Just to reiterate that I find it totally uncanny that TJLC’s active numbers have dwindled since S4, while many fans who are involved enough in fandom to be aware of TJLC think that we failed to predict the show’s outcome accurately (believing the show to have ended, crappily) and the overwhelming majority of the fans of Sherlock (defined simply as people who have watched and enjoyed it) AREN’T aware of TJLC and also probably haven’t thought about Sherlock in over a year, and that presumably the majority of fans with whom the showrunners, cast, and crew have contact (at cons, on Twitter, etc.) are either not TJLC at all or casually on board with it (i.e., tweeting to Arwel about elephants), AND YET
- TJLC has been an implied subject of a “fans didn’t get what they wanted and I didn’t like the backlash” comment by Martin, and
- TJLC is the subject of, or mentioned in, more than one podcast in a matter of days
All while TPTB are clearly ramping up promotion of their totally-over, definitely-ended TV show with charity breakfast auctions, escape rooms, and neverending cons (I don’t actually know if that last one is true but it seems that on every rare occasion when I have paid attention to actual Sherlock news in the last century, that news has consisted of “there is another Sherlocked con taking place in some part of the world,” so I can only assume that one is currently being held in, like, Cleveland).
1) Did one of you hire a PR firm to issue press releases without telling the rest of us?
2) I definitely think we should wear black armbands.