Sherlock (Steven Moffat BBC series)

I wasn't too impressed by the episode when I watched it, and I had thoughts about hallucinatory gasses some time before Watson's nightmare in the laboratory, but having had time to mull it over, I think it was a decent episode. Nothing fancy, but solid.

Regarding the final scene in which we see Mycroft telling the suited man to release Moriarty, I assumed that this was a flashback, rather than something that happened between the end of the first episode and the second. Maybe it was shown then because, in the past, mind-altering drugs had been used on Moriarty, and to mention it before the reveal in this episode would have spoiled things a bit.

I'm still hoping that the annoying squeak we've seen who calls himself Moriarty is actually the product, or prototype, of some Project Moriarty designed to give people super-intelligence.

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Something a friend said at the end of the episode: "Is it standard CIA protocol to give everyone secret project t-shirts?".
 
Im really enjoying this new Sherlock Holmes. I enjoyed the first 3 episodes last year and really wish this time there had been more. 3 episodes just isnt long enough. And Holmes humour is just brilliant - LOL
 
P.G.Bell said:
There's more to Moffat than Doctor Who but is Sherlock really the series that "puts the 'sex' in sexist?"
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God people need a life.

Anyway this series is running much like last.

First episode was brilliant
Second was good but compared to the previous week underwhelming.
Third was brilliant in series 1, hope for the same tomorrow.

Love the banter between Sherlock and Watson.
 
By far the best episode of the six.

Can't work out how Sherlock achieved it, though. The most common theory I've seen on Facebook is: Sherlock mask, bike distraction and Molly doing the autopsy. Whilst I agree with Molly, and possibly the bike, the mask doesn't quite do it for me - in particular, look at the eyes. Moriarty has dark brown eyes, whilst the body did not. Sure, you can get coloured contacts to change eye colour, but I find it a stretch to imagine a man would go prepared with a mask of his own face, let alone coloured contacts to match his eyes.

So for now, he's got me.

Oh, and I suppose I ought to mention that I was actually coming to like this version of Moriarty. I hate to say it, but he was growing on me... like a fungus, I suppose.
 
Moriarty was less atrocious than previously, but I still wasn't fond of him.

Quite good, but actually my least favourite of the three (happened last series as well). I did love the game-changing moment about 10 minutes from the end.
 
Lenny said:
By far the best episode of the six.

Can't work out how Sherlock achieved it, though. The most common theory I've seen on Facebook is: Sherlock mask, bike distraction and Molly doing the autopsy. Whilst I agree with Molly, and possibly the bike, the mask doesn't quite do it for me - in particular, look at the eyes. Moriarty has dark brown eyes, whilst the body did not. Sure, you can get coloured contacts to change eye colour, but I find it a stretch to imagine a man would go prepared with a mask of his own face, let alone coloured contacts to match his eyes.

So for now, he's got me.

Oh, and I suppose I ought to mention that I was actually coming to like this version of Moriarty. I hate to say it, but he was growing on me... like a fungus, I suppose.
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Yeah, my favourite episode so far, too. It actually slowed down a bit and took its time, and was all the better for it, imo.

I reckon Molly arranged for something to be there for Sherlock to land on - mainly because of the way he delayed his jump and made Watson stand in a certain position - from where Watson couldn't see the pavement - and then Watson was deliberately knocked down by the cyclist to delay him getting to the scene so that the bystanders (probably all arranged by Molly to be there) could spray some fake blood around etc. Sherlock lies there playing dead, fake paramadics turn up, fake death certificate etc via Molly.

Doesn't stand up to close examination but I'm sure it'll be some variation on that theme
 
Well I can't deny I loved this episode, and not only because they mentioned Addlestone in it. I used to live there, and (ok now I'm getting picky) it is quite a way outside London, only just inside the M25, there is no mile of factories between the River (? the Wey just about touches the edge of Addlestone) and the Park? Which Park? But nevermind I cheered when I saw it, and thought of Tweeting #Addlestone but I'm not that sad!

Anyway, I did like the episode, I think that Moriarty might have faked his own Death too, why not, it would have been just as possible. Not sure how Sherlock did it, but it was pretty obvious he was going to. Still great series, lets hope they squeeze another one out, but with 2hr episodes next time ;)
 
Bugg said:
...and made Watson stand in a certain position - from where Watson couldn't see the pavement...
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...and where an assassin's attention might be directed well away from any preparations made for Sherlock's arrival at pavement level**. This, though, would all depend on where the assassin was, and on Sherlock being aware of what might happen (i.e. quite a bit more aware than simply having worked out what Moriarty's "final problem" was).

Presumably Mycroft's resources had to be used: arranging for some of the possible locations to be made unsuitable for a sniper to wait; being there to prepare the landing site at a moment's notice (which would be beyond Molly's capabilities, or that of any one individual), as well as the cyclist.


I only hope the solution didn't involve 'phoning the sniper at the crucial moment. ;):)




** - I suppose this could involve a "mattress", but more likely means converting a recently-fallen corpse dressed as Sherlock into a supposedly just-died Sherlock (with blood on the pavement, etc).
 
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** - I suppose this could involve a "mattress", but more likely converting a corpse dressed as Sherlock into a supposedly just-died Sherlock (blood on the pavement, etc).
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IIRC, didn't the crowd prevent Watson from checking Sherlock's pulse? I suspect the crash mat is likely, quickly removed from view whilst Watson was knocked over and disoriented by the bike, then Holmes himself lying there with fake blood, carted off before Watson could figure it out.
 
There are a number of theories going round, including the use of that Baskerville gas. Someone claims, after studying the events on iPlayer, to have seen a lorry in the vicinity that is later glimpsed driving off. The corpse has been thought to be any of: one from the morgue; Moriarty**; the dummy we see hanging from a noose earlier on in the episode....


By the way, I'm surprised that there wasn't anyone watching Moriarty in addition to the assassins, who would, by definition, be concentrating on their targets.


** - Depending on how the elapsed time stuff works out, this is probably the least likely.
 
One theory going around is that said lorry was full of rubbish bags, which Sherlock jumped into.
 
I can't see him jumping into the lorry; he didn't actually jump but just fell so would not have got any further out than the pavement. It certainly wasn't Moriarty or any other dead body falling; they made a point of showing the fall very clearly with a clearly alive body flailing its arms and legs as it fell. I guess a crash mat idea is possible but it would have had to be very big; both deep to take a fall from that height (have you ever seen the things stunt people jump off buildings onto?) and large surface area; just how precisely could they guarantee his fall position. Also I have reviewed that scene and it is definitely a live body falling and they showed it hitting the pavement. Although they didn't show the actual bit of pavement he landed on, it was clearly near as damn it the same level as the rest of the pavement that we could see and there was almost no sink or bounce.

Also I am disturbed by the fact that he appeared to shed some tears just before jumping and there was no one close enough to tell that he was doing so. So why tears if he knew he would be OK?

We'll just have to wait and see I guess, though I am certain that Molly had something to do with it. We never did get to find out why he told her she was important.

An excellent episode though I thought.

And here's one for Lenny and any other computer geeks like him and me out there. A big cheer for the programme having Moriarty saying "There is no key, doofus, those digits are meaningless, utterly meaningless... What do you think; a couple of lines of computer code are going to crash the world? I'm disappointed in you." It is such a refreshing joy to see a realistic view on the capabilities of "a couple of lines of code". Though until Moriarty said this I was ready to be annoyed by that particular detail.
 
The 'couple of lines of code' bit really bugged me too, I even said how stupid it was, and that was before they revealed it wasn't even a couple of lines of 'code' per se, but a few binary bits, barely enough to make up a byte (ok maybe a byte and a half) but I also wondered if Moriarty's mobile phone woudl work inside the tower of London once it had been 'locked down'?
 
On the tears: could be that such an unemotional chap was lying to his friend about both being a fraud and dying.
 
Well that was my problem he is unemotional so I wouldn't have expected him to cry unless he was really going to jump. And he is so far away from anyone that to have "acted" the crying would seem to have been pointless as no one would have been able to see it.
 
Crash mat theories are all ruled out because a/ Sherlock did not know he would have to "commit suicide" and b/ how could he or Molly or anyone else know where he was going to jump/be pushed from?

And what did Moriarty mean by saying in his first text about Bart's roof "I have something of yours"? I was sure he was going to have kidnapped Molly.

Annoyed at having to wait ages for an explanation.
 
Well I'm not sure that's competely correct Mary. It is possible that he had worked out that that was what Moriarty would have him do (maybe not Moriarty shooting himself though) and it was Sherlock who specified the meeting place.

Also the reference to "something of yours" was a postscript to Sherlock's message to Moriarty not the other way around and was refering to the (imaginary) code.
 
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