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superwholockian93 · 3 years

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BBC Sherlock rewatch. Last watched any of series 1-3 was 2014, I think. Wow. s4 I saw in 2019, maybe. Eh. Anyway. I was gonna ramble to my friends but it’s just better to put it here.

Here goes. Series 1 ep 1

John sometimes with the black-grey hair looks like my father and his brothers. Also, such a sad beginning :(

I missed this opening T-T It was my ringtone for months at a time when I changed ringtones within days

I remember when I first watched this, I thought it was such an odd choice, these shots.

Poor Lestrade. I didn’t quite like him in the books or in the RDJ one. But here, almost instantly endeared to him. Also, if he thought that the suicides were interlinked, how was it not murder? Wait, no, I have my answer.

Honestly, I still don’t remember who her character was in the books.

John and Sherlock’s introduction feels so like main characters+ love interests type. I have grown up on Hindi language TV series (my 4th language!) and maybe it colours my view 😂 But character A introduced has all these issues etc and then somehow ends up in a situation and has to ask who is (B)? and then they show B doing fancy shit like how’s that not 2 very dissimilar characters who through fate/Mike Stamford find each other??? I don’t really watch Western romance so idk what it’s like for you all but I remember grinning the entire time cuz I love this trope😂

This right here is where I fell in love with Benedict Cumberbatch’s Sherlock Holmes and you’re telling me John Watson wasn’t supposed to?

This was the only time I found John relatable (I used to be very Sherlock-esque in life. Funny how things change) when Sherlock left him behind.

He just smiles here?? He’s not offended? Like, he’s slightly annoyed but more amused?

This whole Angelo/dinner/date thing... I still can’t believe happened. So. Unreal.

Oh, I think, I get the ‘joke’ now.

I love Lestrade and Sherlock’s relationship??? 🥺

John defending Sherlock about the drugs thing and Sherlock asking him to shut up. I couldn’t say who I was more embarrassed for. And then S turns around they exchange this look. Ahhh.

So, John solved the case first? I never noticed/realised this before!

His and Lestrade’s reaction this xD Ah, Sherlock immediately checks himself. Ahhh. He met him only hours back and yet!

I didn’t like him the first time around. Now I do.. Crazy eyes

Oh, he’s pissed. At Sherlock? At himself?

Love this line. “Sherlock’s a great man and one day, if very very lucky, he might even be a good one.”

John running through the corridor and searching for Sherlock, trying every door cuz he knows he might be in danger?? You know where else I have seen this before? Every damn Hindi TV serials whenever the female protagonist was in danger and the “hero” needed to save her. I know they’re doing it here to build the tension buuut.

OOooh, I had forgotten about this.😂

He did get his attention after all, right? I remember thinking back then that I would have definitely gotten into the cab to prove the cabbie wrong; that I’d never talk myself into taking that pill but I forgot he would pull out the gun. Duh. Boring.

Again. Man running through the corridors looking for the ... damsel in distress?

Love. Them. Why didn’t the show have more of their relationship in the show? :(

This scene right here. Sherlock babbling about who the possible killer is and turns around and looks at John who stands there calm and collected and cool as cucumber and then John looks back at him and Sherlock realises who he just described and trails off ...

There’s loud sirens around. Those sirens alert you of the love that’s impending. Jk. But c’mmon!

Just found it cute the way he said it. Also, is this your ‘classic British nature of making understatements’. Or, what’s that phrase.

Just very cute.

I didn’t mean to make this about Johnlock but it’s a huge part of the show, isn’t it?

#sherlock rewatch #BBC Sherlock #sherlock holmes #john watson #greg lestrade #johnlock #bbc #sherlock #sally donovan

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geek-royalty · 7 years

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TST: Dreams and Premonitions

Just a brief(ish) thought on the episode, seeing as I’ve had all manners of meta fly by my dash that cover bits of it, without linking the two things together….

Lots of pple have talked about how generally ‘unreal’ things felt in the ep, a lot of odd happenings that don’t quite make sense, and symbols popping up, and have mentioned that bit towards the end with Sherlock with Ella reviewing his recurring dream (which also looked to be a surreal setting and likely mind palace-y). What I haven’t seen mentioned anywhere so far is the exchange between Mycroft and Sherlock much earlier in the episode about instinct/gut feeling, how Sherlock saw that as a type of precognition, your brain processing things before you’re consciously aware of them.

It’s an interesting conversation to note because dreams too can be a form of precognition. I’ve had deja-vu type visions myself of things in the future, so who knows what a more complex thinker like Sherlock would have in the visions department! Which makes me wonder if some of the episode is actually Sherlock’s recurring dream/s (looking at you aquarium scene, maybe even John and the lady), and other parts are where he’s trying to work out what the dream/s mean in his mp, along with other events that have *actually* happened sprinkled in between (the birth and christening, for example). I’d also read an interesting meta on how the episode is actually told backwards, with that scene with Ella punctuating the 'beginning’ of the story–to me that makes a whole lot of sense. That meta also mentioned how the ep being back-to-front happens to explain, in an odd way, those odd backs of heads selfies they were taking during Setlock. And it also explains those quotes from Ben and Martin a while ago wondering and being confused about which part of the story they were up to–it wasn’t just them shooting scenes out of order for practical logistical purposes, but also because the whole ep itself was actually out of chronological order in the script, and a mix of dream, mp, and real events.

So basically Sherlock's trying to nut out what these dreams mean before they come to fruition, and Mary's definitely *not* dead, John's not 'cheating', etc.

Lol, I should probably do a rewatch to check this theory, shouldn’t I? XD

#random thoughts #meta stuff #basically putting thoughts down before next ep rolls along #spoilers

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