Mycroft wearing two different ties between HLV’s tarmac scene and “five minutes later” in the TAB plane scene: the trifling detail I can already tell will haunt me for the rest of 2016.
Tie Hell 2k16
Oh hell. Because yeah, I’m going to be thinking about this now. Is there a reason? Did they just fuck up? Does it mean something? Did Mycroft swiftly take off his tie and use it to strange someone then need a new one? Why is his tie different? Everything means something and nothing is on accident so WHY.
*screaming*
It’s cool, they just painstakingly preserve everyone else’s clothes for a couple years and link very detailed outfits to specific points in episode timelines and they already knew they’d be picking up again at the tarmac scene and it’s not like Mycroft is super picky about his clothes anyhow and I mean it’s cool he probably just changed his tie in the car to celebrate Moriarty’s return or Mark Gatiss decided to steal the original, I’m completely fine
is it possible that it’s the lighting?
All from HLV:
From TAB:
Definitely not the lighting.
tie hell: day 2
isn’t that blue scarf a bit different too?
oh yes it is? but idk, do they not keep these things? they knew they were about to film additional scenes and since every little detail is so important then I am not sure what exactly we should make out of this… like, John is wearing exactly the same clothes in all 3 series
I don’t know from which part of the special those screenshots are, but it could be, if it’s from the inbetween part, that it’s because we’re still in Sherlock’s head (see this post for more explanation) and he didn’t pay enough attention to get the proper details right
(would also be cool if he still got john exactly right though, because that would show how observant he is around him)
The tie is exactly the same through all the TAB scenes.
I screencapped every Mycroft scenes and the tie and scarf are always the same in TAB and both are different from the ones in HLV.
January 4 2016. Dear diary, I have joined Skully in tie hell. Do not send help. We are forever lost and must succumb to our inevitable destiny.
Do you ever wonder if there’s something wrong with us?
BBC Sherlock is what’s wrong with me
Just add this to John inexplicably parting his hair on the other side after S2. (Really, that’s why everything after TRF is in an alternate mirror universe.)
I am in Mycroft Tie Hell also. Because it occurred to me that maybe NONE OF THE TARMAC SCENES in TAB ARE REAL!!
Help me out, yo. Tell me why we have to know the last tarmac scene was real. What evidence is there that Sherlock actually woke up that last time?
Hmmm?
Are you trying to imply they did not let Sherlock say goodbye to John and that he imagined the tarmac scene in HLV?
I think they’re just saying the last scene of TAB could have been mind palace too.
But UGH THE TIE AND THE FUCKING SCARF ARE BOTH DIFFERENT KILL ME