SusiGo wrote:

Lol, have you seen this happy family pic? The lovely colours, the caring mother holding her, both parents looking proudly at their child … cough. 

The thing that bothers me about this pic is that the baby looks so like a doll - or maybe it's the way Martin's holding her. 

But I absolutely love it!  Martin looks stunning, Amanda too.   I'm sure she has lost weight for this series (I don't know if it was especially for the series, or not), and she looks kind of more fragile and less robust than before, all cheekbones and eyes.  They look like classic film stars. 

It's also ambiguous - these are not the colours you choose for a baby photograph.  It's very dark, navy sort of tone, and not just their clothes.  Although the clothes too.  It looks more as if they're dressed for a funeral, which is quite ominous. 

Oh, and did I mention that Martin is stunning?  Why didn't I notice this before?

Last edited by Liberty (December 12, 2016 3:28 pm)

I do like Mary in this one (recognizes the jacket as Sherlock's immediately too! O.o) but John doesn't look natural, more like a wax figure. You wouldn't be able to hold a baby like that for any longer period of time, it's not a natural pose. You show your baby off to somebody like that but Mary isn't even looking.

It's a pretty picture at first glance. 

But looking closer it seems like something out of Hitchcock or Guillermo del Torro... *shivers* 
 

So this is the whole picture:



It's not only the jacket but the trousers too! I don't think it's Sherlock's jacket (the lapels are too narrow, and anyway it wouldn't fir Amanda seeing how much taller Ben is), but the suit has been definitely picked with Sherlock's in mind!!!

I am very sure that this is not Mary replacing Sherlock but the other way round. First making her look like him, then replacing her as the person at John's side. As it should be. 

Those pictures are cold. I start freezing when I look at them.

There is something.... off about these pictures, although I can't put my finger on exactly what. They make me uneasy.

Yeah. And it feels... artificial. I don't get the sense or feel of family, closeness and love.

For instance, in the shaving scene with John and Mary in TEH, I could feel a mutual and natural ease and warmth between them. I don't see any of that here.

She stole the name from a dead child's grave. Just saying. 

I know it's just me, but I see more closeness there, and maybe even love, than in the previous pictures of them.  I think it's the way they are leaning their heads together, and that their eyes are shining. 

It's the baby that's off for me, in the photo.  John looks like a Joseph holding a Jesus doll in a kids' Nativity play.  (Maybe they are referencing Martin's "Nativity"!).

And I like the somber tone.  I wasn't actually hoping for bright, happy family photos.  Maybe it's just because it's new, but as I said, I really like it.  I was intrigued about the clip of Amanda in the new trailer .... I'm getting so curious about what they're going to do with her, and whether she's going to be the Big Bad or something else.  Either way, we know it's likely to all fall apart for that family, which adds some poignancy to the photo, and I think the darkness helps to bring that out, and maybe foreshadow the future.