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Something Interesting I Noticed in “The Great Game”
Sherlock (despite the infuriating queerbaiting) is undoubtedly a very good show with very good writing. And I’ve recently noticed something very clever towards the end of Series 1, Episode 3: “The Great Game”.
Spoilers ahead (duh)
In the pool scene, right after John reveals himself wired up with bombs and Moriarty telling him what to say through an earpiece, John, or rather Moriarty, says something quite odd.
“Gottle o’ gear, gottle o’ gear, gottle o’ gear.”
When I first watched the episode, I had no idea what that meant. But, just recently, I randomly learned a fun fact that made me understand.
It’s a ventriloquy joke.
See, the “b” sound is one of the most difficult to make without moving your lips, since they pretty much have to touch to make the sound. So it’s a common thing for beginner ventriloquists to replace the “b” sound with the “g” sound. “Gottle o’ gear” is a known joke making fun of the way an unskilled ventriloquist would say “bottle of beer”.
Moriarty was calling John his ventriloquist’s dummy and rubbing it in Sherlock’s face.
replete with imagery that references earlier discography (Mutter 22 on the vault, the enemy soldiers perhaps Deutschland, Seeman haircuts, the cage grate/lattice MHB but also I think Mutter, Till’s mohawk could be included here as a nod to an earlier style)
the premise of cloning is interesting because this points at inauthenticity and manufacture, a carefully crafted image and the other
hence, my initial thought was this is about the killing of the (previous) self, this is what the clones could stand for. Additionally, Rammstein are depicted as going to ‘war’, this could be a stand-in/proxy for inner struggle.
The lyrics of Adieu are complimented by the mv in that the video juxtaposes company and isolation. As the group sees the clones there’s an emphasis on shots where they face the situation & grieve together (e.g. Richard’s (?) hand on Till’s shoulder)
However, at the end of the video when the credits roll, each member of the band is shot alone in death, like the lyrics go, which is a nice touch imo
The final shots also make me think that it is possible to understand the credit roll footage as the real outcome, essentially retconning what came before it (the clone burning etc)
The red laser also extinguishes/fades at the end, which made me think of how a soul is sometimes said to fade away/extinguish/whatever this would be in english lol and offers some support for this reading
This imo points to the fact that no matter how stark a divide one wants to make with the past and with previous versions of oneself, truly killing that history is never possible and it will be an effort doomed to fail because we are the product of our past experiences
this is also why it would make sense to include imagery pointing to Mutter (the album & video) as well as Seeman because these are the result of processes that were either very difficult or that Rammstein have been vocal about not liking
In the same vein, I could go on a limb and say the crosses etc religious imagery could be taken as a Zeig Dich reference but this is probably going too far
The religious imagery is there tho and I’m not sure what it means exactly, it could ofc denote something is holy, but it’s interesting that it’s the present self rather than the past
The Paris Opera House is a gorgeous setting and I do think it was very intentional but have to figure out what exactly it symbolizes here. Perhaps tradition.
Also the red laser seems to act as a connector or red thread of some sort, and I get the feeling that it is connected with the idea of time and continuity
in the same vein it’s interesting that it’s included in multiple shots as a connector or perhaps red herring, not sure which reading makes most sense
Based on all of this, my initial reading is to treat it as self-reflection, mourning for the past self but also no longer one and the same with that self. I’m sure there are other readings and things I’ve missed so who knows what it’s really about. Then again, authorial intent means nothing to me
Fuck, and to think that they “ascend” to heaven after burning the vault… Which was their goal, makes me thing that, at this point, with the job done they had nothing to lose and maybe left themselves die (well, be killed).
They had a gun… A GUN each, except for Flake who died at the vault entry… and why??? because he had no gun to fight a little longer… he got in the first time because the other members were covering him… the rest could’ve posibbly resist a little longer, but I didn’t see they were carrying enough ammunition to come in AND out the building (filled with armed guards).
So.. They went to that place knowing that they would not make it out; which is a lot more hearbreaking because they were already suffering their individual grieving and were alienated at death. fuck Imma cry again…
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#rammstein rammstein audieu adieu MV adieu its too early to cry
