Mycroft’s weight problem has been referenced in the BBC show; we really don’t need an enormous guy playing the role. Just as we don’t need the show to become Intervention!UK to deal with Sherlock’s drug use; again, it’s been referenced.
I thought that Stephen Frye was a great choice for Mycroft; that was almost enough to make me want to see That Movie Part 2 on the big screen. Then I heard he has a nude scene…
Did anyone watch last night’s episode(Hound of the Baskervilles)? Yes, I couldn’t wait, so I got it and watched it. Sue me.
Anyway, I have a question about the end. Spoilers below.
Who did they release at the very end? Was that Moriarty? Did Mycroft have him imprisoned and released him? If not, who is it they released? My wife and I did not get it.
Yep. That’s who it was.
I don’t think you were supposed to. All will be revealed next week…
Bit of a let down after a scandal in Belgravia.
I agree. Felt somewhat like a Scooby Doo episode.
I really hope they get Adler back for the finale, although its unlikely. Pulver and Cumberbatch have excellent chemistry and I would really enjoy seeing more of it, even if only a cameo.
Uh, so was it or was it not who I said? Anyone know for sure?
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I haven’t seen this particular version but I’ve loved Sherlock Holmes stories since I could read. I’ll definitely look for it.
My big interest in this thread is b/c of one of my favorite movies Secrets and Lies.
I didn’t know Cumberbatch was a real last name! I thought it was something made up, like out of Pratchett or C.S. Lewis]
Silas Tompkin Cumberbatch was the alias used by SamuelTaylor Coleridge when he ran away to join the British army
Hounds was weaker than Scandal, but I thought it was substantially better than the middle episode from last series. They seem to be following a pattern of:
I agree. When you have a series (season) with only three episodes, if you want to have one that’s predominately a “murder of the week” then you don’t have a lot of options.
I just heard that Watson’s blog is (sort of) real! Complete with a hit counter reading 1895. Read about The Geek Interpreter, The Speckled Blonde, and The Aluminum Crutch. Especially, The Woman - the best part of which is the comments section, with comments back and forth between Holmes, Watson, and Mrs. Hudson. 
You can see Doctor Watson’s blog at Sherlockology.com. Plus Sherlock’s, Molly’s & the late Connie Prince’s–set up last series & updated. Not, apparently, Irene Adler’s…
Why is John’s counter stuck at 1895?
221B by Vincent Starrett…
We watched the new episode last night and thought it was fun. Not as complicated as the last one, but fun.
It was fun, definitely, though I didn’t enjoy it as much as Scandal (though what a standard to be held up to!); however, the ‘mind palace’ scene where Sherlock consults his memory using the interface from Minority Report was just painfully silly. I’d have preferred an actual mind palace Sherlock wanders through in blurr-o-vision, and I would not have liked even that much.
The mind palace is a memory technique, not made up for the show. It’s actually called that. You probably knew that already.
I don’t think there was any way to portray it that wasn’t a bit silly.
Isn’t there a passage in one of the original (Arthur Conan Doyle) stories where Holmes lectures Watson to the effect of “some facts you use all the time are like the furniture in your living room, other facts you don’t use often and you put in the attic to be taken down only when needed”?
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Close but no cigar. Holmes says in Five Orange Pips that “A man should keep his little brain attic stocked with all the furniture that he is likely to use, and the rest he can put away in the lumber-room of his library, where he can get it if he wants it.”
On point with the OP, The Telegraph published a list of the 20 greatest Sherlock Holmes portrayals. The usual suspects are in the top 5, with number one being
Benedict Cumberbatch.
I am sure you will all be thrilled to hear that CBS is planning a new Sherlock series. Climb on that bandwagon.
On the gay Sherlock thing, the clincher must be that no gay would ever live with that wallpaper.
Mrs Hudson has several wallpaper patterns in her rental property;the most distinctive is £98.00 per roll; I’m betting it’s been used on some rather stylish walls. In “A Scandal in Belgravia” a certain female character shows up; her bedroom boasts this wallpaper, a bit more pricey at £816 per roll…
(Why, yes. In the long waits between series, some Sherlock fans get rather obsessive about the details.)