock will go to prove he’s clever. The TARDIS is in a background shot.
TRF - John warns Sherlock they have to be more careful, which will take away Sherlock’s audience. The press is again Sherlock’s audience, but they’re turning against him. Kitty Riley (who later becomes a prototype for Mary-see links below) assists “Richard Brook” with her journalism. Moriarty is the “good old fashioned” villain. John and the snipers are the audience when Sherlock jumps, but Sherlock also has actors, crew, and props that help him. Sherlock no longer has John as his audience, and this is going to result in a lot more film/tv/lit references–things will built-in audiences.
MHR - John receives the box of items from Lestrade, including the DVD that is the Sherlock version of the DW episode “Blink”, where they literally use a script to “communicate”. This mini episode marks where the DW/Torchwood and Rathbone/Bruce overlaps (the LMS train engine) really escalate. Sherlock, although not present, still has John as his audience. Sherlock talking about John’s friends not liking him will come up in TEH, talking about Mary and the wedding guests.
TEH - Restaurants full of people, John, and Mary are Sherlock’s audience, and he even comes in costume. Sherlock’s fan club finds out he’s alive, but a scenario involved Moriarty being put in colored contacts and a face mask to pass as Sherlock, as if his build and height wouldn’t give him away as someone else. Anderson does video of Sherlock’s explanation. The TARDIS is on the wall. Mary is Rathbone/Bruce The Woman in Green and takes over the traits of previous season villains. Sherlock has an audience as he rescues John, his Damsel in Distress, but John is more important. Still, Magnussen has footage in his MP.
TSoT - The Best Man Speech gives Sherlock the wedding guests and Sholto as captive audiences, John calls Sherlock a drama queen, and the villain is the photographer. Stag Night through TFP will mimic the ending of Casablanca.
HLV - Sherlock hasn’t seen John, and has no audience, as he’s in a drug den. We’re introduced properly to Magnussen, the power of MP, and pressure points. There is a camera when Sherlock goes to propose to Janine. Mary kills Sherlock, and his audience is all in his MP, except for Mary and Magnussen. We know from a script segment that Magnussen called the paramedics, and Sherlock’s heart monitor goes backwards. Mary is shown to be a facade through her projection on the buildings. John is furious, but supposedly still decides to be with her, so Sherlock shoots Magnussen for them both. That eliminates Sherlock’s favorite audience, because he is sent away. *Why did Mycroft and crew even film Sherlock shooting Magnussen?
HLV Deleted Scene - Magnussen hides evidence about Mary’s identity and her shooting Sherlock from the police, but offers it to Sherlock. Lestrade wants video, but he and John discover Sherlock has escaped. *Explanation…Eurus.
Alternatively…
TAB - Everyone in the episode is an actor and audience member. It’s set up like a play, and Sherlock says, “The stage is set, the curtain rises, we are ready to begin.” Shotgun wedding mimics TSoT, and romantic entanglement first appears, as well as Watson needing Patience (as opposed to Hope or Faith). John is once more the primary audience, because this is Sherlock’s gay fever dream. Sherlock reads John’s blog from when this was the case, before. Mary is dressed her in Miss Evangelista (DW Silence in the Library ghost/intro to River Song, who later shoots the hero), the brides and Moriarty are all in costume. "Suicide street theatre, murder by corpse – Lestrade you're spoiling us"
Clue: The Movie, where everyone is running around lying about their identities, wearing costumes, there’s a secret messenger, odd phones calls, weapons, a government agent (who might be homosexual, and definitely works for Hoover, who was a “crossdresser” like Uncle Rudy), and a lot of editing/Alternate endings.
Sherlock Season 4 It’s Not A Game Anymore - That’s Because It’s A Play
T6T - MI6- Same primary audience as HLV, though Lady Smallwood’s name is edited. Aquarium- Same primary audience as in TAB–John, Mary, Mycroft, and Lestrade. Lestrade is fixated on receiving credit, but can’t due to John’s blog. We suddenly have more DIs, which goes with ACD canon. Shark tank mimics Magnussen’s office from HLV, and integrates in another film noir. Mary, the facade is killed by Norbury, which goes back to MHR. Rosie, the Sherlock mirror established by John and Lestrade, is only Sherlock’s audience when Mary isn’t around or conscious. Objects and people disappearing, then reappearing. Technology not working the way it should. These “issues” will continue throughout S4, because someone is remembering/forgetting and/or editing. Sherlock’s reoccurring nightmare is Granada’s Eligible Bachelor & Musgrave Ritual, with his only audience being Ella.
TLD - Sherlock running around quoting the play ‘Henry V’ by Shakespeare. Mycroft doesn’t see all footage when speaking to Lady Smallwood, because it is held back by other people in the room. The blog has gone downhill, and John isn’t receiving credit anymore, so Sherlock is receiving his audience back in a time when John has supposedly written him off (What did the note say? Isn’t that what people do…leave a note?) Faith/Eurus leaves a note of her own. Sherlock has a captive audience in hospital. John is also living Billy Wilder’s (yes, of TPLoSH fame), The Lost Weekend. Most of the ending takes place in someone’s mind, John’s confession isn’t recorded, and Culverton says he doesn’t know what happened–but he owes John (so a mirror owes his life to himself). Mary is still around, handling objects, and it turns out the hat, cane, and umbrella may be recording devices. Voice bleed-throughs abound, and this will happen in TFP, too. Romantic entanglement returns from where it was first discussed in TAB, and the subject of Irene (sex with women), is put to rest. A time gap, and obligatory Epiphany cake, occur after the hug–suggesting Sherlock and John spent the night together. Sherlock has back his most precious audience–John. This continues through TFP.
TFP - Mycroft watching home movies looks like Magnussen watching films in his own MP, and the macabre events staged by Sherlock and John mimic various horror films, as well as Granada’s The Devil’s Foot hallucination. Suddenly, Magnussen is back in the music, and the voice overs continue. The Patience grenade appears, igniting what happened in the greenhouse during TAB. Discussion of Mycroft as Lady Bracknell in production of Wilde’s 'The Importance of Being Earnest’. Further pressure points become an issue, and include integration of Rathbone/Bruce Voice of Terror. COSTUMES!! Eurus is being filmed all the time on CAM, and the numbers are in the same sequence as the cameras used in the train portion of TEH. MRI scans are visible. Moriarty is in pre-recorded footage, and Eurus monitors things the way Mycroft usually does. Mycroft is locked away, and later chastised for what he did regarding Eurus. **John, Daddy Holmes (John’s mirror), and Eurus (Sherlock mirror) are all Sherlock’s primary audience. Sherlock turns his attention to saving John, instead of his own brother. Rosie shows up in 221B at the end, along with Mrs. Hudson, Molly, and Lestrade. Mycroft is still in Sherrinford, maybe as a Mofftiss mirror incapable of seeing John as anything else besides Sherlock’s blogger or friend, despite Sherlock saying John is family.
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EMP/Unreliable Narrator/Editing
Justifying Holmes/Watson or Johnlock as a Player in the Drama (Part I)
MHR and Dr. Who “Blink” ( x ) and The MHR Box of Goodies ( x )
Can I Be Of Assistance? BBC Sherlock and The Secret of Sherlock Holmes (The Granada Play)
Sherlock Loving His Touch of the Dramatic
Anyone in Sherlock and How John in TGG Started It Off
Magnussen & Mycroft & Mary (Magnussen’s MP looks like Mycroft’s theatre)
Nothing to Edit or How Lestrade Helps the Editing Process
**A Happy Ending (Mycroft has been an idiot)
Why Was Magnussen Being Shot Filmed?
Sherlock With The Hat From Hell (hat recording)
It Is Possible For the Victim To Do It If They’re Lying (umbrella and cane recording)
A Composite of Villains (Assumes many Mary/Moriarty connections)
Mary is KITTY Riley
Mary is Also Molly (Or how Molly is used)
Why Irene Adler is in TLD & Just Another Source for Mary (Inc info on the morgue scene as memory of Sherlock being beaten.)
Mary is Also Ian from Janus Cars
Kitty is Magnussen while Moriarty is Richard Brook
Ajay as Memories of Torture, Snipers, Bombs, and Moriarty’s NATO Code
Other Related Meta
Mrs. Hudson is Sherlock’s Audience and Transport in T6T & TLD
Sherlock and John Became a Couple in TLD Part I
TFP Not the Real Molly
Lit, Film, and TV References Master Post
MHR and Dr. Who “Blink” ( x )
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Nightmare - James D
((I don’t wanna do it! xC @wickedwritingswickedgame I regret making this meme.))
Everything around her was dark, glimmers and flashes of firearms and bombs brightening the surrounding area. In the flashes M’gann could see the outlines of a warehouse, tankards and oil drums along with crates of weapons. She looked around, her hands were soaked, something slick and warm covering all the way up her forearms and into her chest. The feeling of a figure pressed against her began to take shape. In another explosion’s light M’gann saw Jame’s face, gaunt and colorless, his breathing soft and shallow. She know realized that the warm liquid was blood, his blood. M’gann pressed her hand down on the gunshot in his abdomen.
“Stay with me James....Extraction is coming.”
How did this happen? How did she not have his back? M’gann sighed and cried, cloaking him the best she could from anyone who passed by. If they touched them even slightly the illusion she had casted into everyone’s mind would be over. “James stay with me...” She repeated, trying to soothe him while she tended to his wound. His lips moved, but she couldn’t hear the words,not over the noises and her own heart beat.
He gave her such a pitiful smile, before expression faded from his face leaving a blank empty stare up at her. M’gann gasped and shook him gently, no pulse or breath detected as she pulled him up into her chest sobbing against him. “No no no...not this...never this.” She cried, her tears stinging her eyes as she wiped at them, smearing blood along her cheeks. It soon became clear that this was a dream, but the emotional trauma wouldn’t release her from it. The surrounding area went black, leaving M’gann sobbing into Jame’s lifeless body.
When she was finally awoken, her room was torn apart, here telekinetic powers reacting to her extreme emotional state. M’gann gasped for air, clutching her pillow as she tried to collect herself and her abilities before the whole base was torn apart.
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