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For the people who say we read too much into everything: I though the same but then I realised, before airing S3 Moffat said it had taken two years because they wanted it to be as good as the two previous series, but then when I watched it I was —

deducingbbcsherlock:

wytchblood:

deducingbbcsherlock-deactivated:

puzzled because the cases weren’t as heavy and well-thought as they were in S1 and S2 and that’s exactly the point: it didn’t take them 2 years to write the plots, it took them 2 years to think of all the details because they know there are people like us who will notice it. They make this shows for us ‘obsessive’ fans, they don’t actually make it for the general audience, all the details aren’t for them, they’re for the people they know that will not only see but also observe.

Bold emphasis mine, because hell yes.

This may be the most important thing ever. What’s the catch phrase of this show? “You see, but you don’t observe.”  This, this here, don’t just look, think. It’s the new sexy.

You see, you just don’t observe.

Brainy is the new sexy.

Don’t just look – think.

What might we deduce about his heart?

That just sort of…happened.

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If we ever run a campaign for The Johnlock Conspiracy, here’s a few slogan ideas. Anyone got any more?

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#little details like these made the episode for me#the subtle hints that the mark didn’t allow cain to cultivate land anymore#the hobbies he picked up to cope such as bee keeping and the illusion of farming#so when dean and crowley show up at his he has he has to immediately go out into town#and buy corn that he isn’t capable of growing himself because the life he’s build is his anchor#from letting his old blood thirsty tendencies rise up#so he can sit in the middle of a fight between dean and pack of demons calmly because he can keep his hands busy#what a character (via octopifer)

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I’m still not over HLV, so have some more meta

willietheplaidjacket:

(Once again, I am certain I am far from the first to mention this, but never mind. Here are my thoughts)

I’ve been thinking about the framing of shots in Sherlock a lot lately, then I got thinking about this scene. Look at that for a sec.

John’s hilarious reactions and the just plain bizzare sight of Sherlock kissing a woman aside, check out the framing of the shots with Sherlock and Janine. Two different angles, and in both of them Janine is blocking out John. She is almost perfectly filling the space where he would otherwise be in those shots (meaning that in a two-dimensional sense Sherlock’s line of sight is matched to where John is).

In the first, she is obstructing him and filling in his space (yes, double meanings) plus bonus horns over her head.

In the second, not only is she doing this but she’s kissing Sherlock as well. Meanwhile Sherlock has his eyes closed (even screwed shut) and is barely responding. He doesn’t tilt his head or move it forwards/backwards aside from the force of Janine’s kiss moving him, so his and John’s head’s remain aligned. If Janine wasn’t there, John’s outline would be touching Sherlock’s. If John were in focus there would almost be a forced perspective whereby they would appear to be face to face (much like the shot in TEH where we are led to believe Sherlock and Mycroft are playing chess).

You may say this is unintentional but framing is super important and almost always deliberate (this is true in all visual art forms). I mean John doesn’t need to be there really. He could do what I imaging most people would do if their best friend started making out with someone which is leave, go make a cup of tea, pretend to be immersed in a magazine or something. They could have shot this from the other way around so that the camera was pointing towards the stairs, leading on to Janine’s immediate departure. But no, they shot it with John obstructed, with the audience made aware that he is there, but we can’t see him. With Sherlock (who we are led to believe has just bathed in front of this woman and was fine with her sitting in his lap) making the bare minimum effort to respond to her kissing him while his best friend is in the room.

In summary, Janine is in John’s place, physically and metaphorically, and Sherlock knows it.

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chbstriderwho:

Okay I’m gonna do this thing so reblog if you post mostly about any of these fandoms and I’ll check out your blog and follow 

  • Merlin
  • Sherlock
  • Doctor Who
  • Homestuck
  • Fullmetal Alchemist/Brotherhood
  • Noragami
  • Kill la Kill
  • Gurren Lagann
  • Code Geass
  • Shingeki no Kyojin
  • Anime movies I should probably watch
  • dbz
  • idk man all the good anime 
  • Percy books
  • Divergent
  • THG
  • TMI/TID
  • Good books