If they are smart, they'll make Sherlock a Quadruplet (named Sherlock 1 , Sherlock 2 ...), so they have three potential spinoffs covered. 
Sherlock - Series 2
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Sherlock can open a school to teach people to do what he does, and his students go off round the country as consulting detectives to different states.
the Sherlock Initiative?
I like Paul Cornell's explanation for the ending and it does explain where Holmes could get the perfect double.
NCISCSICBSGenericProcedurals are getting long in the tooth so why not launch a Sherlock Holmes ripoff that you can then spinoff to different cities across the U.S.? You can't tell me you wouldn't watch Elementary: Green Bay.
You think you're joking...
The problem with Sherlock adaptations is that so many of the tropes that fill modern detective shows originated with Arthur Conan Doyle. What was fresh then becomes cliche now, even the original Holmes pioneered them. It's difficult to make a modern adaptation without coming across as derivative of the CSINCISSVU shows.
Moffat himself regarding the suicide survival:
I was screaming at my laptop as I watched this bit! The judge can't direct the jury to find him guilty! All he can do is sum up the evidence that has been presented and point out that Moriarty has offered no defence...
When I'd calmed down, I thought that it was the judge Moriarty had got to and that he was going to be found guilty, then appeal and be let off because of the improper direction of the judge!
Somehow I don't think it'll be quite that convoluted.
Yet he does hit on something that I've brought up in this thread no one else seems to care about (from what I recall): What made the little girl so certain Sherlock was her kidnapper? I wouldn't be surprised if Cornell has hit on some of the truth.
Quite possibly.
I like the idea that what fell from the roof was a cadaver. I don't believe this jumping in a truck business, it seems too far fetched to me.
One of the moments that stood out for me was when Sherlock raised his hand, then it cut to below and you saw "Holmes" raise his hand from a distance. But the deliberacy he did it with seemed to imply he was offering instruction to someone to copy him. That's how it seemed to me anyway.
I like the idea that what fell from the roof was a cadaver. I don't believe this jumping in a truck business, it seems too far fetched to me.
One of the moments that stood out for me was when Sherlock raised his hand, then it cut to below and you saw "Holmes" raise his hand from a distance. But the deliberacy he did it with seemed to imply he was offering instruction to someone to copy him. That's how it seemed to me anyway.
I don't think there is such a thing as too convoluted for Moffat.
Wiorth remembering that it wasn't just about fooling Watson, Moriarty obviously had someone watching as well, so if another building was used that isn't going to fool them.
re why the girl was so sure Sherlock was the kidnapper? Easy enough to do, we're talking a child in an incredibly stressful situation, leave a newspaper around with his face on the cover, or a tv showing him being interviewed, then all the kidnapper has to do is be on the phone to "Sherlock" and I think it'd be pretty easy to make a stressed, hungry, scared child put 2 and 2 together and come up with 5.
I will be annoyed if a Mission Impossible style rubber mask is involved...
re why the girl was so sure Sherlock was the kidnapper? Easy enough to do, we're talking a child in an incredibly stressful situation, leave a newspaper around with his face on the cover, or a tv showing him being interviewed, then all the kidnapper has to do is be on the phone to "Sherlock" and I think it'd be pretty easy to make a stressed, hungry, scared child put 2 and 2 together and come up with 5.
I will be annoyed if a Mission Impossible style rubber mask is involved...
So I'm not the only one. Thank you!
At least he didn't have a gavel! nothing gets me going more than when I see a supposedly British Judge banging a gavel!
Well, to be fair, they're not claiming that the place in the ad was used to film Sherlock. It's probably a few doors up or down. If you really want to live in North Gower Street, there are like a billion flats to rent along that road, so knock yourself out.
A friend of mine used to work just round the corner at Tavistock Square not that long ago. There's a fairly cheap (for London) car park at the top end of North Gower Street and it's outside the congestion charge zone, so I've walked down that road a few times. I'm sure Speedy's is busier these days!
A friend of mine used to work just round the corner at Tavistock Square not that long ago. There's a fairly cheap (for London) car park at the top end of North Gower Street and it's outside the congestion charge zone, so I've walked down that road a few times. I'm sure Speedy's is busier these days!
I thought that I remembered a news article where the judge directed a guilty verdict and the jury went against it, possibly out of pique. According to Wikipedia, directed verdicts are not unknown.
Edit: In the UK, a directed "guilty" verdict can happen but is apparently untenable; so, seemingly, in the real world Moriarty would have walked before too long anyway.
Edit: In the UK, a directed "guilty" verdict can happen but is apparently untenable; so, seemingly, in the real world Moriarty would have walked before too long anyway.
