{"id":213762,"date":"2014-04-29T21:04:52","date_gmt":"2014-04-29T21:04:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2014\/04\/29\/12-regarding-your-ask-about-sherlock-deducing\/"},"modified":"2014-04-29T21:04:52","modified_gmt":"2014-04-29T21:04:52","slug":"12-regarding-your-ask-about-sherlock-deducing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2014\/04\/29\/12-regarding-your-ask-about-sherlock-deducing\/","title":{"rendered":"(1\/2) Regarding your ask about &#8220;sherlock deducing himself&#8221;: oh god I&#8217;ve got a BS in Psychology and Criminology, and now that you mention it, I could say so much on that parallelism between Sherlock and the bullet-hole-ridden smiley face&#8230; first with the incident of Sherlock actually shooting the smiley face while bored, and then again in that scene in TRF showing them both in the mirror&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/iwantthatcoat.tumblr.com\/post\/84023825327\/1-2-regarding-your-ask-about-sherlock-deducing\" target=\"_blank\">iwantthatcoat<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/deducingbbcsherlock-deactivated.tumblr.com\/post\/83989254946\/12-regarding-your-ask-about-sherlock-deducing\">deducingbbcsherlock-deactivated<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<p>(2\/2) Basically, equate that smiley face to a punching bag with a cutout of Sherlock\u2019s face on it, and when Sherlock got bored, when his mind rebelled at stagnation, he took to punching that bag (shooting the wall). The deliberate mirroring of the smiley face and Sherlock\u2019s actual face is pretty indicative of them being linked. That\u2019s an entire psychoanalysis just asking to be written.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Ho.Ly.Shite.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>First, can we talk about this? The smiley and the skull, good versus bad. Visually, it reminds me a whole lot of\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/deducingbbcsherlock.tumblr.com\/post\/83577862910\/you-are-my-favourite-metaperson-on-tumblr-and-the-way\" target=\"_blank\">Sherlock\u2019s final problem<\/a>. Which man will he choose to be?\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"image\" src=\"https:\/\/78.media.tumblr.com\/a7c16c4618f14fd82a5ad6d7c785239e\/tumblr_inline_n4oaonCutD1sz51mk.gif\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"image\" src=\"https:\/\/78.media.tumblr.com\/4f66d9fce687e25a604802e6cfbff5db\/tumblr_inline_n4oalpMieO1sz51mk.png\" \/><\/p>\n<p>He starts out TGG shooting the \u201cright\u201d version in the face.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"image\" src=\"https:\/\/78.media.tumblr.com\/bc458c3cbda653fee51a134902acd23e\/tumblr_inline_n4oarpwetP1sz51mk.gif\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Why? BORED!\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"image\" src=\"https:\/\/78.media.tumblr.com\/d37e8965debbf1a8ea04c703aac33a34\/tumblr_inline_n4oau5qzMN1sz51mk.gif\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Show off. Of course, that\u2019s because John\u2019s just walked in.<\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"image\" src=\"https:\/\/78.media.tumblr.com\/5bb1aee29f23c9b9381de9344ac70d5b\/tumblr_inline_n4oaxiuoBg1sz51mk.gif\" \/><\/p>\n<p>(And keeps him right.)<\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"image\" src=\"https:\/\/78.media.tumblr.com\/2d1cf27a5dee62a1ef339367a46d6b40\/tumblr_inline_n4ob3uL4kZ1sz51mk.gif\" \/><\/p>\n<p>A nice \u201cface to face\u201d moment follows\u2026<\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"image\" src=\"https:\/\/78.media.tumblr.com\/ac78ec56ffc2678148af4156323de020\/tumblr_inline_n4ob82UzTw1sz51mk.gif\" \/><\/p>\n<p>John sits in Sherlock\u2019s chair rather than his own, mirroring the smiley himself.<\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"image\" src=\"https:\/\/78.media.tumblr.com\/e9576cd859ca94a1766d5c9e5c72add9\/tumblr_inline_n4obhjOJSn1sz51mk.gif\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Nice angle here, with the smiley directly over Sherlock as he points to his head.<\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"image\" src=\"https:\/\/78.media.tumblr.com\/e8a633827c1fcb4e2aabf0c6f87d8de1\/tumblr_inline_n4obeiXBQb1sz51mk.gif\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Also this.<\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"image\" src=\"https:\/\/78.media.tumblr.com\/855849ec116f115c877e96fe572efe1a\/tumblr_inline_n4obkdY0I81sz51mk.gif\" \/><\/p>\n<p>And this.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"image\" src=\"https:\/\/78.media.tumblr.com\/f8075ea15906a9fc0af77382963a89b2\/tumblr_inline_n4obm60iun1sz51mk.gif\" \/><\/p>\n<p>And finally, in TRF:<\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"image\" src=\"https:\/\/78.media.tumblr.com\/76b3f6908363e66c4ab1e6bce22df2da\/tumblr_inline_n4obn4XCw81sz51mk.gif\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Yeah, please please please\u00a0<em>please<\/em>\u00a0someone write a psychoanalysis on this, for real. Fuck.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Holy crap what a new take on him being self destructive. I can\u2019t believe that soars over my head. The overly broad grin at the face in that long shot is\u2026well..kinda painful.<br \/>I seem to remember that at the Christmas party at 221b the skull is decorated in red lights..so would that mean that side is \u201cwinning\u201d?<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>iwantthatcoat: deducingbbcsherlock-deactivated: (2\/2) Basically, equate that smiley face to a punching bag with a cutout of Sherlock\u2019s face on it, and when Sherlock got bored, when his mind rebelled at stagnation, he took to punching that bag (shooting the wall). The deliberate mirroring of the smiley face and Sherlock\u2019s actual face is pretty indicative of &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2014\/04\/29\/12-regarding-your-ask-about-sherlock-deducing\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;(1\/2) Regarding your ask about &#8220;sherlock deducing himself&#8221;: oh god I&#8217;ve got a BS in Psychology and Criminology, and now that you mention it, I could say so much on that parallelism between Sherlock and the bullet-hole-ridden smiley face&#8230; first with the incident of Sherlock actually shooting the smiley face while bored, and then again in that scene in TRF showing them both in the mirror&#8230;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[15,1810],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213762"}],"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=213762"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213762\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=213762"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=213762"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=213762"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}