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I think the game is 'on', works fine, it brings it up to date. It must be hard to say 'the game is ...afoot', without doing a Rathbone impression or something.
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Re the bees... as I said further up the page... "This was a nod to the ACD stories. Holmes's ambition is to retire to the Sussex Downs and keep bees. Janine just walked all over his ambition by saying she'd seen a nice house there, but the downside was the bees, and that she would get rid of them. "
Re the hospital/non-hospital cafeteria... all this stuff was happening inside his head - not even at Mind Palace level, more likely at Flatlining DeathBed level. Don't over-think it! . |
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I liked Mary at first but still wanted her to get killed off, they have written her really well at first she's funny down to earth I liked the twist when she shot sherlock because I really wanted her to be the villain but her motives for shooting sherlock, he nearly died twice that episode just make her look incredibly selfish
She shot sherlock to save John from being broken? Despite the fact he had suffered so much and she had witnessed it the first time sherlock died? I think the actress plays her really well though I would have loved her as a character but not as johns wife. Mary does change the dynamic between John and sherlock. John no longer lives in Baker Street. He never saw sherlock for months after the marriage Sherlock started his drug habit again, he has a replacement for Watson in that homeless guy if the writers wanted to show that Mary is no threat they did a really bad job, probably intentionally they wanted us to dislike Mary so we would cheer and want to hate her when she shot sherlock but they haven't done enough to make us like her again afterwards Mary being pregnant is worse because how will we feel about John selfishly putting himself and family in danger when his child should be a priority? |
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can someone tell me - what was the point of the Redbeard story ? I've watched the ep twice but somehow seemed to have zoned out in that bit . It was his dog right ? what happened to it ?
Maybe Sherlock caused an accident and the dog had to be destroyed? |
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I haven't watched it back but I thought the dog was put down. I don't know if the parents did it because Sherlock was naughty, that would seem out of character for them.
Maybe Sherlock caused an accident and the dog had to be destroyed? |
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Could be one of the Cliff Richard films like 'Summer Holiday'?
Think one of her first credits was 'The Strange World of Gurney Slade', the Anthony Newley TV masterpiece from 1960. She dances and acts her whole role in mime in episode 1 and reappears in the last episode....still without any lines! Very cute, too. (It's on Youtube I think if you want to check it out.) Una's great. It may have been "Summer Holiday, as I have heard of that, but I have no-one to ask as older sister, who might remember, is in Tenerife. Never heard of the Gurney Slade thing. Thanks for the info. |
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I haven't watched it back but I thought the dog was put down. I don't know if the parents did it because Sherlock was naughty, that would seem out of character for them.
Maybe Sherlock caused an accident and the dog had to be destroyed? I guess its another thread we'll be kept waiting on . . |
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also , forget to mention this before - I got the impression from the way Magnusson spoke about Janine that he may have killed her , or tortured her . He mentioned flicking her face and the noises she made , but I find it hard to believe she would've put up with that while she was his secretary , she seemed too confident for that .
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also , forget to mention this before - I got the impression from the way Magnusson spoke about Janine that he may have killed her , or tortured her . He mentioned flicking her face and the noises she made , but I find it hard to believe she would've put up with that while she was his secretary , she seemed too confident for that .
. Janine will have been bullied and blackmailed like everyone else his power was his knowledge I think that him mentioning Janine was just another subtle hint so we were not too mad about magnussun being shot outright like that clients husband committing suicide we saw sherlock reading in the newspaper. Magnussun didn't need to kill anyone he'd bully them and control them with his knowledge. If he had killed Janine sherlock wouldn't have had to kill him as there would have been evidence against him |
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it must have some connection because the child-Sherlock reappears at the end when Mycroft is saying "Sherlock , what have you done ?" .
I guess its another thread we'll be kept waiting on . . Also in my mind i consider Magnussen a murderer. I said before that when he arranged to put Watson in the fire, it is an attempted murder. He clearly said he had people there to prevent it but that's just his word. And even if it's true, it was a very public situation where a lot of unpredictable things could happen, so his people could have been prevented from helping Watson. In my mind, if something had gone wrong and Watson had died, i would call that murder. And if he did that with Watson, during all the years he did his thing, the probability he did the same to someone else is great. Even if just Watson, that's attempted murder at least. |
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I still don't get why they made such an obvious thing of having CAM's men frisk sherlock and watson early on and then not at all later on .
The first scene just draws attention to it's omission later on in fact . . |
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I agree and made that point before.
Also in my mind i consider Magnussen a murderer. I said before that when he arranged to put Watson in the fire, it is an attempted murder. He clearly said he had people there to prevent it but that's just his word. And even if it's true, it was a very public situation where a lot of unpredictable things could happen, so his people could have been prevented from helping Watson. In my mind, if something had gone wrong and Watson had died, i would call that murder. And if he did that with Watson, during all the years he did his thing, the probability he did the same to someone else is great. Even if just Watson, that's attempted murder at least. |
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I agree and made that point before.
Also in my mind i consider Magnussen a murderer. I said before that when he arranged to put Watson in the fire, it is an attempted murder. He clearly said he had people there to prevent it but that's just his word. And even if it's true, it was a very public situation where a lot of unpredictable things could happen, so his people could have been prevented from helping Watson. In my mind, if something had gone wrong and Watson had died, i would call that murder. And if he did that with Watson, during all the years he did his thing, the probability he did the same to someone else is great. Even if just Watson, that's attempted murder at least. |
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Molly's boyfriend was there at the bonfire - he was one of Magnussen's cronies
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You bring up a good point. Watson is Sherlock's pressure point,...but his own parents aren't?
That's my thinking anyway. |
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Well, not me, or k9fan! (I still miss Rory!).
All the debate on this thread about the memory stick does remind me of the debate on the DW forum about Rory's hospital ID badge, though. It turned out to be an error by the props dept. But you never know with Moffat. ![]() |
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I still don't get why they made such an obvious thing of having CAM's men frisk sherlock and watson early on and then not at all later on .
The first scene just draws attention to it's omission later on in fact . . Later, he was so confident that he was the alpha male that he didn't see any need to check for weapons. He did not think he was in any danger, so didn't bother checking. |
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So true! It's funny really. I guess many Sherlock fans aren't familiar with Moffat's Doctor Who. All the over-the-top analysis, the searching for 'significance' in the detail and most of the time it means absolutely nothing.
There's a great scene where the fans are talking about the characters in the series - Romak, Damsar, Riodanto etc., and analysing the character names. I won't give away the plot, but it is definitely worth watching this scene! |
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So true! It's funny really. I guess many Sherlock fans aren't familiar with Moffat's Doctor Who. All the over-the-top analysis, the searching for 'significance' in the detail and most of the time it means absolutely nothing.
In fairness to Sherlock though, I think most of the time it's fairly consistent in that much of what happens does have a significance later on. I've begun watching from the beginning, and even small things, like a seemingly innocuous conversation, have had a bearing on later developments. I think it's probably a case of lots of threads being laid and the writers deciding which ones to go back to later on. I've a theory on what might've happened with Redbeard, for instance, based on a seemingly throwaway comment by Mycroft in an earlier episode - I won't bore with it, and could be/ probably am, wrong, but if I'm right then I do admire writers that will keep a continuity going through the different seasons, because that doesn't often happen. |
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I don't watch Doctor Who but I take your point, that must be annoying.
In fairness to Sherlock though, I think most of the time it's fairly consistent in that much of what happens does have a significance later on. I've begun watching from the beginning, and even small things, like a seemingly innocuous conversation, have had a bearing on later developments. I think it's probably a case of lots of threads being laid and the writers deciding which ones to go back to later on. I've a theory on what might've happened with Redbeard, for instance, based on a seemingly throwaway comment by Mycroft in an earlier episode - I won't bore with it, and could be/ probably am, wrong, but if I'm right then I do admire writers that will keep a continuity going through the different seasons, because that doesn't often happen. |
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But the thing that magnussun was famous for was his power over people by manipulation, magnussun even said mycroft had been wanting something on him for years so I don't believe he was a murderer or why would they emphasise that he wasnt by his own confession? The whole bonfire thing I admit is dodgy but this is fiction so we are to assume that magnussun was clever enough not to kill off his bait over sherlock to get to his bigger fish mycroft and it was just a test to see how important John was to sherlock
At the bonfire, Watson was seconds away from dying; how is that just a test? In court, if someone dies from your action and your defense is 'i had people to prevent it but they were too late or something' you're still guilty. Maybe not 1st degree but murder still. The whole show is just fiction, can't use that argument for some part of it, and not others.
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I never said he was only a murderer. That's in addition to being a blackmailer. Mycroft's comment that Magnussen was just a businessman has to be put in the context that he was trying to convince (officialy) Sherlock not to go after Magnussen. That doesn't mean Mycroft doesn't have information to the contrary.
At the bonfire, Watson was seconds away from dying; how is that just a test? In court, if someone dies from your action and your defense is 'i had people to prevent it but they were too late or something' you're still guilty. Maybe not 1st degree but murder still. The whole show is just fiction, can't use that argument for some part of it, and not others. ![]() I still don't believe he was a murderer his power was acquiring people and owning them not killing them, he said I'm not a murderer unlike Mary, he had no reason to lie to them at that point |
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So true! It's funny really. I guess many Sherlock fans aren't familiar with Moffat's Doctor Who. All the over-the-top analysis, the searching for 'significance' in the detail and most of the time it means absolutely nothing.
I watch all DW, old and new. I know Moffat does the same with DW but Who is fantasy/sci-fi. I look for things that are possibly relevent for the story but give him much more freedom than Sherlock. Sherlock has to be more logical. And it's fun to look even if it's not important in the end. What's important is the journey... Of course, i won't lose sleep over it, specialy since i read in the Q&A that Moffat said 'Sherlock is not a detective show, it's a show about a detective' |
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Oh I would like to hear your theory
![]() ![]() Let's just say, I think the dog might've been killed in an accident that was Sherlock's fault. |
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I'm honestly too embarrassed to post it because chances are, I have indeed placed a lot of importance on what was meant to be a trivial remark, and I am in fact becoming a Sherlock geek.
![]() ![]() Let's just say, I think the dog might've been killed in an accident that was Sherlock's fault. |
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