Did you see it?
Words – Meaghan Kirby
Yes, it was a Christmas TV highlight, but it’s safe to say things were looking pretty bleak at the end of the Sherlock Season 4 premiere. ‘The Six Thatchers’ brought the [SPOILER ALERT – don’t read the next line if you’re waiting to watch this!!] death of Mary Morstan, who shielded Sherlock from a bullet meant for him.
While things in the world of Sherlock have gotten pretty dark, we can’t help but laugh a lot at a small error that has Twitter in a frenzy.
All fans of Sherlock know, John Watson keeps a blog of Sherlock’s adventures solving crimes around London. An early moment in ‘The Six Thatchers’ features a sequence in which Sherlock solves cases, and John blogs about it. Unfortunately for co-creators Mark Gatiss and Steven Moffat, there was an unfortunate camera angle that captured an important blog error.
As John ‘types’ a blog post, the file is clearly a screenshot of the blog, labelled JOHN BLOG POST.jpg.
And Twitter is loving it:
IM CRYING THEY HAVE HIM TYPING NOTHING ON AN IMAGE FILE THATS NAMED "JOHN BLOG PAGE.jpg" #Sherlock pic.twitter.com/CPTW5wPmxJ
— johnlock (@caslxcked) January 1, 2017
Ah, so *that's* how we're supposed to do blogs – in jpg files! Thanks #Sherlock! pic.twitter.com/nwDVRsv93t
— Mind the Blog (@Mind_the_Blog) January 2, 2017
@AwesomEmergency John Watons blog is just a picture? pic.twitter.com/OHGlDAF2UI
— Kids In the Dark (@Alexsgamingclub) January 2, 2017
You type away on that jpg John pic.twitter.com/tnurdBuoQz
— Rick (@thebookbeard) January 2, 2017
my aesthetic is John Watson trying to type in a jpg document #Sherlock pic.twitter.com/5RPHSALU5k
— Lee Dawson (@LeeDawsonPT) January 2, 2017
Okay, so this probably isn’t hilarious for ~that~ many people, but for people who work in the editorial or photo industries, it’s one of those ridiculous mishaps that’s just too funny. For those who aren’t familiar, a .jpg is a photo file, something you couldn’t possibly type a blog page on.
In short, John is not typing a blog post, he’s simply banging nonsense on a keyboard with a screenshot of his blog page in front of him. Oh John, you silly amateur writer, stick to practicing medicine.
While, admittedly, whether or not John was actually typing a blog post wasn’t exactly relevant to the plot of ‘The Six Thatchers’, it was nice to find something to laugh at during a dark episode of Sherlock.
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