{"id":160226,"date":"2015-04-07T13:08:38","date_gmt":"2015-04-07T13:08:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2015\/04\/07\/sussexbound-57circlesofhell-x-ok-so-the\/"},"modified":"2018-09-09T08:59:27","modified_gmt":"2018-09-09T08:59:27","slug":"sussexbound-57circlesofhell-x-ok-so-the","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2015\/04\/07\/sussexbound-57circlesofhell-x-ok-so-the\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-160226 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2015\/04\/07\/sussexbound-57circlesofhell-x-ok-so-the\/attachment\/160227\/'><img width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/tumblr_nmd27y6Fwi1uq0vl3o1_640-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/tumblr_nmd27y6Fwi1uq0vl3o1_640-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/tumblr_nmd27y6Fwi1uq0vl3o1_640-100x100.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"100vw\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/sussexbound.tumblr.com\/post\/115629918831\/57circlesofhell-x-ok-so-the-poison-giant-post\" class=\"tumblr_blog\" target=\"_blank\">sussexbound<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/57circlesofhell.tumblr.com\/post\/115623743299\/x-ok-so-the-poison-giant-post-on-johns-blog-is\" class=\"tumblr_blog\" target=\"_blank\">57circlesofhell<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>[<a href=\"http:\/\/johnwatsonblog.co.uk\/blog\/27may\" target=\"_blank\">X<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p>OK, so The Poison Giant post on John\u2019s blog is one I think about a lot because we have this obvious unresolved plot dangler\u2014someone is trying to kill John and Sherlock, they never find out why, they end up ignoring it\u2014and I can\u2019t decide if this ties into something we\u2019ve already seen on the show or if it\u2019s foreshadowing something that\u2019s about to happen.<\/p>\n<p>I mean, are there any characters we\u2019ve already met who would be trying to kill John and Sherlock just before the former\u2019s wedding? Is the next villain of the season the one trying to kill them? And what\u2019s up with the pearls? Why? WTF is this?<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>I mean Sherlock is more interested in\u00a0\u201cThe Elephant in the Room\u201d than he is in the fact that someone is trying to kill them. \u00a0He is so distracted by the elephant in the room (his feelings for John and\/or John\u2019s feelings for him), that he\u2019s completely disregarding as irrelevant and boring, the very obvious threat right in front of them (Liar, Guardian, Secret Tattoo). \u00a0I would say this is foreshadowing about Mary, but I could be wrong.<\/p>\n<p>The pearls ( and this whole case\/blog entry) are a reference\/parallel to\u00a0\u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Sign_of_the_Four\" target=\"_blank\">The Sign of Four<\/a>\u201d where Miss Mary Morstan started receiving one pearl of exceptional worth in the post every year for six years. \u00a0They were part of the treasure of\u00a0\u2018Agra\u2019.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>sussexbound: 57circlesofhell: [X] OK, so The Poison Giant post on John\u2019s blog is one I think about a lot because we have this obvious unresolved plot dangler\u2014someone is trying to kill John and Sherlock, they never find out why, they end up ignoring it\u2014and I can\u2019t decide if this ties into something we\u2019ve already seen &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2015\/04\/07\/sussexbound-57circlesofhell-x-ok-so-the\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[4977,4],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160226"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=160226"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160226\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":160228,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160226\/revisions\/160228"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=160226"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=160226"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=160226"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}