Sherlock

First.Aspect

Nowhere in any of Conan Doyle's original works does Watson ever actually say, "No sh!t, Sherlock".

Not many people know that.

rjsterry

cjcp wrote:

It's a matter of principle. But my computer's like HAL, you know. Mind of its own. Darndest thing.

Sorry, it's a Guardian specific piece, i.e. not just a link to another site. I woul copy and paste some of the theories but they are quite lengthy.

mr_poll

There was only three this time around as both Benedict and Martin Freeman have filming commitments - the first series was a massive surprise hit (such was the doubt the BBC only commisioned one series of 3 originally) so when they got the second and third one (they commissioned both at the same time) they realised that they had a tiny window before Martin Freeman went off to New Zealand for 12 months to be Bilbo Baggins and didn't want to leave it till mid 2013 before we saw Sherlock again.

The whole series was superb (preferred the Hound of the Baskervilles episode out of the three), most TV is utter drivel but that has been the only thing since Game of Thrones that was "appointment TV" as media bods would say.

CiB

A lot of the theories in the Indy, Guardian and The Telegraph rely on the falling body being a convenient spare corpse from the lab, or the hanging mannequin from the flat. Do people not watch what's happening? The falling Holmes was clearly clawing at he air in a v animated fashion, so clearly not dead at that point.

I liked the comment that claimed that he does die but for the third series it'll be renamed Watson & Sherlock (Deceased). One for the older members there.

rick_chasey

CiB wrote:

A lot of the theories in the Indy, Guardian and The Telegraph rely on the falling body being a convenient spare corpse from the lab, or the hanging mannequin from the flat. Do people not watch what's happening? The falling Holmes was clearly clawing at he air in a v animated fashion, so clearly not dead at that point.

I liked the comment that claimed that he does die but for the third series it'll be renamed Watson & Sherlock (Deceased). One for the older members there.

He falls into the lorry. Uses dummy on floor whilst escaping. Hopes that his hobo mate who knocks into Watson distracts Watson enough to fall for use of a dummy.



S'all bull anyway. He dies in the book.

cjcp

Rick Chasey wrote:

CiB wrote:

A lot of the theories in the Indy, Guardian and The Telegraph rely on the falling body being a convenient spare corpse from the lab, or the hanging mannequin from the flat. Do people not watch what's happening? The falling Holmes was clearly clawing at he air in a v animated fashion, so clearly not dead at that point.

I liked the comment that claimed that he does die but for the third series it'll be renamed Watson & Sherlock (Deceased). One for the older members there.

He falls into the lorry. Uses dummy on floor whilst escaping. Hopes that his hobo mate who knocks into Watson distracts Watson enough to fall for use of a dummy.



S'all bull anyway. He dies in the book.

Allegedly.

UndercoverElephant

cjcp wrote:

Rick Chasey wrote:

CiB wrote:

A lot of the theories in the Indy, Guardian and The Telegraph rely on the falling body being a convenient spare corpse from the lab, or the hanging mannequin from the flat. Do people not watch what's happening? The falling Holmes was clearly clawing at he air in a v animated fashion, so clearly not dead at that point.

I liked the comment that claimed that he does die but for the third series it'll be renamed Watson & Sherlock (Deceased). One for the older members there.

He falls into the lorry. Uses dummy on floor whilst escaping. Hopes that his hobo mate who knocks into Watson distracts Watson enough to fall for use of a dummy.



S'all bull anyway. He dies in the book.

Allegedly.

He did die in the book, but then came back from the dead when Sir Arthur needed more money, apparently saying that he had to fake his own death because there were other nasty buggers who wanted him dead.

rjsterry

We've all missed something...

davis

Thanks for this. Had completely missed it. Just found a *cough* website and plugged my way through series 1. Really like the misanthropic sociopath that is Holmes.

MaxwellBygraves

I think the most likely explanation is that Mycroft and Molly were in on it somehow - Mycroft seemed uncaring even for Mycroft when talking to Watson, suggesting he is already aware.

ddraver

davis wrote:

Thanks for this. Had completely missed it. Just found a *cough* website and plugged my way through series 1. Really like the misanthropic sociopath that is Holmes.

Yeah, I only saw the last two on the telly! Just finished catching up (makes much more sense that way!). I am cr*p at following stuff on Telly. Is there anything else that's been really good that I should have a look at?

supersonic

One word (well two) - Brett, Jeremy.

MaxwellBygraves

I think that Sherlock and Moriarty are one and the same, in a Gollum/Fight Club esque manner.

Agent57

Tell you what I did notice (at least, IIRC); when there was the aerial shot of the stretcher being wheeled away, there was no blood on the pavement. Odd, as there'd been a big pool of it before.

evil_breakfast

I noticed this during last nights repeat.
@ approx 1:12:18 when John hails a cab after discovering Mrs Hudson is fine, the cab passes an IOU graffiti



It also appears earlier on, when our heroes escape after being arrested

ddraver

I watched it again today trying to look for "the clue everybody has mised" and I still can't work anything out! It's must be something to do with Molly, or "the missing clue" is something in another episode.

I think I tend to suspend my disbelief to easily if the show is good though so I rarely get these. I only get the shows when the acting is cr*p!