Sherlock Page 39

Quote: chipolata @ January 3 2012, 11:53 AM GMT

Surely if it happened in anybody's mind it was Sherlock's? Hence him suddenly looking cheerful at the end? Although your Brazilesque ending also works.

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Thank you kind sir. Sherlock wouldn't look cheerful if he had rescued her, he would keep that card up his sleeve and appear inscrutable. He doesn't give away his feelings remember. I guess the smile, like I guess the ending, are meant to be enigmatic. I wish the ending was on YouTube and then I would watch it again. But my suspicion is that the Moff was having his cake and eating it too. A pre-set re-set button.

He was on his own though, innit. No need to hide feelings.

Quote: zooo @ January 3 2012, 11:58 AM GMT

He was on his own though, innit. No need to hide feelings.

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Well that would go against his nature still. WHen alone he picks up his violin and bows himself!

Filthy!

Quote: Tony Cowards @ January 3 2012, 11:43 AM GMT

My only other minor niggle is that they need to watch it with all the gimmicky camera tricks, they could get very irritating very quickly.

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Oh no, it was wonderfully directed; real style.

Quote: chipolata @ January 3 2012, 10:45 AM GMT

I didn't really get why she went somewhere with loads of Muslims as they're not exactly big S&M fans. Far better to stay in the decadent west and ply her trade her.

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I don't think we got told, or did we? So none of us do. Maybe she didn't go there of her own accord, now that her protection was gone.

Quote: Marc P @ January 3 2012, 11:57 AM GMT

Thank you kind sir. Sherlock wouldn't look cheerful if he had rescued her, he would keep that card up his sleeve and appear inscrutable. He doesn't give away his feelings remember. I guess the smile, like I guess the ending, are meant to be enigmatic. I wish the ending was on YouTube and then I would watch it again. But my suspicion is that the Moff was having his cake and eating it too. A pre-set re-set button.

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Ultimately it's a prime time mainstream BBC1 show so I suspect what you saw is what happened: a slightly implausible but undeniably feel good ending that leaves the door open for her to return.

Quote: sootyj @ January 2 2012, 3:06 PM GMT

(and the implication Kate was her client bordering on treason).

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That didn't occur to me at the time, now I'm getting all excited.

Perhaps Moffat will be shackled in the Tower.

Freeman and Cumberbatch were working better than ever in this episode. My main complaint is some of the solutions to the mysteries were tenuous leaps of faith (of course he was hit by a boomerang!).

Quote: youngian @ January 4 2012, 1:42 PM GMT

That didn't occur to me at the time, now I'm getting all excited.

Perhaps Moffat will be shackled in the Tower.

Freeman and Cumberbatch were working better than ever in this episode. My main complaint is some of the solutions to the mysteries were tenuous leaps of faith (of course he was hit by a boomerang!).

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I think there was some tongue in cheek there.

I thought he was going to have been boinked in the head by a large bird that flew into him in a panic when the car backfired.

Quote: zooo @ January 4 2012, 3:21 PM GMT

I thought he was going to have been boinked in the head by a large bird that flew into him in a panic when the car backfired.

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Me too. Boomerang was a bit silly, but so what.

Quote: zooo @ January 3 2012, 11:38 AM GMT

Yes. I didn't figure that one out straight away like Stott the brainiac, but I did after she said she was flattered. We probably didn't need her explaining it as well just before she jumped out the window.

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Leave something for the less quick viewers, I would never have got that.

Ah, looks like they knew what they were doing, then!

They didn't actually find the boomerang, did they? We saw it, but it was said to have been washed away. If so, maybe Holmes was wrong.

Was it really necessary for Adler to keep allowing her phone to leave her possession, if it was her only insurance? I'd have kept it in a safe place and copied the code-which-need-deciphering into some other phone, then sent that to Sherlock.