The Reichenbach Fall thoughts, feelings and questions.
My thoughts and feelings on The Reichenbach Fall.
Oh god oh god.
I was a bit worried about this. First off it's the subject matter but secondly it's written by the same guy who wrote The Blind Banker and although I adore some of the character stuff in that one there is so, so much fail.
This was the big cliffhanger though I knew it had to be good. After the way they left the last season I didn't know what point they were going to stop it.
Over all I adored the story. The show was, as always, beautifully shot and so pretty that I can't even talk about it.
I guess I should also say that I haven't seen the commentaries yet, my DVD is not here.
Just some things we've talked about from this episode and other versions of Holmes and some stuff I've talked about with friends.
It's long. Really long but I wanted to point out stuff about it and hear people's opinions as I'm certain I'm missing stuff. Got 10 pages in Open Office. >_<
MARTIN *Sobs*
They do love making the sky cry when John can't. It is pretty.
His VOICE.
I do think it's very much in character to have John never really break down and lose it.
I like the light they have used in this scene.
Then the music that makes me happy !!
The painting is a nice way of getting the Reichenbach falls into the picture without leaving England. I do like these shorts of people trying to thank Sherlock and him being his usual self. I think it does well to show how John is trying to make him play nice when he needs to.
And I think it says a lot that when John tells Sherlock to say Thankyou, he actually does. He doesn't mean it but he says it.
Oh John, where do you get your shirts?
I wasn't sure if the cases at the beginning had some vague link to the main problem but I can't see anything. Anyone else?
I love Lestrade making a joke and that John feels the need to let Sherlock know it's sarcasm. I think that is more John's way of joining in though.
And the hat *dies*
I love this whole rant back at the flat. Sherlock and his going on about the hat. “It's an ear hat John” and John wibbling over his “Confirmed Bachelor” role. And Sherlock pointing out exactly where they gave John a nickname.
And of course I adore the “this is too much, we need to be more careful” after he's being going on about his “confirmed bachelor” status. It's not what he's saying but it's so what I'm reading.
Foreshadowing from John there. “The press will turn, Sherlock. They always turn and they will turn on you” and making more of the point that John does care what the press thinks of Sherlock.
I was never very happy with Andrew Scott's Moriarty in The Great Game. It was too much, too over the top for me. I didn't find it as disturbing as it was meant to be. I know a lot of people loved it but it wasn't really something I was happy with. In this one though I adored him. I found the balance spot on.
First off I must flail about John in just his dressing gown. *g* And the complete lack of surprise at the hanging dummy.
Heee. I've seen on tumblr Andrew saying that there was classical music playing and and he didn't have to dance to it but he did. It does make the scene.
Also Tumblr seems to be full of versions of Lestrade saying #Not My Division while wearing many different cultural symbols. I've no idea why some things go so viral. Also he says not OUR division. But anyway. Moving on.
I do like the little app gifs.
And the fact of tea and coffee spilling is part of every one of the break ins.
The scene in the car isn't the best acting from Sally or Lestrade. The “oh no” is a bit ridiculous. Good job I love you Rupert. No idea why those shots were the best they could get. The acting is usually really quite good. Wonder if they corpsed on other takes.
JOHN'S KNEES
And really white chest!
You can see John is scared there. I do love him.
I've paused and read the articles. They're mostly faff and at one point they just start repeating themselves again *g* People have DVDs these days.
The getting ready together and asking if Sherlock is ready. *meep*
Mind you I think really John should have been called as a witness given that Moriarty kidnapped him and dressed him up in Semtex etc.
Oh god the don't be yourself thing. John I know you're stressed.
*check name* Ohh it's interesting to see her in serious role.
I love John's face when Sherlock goes off on his thing about the jury. The oh god here we go one.
I also really like that they don't show him getting done for contempt. That it's just the leadup and the aftermath. The same as the shot with John when he punches the chief superintendent.
I wasn't sure if Moriarty was going to do something while Sherlock was in the cell. Blow it up or something. Guess that's way to easy though.
I also love the “Can't just turn it on and off like a tap” line.
Oh corridor. I've seen you before. Torchwood when PC Andy has a Roman locked up? I'm sure it's also something in Life On Mars.
Then it's the speech about the look. It's funny and I love the way they play it but it also pointing out again how John has got used to Sherlock and isn't so much about the awe when he's going off on his deductions or not going off in this case. They've had John call it showing off a few times now. In Hound and in the car on the way and then the Judge at court.
I want their kettle! Also really tacky tea pot and cups there Sherlock. Did they come with the flat?
Fairy tale starts here. They are very heavy handed with the final problem thing.
At this point though Moriarty says “I did tell you, but did you listen?” I'm not sure exactly what he's referring to here. Tell him just then or earlier?
He mentioned that everyone had their buttons. That he got to the jury because he knew who they wanted to protect. I guess that relates to the John, Mrs Hudson, and Lestrade thing.
I don't know enough about classical music to know if there is anything being fed in there. He goes on about Bach but I figured that was because Sherlock was playing it. Then at the end he says the finger tapping wasn't binary, it was Bach doesn't he?
I know the piece of music when Moriarty was breaking in to the Tower was something about Raven wasn't it? And then they have the raven on the wax seals.
I never realised how much trouble Sherlock's shirts have staying closed. *G* Reckon it's just them showing Ben off? Maybe Sherlock hasn't gone shopping in a while and living with John has fattened him up.
Okay so I think I've sorted out quite a few things about how it all goes down. I've got ideas for how Sherlock did it but I still think I MUST be missing something with the IOU. I know he says it a lot and there's the apple and the graffiti but I'm not really seeing a resolution for it all.
Is it about owing him from the pool. Is it because Moriarty was taken in by the government? I just don't see that IOU played a significant enough roll to make it worth it all.
I know the fall Moriarty is talking about is the metaphorical one. The discrediting of Sherlock. He plans to make him kill himself but it's Sherlock that chooses the high building.
When John asks what Moriarty touched in the flat when they're trying to work out about the code Sherlock mentions the apple but not the knife he left. It is obviously one Moriarty brought with him isn't it? Or did he get to the mantle and grab it? I know they used a pocket knife for the mail in this. Don't actually know what a Jack knife is so I don't know how that differs from canon.
I'm pretty sure it was Moriarty's.
Love the caricature. It's terrible.
I love that they used the Diogenes club. Poor John.
“We don't want a repeat of 1972” LOL. Mycroft you're all about the drama. I know they enjoy dropping shit in that is never explained.
Also adore John baffled and kind of horrified that Mycroft reads The Sun.
The article mentions the fact that Richard Brook had been friends with Holmes for decades. This is where he salts in all the stuff Mycroft tells him I guess.
Mycroft laughs at the prospect of it being an old school friend, presumably because Sherlock didn't have any. Though you don't have to be a friend to know stuff about someone. He's rather dismissive of it though. I don't know if he's trying to not go there so John doesn't know that he's fucked up. Surely he must see what Moriarty is doing with it. He must know the info is the stuff he gave up.
I love that the assassin he has seen was the pretty woman. *g*
So Mycroft doesn't want to see Sherlock because then Sherlock will know what Mycroft has done? With the giving Moriarty Sherlock's info? He doesn't usually hold back from pointing out to Sherlock that he knows something.
The smurfs and action man things *dies*
I can't believe John just opens the envelope on the door step. He knows Moriarty is out to get them. It turns out just to be bread crumbs but it's not that long after people were getting sent Anthrax in the post and the way post was dealt with in The Great Game, he saw Sherlock examining everything about an envelope before opening it. It could be anything John. It's not out of the blue. An envelope turning up with a wax seal and no address or anything should be odd enough that he's mention it. Run upstairs and give it to Sherlock.
And then he opens it and some crumbly stuff falls out and he just forgets? I mean I know there's the thing about the kids but there's time and it should have made enough of a blip for him to mention it at least. I know he gets the “Sherlock, something weird...” out but it could be connected when Moriarty is sending you puzzles.
And then there was the drive there. It's got to be more than a 5 min drive.
Lol. Over dramatic Sherlock. Whipping off the blanket too.
Oh Benedict fiddling with things is highly amusing. He can't just hold something. Got to be tapping it and flipping it about. He pulls the envelope off the book of fairy tales and then flips the book over. When I watched it I thought they'd edited funny. The book was at a funny angle and then it sort of flashed and was the right way round but watching it in slow you can see him flipping it.
He's not doing himself any favours by not wearing gloves and touching all the doors and the fairy tale book etc. Could be pointed out that he was doing it so his fingerprints would have a reason to be there.
The pulling crisps out of his pocket when he says Molly is having lunch with him is funny. I can imagine John thinking of it but then why has Sherlock got them? Bigger pockets?
Then she says about Jim not being her boyfriend and Sherlock is an arse about him and then flashes the crisps again. What?
I don't know why but I adore the bit with Molly struggling to get her glove on.
And awww the “Thankyou John” “Molly” “Yes” bit.
Poor Molly.
So why does he say IOU now? Is he just trying to think things through? Glycerol does have OH OE OH in red but it's not exactly IOU is it. Maybe they just wanted Molly to ask about it.
Molly starts to ask him about it. He pauses and then watches John walk past. He doesn't answer nothing until he's gone. More hiding stuff from him?
I really, really adore this scene with Molly. It really throws Sherlock. He has to re-evaluate Molly here. She really surprises him.
I don't think I've ever heard her call John by name. She seemed to not really notice him in the first series. I guess there's probably jealousy there. Even if they're not sexually involved this guy just turns up and Sherlock actually listens to him and pays him attention.
But yes, “You look sad when you think he can's see you.” And Sherlock looks right at him. Why is Sherlock sad? Is he just more worried than he lets on to John. Last time Moriarty was playing with him he was really happy/excited about it right up until the point that John turned up at the pool. Is it different now because he knows what Moriarty can do? Is it that he actually really realises that people he loves could get hurt. John and Mrs Hudson and Lestrade? Is he sad because he still doesn't know where this is going? It didn't seem to bother him last time.
You can see he's intrigued when she starts saying “Don't just say you are because I know you're not” He really didn't expect her to see and see accurately.
The blink and second look when Molly says “I don't count.”
She's proving that she is able to see past the dazzle of Sherlock, that she is more than just this silly crush. He realises that there's more there than he thought, that he'd been wrong about Molly.
Once she says about “if there's anything you need” I love the way Sherlock seems to be recalculating. Going over the words trying to find the right response. He looks genuinely confused when he says “what could I need from you” He doesn't sound aggressive with it.
It's also his response to John in Scandal. When Sherlock is sleeping off the drug Irene gave him and John is leaving again he says something about being next door if he needs him and Sherlock replies with something very similar.
I love Molly telling him he should say thankyou and him actually saying it.
Then trying to ask for something from the machine. Is that him trying to be polite? He's obviously seen something new in Molly.
I guess Molly asks him if he wants anything because it's what you do isn't it? And by saying she knows he doesn't she's letting him know that she knows him, knows he doesn't eat when on a case and something about her not needing him to not be himself and not being fooled by him. Those aren't the words I'm wanting but I can't think quite how to put that.
But it's taken him away from his studying. She threw him so much with that speech that you can see him standing there thinking about it even once she's gone.
LOLing that Sherlock hasn't deleted Hansel and Gretel
I really like that version of the mind palace thing than the one in Hound. Doesn't seem as silly. I think it works really well with the map.
Aaaaand the vegetation is Rhodedendon Ponticom? *check spelling* Okay so that was used in the first Sherlock Holmes movie. It was used to make a draught that made people think you were dead. Stopped your breathing and pulse for a while. Important? John does check his pulse at the end. I think if it is Sherlock's body on the pavement at the end then it's leaving it too much to chance for him to be breathing and have a pulse. Whether he uses that or it just gives him the idea and he uses something from Molly I think it plays into it somehow. Maybe. Or it could be one of the Red Herrings that Moff in particular is so fond of.
Sherlock mentions neat in relation to the plan of killing the children. John tells him off for it. I know I saw someone on tumblr mention the fact that it didn't sound like something he'd say. I don't think he meant neat in that way. He was pleased with it but meant neat like tidy, economical.
Firstly helplo little River Song. *G* knew I knew the kid.
The screaming thing.
I don't think Sherlock has to be the one that took them for her to scream. She could have been told all sorts of nasty stories about him coming to get them and just shown photos. It would be easy to frighten a child into thinking someone is a boogey man.
I've heard things about cloning and twins which I don't think were actually serious.
When Moriarty talked about every fairy story needing a villain he was talking about making Sherlock one. It wouldn't take much to get Sally and Donovan to question him. They've been expecting it from the start.
Like Sherlock said it means they're not missing things, and he's picking them up, just that he knows the story before hand. Makes them feel better about themselves.
If the paper Mycroft had had already been released (because I think it was just the teaser for the article later in the week) then Sally would have read it and it mentioned above the fold that Sherlock had hired an actor for Moriarty and was faking a lot of stuff to seem smart.
Wouldn't take her much to believe it.
When she starts screaming Sherlock does his 'playing normal' voice. He does it in the first series when he wants to get let in the flat or when he talks to the woman who's husband hired the car. It's much more like Ben's normal speaking voice.
Sherlock looks upset while looking out the window. Most probably because he's been thwarted and can't get the resolution he wants I guess.
Then there's the IOU thing again. Is it just a reminder to Sherlock that Moriarty is still after him and still calling the shots?
I love Lestrade's little self congratulatory smile when he comes out with “I always feel like screaming when you walk in the room, so do most people” Rupert Graves is pretty.
Once Sherlock hears Sally say “unbelievable” he realises that he's being framed.
It's funny, on one of the Basil Rathbone's Holmes movies, Billy (the doorman, buttler-y type kid) says “I know Mr Holmes, not the first cab I see or the second one but the third”
I think Sherlock forgot this. Or more likely he knew Moriarty was going to get a message to him. Because of the IOU on the windows?
He looks upset when he gets in the car.
When the bloke got shot for saving Sherlock from the car I thought it was him getting set up for it. I guess once they got forensics and all they'd be able to tell that the shot was from a long way away but I thought they were trying to get Sherlock arrested for murder. Or at least suspected for it.
The climbing!! Hee. I saw on tumblr someone saying that they bet Sherlock played the floor is lava when John wasn't home. I may have snorted something out of my nose.
I'm not sure Lestrade really doubts him. There may be a tiny sliver of it but he has to follow procedure. Has to, it's his job. He rings John though to give them warning and really doesn't take off after them very fast at all when they run off with the gun.
I love the facepalm and then the 'how much of a headstart can I give them without getting fired.'
Once again John caring what people think of Sherlock.
Sherlock thinks John's doubting him. I love John's reason for not. I love them and the tiny, tiny smiles they give then.
Could they have got someone more silly sounding chief?
I love John asking if they have a warrant. And Sherlock telling John it's all right and John saying it's not.
And then when the chief superintendent starts going on about Sherlock being a weirdo, Sally looks from him to John and back again a bit worried. I love that all we see is his shoulder going back and then him getting arrested with his Sherlock.
And the “Joining me” bit and Sherlock's smile. *heart eyes*
The comments about holding hands and people talking. I love them.
Ruth was saying something was odd about Sherlock not going to Mycroft when they escape. Like they already had something going on that John didn't know about.
I don't remember Sherlock ever willingly going to Mycroft before though. Not when they were heading to the pool or anything. I think he avoids him when he can. I don't know that he knows Mycroft has spilled the info at this point. It's not until they read Kitty's proof of the article that they know Moriarty had so much real info.
I think for quite a few reasons that he does go to Mycroft to sort out the dying thing. I will talk about them when it comes to the end of it. But I think he avoids him until he has no other option. But maybe I've missed something.
I love John holding his sleeve.
I also love them sitting in the dark on the couch at Kitty's place. Why did Sherlock wait until after that to pick the handcuff lock. I'm sure he could have found something to do it with. He got her door open okay.
Subtle. That Make Believe written on her wall *g*
I love Sherlock's dawning horror but also appreciation. You can so hear him thinking 'oh well done'. He's impressed with Moriarty. John just wants to smack him about a bit.
Takes a lot for John to get to the yelling.
He calls her Darling when he comes in. Likes to worm his way into women's lives to get to Sherlock.
They didn't focus on the article enough for me to see it. John says she's going to publish it though rather than have published so I guess it's coming out in the next edition or something.
After John says “yeah show me something” Moriarty catches Sherlock's eye and the other two are facing the other way and he just pauses and drops the act a bit before resuming it again.
It takes even more for Sherlock to start yelling at him like that.
John reads the article and knows that it's true so does he know these things about Sherlock already? The truths seeded through the article or is it just Sherlock saying there is truth there? I'd like to think about John knowing stuff about Sherlock's past because Sherlock has told him. Don't know that it did happen but I like the picture.
Outside here is the point where Sherlock realises that the final problem Moriarty talked about, the bit in the cab where he said but that's not the biggest problem, it's not the final problem or something like that, he realises that Moriarty means to either kill him and make it look like suicide or make him do it. That it's the way for Moriarty to finish this. If Sherlock is still around then he can fix stuff. The stuff in the article wont hold up under proper investigation. Moriarty has created stuff but he doesn't have the magic key to get in and change data. The real stuff would come to light. Especially with Sherlock around to point stuff out. The police might not believe him outright but they'd have to look.
But here he goes off to plan and talk to Molly and I'm certain Mycroft is involved but I'm not sure at what point.
Now Kitty was just getting in from work I assume and Molly is just finishing up for the day when Sherlock turns up. Mycroft is just getting to his club to so between 5 and 9? It's probably winter. Everyone has coats and stuff.
It's obviously past dawn when John heads off to find out about Mrs Hudson. Plenty of time for Sherlock to sort out what's going to happen. I guess.
Sherlock's voice going there. *meep*
“I think I'm going to die” is rather different than I think I'm going to be killed.
I do like that he gives her the chance to go. The “if I wasn't everything that you think I am” bit.
She's strong. Neither her of John hesitate.
Poor John. I love that he works out Mycroft's fuck up though. For a while I didn't know if the thing about Mycroft giving out the stuff about Sherlock was really an accident. I think I'd read someone questioning it. The bits we see of him when John doesn't actually see him though at the end here and at the earlier meeting make me think it was and he feels awful about it. It's similar, him giving away info as the only way to get Moriarty to talk, to the scene in Tinker, Tailor where George gives away stuff about himself accidentally while trying to get info out of Karla.
I love how John has the upper hand from the moment Mycroft comes in. He's controlled but on the attack letting Mycroft know what he knows. Then asking quite politely how Mycroft met Jim.
Ruth pointed out that they're in opposite chairs to what they were last time. That is probably deliberately.
So when the secret service got a hold of Moriarty that was at the end of Hound. That was before he broke in to the Tower, bank and prison right? I mean if Hound had been set in between the 6 months ago or what ever the time stamp at the beginning said, and Sherlock dying then he wouldn't be so bored. The secret service had hold of him before the break-ins. Then they let him go. Then he broke in to shit. If Mycroft is telling the truth and it was before the breakins would they have known about the code? Was it because Moriarty had been letting people know about it before? His style seems to be more that he'd do it and then get people interested. It was a showy break in for that reason right?
I mean I know the code turns out to be bullshit but if the Secret Service has hauled him in for it then did they let him go and let him break in? And why?
How long before Sherlock messaged John? He's already sent Molly off to do stuff. She's not there again.
Does John know about any of the IOU things? Sherlock said he didn't write anything down. Also didn't mention the knife. But yeah, never told John about the apple, John didn't see the stuff written on the windows opposite the police station. There's the graffiti but unless he knew about the IOU thing that wouldn't register. He didn't here him when Sherlock muttered it in front of Molly. Sherlock waited till John was out of earshot before even answering her.
Is he just hiding how close Moriarty is?
Anyway time wise, he sends the message to Moriarty and it's dawn then. Then John's had time to fall asleep and gets waken up by the call about Mrs Hudson. Now Sherlock isn't surprised by that at all. He set it up? It's possible that Moriarty did but I think given that Sherlock wanted him out of the way but then needed him at the end it makes me think it was Sherlock that set it up. The look he gives John when the phone rings.
If Mrs Hudson was really dying, had been shot why would John be going to Baker St? They would have her in an ambulance going to a hospital where John would meet them. Except John is already at a hospital. I know it's a ruse to get John away and all but if he'd had time to think about it, it's a bad one.
*crying*
John's last face to face conversation with Sherlock and he basically calls him a machine just like all the others have. John knows Sherlock isn't like that but I can see why he's so angry. Sherlock of course knows nothing is wrong with Mrs Hudson. Yet.
“Friends protect people”
Barts seems to be huge. How did he know what bit of roof to go to?
When Moriarty says that the digits are useless Sherlock does that blinking recalculating thing he does.
Bach again.
And fairy tales. Don't people end up in deep, deep sleep a lot in Fairy Tales? Apple, spinning wheel etc
Okay I've no idea what London streets are usually like. The rectangle on the pavement. Is that just a bus stop? Is it there so they know where to put their huge inflatable thing for the stunts? Or is it part of the plot?
'Police, sort of' is great.
“You friends will die if you don't”
Moriarty keeps saying everyone until Sherlock has mentioned John, Mrs Hudson and Lestrade. He doesn't mention Molly or Mycroft. The two people who are probably helping him. Sherlock needs to know that Molly isn't being watched. Moriarty wouldn't know Sherlock took her more seriously recently. Last time he saw her Sherlock was ignoring her or using her to get at bodies.
Then all of a sudden there are people down there. They didn't come off the bus.
Now the moment of privacy. Could be when he's sticking himself with a drug to stop his breathing and pulse. It's risky. The timing is really tricky.
Hands in his pockets though and he does this little intake of breath.
Then he starts to laugh. Is that because he figured out that there might be another way out of it? The planned way isn't worth it if there is any other way out.
Sherlock here plays back at Moriarty. Plays him back at him. The cadence of his voice and the bouncing steps.
Part of me isn't sure that Moriarty actually did kill himself. I don't know. Seems a bit off but then it is Moriarty's way of winning.
Sherlock panics a bit here. The camera goes wobbly and blurry. *shrugs*
John turns up and Sherlock makes sure the Ambulance garage is between them. John can't see the pavement from there.
Why are there cars parked in the Ambulance spot? Does that usually happen?
Sherlock is upset. I've heard it said that him crying could be the result of the drug. I kind of hope not.
I love the little laugh when John doesn't believe him and says “you could”
The tear off the chin. Well done Ben.
He makes sure John doesn't come around the ambulance garage again.
Oh John I love you.
Keep your eyes fixed on me. Don't look at the man behind the curtain. Or you know the truck pulled up in front of a hospital.
Just before the shot of Sherlock chucking away the phone his view of John goes all blurry. Drugs kicking in? Sherlock crying? Pretty camera move? Ugh. Probably reading way too much in to everything.
John gets knocked over by the bike and probably gets concussion. There's a ringing noise (johns ears or the bell on the bike to signal someone or something?) and John doesn't walk straight after. The guy knocks him down and then checks to make sure John goes down properly too.
There is a truck in front of the hospital. A laundry (or rubbish I've seen it called both) truck. If it is a rubbish truck those are huge bags. Skip size. Skips don't have bags do they?
Ether way neither truck would be pulled up on the pavement in front of a hospital. There would be a loading zone somewhere right? Certainly wouldn't stop in a bus stop.
Then the truck takes off long before John can get there.
Did Sherlock jump into the truck? That's a long way. Did he jump onto something that was unloaded out the side of the truck. It had drop down sides.
Could have got blood from Molly. Probably could have also got access to a drug that hides the heartbeat and breathing from her too, or at least a syringe to inject it.
Then people are stopping John getting near. They really know what they're doing. They're pulling him away from Sherlock. You never see a head wound. Just blood. John nearly passes out. But we see Sherlock's face quite clearly after.
Ruth called them pavement artists. Government agents? Mycroft would have access to people trained for this. Not to mention there is no CCTV footage. It would show that Sherlock didn't really die right? The only one we know of who can control the cameras is Mycroft. There is a bus stop and an entrance to the hospital. There's no way there wouldn't be footage.
I've also heard the theory of John being dosed with the drug from Hounds. That Sherlock would have taken some to study. And then John just saw what he expected to see. The drug did make Sherlock see Moriarty at the Hollow.
I think the sniper wouldn't have seen anything of what was happening where Sherlock fell because he was trained on John the whole time. He obviously had line of sight to where Sherlock landed because John is there before he stops sighting him.
You can sort of see rain in that scene but once John stands up and gets control of himself you can see it properly. The sky cries because John Watson can't.
The feet, the feet. *sob*
Oh Mrs Hudson. I love you.
John trying to tell Sherlock the things he should have told him while he was alive.
I get upset until he says the Stop it!, Stop this! Then I giggle. Then he loses it. For like a second before he turns, all military like and I'm crying again.
Then we see Sherlock in his scarf and coat. Lol. Way to hide Sherlock. Not exactly the best way to be hiding. Standing out near a tree in that iconic coat if you don't want to be recognised. And he apparently has a very good dry cleaner. *g*
But yeah. I'm sure I've missed a load of shit and read way, way more into what I've seen but that's what fandom is for it's it?
This is written really badly. I usually tell stories with pictures rather than words.
Not sure yet if I'll friends lock this or leave it open for anyone to come and give their opinion or take on what they saw.
I'd love to hear about what I've missed.
Oh god oh god.
I was a bit worried about this. First off it's the subject matter but secondly it's written by the same guy who wrote The Blind Banker and although I adore some of the character stuff in that one there is so, so much fail.
This was the big cliffhanger though I knew it had to be good. After the way they left the last season I didn't know what point they were going to stop it.
Over all I adored the story. The show was, as always, beautifully shot and so pretty that I can't even talk about it.
I guess I should also say that I haven't seen the commentaries yet, my DVD is not here.
Just some things we've talked about from this episode and other versions of Holmes and some stuff I've talked about with friends.
It's long. Really long but I wanted to point out stuff about it and hear people's opinions as I'm certain I'm missing stuff. Got 10 pages in Open Office. >_<
MARTIN *Sobs*
They do love making the sky cry when John can't. It is pretty.
His VOICE.
I do think it's very much in character to have John never really break down and lose it.
I like the light they have used in this scene.
Then the music that makes me happy !!
The painting is a nice way of getting the Reichenbach falls into the picture without leaving England. I do like these shorts of people trying to thank Sherlock and him being his usual self. I think it does well to show how John is trying to make him play nice when he needs to.
And I think it says a lot that when John tells Sherlock to say Thankyou, he actually does. He doesn't mean it but he says it.
Oh John, where do you get your shirts?
I wasn't sure if the cases at the beginning had some vague link to the main problem but I can't see anything. Anyone else?
I love Lestrade making a joke and that John feels the need to let Sherlock know it's sarcasm. I think that is more John's way of joining in though.
And the hat *dies*
I love this whole rant back at the flat. Sherlock and his going on about the hat. “It's an ear hat John” and John wibbling over his “Confirmed Bachelor” role. And Sherlock pointing out exactly where they gave John a nickname.
And of course I adore the “this is too much, we need to be more careful” after he's being going on about his “confirmed bachelor” status. It's not what he's saying but it's so what I'm reading.
Foreshadowing from John there. “The press will turn, Sherlock. They always turn and they will turn on you” and making more of the point that John does care what the press thinks of Sherlock.
I was never very happy with Andrew Scott's Moriarty in The Great Game. It was too much, too over the top for me. I didn't find it as disturbing as it was meant to be. I know a lot of people loved it but it wasn't really something I was happy with. In this one though I adored him. I found the balance spot on.
First off I must flail about John in just his dressing gown. *g* And the complete lack of surprise at the hanging dummy.
Heee. I've seen on tumblr Andrew saying that there was classical music playing and and he didn't have to dance to it but he did. It does make the scene.
Also Tumblr seems to be full of versions of Lestrade saying #Not My Division while wearing many different cultural symbols. I've no idea why some things go so viral. Also he says not OUR division. But anyway. Moving on.
I do like the little app gifs.
And the fact of tea and coffee spilling is part of every one of the break ins.
The scene in the car isn't the best acting from Sally or Lestrade. The “oh no” is a bit ridiculous. Good job I love you Rupert. No idea why those shots were the best they could get. The acting is usually really quite good. Wonder if they corpsed on other takes.
JOHN'S KNEES
And really white chest!
You can see John is scared there. I do love him.
I've paused and read the articles. They're mostly faff and at one point they just start repeating themselves again *g* People have DVDs these days.
The getting ready together and asking if Sherlock is ready. *meep*
Mind you I think really John should have been called as a witness given that Moriarty kidnapped him and dressed him up in Semtex etc.
Oh god the don't be yourself thing. John I know you're stressed.
*check name* Ohh it's interesting to see her in serious role.
I love John's face when Sherlock goes off on his thing about the jury. The oh god here we go one.
I also really like that they don't show him getting done for contempt. That it's just the leadup and the aftermath. The same as the shot with John when he punches the chief superintendent.
I wasn't sure if Moriarty was going to do something while Sherlock was in the cell. Blow it up or something. Guess that's way to easy though.
I also love the “Can't just turn it on and off like a tap” line.
Oh corridor. I've seen you before. Torchwood when PC Andy has a Roman locked up? I'm sure it's also something in Life On Mars.
Then it's the speech about the look. It's funny and I love the way they play it but it also pointing out again how John has got used to Sherlock and isn't so much about the awe when he's going off on his deductions or not going off in this case. They've had John call it showing off a few times now. In Hound and in the car on the way and then the Judge at court.
I want their kettle! Also really tacky tea pot and cups there Sherlock. Did they come with the flat?
Fairy tale starts here. They are very heavy handed with the final problem thing.
At this point though Moriarty says “I did tell you, but did you listen?” I'm not sure exactly what he's referring to here. Tell him just then or earlier?
He mentioned that everyone had their buttons. That he got to the jury because he knew who they wanted to protect. I guess that relates to the John, Mrs Hudson, and Lestrade thing.
I don't know enough about classical music to know if there is anything being fed in there. He goes on about Bach but I figured that was because Sherlock was playing it. Then at the end he says the finger tapping wasn't binary, it was Bach doesn't he?
I know the piece of music when Moriarty was breaking in to the Tower was something about Raven wasn't it? And then they have the raven on the wax seals.
I never realised how much trouble Sherlock's shirts have staying closed. *G* Reckon it's just them showing Ben off? Maybe Sherlock hasn't gone shopping in a while and living with John has fattened him up.
Okay so I think I've sorted out quite a few things about how it all goes down. I've got ideas for how Sherlock did it but I still think I MUST be missing something with the IOU. I know he says it a lot and there's the apple and the graffiti but I'm not really seeing a resolution for it all.
Is it about owing him from the pool. Is it because Moriarty was taken in by the government? I just don't see that IOU played a significant enough roll to make it worth it all.
I know the fall Moriarty is talking about is the metaphorical one. The discrediting of Sherlock. He plans to make him kill himself but it's Sherlock that chooses the high building.
When John asks what Moriarty touched in the flat when they're trying to work out about the code Sherlock mentions the apple but not the knife he left. It is obviously one Moriarty brought with him isn't it? Or did he get to the mantle and grab it? I know they used a pocket knife for the mail in this. Don't actually know what a Jack knife is so I don't know how that differs from canon.
I'm pretty sure it was Moriarty's.
Love the caricature. It's terrible.
I love that they used the Diogenes club. Poor John.
“We don't want a repeat of 1972” LOL. Mycroft you're all about the drama. I know they enjoy dropping shit in that is never explained.
Also adore John baffled and kind of horrified that Mycroft reads The Sun.
The article mentions the fact that Richard Brook had been friends with Holmes for decades. This is where he salts in all the stuff Mycroft tells him I guess.
Mycroft laughs at the prospect of it being an old school friend, presumably because Sherlock didn't have any. Though you don't have to be a friend to know stuff about someone. He's rather dismissive of it though. I don't know if he's trying to not go there so John doesn't know that he's fucked up. Surely he must see what Moriarty is doing with it. He must know the info is the stuff he gave up.
I love that the assassin he has seen was the pretty woman. *g*
So Mycroft doesn't want to see Sherlock because then Sherlock will know what Mycroft has done? With the giving Moriarty Sherlock's info? He doesn't usually hold back from pointing out to Sherlock that he knows something.
The smurfs and action man things *dies*
I can't believe John just opens the envelope on the door step. He knows Moriarty is out to get them. It turns out just to be bread crumbs but it's not that long after people were getting sent Anthrax in the post and the way post was dealt with in The Great Game, he saw Sherlock examining everything about an envelope before opening it. It could be anything John. It's not out of the blue. An envelope turning up with a wax seal and no address or anything should be odd enough that he's mention it. Run upstairs and give it to Sherlock.
And then he opens it and some crumbly stuff falls out and he just forgets? I mean I know there's the thing about the kids but there's time and it should have made enough of a blip for him to mention it at least. I know he gets the “Sherlock, something weird...” out but it could be connected when Moriarty is sending you puzzles.
And then there was the drive there. It's got to be more than a 5 min drive.
Lol. Over dramatic Sherlock. Whipping off the blanket too.
Oh Benedict fiddling with things is highly amusing. He can't just hold something. Got to be tapping it and flipping it about. He pulls the envelope off the book of fairy tales and then flips the book over. When I watched it I thought they'd edited funny. The book was at a funny angle and then it sort of flashed and was the right way round but watching it in slow you can see him flipping it.
He's not doing himself any favours by not wearing gloves and touching all the doors and the fairy tale book etc. Could be pointed out that he was doing it so his fingerprints would have a reason to be there.
The pulling crisps out of his pocket when he says Molly is having lunch with him is funny. I can imagine John thinking of it but then why has Sherlock got them? Bigger pockets?
Then she says about Jim not being her boyfriend and Sherlock is an arse about him and then flashes the crisps again. What?
I don't know why but I adore the bit with Molly struggling to get her glove on.
And awww the “Thankyou John” “Molly” “Yes” bit.
Poor Molly.
So why does he say IOU now? Is he just trying to think things through? Glycerol does have OH OE OH in red but it's not exactly IOU is it. Maybe they just wanted Molly to ask about it.
Molly starts to ask him about it. He pauses and then watches John walk past. He doesn't answer nothing until he's gone. More hiding stuff from him?
I really, really adore this scene with Molly. It really throws Sherlock. He has to re-evaluate Molly here. She really surprises him.
I don't think I've ever heard her call John by name. She seemed to not really notice him in the first series. I guess there's probably jealousy there. Even if they're not sexually involved this guy just turns up and Sherlock actually listens to him and pays him attention.
But yes, “You look sad when you think he can's see you.” And Sherlock looks right at him. Why is Sherlock sad? Is he just more worried than he lets on to John. Last time Moriarty was playing with him he was really happy/excited about it right up until the point that John turned up at the pool. Is it different now because he knows what Moriarty can do? Is it that he actually really realises that people he loves could get hurt. John and Mrs Hudson and Lestrade? Is he sad because he still doesn't know where this is going? It didn't seem to bother him last time.
You can see he's intrigued when she starts saying “Don't just say you are because I know you're not” He really didn't expect her to see and see accurately.
The blink and second look when Molly says “I don't count.”
She's proving that she is able to see past the dazzle of Sherlock, that she is more than just this silly crush. He realises that there's more there than he thought, that he'd been wrong about Molly.
Once she says about “if there's anything you need” I love the way Sherlock seems to be recalculating. Going over the words trying to find the right response. He looks genuinely confused when he says “what could I need from you” He doesn't sound aggressive with it.
It's also his response to John in Scandal. When Sherlock is sleeping off the drug Irene gave him and John is leaving again he says something about being next door if he needs him and Sherlock replies with something very similar.
I love Molly telling him he should say thankyou and him actually saying it.
Then trying to ask for something from the machine. Is that him trying to be polite? He's obviously seen something new in Molly.
I guess Molly asks him if he wants anything because it's what you do isn't it? And by saying she knows he doesn't she's letting him know that she knows him, knows he doesn't eat when on a case and something about her not needing him to not be himself and not being fooled by him. Those aren't the words I'm wanting but I can't think quite how to put that.
But it's taken him away from his studying. She threw him so much with that speech that you can see him standing there thinking about it even once she's gone.
LOLing that Sherlock hasn't deleted Hansel and Gretel
I really like that version of the mind palace thing than the one in Hound. Doesn't seem as silly. I think it works really well with the map.
Aaaaand the vegetation is Rhodedendon Ponticom? *check spelling* Okay so that was used in the first Sherlock Holmes movie. It was used to make a draught that made people think you were dead. Stopped your breathing and pulse for a while. Important? John does check his pulse at the end. I think if it is Sherlock's body on the pavement at the end then it's leaving it too much to chance for him to be breathing and have a pulse. Whether he uses that or it just gives him the idea and he uses something from Molly I think it plays into it somehow. Maybe. Or it could be one of the Red Herrings that Moff in particular is so fond of.
Sherlock mentions neat in relation to the plan of killing the children. John tells him off for it. I know I saw someone on tumblr mention the fact that it didn't sound like something he'd say. I don't think he meant neat in that way. He was pleased with it but meant neat like tidy, economical.
Firstly helplo little River Song. *G* knew I knew the kid.
The screaming thing.
I don't think Sherlock has to be the one that took them for her to scream. She could have been told all sorts of nasty stories about him coming to get them and just shown photos. It would be easy to frighten a child into thinking someone is a boogey man.
I've heard things about cloning and twins which I don't think were actually serious.
When Moriarty talked about every fairy story needing a villain he was talking about making Sherlock one. It wouldn't take much to get Sally and Donovan to question him. They've been expecting it from the start.
Like Sherlock said it means they're not missing things, and he's picking them up, just that he knows the story before hand. Makes them feel better about themselves.
If the paper Mycroft had had already been released (because I think it was just the teaser for the article later in the week) then Sally would have read it and it mentioned above the fold that Sherlock had hired an actor for Moriarty and was faking a lot of stuff to seem smart.
Wouldn't take her much to believe it.
When she starts screaming Sherlock does his 'playing normal' voice. He does it in the first series when he wants to get let in the flat or when he talks to the woman who's husband hired the car. It's much more like Ben's normal speaking voice.
Sherlock looks upset while looking out the window. Most probably because he's been thwarted and can't get the resolution he wants I guess.
Then there's the IOU thing again. Is it just a reminder to Sherlock that Moriarty is still after him and still calling the shots?
I love Lestrade's little self congratulatory smile when he comes out with “I always feel like screaming when you walk in the room, so do most people” Rupert Graves is pretty.
Once Sherlock hears Sally say “unbelievable” he realises that he's being framed.
It's funny, on one of the Basil Rathbone's Holmes movies, Billy (the doorman, buttler-y type kid) says “I know Mr Holmes, not the first cab I see or the second one but the third”
I think Sherlock forgot this. Or more likely he knew Moriarty was going to get a message to him. Because of the IOU on the windows?
He looks upset when he gets in the car.
When the bloke got shot for saving Sherlock from the car I thought it was him getting set up for it. I guess once they got forensics and all they'd be able to tell that the shot was from a long way away but I thought they were trying to get Sherlock arrested for murder. Or at least suspected for it.
The climbing!! Hee. I saw on tumblr someone saying that they bet Sherlock played the floor is lava when John wasn't home. I may have snorted something out of my nose.
I'm not sure Lestrade really doubts him. There may be a tiny sliver of it but he has to follow procedure. Has to, it's his job. He rings John though to give them warning and really doesn't take off after them very fast at all when they run off with the gun.
I love the facepalm and then the 'how much of a headstart can I give them without getting fired.'
Once again John caring what people think of Sherlock.
Sherlock thinks John's doubting him. I love John's reason for not. I love them and the tiny, tiny smiles they give then.
Could they have got someone more silly sounding chief?
I love John asking if they have a warrant. And Sherlock telling John it's all right and John saying it's not.
And then when the chief superintendent starts going on about Sherlock being a weirdo, Sally looks from him to John and back again a bit worried. I love that all we see is his shoulder going back and then him getting arrested with his Sherlock.
And the “Joining me” bit and Sherlock's smile. *heart eyes*
The comments about holding hands and people talking. I love them.
Ruth was saying something was odd about Sherlock not going to Mycroft when they escape. Like they already had something going on that John didn't know about.
I don't remember Sherlock ever willingly going to Mycroft before though. Not when they were heading to the pool or anything. I think he avoids him when he can. I don't know that he knows Mycroft has spilled the info at this point. It's not until they read Kitty's proof of the article that they know Moriarty had so much real info.
I think for quite a few reasons that he does go to Mycroft to sort out the dying thing. I will talk about them when it comes to the end of it. But I think he avoids him until he has no other option. But maybe I've missed something.
I love John holding his sleeve.
I also love them sitting in the dark on the couch at Kitty's place. Why did Sherlock wait until after that to pick the handcuff lock. I'm sure he could have found something to do it with. He got her door open okay.
Subtle. That Make Believe written on her wall *g*
I love Sherlock's dawning horror but also appreciation. You can so hear him thinking 'oh well done'. He's impressed with Moriarty. John just wants to smack him about a bit.
Takes a lot for John to get to the yelling.
He calls her Darling when he comes in. Likes to worm his way into women's lives to get to Sherlock.
They didn't focus on the article enough for me to see it. John says she's going to publish it though rather than have published so I guess it's coming out in the next edition or something.
After John says “yeah show me something” Moriarty catches Sherlock's eye and the other two are facing the other way and he just pauses and drops the act a bit before resuming it again.
It takes even more for Sherlock to start yelling at him like that.
John reads the article and knows that it's true so does he know these things about Sherlock already? The truths seeded through the article or is it just Sherlock saying there is truth there? I'd like to think about John knowing stuff about Sherlock's past because Sherlock has told him. Don't know that it did happen but I like the picture.
Outside here is the point where Sherlock realises that the final problem Moriarty talked about, the bit in the cab where he said but that's not the biggest problem, it's not the final problem or something like that, he realises that Moriarty means to either kill him and make it look like suicide or make him do it. That it's the way for Moriarty to finish this. If Sherlock is still around then he can fix stuff. The stuff in the article wont hold up under proper investigation. Moriarty has created stuff but he doesn't have the magic key to get in and change data. The real stuff would come to light. Especially with Sherlock around to point stuff out. The police might not believe him outright but they'd have to look.
But here he goes off to plan and talk to Molly and I'm certain Mycroft is involved but I'm not sure at what point.
Now Kitty was just getting in from work I assume and Molly is just finishing up for the day when Sherlock turns up. Mycroft is just getting to his club to so between 5 and 9? It's probably winter. Everyone has coats and stuff.
It's obviously past dawn when John heads off to find out about Mrs Hudson. Plenty of time for Sherlock to sort out what's going to happen. I guess.
Sherlock's voice going there. *meep*
“I think I'm going to die” is rather different than I think I'm going to be killed.
I do like that he gives her the chance to go. The “if I wasn't everything that you think I am” bit.
She's strong. Neither her of John hesitate.
Poor John. I love that he works out Mycroft's fuck up though. For a while I didn't know if the thing about Mycroft giving out the stuff about Sherlock was really an accident. I think I'd read someone questioning it. The bits we see of him when John doesn't actually see him though at the end here and at the earlier meeting make me think it was and he feels awful about it. It's similar, him giving away info as the only way to get Moriarty to talk, to the scene in Tinker, Tailor where George gives away stuff about himself accidentally while trying to get info out of Karla.
I love how John has the upper hand from the moment Mycroft comes in. He's controlled but on the attack letting Mycroft know what he knows. Then asking quite politely how Mycroft met Jim.
Ruth pointed out that they're in opposite chairs to what they were last time. That is probably deliberately.
So when the secret service got a hold of Moriarty that was at the end of Hound. That was before he broke in to the Tower, bank and prison right? I mean if Hound had been set in between the 6 months ago or what ever the time stamp at the beginning said, and Sherlock dying then he wouldn't be so bored. The secret service had hold of him before the break-ins. Then they let him go. Then he broke in to shit. If Mycroft is telling the truth and it was before the breakins would they have known about the code? Was it because Moriarty had been letting people know about it before? His style seems to be more that he'd do it and then get people interested. It was a showy break in for that reason right?
I mean I know the code turns out to be bullshit but if the Secret Service has hauled him in for it then did they let him go and let him break in? And why?
How long before Sherlock messaged John? He's already sent Molly off to do stuff. She's not there again.
Does John know about any of the IOU things? Sherlock said he didn't write anything down. Also didn't mention the knife. But yeah, never told John about the apple, John didn't see the stuff written on the windows opposite the police station. There's the graffiti but unless he knew about the IOU thing that wouldn't register. He didn't here him when Sherlock muttered it in front of Molly. Sherlock waited till John was out of earshot before even answering her.
Is he just hiding how close Moriarty is?
Anyway time wise, he sends the message to Moriarty and it's dawn then. Then John's had time to fall asleep and gets waken up by the call about Mrs Hudson. Now Sherlock isn't surprised by that at all. He set it up? It's possible that Moriarty did but I think given that Sherlock wanted him out of the way but then needed him at the end it makes me think it was Sherlock that set it up. The look he gives John when the phone rings.
If Mrs Hudson was really dying, had been shot why would John be going to Baker St? They would have her in an ambulance going to a hospital where John would meet them. Except John is already at a hospital. I know it's a ruse to get John away and all but if he'd had time to think about it, it's a bad one.
*crying*
John's last face to face conversation with Sherlock and he basically calls him a machine just like all the others have. John knows Sherlock isn't like that but I can see why he's so angry. Sherlock of course knows nothing is wrong with Mrs Hudson. Yet.
“Friends protect people”
Barts seems to be huge. How did he know what bit of roof to go to?
When Moriarty says that the digits are useless Sherlock does that blinking recalculating thing he does.
Bach again.
And fairy tales. Don't people end up in deep, deep sleep a lot in Fairy Tales? Apple, spinning wheel etc
Okay I've no idea what London streets are usually like. The rectangle on the pavement. Is that just a bus stop? Is it there so they know where to put their huge inflatable thing for the stunts? Or is it part of the plot?
'Police, sort of' is great.
“You friends will die if you don't”
Moriarty keeps saying everyone until Sherlock has mentioned John, Mrs Hudson and Lestrade. He doesn't mention Molly or Mycroft. The two people who are probably helping him. Sherlock needs to know that Molly isn't being watched. Moriarty wouldn't know Sherlock took her more seriously recently. Last time he saw her Sherlock was ignoring her or using her to get at bodies.
Then all of a sudden there are people down there. They didn't come off the bus.
Now the moment of privacy. Could be when he's sticking himself with a drug to stop his breathing and pulse. It's risky. The timing is really tricky.
Hands in his pockets though and he does this little intake of breath.
Then he starts to laugh. Is that because he figured out that there might be another way out of it? The planned way isn't worth it if there is any other way out.
Sherlock here plays back at Moriarty. Plays him back at him. The cadence of his voice and the bouncing steps.
Part of me isn't sure that Moriarty actually did kill himself. I don't know. Seems a bit off but then it is Moriarty's way of winning.
Sherlock panics a bit here. The camera goes wobbly and blurry. *shrugs*
John turns up and Sherlock makes sure the Ambulance garage is between them. John can't see the pavement from there.
Why are there cars parked in the Ambulance spot? Does that usually happen?
Sherlock is upset. I've heard it said that him crying could be the result of the drug. I kind of hope not.
I love the little laugh when John doesn't believe him and says “you could”
The tear off the chin. Well done Ben.
He makes sure John doesn't come around the ambulance garage again.
Oh John I love you.
Keep your eyes fixed on me. Don't look at the man behind the curtain. Or you know the truck pulled up in front of a hospital.
Just before the shot of Sherlock chucking away the phone his view of John goes all blurry. Drugs kicking in? Sherlock crying? Pretty camera move? Ugh. Probably reading way too much in to everything.
John gets knocked over by the bike and probably gets concussion. There's a ringing noise (johns ears or the bell on the bike to signal someone or something?) and John doesn't walk straight after. The guy knocks him down and then checks to make sure John goes down properly too.
There is a truck in front of the hospital. A laundry (or rubbish I've seen it called both) truck. If it is a rubbish truck those are huge bags. Skip size. Skips don't have bags do they?
Ether way neither truck would be pulled up on the pavement in front of a hospital. There would be a loading zone somewhere right? Certainly wouldn't stop in a bus stop.
Then the truck takes off long before John can get there.
Did Sherlock jump into the truck? That's a long way. Did he jump onto something that was unloaded out the side of the truck. It had drop down sides.
Could have got blood from Molly. Probably could have also got access to a drug that hides the heartbeat and breathing from her too, or at least a syringe to inject it.
Then people are stopping John getting near. They really know what they're doing. They're pulling him away from Sherlock. You never see a head wound. Just blood. John nearly passes out. But we see Sherlock's face quite clearly after.
Ruth called them pavement artists. Government agents? Mycroft would have access to people trained for this. Not to mention there is no CCTV footage. It would show that Sherlock didn't really die right? The only one we know of who can control the cameras is Mycroft. There is a bus stop and an entrance to the hospital. There's no way there wouldn't be footage.
I've also heard the theory of John being dosed with the drug from Hounds. That Sherlock would have taken some to study. And then John just saw what he expected to see. The drug did make Sherlock see Moriarty at the Hollow.
I think the sniper wouldn't have seen anything of what was happening where Sherlock fell because he was trained on John the whole time. He obviously had line of sight to where Sherlock landed because John is there before he stops sighting him.
You can sort of see rain in that scene but once John stands up and gets control of himself you can see it properly. The sky cries because John Watson can't.
The feet, the feet. *sob*
Oh Mrs Hudson. I love you.
John trying to tell Sherlock the things he should have told him while he was alive.
I get upset until he says the Stop it!, Stop this! Then I giggle. Then he loses it. For like a second before he turns, all military like and I'm crying again.
Then we see Sherlock in his scarf and coat. Lol. Way to hide Sherlock. Not exactly the best way to be hiding. Standing out near a tree in that iconic coat if you don't want to be recognised. And he apparently has a very good dry cleaner. *g*
But yeah. I'm sure I've missed a load of shit and read way, way more into what I've seen but that's what fandom is for it's it?
This is written really badly. I usually tell stories with pictures rather than words.
Not sure yet if I'll friends lock this or leave it open for anyone to come and give their opinion or take on what they saw.
I'd love to hear about what I've missed.