That was the first episode of Sherlock that I’ve seen, and there was enough about it to make me interested in checking out other episodes. There was a bit too much pandering to hardcore fans, some of the self-referential stuff being confusing to this newbie. They also overused that slow-motion editing trick, which is surely getting a bit dated now? The actual case-of-the-week was rather insubstantial, and I thought too much of the 90 minutes was taken up with Watson being angry with Holmes. It felt like they could have integrated that into the plot more. Instead, it slowed things down. Finally on the negative list, Martin Freeman. He’s good at playing that slightly confused, reticent, English everyman part, because he plays exactly the same character in everything that he’s in!
But it was entertaining fare. I enjoyed all the Mycroft scenes, and I liked the Watson’s fiancee character. Sherlock’s “mind scan” of her hinted that she may turn out to be a baddie?
But one of the words that popped up was “liar” followed by Sherlock looking slightly confused. It definitely seems as if there is something mysterious about her. Anyone have a screencap of the words that popped up?
I’ll have to re-watch the episode, but that is what folks here are saying. Again, what did Sherlock say that reveals his final explanation was also false?
I can’t recall if he said anything, but it was all a bit odd. Supposedly he was sitting in Anderson’s flat allowing him to film the whole explanation, but he disappears quite suddenly at the end. That, along with Anderson’s meltdown, made me wonder if he was ever there at all.
Anderson starts poking holes in the explanation, and the last one is, “and why would you bother to tell me?” Whereupon he turns around and Sherlock has left.
Sherlock mentioned the fact that he had had 13 possible plans of action both to Watson at the beginning and to Anderson at the end. That more or less proves he was there.
Just watched the scene again, Sherlock doesn’t disappear he just sighs and walks off once Anderson starts asking all the questions fans were sure to ask. I think this is all the explanation we are going to get and it is the “real” one as far as the show is concerned.
I’m sure one of the meta-jokes at play here was that it didn’t take the world’s greatest detective to figure out nobody, except maybe John, liked John’s mustache.
GAHHHHH we recorded it to watch tonight and bloody bloody UPC cut off the last couple of minutes. Can someone please please tell me what happened after Sherlock walked out to meet his adoring public?? Or point me to a link where we can see it? We’re in Ireland, so we can’t get it on BBC iplayer…
No - it pans up and fades to black on the reporters, then it goes to a big room full of shelves of files, a stuffed rabbit, a porcelain head, then you see the back of someone’s head and then UPC gives us the finger.
Also, the more I think about it, the more the whole death scene at the end of the last series makes no sense, no matter how you explain it.
OK, so if it’s an illusion of some kind, you need to be standing right where Watson stands, in order to be fooled. So any pedestriains/people looking out windows/whatever would see what actually happened. You can assume (the way Sherlock says at one point) that Mycroft had the whole area cordoned off and populated with confederates, but why the hell bother? The only person who’s being fooled is - assuming he stands in the right place - John. Everyone else in the world just gets told that Sherlock died. Why not just tell Watson as well? Why bother with a whole fancy conjurer-type enactment?