Locked in your silky prison

[tj_teejay]

Hee, this is hilarious! I love it when fans give in to silly notions.

And just for the record, I'm not even a fan of the purple shirt and its apparent sexiness. I'd much rather have myself some Neal Caffrey in a tight purple shirt. Still, I thought this was funny as shit, and thus deserves to be shared. \o/

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[swanpride.livejournal.com]

Actually, unlike with some other fandoms, there are actually gen writers in it. Though the slash writers more or less hijacked the best fic-meme out there, but with the Sherlock Fandom it's more a big come together, and a lot of writers oparate in the "it could be slash, but I don't tell" realm, the show itself mostly operates in too.

Love the show, too, btw, but the long waits between the season are something else. Not that I complain too much, considering the rare high-quality TV which is the result.

I have my own theory about the end of season 2 - care to hear?

[tj-teejay.livejournal.com]

I've just probably not looked in the right places for the gen fanfic. The comm I'm following is terrible with tagging. About 80% of the fics tagged 'gen' are actually Johnlock slash. But it's okay, I have a pretty long reclist now that I'll look through when I find the time.

Sure, hit me with your theory! Btw, Moffat or Gatiss said somewhere that there's a clue about what happened at the end of Reichenbach in The Blind Banker. I've since rewatched that episode twice, and I'm just not seeing it. Very frustrating.

[swanpride.livejournal.com]

AO3 is a pretty good source...just filter the gen stories out (and pay attention if there is a pairing in the header). I have found some pretty good ones there.

Though, in this particular fandom, it pays off not to be picky. There are some pretty good, plotty slash fics in it.


Okay:
Clue 1: Sherlock asked Molly for help. She would be certainly able to fake an autopsy for him.
Clue 2: When John is called away, Sherlock is playing with a baseball. What for? That's not really his usual behaviour. But there is this old trick, where you put a baseball under your arm in order to pretent not to have a pulse.
Clue 3: When this big car? LKW? Truck? turns up in front of Barts, Sherlock asks Moriaty to step back from the ledge. So he can't see what's going on down the street.
Clue 4: He also asks John to go back, making sure that this garage is in HIS way, so John can't see the street beyond Sherlock neither.
Clue 5: The way Sherlock falls, with the long coat and the arms spread out, he would slow down his fall a little bit...not much, but if there is not the hard street under him, but something soft instead, ie on top of this truck, it wouldn't be hard to survive the fall. The roof is not THAT high.
Clue 6: The biker turns up pretty convenient to stop John from immediatly looking behind the garage. Enough time for Sherlock to roll himself from whatever he really fell on to the street (and put some fake blood/red spray paint on him). We even see the truck driving away.
Clue 7: All the people turning up are pretty fast, and very insistent to bring Sherlock away immediatly. Preplanned helper?

[tj-teejay.livejournal.com]

That actually sounds like a really plausible theory. I never noticed, but I just watched that scene again, and you're right. There's this lorry there that drives away just as John runs to look at Sherlock's body. While I thought it was obvious that the bike driver who hits John was staged to delay John finding the body, I think your back-of-the-lorry theory is pretty sound. Sherlock could have put a thick air-cushion on there or something else to break the fall. I don't think he could have just landed on a lorry without anything to break the fall from that height. And this building between John and the street was also pretty convenient, and I also never really noticed that. I suck at deduction. ;-)

And, yes, of course Molly would have played a part in a) all the blood on the street when John sees Sherlock's body and b) making sure everyone will believe that Sherlock is actually dead. No doubt about it.

I'm pretty sure Sherlock staged the whole thing, including paramedics and everything. Maybe even the crowd that gathered there. He's meticulous like that, isn't he?

[swanpride.livejournal.com]

Yeah, the first thought I had after this scene was "why did he insist that John goes back?" John could have seen him from his former position just as well. And then I concluded that it was less about what John could see and more about what John couldn't see from this other position, and that was the street.

But I admit, the only reason I noticed the baseball was because the very same trick was featured in a Mentalist episode, which happend to air the same week.

I'm wondering if Mycroft was involved in the plan or not.

I didn't know that there is supposed to be a clue in "The blind Baker". Now I have to rewatch it, too.

[starrylizard.livejournal.com]

*butts in* Did you notice early in S2, the scene in which Mycroft says "MRS HUDSON" and Sherlock gets annoyed, the neswpaper he is reading has an article about renovations going on in St Barts? That has to be in the solution somewhere, right?

[swanpride.livejournal.com]

I did notice, but I heart that the audiocommentar in the DVD is saying something about it, which dispelled the connection. Since I don't own the DVD yet, I couldn't hear it and judge for myself yet.

[starrylizard.livejournal.com]

Interesting! I've not managed to look at my DVDs yet.