Hisboswell1895 - Pretending To Understand BBC Sherlock

Still EMP or coma

I just noticed something in HLV in the minute 45’. Please watch when Sherlock supposedly go out of his mind palace. Sherlock is considering Mary and when he come back the monitor behind him, showing us his heartbeat, starts going back and not forward. The monitor is running backwards, from right to left. When he is talking to Janine, in the minute 43'40", the monitor runs well, from left to right. I don’t know how put the gif from the two scenes so please go and watch and tell me I don’t go crazy. @monikakrasnorada @isitandwonder @multivariate-madness @stillgosherlocked @gryssenielsen @mylastvow

real yearners know that they can even feel nostalgic about the present moment

Lily: Did it hurt?

James: Did what hurt?

Lily: When you fell walking in. I saw you fall on your face. Everyone saw.

Does anyone else ever think about just how QUIET Watson is? He talks much more in later canon, but he’s mostly very silent, soaking everything in.

Maybe it’s just that he doesn’t write his own reactions very often, because he thinks that he’s less interesting to the reader than Holmes.

But Holmes mentions that Watson has a “grand gift of silence” so I think he’s just a quiet guy.

It does add to the idea that I’ve built up in my head of him, that he’s this strong silent man, very stoic and very steady.

Which is a really interesting contrast to Holmes, who is constantly MOVING and TALKING. In fact, I think that it creates a conflict within both characters’ personalities. Holmes’ mannerisms are loud and hyperactive; but he’s the one who notices things, and is the thinker. Meanwhile, Watson is a quiet listener, but he’s also the man of action. He is stubborn and passionately emotional, as opposed to Holmes who is more calm and calculating.

I literally have no clue where this whole essay came from lol

v late to the party and only half aware of current theories but im back into sherlock and just rewatched hlv so here’s:

hlv as inspired by His Last Bow:

- name (obvs)

- h+w reunite after time apart

- beard (goatee / janine)

- Watson in disguise

- holmes drugging people (kinda)

- Holmes selling state secrets

- final conversation

- east wind

HLB subtitled as ‘the epilogue of Sherlock Holmes’, so do they use it here to highlight a departure from the canon? They’ve reached the end and the rest is their version?

Holmes every time someone tries to kick Watson out of a crime scene:

When you're overstimulated and want to go home but the game is STILL afoot.

Me when Sherlock Holmes goes off to break up moriartys network and Mary Watson suddenly dies.

for you