# sherlock series 3 **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [March 18, 2013, 11:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sherlock-series-3/653312 "2013-03-18T23:15:23Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 12
**Author:** ![kbear](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/4491bb/32.png) [@kbear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kbear)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2014, 11:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sherlock-series-3/653312/221 "2014-01-05T23:01:18Z")
That was hilarious! ---
**Author:** ![Baron\_Greenback](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/baron_greenback/32/48_2.png) [@Baron\_Greenback](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baron_Greenback)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2014, 11:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sherlock-series-3/653312/222 "2014-01-05T23:21:44Z")
[![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/xhjIsu7n6bI/maxresdefault.jpg "Sherlock Series 3: Episode 3 Trailer - BBC One") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xhjIsu7n6bI) Next episode trailer - looks a bit darker (also, hope it works internationally) ---
**Author:** ![Eyebrows\_0f\_Doom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eyebrows_0f_doom/32/3119_2.png) [@Eyebrows\_0f\_Doom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eyebrows_0f_Doom)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2014, 1:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sherlock-series-3/653312/223 "2014-01-06T01:21:49Z")
How can someone be stabbed seriously & deep enough to bleed out within minutes yet not feel the stabbing at all? šŸ˜• ---
**Author:** ![chizzuk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e36b37/32.png) [@chizzuk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chizzuk)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2014, 1:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sherlock-series-3/653312/224 "2014-01-06T01:35:02Z")
> [@Eyebrows\_0f\_Doom](#): > > How can someone be stabbed seriously & deep enough to bleed out within minutes yet not feel the stabbing at all? šŸ˜• I think the premise was that the tight uniform belts they were wearing both desensitized them to the ice pick or whatever it was going in, and acted as tourniquets so they didnā€™t bleed out until they took the belts off. Not sure if thatā€™s medically possible or just TV possible, though. This episode grew on me as it went along. Plenty of funny moments, too. I would love to know how Sherlock deduced that the wedding guest had a history of erectile dysfunction. And how Lestrade hasnā€™t killed him and dumped his corpse in the Thames. ---
**Author:** ![Pai325](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/c68b51/32.png) [@Pai325](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pai325)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2014, 2:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sherlock-series-3/653312/225 "2014-01-06T02:41:28Z")
I donā€™t know that I liked it as well as everyone else. Maybe too much on character development and not enough on an actual case. I think if there were more than three episodes it wouldnā€™t bother me as much. ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2014, 3:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sherlock-series-3/653312/226 "2014-01-06T03:32:45Z")
> [@Eyebrows\_0f\_Doom](#): > > How can someone be stabbed seriously & deep enough to bleed out within minutes yet not feel the stabbing at all? šŸ˜• For the same reason he doesnā€™t feel an itchy arse. ---
**Author:** ![Mahaloth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mahaloth/32/1079_2.png) [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2014, 3:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sherlock-series-3/653312/227 "2014-01-06T03:48:22Z")
Iā€™m posting my thoughts before reading everyone elses so I donā€™t get influenced. Best. Episode. Ever. Yep, I loved every single second of it and it will be hard to beat as the best episode of TV for the entire year of 2014. Amazing. ---
**Author:** ![Mahaloth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mahaloth/32/1079_2.png) [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2014, 4:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sherlock-series-3/653312/228 "2014-01-06T04:54:43Z")
1. What was the main point of showing the bank robberies at the beginning? 2. How did the killer kill people? He put a long needle in their belt or stabbed them through the back and the belt held them together? ---
**Author:** ![Barking\_Dog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ccd318/32.png) [@Barking\_Dog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Barking_Dog)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2014, 5:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sherlock-series-3/653312/229 "2014-01-06T05:23:58Z")
> [@Mahaloth](#): > > 1. What was the main point of showing the bank robberies at the beginning? It was to setup a not very funny joke at Lestradeā€™s expense. Finally being able to convict the robbers would have been a huge feather in his cap and been a high point of his career, and he gave up the collar for a false emergency. Loved the rest of the episode though. Iā€™m really enjoying this series as much as the others. šŸ™‚ ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_Bravo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_bravo/32/493_2.png) [@Johnny\_Bravo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_Bravo)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2014, 5:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sherlock-series-3/653312/230 "2014-01-06T05:25:10Z")
> [@Mahaloth](#): > > 1. What was the main point of showing the bank robberies at the beginning? > > 2. How did the killer kill people? He put a long needle in their belt or stabbed them through the back and the belt held them together? 1. Just to show how incredibly invested Lestrad was in the case and how much he was giving up by rushing to ā€œsaveā€ Sherlock. 2. Yeah, some kind of hyper-thin needle that you canā€™t feel and gets held in place by the belt, and when you take it out you bleed out almost instantly. A little weird. ---
**Author:** ![Mahaloth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mahaloth/32/1079_2.png) [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2014, 5:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sherlock-series-3/653312/231 "2014-01-06T05:27:15Z")
> [@Johnny\_Bravo](#): > > 1. Just to show how incredibly invested Lestrad was in the case and how much he was giving up by rushing to ā€œsaveā€ Sherlock. > > 2. Yeah, some kind of hyper-thin needle that you canā€™t feel and gets held in place by the belt, and when you take it out you bleed out almost instantly. A little weird. 1. I figured. 2. Wow, thatā€™s a lot to ask us to believe. Still, I loved every second of it. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_Bravo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_bravo/32/493_2.png) [@Johnny\_Bravo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_Bravo)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2014, 5:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sherlock-series-3/653312/232 "2014-01-06T05:38:49Z")
It was great, though I had just mentioned to my sister (who I was watching with) how glad I was that they were moving away from the ridiculous ā€œnot a psychopath, a high-functioning sociopathā€ thing, and then he says it just a few minutes later. I choose to believe that Sherlock says that just because he enjoys fucking with people and not because he actually believes that heā€™s a sociopath. ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2014, 5:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sherlock-series-3/653312/233 "2014-01-06T05:50:25Z")
I was expecting the triplets with the different moles to have something to do with it, to make the episode title make sense. ---
**Author:** ![GovernmentMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e9c0ed/32.png) [@GovernmentMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GovernmentMan)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2014, 8:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sherlock-series-3/653312/234 "2014-01-06T08:43:00Z")
Really boring episode. A 3 episode per season show shouldnā€™t have episodes like this ---
**Author:** ![Slade](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b5ac83/32.png) [@Slade](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slade)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2014, 12:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sherlock-series-3/653312/235 "2014-01-06T12:20:37Z")
> [@GuanoLad](#): > > I was expecting the triplets with the different moles to have something to do with it, to make the episode title make sense. The Sign of Three title paid off (in a rather heavy-handed way) with Sherlockā€™s detection of Maryā€™s pregnancy - he spotted SIGNS that she and John were no longer two but THREE. I feel sure Iā€™m missing some terribly clever reference in last nightā€™s Matchbook Decathlete scene. Anyone got any thoughts on that, beyond the obvious echo of the briefcase in Pulp Fiction? ---
**Author:** ![Lissla\_Lissar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/8491ac/32.png) [@Lissla\_Lissar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lissla_Lissar)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2014, 3:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sherlock-series-3/653312/236 "2014-01-06T15:01:19Z")
That was a lot of fun. Drunk detection really is the best. In the last episode, I really liked the Sherlock/Mycroft conversation that parallels the one from _A Scandal In Belgravia_, where Sherlock says heā€™s not afraid of sex, and Mycroft asks, ā€œHow would you know?ā€. In _The Empty Hearse_, same conversation, but about loneliness. How would Mycroft know if he is lonely? Nothing to compare it withā€¦ ---
**Author:** ![AlsoNamedBort](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alsonamedbort/32/3213_2.png) [@AlsoNamedBort](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AlsoNamedBort)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2014, 5:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sherlock-series-3/653312/237 "2014-01-06T17:29:13Z")
Loved this episode. I wasnā€™t too excited for it considering how weak the other 2nd episodes were but this one was great. > [@Slade](#): > > The Sign of Three title paid off (in a rather heavy-handed way) with Sherlockā€™s detection of Maryā€™s pregnancy - he spotted SIGNS that she and John were no longer two but THREE. It reminded me off the Doctor Who episode ā€œThe Power of Threeā€ which also paid off in a similar way at the end of the episode. It felt like they got all the way to the end and realized ā€œoh shit, we better explain why we called this episode the power of three.ā€ ---
**Author:** ![rocking\_chair](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rocking_chair/32/2918_2.png) [@rocking\_chair](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rocking_chair)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2014, 7:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sherlock-series-3/653312/238 "2014-01-07T19:28:58Z")
[http://www.johnwatsonblog.co.uk/blog/11august](http://www.johnwatsonblog.co.uk/blog/11august) while dr. and mrs. watson are away (sex holiday) sherlock will play! the photo album is cute, and the question of the belt stabbing is answered. ---
**Author:** ![Ximenean](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/x/aca169/32.png) [@Ximenean](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ximenean)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2014, 1:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sherlock-series-3/653312/239 "2014-01-08T01:19:22Z")
I hear thereā€™s a big plot twist next week: Sherlock Holmes will actually spend most of the episode investigating a case. ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2014, 2:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sherlock-series-3/653312/240 "2014-01-08T14:24:36Z")
Is the Conan Doyle Estateā€™s copyright drawing to a close?: > **[Sherlock's Expiring Copyright: It's Public Domain, Dear Watson](https://www.npr.org/2014/01/07/260471980/sherlocks-expiring-copyright-its-public-domain-dear-watson)** > > The famous sleuth has discovered that U.S copyright law is anything but elementary. A federal judge recently ruled that elements of the Sherlock Holmes characters are now both licensed property of the Doyle estate and in the public domain. The Doyle... [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sherlock-series-3/653312.md?page=11) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sherlock-series-3/653312.md?page=13)