T-Bag & Moriarty
I saw this little paragraph from Wiki article about Popular culture references to Holmes and this makes my inner T-Bag fangirl do a little dance ^_^;; I obviously didn't know this as I am not a Sherlock geek but I am tempted to see this reference properly by rewatching that Prison Break episode.
In the Prison Break (season 4) episode entitled, Eagles & Angels (Prison Break), Theodore "T-Bag" Bagwell pretends to be Cole Pfeiffer, a top salesman for a corporation called GATE. He is assigned a corner office with the room numbered 122B. The numbers 122 are the reverse of 221, a sly reference by the episode's screenwriters to T-Bag's Holmesian powers of reasoning and deduction, yet whose powers have been twisted and corrupted toward evil ends. Ultimately, T-Bag is a cleverly created anti-Sherlock Holmes, a stock character whose personality is shaped (in certain key facets) to be the polar opposite of Holmes. Indeed, T-Bag is a modern-day descendant not of Holmes, but of Holmes archnemesis Professor Moriarty.
The entire Wiki article on this topic is rather interesting in fact and I didn't know a lot of things like House being based on Sherlock. Yes I'm a slow poke :/ This little paragraph eased my mind while watching Sherlock season 2 because I thought Moriarty really did remind me of T-Bag *a little bit.* Andrew Scott made Moriarty a creepy, loony villain but I would say his mood swings were worse than Teddy's. Plus... the pocket mention (there wasn't any of that licking that T-Bag did, unless you count Moriarty opening his mouth, hanging his tongue for the copper to put the chewing gum inside). You must wonder what went through that female copper's mind when she had to go through his pocket hehe. But Moriarty could've offered his pocket to Sherlock, Mycroft or John. I think he must've offered it to Molly when he was "Jim from IT" :P
In the Prison Break (season 4) episode entitled, Eagles & Angels (Prison Break), Theodore "T-Bag" Bagwell pretends to be Cole Pfeiffer, a top salesman for a corporation called GATE. He is assigned a corner office with the room numbered 122B. The numbers 122 are the reverse of 221, a sly reference by the episode's screenwriters to T-Bag's Holmesian powers of reasoning and deduction, yet whose powers have been twisted and corrupted toward evil ends. Ultimately, T-Bag is a cleverly created anti-Sherlock Holmes, a stock character whose personality is shaped (in certain key facets) to be the polar opposite of Holmes. Indeed, T-Bag is a modern-day descendant not of Holmes, but of Holmes archnemesis Professor Moriarty.
The entire Wiki article on this topic is rather interesting in fact and I didn't know a lot of things like House being based on Sherlock. Yes I'm a slow poke :/ This little paragraph eased my mind while watching Sherlock season 2 because I thought Moriarty really did remind me of T-Bag *a little bit.* Andrew Scott made Moriarty a creepy, loony villain but I would say his mood swings were worse than Teddy's. Plus... the pocket mention (there wasn't any of that licking that T-Bag did, unless you count Moriarty opening his mouth, hanging his tongue for the copper to put the chewing gum inside). You must wonder what went through that female copper's mind when she had to go through his pocket hehe. But Moriarty could've offered his pocket to Sherlock, Mycroft or John. I think he must've offered it to Molly when he was "Jim from IT" :P