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Sherlock - Series 2

The real Holmes will die, but be replaced with a clone!

Mycroft will become the star of the show!

It turns out Watson was the real Holmes all along!
 
Robert Maxwell said:
It turns out Watson was the real Holmes all along!
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That would rock if it the season end with a "Fight Club"/"A Scanner Darkly" like twist (could the end of "The Blind Banker" where General Shen thought Watson was Holmes be a hint).

I can picture the scene:

Mycroft: Well Holmes we almost lost you. It's just like you to jump off a cliff.

Watson: I'm not Holmes, I'M WATSON

Mycroft: I keep telling you. James Watson is dead. He never survived Afghanistan. Your fractured psyche assumed the identity after your last overdose.
 
Starkers said:
Saul said:
He said that in relation to how the third episode ends.

But Freeman has said that it's all their hope that they do a 3rd series.

I believe Sherlock's drug problem was implied in the first episode of series 2 when Watson and Mrs Hutson search the house to make sure it's clean of anything Sherlock might use.
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I thought they were looking for his fags ;)
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If so they were really really worried about the poor man having a ciggy just because he really needed it :p

Does anyone think without being spoilery that the Reichenbach Fall doesn't necessarily refer to the actual Falls? It could be a code name for something. But I hope we do see the fall over the falls.

I thought the same with the Hounds of Baskerville. But they had no Hounds, just a hound.
 
Another trailer easter egg:

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I can't read most of it but the article starts with "In a twist worthy of a Conan Doyle novella..." :)
 
I can make out some of it.
In a twist worthy of a Conan Doyle novella, Mr.(?) Sherlock Holmes was yesterday revealed to be an expert witness at the trial of "?" Moriarty. Described by many commentators as the trial of the century, the case has all the ingredients of a block buster film(?).
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Most everything after that is too blurry, but I think the next sentence starts with "The royal family" and "Scotland yard." Later it says "The case is riddled with (?) and intrigue but..." and that's all I can read.
 
getting a headache trying to make it out

but if there's a Royal connection again, hopefully we might see the dominatrix Ms Adler again lol :D

M
 
I think the show must have already been picked up for another series, they've made a point in not revealing if it's picked up, so as not to spoil the last episode.
 
Sherlock was great, despite too many loud chewing cunts. (side note- Moriarty isn't Doyle's Napoleon Of Crime, he's Heath Ledger's Joker. And there's nothing wrong with that.) Fabulous stuff. This series was even better than the first. If it had aired in 2011 it would have tied with Game of Thrones for best TV of the year, but since it's still only the third week of January it's too early to tell what place it'll have in 2012's TV...
 
Thought it was brilliant, and clearly Moriarty made one HUGE mistake.

Sherlock has 4 friends, not three, Moriarty forgot Molly...the pathologist ;)

I'm guessing
Sherlock threw Moriarty's body off the roof. Sure Watson saw Sherlock dead, however given he'd just taken a fall, was obviously in shock and, as last week showed, sometimes people just see what they want to see. Watson was talking to Sherlock who was on the roof, he saw 'Sherlock' fall, therefore he saw what he expected to see, Sherlock's body.

Note the body on the floor seemed to have a major head wound...

That's my guess anyway!
 
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I suspect he did actually see Sherlock jump, note the lorry we say just after John had been knocked down. During that period somebody could have chucked Moriraty off. He had obvioulsy arranged something with Molly earlier in the episode.
 
Well, that felt a little corny and overcooked. Clever at the start, and there were some quality scenes, but it seems to have been a case of a weak script bolstered by some fine acting. There were some conspicuous areas of implausibility, too.
(Moriarty considers Sherlock a kindred spirit but then expects him to lay down his life for his friends? John has seen Sherlock's abilities in action several times - concerning matters great and small - but is now supposed to believe that everything was pre-arranged?)
So that's two episodes in a row that seem to have relied more on emotional thrust than cleverness. I can't help thinking that Moffat would have made it a lot more clever had he script-edited it.

Other thoughts: Surely at some point John would recall that
Sherlock made a mistake in saying that his phone was a gift from his brother - something that he surely wouldn't do if he'd rehearsed the answer.
And really, Sherlock - "Nobody's that clever."? Lack of self-esteem is clearly not an issue for the great detective. :)

Three out of five, I suppose. Not nearly as satisfying as the show at its best. I guess we can expect one great TV movie from the Moff in a year or two, accompanied by a couple of less stellar works from other writers.
 
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If they're true to the stories then

He'll have really jumped, having got some advice on how best to land to minimise the chance of fatality, and recovered after a lot of medical attention.
 
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