#all i can think of is that ep of sherlock with Moriarty playing “”“”gay“”“” and now he's in his full tom of finland era

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TAB the Filler Ep

I was expecting at least one person to ask me; “What do you mean by filler?” on my last post about this but everyone seemed to agree, go figure. Regardless, here’s a list of things from TAB that we thought were foreshadowing or building a foundation for things to come in S4 and...apparently weren’t. At all. 

Such as:

The whole fucking point of the episode; why Sherlock had the gay Victorian fever dream. He visualizes how he would solve the crime of Ricoletti shooting herself and then seeming to come back from the dead so he can find out how Moriarty can still be alive after doing the same. The conclusion he comes to at the end is; “Of course he’s dead, he blew his own brains out, no one survives that.” Except...Ricoletti DID because she faked her death! That’s how he solved it the case! Many of us were confused about this when the episode aired but we theorized that Sherlock was just saying this to Mary to lower her defences as he’s worked out there’s a connection between her and Moriarty. But there wasn’t. Moriarty really is dead so solving Emilia Ricoletti’s suicide was pointless. And on that note...

The connections between Mary and Moriarty/hints of Mary being revealed as a villain. From Mary sharing Magnussen’s line about John “putting that on a t-shirt” to all the hints of her being ‘wicked’ and Moriarty’s line; “You’re dreaming.” cutting to Mary saying the same thing and, oh yeah, her appearing as the Abominable Bride AS THE TITLE APPEARS ON SCREEN and...y’know what, there’s too much to go into, and people have written much better metas on how Mary is Not A Good Person (also read M Theory) that I won’t go into more. But do we get any conclusion to this? Nope. Mary dies in the next episode and goes out a hero. The ‘consequences’ of how ‘wicked’ she was in the past isn’t even that, it’s just a misunderstanding, not anything she actually did wrong. Why not have Ajay be the son or husband or father of someone Mary killed? I’m not even fully opposed to her being redeemed, I just think it was handled so poorly and rushed. We never get to find out how wicked or bad she really was - she just comes off as a gun for hire who was on a rescue mission of all things! Even without having shot Sherlock, she is coded so clearly as a villain in TAB that it baffles me what they were thinking now. What was it about having her work for Mycroft when he wasn’t even aware of who she was (ha!)? Speaking of...

Mycroft’s ‘tick tock’ on his remaining life-span. What was this? Honestly? What was Sherlock predicting? He didn’t know about Eurus so he had no idea she might be coming after their older brother. Some people thought maybe this, again, tied into M Theory and how Moriarty’s return would mean the consequences of any deals Mycroft made with Jim might come back to haunt them. I guess this was kind of true with Mycroft letting Jim see Eurus...but again, that’s Eurus’ plan. And Sherlock had no idea about this. Eurus didn’t even seem that interested in hurting Mycroft in the end, her focus was on Sherlock. I’m not saying I would WANT Mycroft to die but it felt like we were being subtly told to emotionally prepare for it. 

“Paranoia?” “Ooh, sounds Serbian!” Still nothing more mentioned on Sherlock’s torture or seeing those scars, this is more of a personal nitpick but wtf.

It’s never twins. Apparently it really is never twins. I wouldn’t even be focusing on this so much if they hadn’t repeated it again in TST. 

Holmes and Hooper. Sherlock sees Molly for the strong, clever person she is and regrets having mistreated her in the past. How does S4 end? More abuse for Molly! And making her seem like the same lovesick girl we saw back in S1! They could have had Molly be as badass as her Victorian equivalent was in that scene but instead she needs Sherlock to say ‘i love you’ when it would have been so awesome to have her just say the words calmly and cooly and show that she’s letting go of those feelings and accepting it won’t happen. But we’re never shown a follow-up to what we get so it’s...what it is.

The Greenhouse scene. Why have this when John basically gives the same lecture in TLD? With Irene Adler mentioned as well? Neither scene gives us any answer for Sherlock’s romantic/sexual history so why repeat it? 

“We have an agreement, my brother and I, ever since that day.” What day? What caused that day? What made Sherlock first take drugs? What made him first try to overdose? Why is the ‘list’ never brought up in TLD when Sherlock is completely off his tits on god knows what?

Sherlock saying He knows exactly what Moriarty’s going to do next. No. No, he really didn’t. That was a big fat lie. In fact, Moriarty seemingly didn’t leave any plans for Sherlock after he died! He just made a few gifs for Sherlock’s crazy sister to use when she pleased. Why did she broadcast them at the exact time Sherlock was about to fly off to his death? Never explained! 

Sherlock throwing away the deerstalker. Why is this presented as a happy, triumphant moment when he gladly puts it on in TLD and John’s desire for him to wear it is constantly repeated via Mary. We were being lead to believe that the deerstalker represents this idea of Sherlock Holmes that doesn’t really exist (blame the illustrator!) and he just wants to be himself but TLD and TFP tells us; “Who you really are isn’t important, just wear the damn hat! Get back in your cage and dance, monkey!”. 

Mycroft passing the torch to John, aka “Look after him. Please.” Do I even need to go into detail on this one? Just roll the clip of John kicking Sherlock’s ribs in / showing no reaction to Sherlock holding a gun to his chin and it’s all that needs to be said. He even admits that seeing Sherlock in danger wasn’t enough to make him want to save him, he had to see Mary’s dvd first. Mycroft should think of holding onto that torch for a bit longer.

Victorian Holmes’ hopes for the future. “Perhaps such things could come to pass.” What things? Why is he looking at Watson so soft and wistful as he says that? Are iPhones and private jets just that amazing to him he wishes he lived in the future? What could living in the modern day resolve that the Victorian times forbade (*cough*)?

And my number one most hated loose end from TAB is...

Hero John, aka “It was my turn”. We are taken back to the Reichenbach Fall at the end of TAB and we see it play out the way it’s SUPPOSED TO BE. Not with Moriarty and Sherlock tumbling into the abyss, but with John turning up to rescue Sherlock and kick Moriarty’s short-arse off the cliff. John states how it was his turn to rescue Sherlock when he has had enough times being Sherlock’s damsel in distress. They face their ‘final problem’ together, as there is ‘always two of them’. When it was revealed that the third episode would be titled The Final Problem, I was sure that we were going to get a real life version of this moment. The Fall done again but with John saving the day. What a sweet summer child I was. Instead we got the exact opposite. Firstly there was no Moriarty but that wouldn’t have been two bad if we would have at least still had Sherlock and John facing down the final Big Bad together. But they didn’t! Once again, John is reduced to being Princess Zelda, thrown into a well and needing to be rescued while Sherlock defeats Eurus on his own. Fuck, we don’t even get to see Sherlock and John reuniting and having a moment of tender relief when he’s pulled out, we just cut to John being a damp burrito but otherwise fine and the focus is still on the sister we don’t care about. Not the main relationship that should have been the focus of the climax, romantic or not! In the end, the Final Problem wasn’t solved by it always being ‘always the two of them’ because John was rendered useless and Sherlock solved it all on his own. Apparently that fix-it to the canon Final Problem is one only reserved for Sherlock’s gay fever dreams. :(

TL;DR my rant here is basically that one can completely skip TAB and go straight from S3 to S4 without missing anything. Nothing happens in S4 that doesn’t make sense without watching TAB. Sherlock’s plane is already turned around by the end of HLV. There’s a small reference to him taking drugs at the MI5 scene but no mention of the fact he tried to OD BEFORE he got on the plane. That’s what classifies a filler episode; one that is overall unnecessary to the overarching plot of the show. 

Now, as I’m sure lots of different fandoms are aware, filler episodes don’t equal bad. In fact some are even considered favourites in some shows. TAB is still probably my favourite Sherlock episode, maybe just behind ASIP. But that’s why I’m ranting. Because a part of why I liked it so much was because it gave me so much hope for S4′s potential. Even what it adds to the development of the characters doesn’t fit into S4 because Sherlock’s apparent newfound lust for life and trusting John’s love is destroyed by the end of TST. 

So basically, when Moffat and Gatiss said that TAB was a one-off unrelated to the modern day storyline...they weren’t completely lying. :-/

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About TFP (spoilars)

Maybe bc I had read some post about how bad it is(Like even Johnlock is real it’s horrible, etc), I want to write some of my feelings about this episode as I’m a BBC Sherlock fan and Johnlocker. With my limited English level… 

Surprisingly I’m feel fine with whole episode, I was somehow really enjoy this Holmes siblings’ drama, and poor victor ;_;. And yes, that “I love you.” scene is the only moment I almost wanted to stop watching, bc I know how Molly’s feel and how hurt it is and this ‘game’ is definitely horrible. But I’m glad that Sherlock knows it, I could watch him smashes that damn coffin thousands of times. But I’ve been touched by the end when Sherlock realized and found his sister, played the violin with her again(since they separated), just my opinion, I’ve always been touched by this kind of story, and Sherlock is always the grown-up, I knew it. Though I feel sad for Eurus been described to a character and growing up like that. Idk maybe it’s where “Love conquers all.” comes from, Eurus does love her little brother, and I think she is the most jealous guy of all characters…

But the reason why I’m fine with this ep because I consider it as isolated from other episodes, still many questions and weird things from previous two episode have no answers.

And I still believe in Johnlock, “This is family!””That’s why he stays!”, I know these lines could have different explanations( Because his experience from his sister/family blahblah), but clearly Sherlock counted him as his family(always), and John either. And they solving crimes, with all those friends, live truly happy together forever with Rosie, I can tell it’s a happy ending. Yeah I’m still a bit disappointment and mad with those gay jokes they had put in and done nothing. Not just a cheap gay joke umm?

Btw I really like John in this episode. He is clever and who we love at the beginning.

Uh talk about Mary…. she is the most mysterious character to me, I used to hate her because she really killed Sherlock to protect her lie, and threatened him. I don’t believe what Sherlock said that she shoot him to protect him. But Mary in Series four to me is like another person, that’s why ep1 always made me feel weird, then she’s dead. I must say that I really love the Mary-in-John’s mind in ep2, she’s just an angel. And at the end of tfp, she’s just like Sherlock and John’s mom…

So I’m also consider that we could see these whole S4 as isolated from other Series…

Maybe the point they want to tell us is that everybody could’ve done dumb things, like Sherlock didn’t fully trust his friend and made John sorrow, like Mycroft send Moriarty as a Christmas present, like Mary used to killed Sherlock, like Eurus killed Redbeard and played those horrible games, like you and me sometimes, like Moffatiss uh…. And they both paid the price, but maybe we couldn’t make a judgement about they’re forgivable or not, we are all just bystanders.

I won’t say that this is my favorite episode, neither my favorite Series. But I think I’m fine with it. 

Well, those are my opinions, you can disagree with me. I love this fandom a lot, so many brilliant people, writers, and artists, also thanks everyone who likes my fan arts. We could make our stories by ourselves, just like those two fanboys who called Moffatiss. We can let Sherlock and John be happy together forever.

Really sorry if there are lots of grammar error…