AWESOME. Here, have a toaster for joining. And I was up until 2 am. Welcome to my world. Hee. I am ridiculously pleased that someone else got caught up in this, not just me. It's a revelation. I know how you feel about feeling funny about having missed all this. I think subconsciously I was feeling and processing the messages (the ones I could recognize, anyway), but so little was making sense. I am especially fascinated by the incontrovertible lighting, music, scenic design, clothing and color choices, how so many people were in on it. I think it's 221BeeMIne who is the photographer who loves to analyze and fangirl over the Director of Photography and Cinematography on Sherlock and how much symbolism of the subconscious was portrayed in eps 1 and 2, especially. The entire Underground metaphor was amazing and beautifully done, especially when Sherlock is descending into an empty Underground, trains shooting out of and around his iris (oh, hello, fetishized eye-freckle) and the map of the system projected on him. EVERYONE on this shoot is perpetrating the symbolism through their particular medium.
Which leads me to wonder: which actors know of the plan? Like J.K. Rowling taking Rickman aside and filling him in on the endgame, did Moffat and Gatiss take Martin and Ben aside and tell them the ultimate goal? Just Ben? Did they tell anyone? If they waited to tell anyone, have they told them now? I am reminded of the story of Ben Hur in which Charlton Heston was not let into the 'joke' that his costars were playing it gay around him, loading the film with gay subtext and innuendo. Maybe Ben was clued in, so he could subtly play the part of repressed attraction and fascination and love from the beginning, and let Martin make his own decisions? I just saw a S1 promo shot of the two in front of the smiley face. EVEN THEN, from before the release, John is looking at the camera, Sherlock is looking at John. As ever. Because he is the most beautiful thing. People are complaining that in TEH they dragged out the old 'I'm not GAY!" trope again, but I think Martin played it perfectly stridently. The closer you are to losing, the louder you yell. John is already defeated, and he doesn't even know Sherlock is alive yet. He's not even angsting about marrying Mary with Sherlock back in the picture because, regardless of his feelings, he doesn't think Sherlock is at all available. So tell yourself the Big Lie, and tell everyone else, and maybe they'll stop reminding you of those thoughts you keep having.
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Date: 31 Jan 2014 06:56 pm (UTC)And I was up until 2 am. Welcome to my world. Hee. I am ridiculously pleased that someone else got caught up in this, not just me. It's a revelation.
I know how you feel about feeling funny about having missed all this. I think subconsciously I was feeling and processing the messages (the ones I could recognize, anyway), but so little was making sense. I am especially fascinated by the incontrovertible lighting, music, scenic design, clothing and color choices, how so many people were in on it. I think it's 221BeeMIne who is the photographer who loves to analyze and fangirl over the Director of Photography and Cinematography on Sherlock and how much symbolism of the subconscious was portrayed in eps 1 and 2, especially. The entire Underground metaphor was amazing and beautifully done, especially when Sherlock is descending into an empty Underground, trains shooting out of and around his iris (oh, hello, fetishized eye-freckle) and the map of the system projected on him. EVERYONE on this shoot is perpetrating the symbolism through their particular medium.
Which leads me to wonder: which actors know of the plan? Like J.K. Rowling taking Rickman aside and filling him in on the endgame, did Moffat and Gatiss take Martin and Ben aside and tell them the ultimate goal? Just Ben? Did they tell anyone? If they waited to tell anyone, have they told them now? I am reminded of the story of Ben Hur in which Charlton Heston was not let into the 'joke' that his costars were playing it gay around him, loading the film with gay subtext and innuendo. Maybe Ben was clued in, so he could subtly play the part of repressed attraction and fascination and love from the beginning, and let Martin make his own decisions?
I just saw a S1 promo shot of the two in front of the smiley face. EVEN THEN, from before the release, John is looking at the camera, Sherlock is looking at John. As ever. Because he is the most beautiful thing.
People are complaining that in TEH they dragged out the old 'I'm not GAY!" trope again, but I think Martin played it perfectly stridently. The closer you are to losing, the louder you yell. John is already defeated, and he doesn't even know Sherlock is alive yet. He's not even angsting about marrying Mary with Sherlock back in the picture because, regardless of his feelings, he doesn't think Sherlock is at all available. So tell yourself the Big Lie, and tell everyone else, and maybe they'll stop reminding you of those thoughts you keep having.