In this series I'll be breaking down the theories and explanations surrounding everyone's favorite gay conspiracy. This first video establishes the background context for the TJLC reading of the show by talking about the original Holmes canon, The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes, what was happening at the BBC at the time Sherlock was commissioned, and Mark Gatiss and Steven Moffat's personal history with Holmes/Watson. I really hope you enjoy it!
Hello everyone and welcome back to another episode of TJLC Explained. One of the most frequent arguments made against johnlock, even by people who /want/ to believe, is that the creators and actors have said it isn't going to happen. But they lie. A lot. This video walks through why you shouldn't worry the next time someone involved with Sherlock makes a comment that appears to contradict johnlock.
As a Valentine's Day Special I thought I'd surprise you all and cover Sherlock's Unaired Pilot a week early! It's a bit longer than the other videos, but I want to cover the episodes in depth. I hope you like it! And no, I didn't add that music to the rooftop scene. That was actually there. I can't believe it either.
Today's episode of TJLC Explained introduces the Phone/Heart metaphor, one of the most prevalent symbols in TJLC analysis. In this video I'll discuss the ways this metaphor tends to be used and explaining what the most important uses mean for TJLC. I hope you enjoy the video!
In this episode of TJLC Explained I cover the food=sex metaphor on BBC Sherlock, although broadly speaking it's more accurate to say food equates to intimacy. We'll recap it's inclusion in the pilot and follow some of the most notable uses in the series, including Irene insistently asking Sherlock to have dinner with him, and who Sherlock is actually having dinner with. Thank you all for your continued support of this project, I hope you enjoy the video!
Welcome back to TJLC Explained! In this week's episode I explain how A Study in Pink creates the foundation for an incredible love story and how the changes between this version and the unaired pilot version give the romance sufficient depth and time to unfold. I hope you enjoy the video!
Welcome back to another episode of TJLC Explained! In this video I talk about another popular fan theory: The Drink Code. The basic gist of the drink code is that whenever a character drinks something, or talks about drinking something, that specific drink was chosen for a symbollic reason. I'll walk through the major categories and give some of the important examples.
Welcome back to another episode of TJLC Explained! In this video I talk about everyone's least favorite episode, The Blind Banker. Hopefully I make a good case for why it's less terrible than you think.
Hi everyone! This week's episode of TJLC Explained talks about sexual imagery and innuendos in BBC Sherlock. There are a lot of them. This is probably my favorite one so far, I hope you enjoy it as much as I did!
This week I talk about the series one finale of Sherlock: The Great Game. This episode is where a reasonable reading of the show as an ambiguous friendship ends and with the final scene, the tension and dynamic of the next two series is all set up. I hope you enjoy the video and thank you all so much for your patience.
It's time to address something very important. I discuss elephant imagery in Sherlock, how it contributes to TJLC, and how the use of the elephant in the promotion of the show means something big is coming very soon. I hope you all enjoy this video!
Hi everyone! In this quick spring break bonus video I talk explain the meaning behind some of the numbers frequently mentioned in the TJLC community like 221, 57, and 1895. I hope you enjoy the video!
AND THEN IT WAS TIME.... A Scandal in Belgravia causes a lot of people to have doubts about TJLC. It absolutely shouldn't. What on the surface appears to be a forced straight romance is actually one of the best episodes to prove TJLC as their attempt. Why else would they steal the plot of The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes for their Irene Adler episode? I hope this episode helps put some of your fears to rest, making it did for some of mine.
This episode I discuss the history and symbolism of Sherlock's iconic deer stalker, and how it relates to false public perceptions. This is one of my favorite topics, so I hope you like the video! (also tried a new sound configuration this time, I have almost everything figured out but the background noise, slow progress)
This video discusses Molly Hooper and her role on the show (and by extension her role in TJLC). Also I finally made a title sequence! I hope this compromise makes everyone happy in re: cheery music!
Already in the process of editing the next one so it should only be a day or two! In the mean time I hope you enjoy this video on The Hound of Baskerville! We'll be talking about the true source of Sherlock's fear in this episode (hint, it's not the hound), the symbolism of Bluebell the luminous rabbit, the Henry/John parallel, and of course, conspiracy theories!
This episode of TJLC Explained covers the mirrors of series one and two, and how they are perhaps one of the biggest supports for TJLC.
I've been looking forward to this one for quite awhile! Making it was a bit less exciting than it might have been two weeks ago, but it was still a lot of fun and I hope you enjoy it! Thank you as always to my lovely girlfriend Stacey shlto for helping with scripts! Thank you this week to @weeesi, @tjlcisthenewsexy, @bug-catcher-in-viridian-forest, @iwantthatbelstaffanditsocupant, @shinka, @kinklock, and @vanetti!
Sorry again to have such a downer video lined up right now after recent events. Hopefully seeing that there's still hope after something tragic happens in this story will help you find hope in the real world to. We do have reasons to believe. Also I'm sorry for the strange sound quality fluctuations on this video (worse than usual) there was a really loud noise in the background that i tried to cancel out but i think I just made things worse. Thank you as always to my wonderful girlfriend Stacey for being here for me through all of this, I really couldn't do any of it without you.
Today's video covers one of my favorite episodes: The Sign of Three. I'll be discussing the episode in depth and how the episode not only doesn't ruin a gay reading like we were expecting, but goes out of its way to encourage one.
In Today's episode of TJLC Explained I talk about some of the common romantic devices that have made their way onto Sherlock. Spoilers: there are A Lot of them. Maybe I should try a different approach...
If you don't believe the writers are going for a love story, a lot of things don't make very much sense.
Today I talk about 221B Baker Street, some of the little details you may have missed, and how 221B Baker Street embodies Sherlock and John's life together (which you kind of already knew).
Today we're talking about the finale of series 3: His Last Vow. I hope you enjoy the video!
This video discussions the many allusions to relationships and love affairs on BBC Sherlock. Sorry for the audio issues all just another consequence of the limited time: i couldnt retake the footage. But it should be better in the next one.
In this video I talk about "Mary Morstan" and how her characterization supports TJLC.
"I mean okay there's evidence but come ON! They've said it's not going to happen, it's not like you've predicted something they were lying about before!" If you've found yourself thinking something like the above sentence, this is the video for you! Whether you don't know about what was happening in the lead up to TAB or want to get a little nostalgic about that very exciting time in the TJLC community, this video will give you everything you need to know about the Gay Victorian Fever Dream theory.
It's the episode we've all been waiting for! And by we I mostly mean me. The Abominable Bride is my favorite episode of BBC Sherlock and there's a lot going on here, so I've split it up into multiple parts. This first part covers right up to the beginning of the green house scene. I have to leave you something to look forward to for next time right?
The name "The Johnlock Conspiracy" might have started as a joke, but it's surprisingly approriate. The writers have been dropping hints that there's a conspiracy in the works. TJLC stands for The Johnlock CONSPIRACY or the belief that the writers are making a gay romance and lying about it. The truth is out there. *x files theme*
Continuing our discussion of TAB this episode picks up where we left off in that infamous greenhouse scene. Things get a lot more intense and convoluted in this second portion, but hopefully this explanation helps things along a bit for you!
Concluding this string of videos on The Abominable Bride here we go really in depth on my favorite scene in the whole show. I hope you have as much fun as I did!
It's been over five years since Series 4 first aired. While many of us shut away BBC Sherlock and our time with it as a result, I think a re-examination of both the show and the TJLC reading is long overdue. I wrote this retrospective to try to make peace with the show and its writers. Hopefully this series can help a few of you do the same. This specific video reintroduces BBC Sherlock and the TJLC reading and discusses the various explanations for the writers motivations when writing Sherlock.
This video is the second installment of a larger retrospective series. Click the link below to be taken to the full playlist! Part Two looks back at Series One of BBC Sherlock, including an in-depth analysis of the structure of the first twenty minutes to establish a few concepts I'll be referring back to throughout the retrospective.
This video is the third installment of a larger retrospective series. Click the link below to be taken to the full playlist! Part Three looks back at Series Two of BBC Sherlock, along with the minisode Many Happy Returns.
This video is the fourth installment of a larger retrospective series. Click the link below to be taken to the full playlist! Part Four looks back at Series 3 and The Abominable Bride, and offers a wrap up for those who don't want to revisit Series 4.
This video is the fifth installment of a larger retrospective series. Click the link below to be taken to the full playlist! Part Five looks back at four of BBC Sherlock and pokes fun at the absurdity of the series to hopefully help us all feel a bit better about how things played out. It concludes by explaining why the retrospective took the shape it did even with Series 4 being the way it is.
This video is a re-upload of the sixth installment of a larger retrospective series. Click the link below to be taken to the full playlist! Part Six looks at BBC Dracula and explains, in great detail, how it changed everything about how I look back on Mark and Steven's work.
This video is the seventh and final installment of a larger retrospective series. Click the link below to be taken to the full playlist! Part Seven doubles as a 49th Episode of TJLC Explained, with a very different approach to the framing. If you've been following along with this retrospective, I just want to thank you again for coming along on this journey with me! I hope you've enjoyed ????