evil-sherlock-holmes asked: no obviously sherlock wanted john to recognise him by ... not his face.
Oh, what crazy, mutant Reichenfeels there would’ve been if Sherlock had been naked when he jumped.
dancingsoot asked: I was rewatching ASiB, and something dawned on me. It is a coincidence that both Irene and Sherlock disguise their deaths as head injuries?
I don’t know if I’d even say Sherlock disguised his death as a head injury, exactly… It was more like a jumping off of a building injury that involved a head injury.
Irene did the head injury thing so the corpse couldn’t be easily identified as not-her, but Sherlock had a different goal. He wanted John to see and recognize him. So yes, I think any connection there is coincidence.
Right, then. Officially adding mince pies to the list of things you guys have a lot of feelings about.
Anonymous asked:
Thank you for answering my crazy mince pie question (and with the silly/awkward Sherlock eating screencaps)! They’d definitely be a novelty food item out here in California. At Christmas, my local grocery store might have two shelves of kale chips while prepackaged mince pies would be on a bottom shelf with a sad little sign saying “A Merry Olde English Tradition” to try to explain their presence.
utherandarthur asked:
In response to the anon’s question about the food shown in A Scandal in Belgravia, they are indeed mince pies. Which are a Christmas tradition in England. Basically, they are sweet pastry cases filled with ‘mincemeat’ (a mixture of suet and raisins and things) which have been around since Tudor times (I think. I’m not that great on our history). They’re also quite tasty, if you like that sort of thing. :)
doubleadrivel asked:
Quite right. Mince pies are to English Christmas what zucchini are to [midwestern?] American summers. Nobody really likes them (not more than one or two a year) yet there is always a seasonal overabundance which you will find yourself trying to get rid of by offloading onto neighbors loved ones and coworkers for months… ;)
timelordlivesinbakerstreet asked:
You’ve never eaten mince pie? I saw that on the Sherlock easti one post. But Mince pies are amazing!
Reasons I have never had a mince pie:
- We don’t really do that here.
- Even though I have seen them at UK/international food shops, they’re always in the freezer case so I’d have to remember to bring a cooler if I wanted to buy them.
- Buying mince pies from those shops would clearly be foolish, because it would take up room in the car that could be used for biscuits or candy.
- Even if I was feeling foolish, I’d still have to find the vegetarian version because I don’t eat suet-based foods.
- I actually dislike the taste of most “Christmas-y” foods.
- So I don’t even eat most of the ones that are more common where I live.
- But, again, when it comes to mince pies…
- We don’t really do that here.
Anonymous asked:
This is a bit ridiculous but do you know or could you crowd source what the food item that’s pasted around the Christmas party (and Sherlock later steals one from Mrs. Hudson’s fridge) could be? It’s like rounds of white bread with melted cheese on top maybe? It strikes me as an odd food item when it pops up in Scandal but I don’t know English food very well (not that I’m looking for recipes since English food is, well, English food).
Ooh! Wait! I know this!
Not that I’ve ever eaten one in my life, but I saw it mentioned in passing at some point: they’re mince pies.
From A Scandal in Belgravia
Turns out a bowl of fruit isn’t as out of character as I thought!
(cc finalproblem)
Okay, so I saw this post and was temporarily very confused because I had made almost exactly the same screencap early this morning (spot the difference!)…
…and had a moment of “I didn’t post that in my sleep, did I?” (I may have made it more for that cardboard box I like, but still.)
Anyway, to get this back around to something that might be remotely interesting to anyone else—yes! Those sneaky people went to a lot of trouble to get that apple there for Jim. The fruit bowl was in the flat from Scandal on. Mrs. Hudson had to keep it stocked with apples for months just so Jim could make a threat eventually.
Though maybe she wanted to do that anyway:
I think he doesn’t have a good appetite. Which worries me. I try to get him to eat. It’s all rubbish food Sherlock eats, that’s why he looks so pale. A lot of crisps and probably food that’s passed its sell-by date like sausage rolls.
—Una Stubbs as quoted in LA Weekly
Sherlock pickpockets Lestrade when he’s annoying + Lestrade is Lestrade’s least irritating officer = I’m starting to get some ideas about why no one else at Scotland Yard likes Sherlock
Anonymous asked: Sorry if this sounds weird, but I don't understand. Is Irene gay, bisexual or...I dunno....just playing around? :/
John: But for the record, if anyone out there still cares, I’m not actually gay.
Irene: Well, I am. Look at us both.
Sometimes language makes things tricky because it makes us think people can only fit into the categories we have simple words and simple definitions for. Like “gay,” “bisexual,” “straight,” or “asexual.” In reality, there’s more room for variation than we are ever going to have words to describe.
Irene self-identified as gay even after acknowledging she found Sherlock attractive or compelling in some way. So if you need a label for her for whatever reason, I say go with “gay.” Best to let people choose how to describe themselves when it comes to stuff like this.
morriganimal asked: will Irene return in series 3???
They can change things around if they like, of course, but Irene Adler was only in one of the original stories. So I tend to think she won’t be back.
PBS announced today that “Sherlock” has a welcome home in the 21st century — Sunday night’s premiere of MASTERPIECE MYSTERY!’s second season averaged 3.2 million viewers, not including those viewing through station replays, DVRs or online streaming.
“The premiere of the second season of the BAFTA Award-winning series more than doubled the average PBS primetime rating”
So now we have an “official” answer…
http://twitter.com/#!/steven_moffat/status/199447984323301377
…was John Watson referred to as Jiminy Cricket?
WAS JOHN WATSON REFERRED TO AS JIMINY CRICKET?!
Now I need to know.
Anonymous asked: ok, i am going to sound really dumb but, What is the PBS premier?? is it to do with sherlock or another fandom?? love your blog by the way and you theories are AMAZING
I’m confused. There are other fandoms?
Seriously, though—yes, the PBS premiere tonight was all about Sherlock.
Sherlock airs first on the BBC, but the series is co-produced with Masterpiece. So eventually the “new” episodes make their way to the air on PBS, and last night was the U.S. premiere of A Scandal in Belgravia.
Anonymous asked: To the other anon: Sherlock did save Irene, not an illusion. I'm pretty sure Moffat answered a tweet regarding the same question.
I’m not immediately turning up any such tweet in a search, but maybe I’ve just got the wrong keywords.
At any rate, if you follow the first link in that answer I just posted, it’ll take you to a DVD commentary quote from Moffat confirming Irene’s alive. (Almost any time I give a really short answer that leads off with a link, it means there’s more detail if you follow the link.)
Anonymous asked: Is Irene actually still alive, or was that a fantasy Sherlock had that he saved her from beheading? It seemed a little far-fetched that he could have gone all the way over there, busted into a terrorist cell, and saved her without anyone noticing; plus we didn't actually see her run or survive in the scene, and he did have a fantasy about her earlier in the episode (where they figured out the boomerang death together). Is it possible that she actually died, he knows it/was daydreaming?
She may be pining, but she hasn’t passed on.
Also, the thing earlier in the episode wasn’t exactly a fantasy. Sherlock dreamt all the visuals in that scene, but Irene was really there and talking to him about figuring out the boomerang death.
Also also, he’s Sherlock Fucking Holmes.
