Location of Sherlock’s grave/Cemetery scene
mystery-of-the-cake-topper:
According to wikipedia, one of the filming locations of The Reichenbach Fall was the Newport Cemetery. The official name of the cemetery is actually Newport and St. Woolos new cemetery (and again, according to wikipedia, this cemetery was also used as filming location for Dr. Who). Just a random fact - this cemetery is only 14 miles apart from Cardiff, where Steven Moffat does live.
The question is, where is Sherlock’s grave? Here are John and Mrs. Hudson at his grave:
The building in the background is the West Chapel and I used it as orientation point. You can also see the tiny road behind their backs.
Zoomed.
Zoomed again
If you compare the screencapped scene with plan, only possible location of the grave is under this tree.
second question is, where was actually Sherlock while looking at John?
here is the scene, notice the marks, I used purple for the tombstone where sherlock is hiding behind:
here is the actual plan - black mark is grave.
Just for the information, the grave’s distance from Sherlock was aprox. 40 meters. I’m not sure if he could hear John’s words, but he sure saw him cry.
If the wind blew in the right direction…
stravaganza:
Sherlock didn’t reply. He just sighed and looked down, to the street he already saw once from that spot.
He smiled bitterly. He had defeated Moriarty, and yet he was defeated.
He had nowhere to go back to.
No one to wait for him.
No one to love him.
His heart was burnt out.
Mycroft knew that. He wouldn’t blame him, would he?
Probably not.
So, he closed his eyes and jumped.
Bringing this back because I gave myself feelings.
What if season 3 starts with Sherlock and John sitting in their armchairs, looking one another in silence
and then John says: “That’s amazing! I wouldn’t believe that could work unless I had you right here in front of me”
and we’ll never know how Sherlock survived.
[…]
“To fling my arms wide
In the face of the sun,
Dance! Whirl! Whirl!
Till the quick day is done.
Rest at pale evening…
A tall, slim tree…
Night coming tenderly
Black like me.”
Dream Variations - Langston Hughes
I know how Sherlock feels after Reichenbach.
He doesn’t look hurt most of the time, because most of the time he is not. He pushed John in a far away corner of his mind palace and started ignoring him, working restlessly to bring Moriarty’s net down, barely sleeping at all.
He never thinks about him, and when he does it’s brief and emotionless, before he hurriedly pushes him away once again.
He’s so tired when he goes to sleep that he doesn’t have time to think nor dream, and when he gets up he restarts the day all over again.
But there is a moment, every once in a while, after managing to strike a good blow to the criminal web, when everything slows down and he gets some time to think.
And when he does he takes his mobile and reads some of John’s old messages, all these small things he might not hear again, like “You are fantastic, but you could still get the milk.” or even sillier things.
That’s when he breaks down, when he goes fishing for John in his mind but finds out he has suppressed him for so long he doesn’t even remember the sound of his voice anymore.
That’s when he manages to cry, and understands that perhaps he’s not a sociopath at all, because he is broken, and lonely, and it hurts so much that he, for once, feels like a human being.
![“Heroes don’t exist and if they did I wouldn’t be one of them.”“Every fairytale need a good, old-fashioned villain.”
“It’s been a nice adventure, Sherlock…”“… but not every fairytale has a happy ending, Jim.”
Happy Ending - Mika [x]](http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m543qhCRbo1qlxt64o1_500.jpg)
“Heroes don’t exist and if they did I wouldn’t be one of them.”
“Every fairytale need a good, old-fashioned villain.”
“It’s been a nice adventure, Sherlock…”“… but not every fairytale has a happy ending, Jim.”
Happy Ending - Mika [x]
Sherlock didn’t reply. He just sighed and looked down, to the street he already saw once from that spot.
He smiled bitterly. He had defeated Moriarty, and yet he was defeated.
He had nowhere to go back to.
No one to wait for him.
No one to love him.
His heart was burnt out.
Mycroft knew that. He wouldn’t blame him, would he?
Probably not.
So, he closed his eyes and jumped.
reidanheadquarters:
#how does martin manage to look SO empty? #I can feel his weight giving out #and his numbness #and in one second he goes from talking to Sherlock looking pretty much normal to looking like the life was sucked out of him
So, this was it. The last day of filming. Well, probably it wouldn’t be the last, there would be things to adjust, shots to redo and maybe even dialogs to dub, so this isn’t the end, not really.
But still the scene they have to film is going to be the worst one he has ever made with Benedict. It’s not difficult per se, just Sherlock jumping, the puppet hitting the pavement, then Benedict lying there and whatnot. He, as John Watson, only had to approach the supposedly dead body and check it’s pulse, then sit there shocked.
He could do it, right?
But the thought of watching Benedict jump from there, even if only fictionally was horrible. And when the actual scene came in, when the camera started filming and they where on the bloody phone… Yes, the call was real.
They were talking, and Benedict (a man who has become a really good friend to him, and who he really likes) with that damn voice tone of his was so convincing…
It all looked too real to him.
That’s why after the jump, even after the stop to remove the giant mattress that caught Benedict and after he had been covered in fake blood and placed on the pavement, it was easy for Martin to express such a feeling of loss and apathetic pain, as if his heart had been tore away from his own chest.
And that’s why when the shooting ended he ran up to Benedict and hugged his tall friend as if he really just came back from the land of the deads, clinging on him for dear life, ignoring that he himself was getting covered in fake blood.
Because he’d never want to see something like that happen to a friend of his, not even if everything’s fake and safe, and he certainly doesn’t want to see it happen ever again.
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what is this I don’t even A sort of headcanon that came to me after seeing the above post. Sorry, had to. </3
This isn’t a Benedict/Martin shipping post, just an excursus on their friendship, but see it as you like!
EDIT: Now I know how they filmed the scene, and I know for sure how little sense this makes, but still here it is.
A friend of mine gave me this as a late Christmas present: it’s a scrabble letter, but at first it seemed to me a chemical element from the periodic table, and so I figured that Sherlock could have left it to John in their flat as a reminder to keep on living or stuff and I HNNNNNNG, I can’t do it. 3
![Kind of sequel of this one [x]](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m59j8lNaFU1qlxt64o1_500.jpg)
