I was watching Sherlock again, paying attention to everything, trying to figure out how he’s still alive and I ran across this:
Look at his email address… he’s got an actual website, so I went and checked it out and to my surprise I see this:
Look…
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thevikingshavetheirtea asked: You know what would be really funny. If it actually was the truck all along, and here we are using maths and physics and camera angles to disprove that it's the truck and Moffat is sitting there like "FUCK" So he goes ahead and is like "YOU ARE ALL WRONG" because he can't handle how flawed his plan was, and they already filmed a little of the "How he survived the fall" bit. (Bloody Hilarious right?)
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Anonymous asked: RE: body double/not Sherlock/Moriarty is the one who jumped/got thrown off the roof, Benedict mentioned about being the one filmed with wires as he jumped off. So I'm with the theories that are about Sherlock finding a way to break his fall and/or faking the impact. Unless he's meant to be a very realistic dummy, but definitely not Moriarty or a body he managed to get through Molly. I don't think they'll film it that way to fool us. Or they might, considering what trolling trolls they are.
They may be trolls, but they’re also huge Sherlock Holmes fans. I think by now we can tell they appreciate a well-structured mystery.
Everybody likes to point back to the Bee Gees thing, but really it’s not the same situation at all. That time, they didn’t give us a bunch of clues and things to work out what was about to happen. It wasn’t a mystery. It was just a dramatic situation that they chose to resolve with a joke.
This time it is most definitely a mystery. A puzzle that they say they’ve given us all the clues for. As you noted, they used real-live Benedict and Benedict-like humans for the shots that make up the fall and landing. It would destroy the integrity of the mystery if they ended up saying, “LOL GUISE, WE FILMED A PERSON WHO MOVED LIKE A PERSON BUT IN THE STORY IT WAS TOTES A DEPARTMENT STORE MANNEQUIN. SURPRISE!”
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shivermepickles asked: How do we know that you're not Moffat or Gatiss, descending to the level of the peasants to hear and laugh at our theories as we flounder? I am suspicious. How else are they keeping tabs on our blogs and ideas?
Because I’m the wrong age? Gender? Nationality? Because I have no ability to properly distinguish bin bags?
Oh, wait, I know: Because I don’t draw my life force from the suffering of Sherlock fans. That’s the one.
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In my mind, it went something like this
- Moffat: I’ve been online and looked at all the theories, and there’s one clue that everyone’s missed. It’s something that Sherlock did that was very out of character, but which nobody has picked up on.
- Fandom: OMG, what?! *goes to rewatch*
- Moffat: And now we wait.
- Fandom: Was it the crying? Or that he shook hands with Jim?
- Moffat: Dance, my puppets, dance.
- Fandom: Maybe it was that he called John instead of texting? Or that he threw away his phone?
- Moffat: Not telling.
- Fandom: He made tea? He panicked? He was nice to Molly? He acknowledged having more than one friend? He played with a bouncy ball? He grabbed Jim by the collar? He didn't worry about Mrs. Hudson? He didn't examine Jim's corpse? He says he's not clever? He didn't solve the key puzzle correctly? He threw himself off a roof?
- Moffat: I'm enjoying your suffering.
- Fandom: What is it? Tell us! We will never figure it out because EVERYTHING SHERLOCK DID DURING THE ENTIRE EPISODE WAS COMPLETELY OUT OF CHARACTER. WE DIDN'T NOTICE BEFORE, BUT NOW THAT YOU'VE POINTED IT OUT WE FEEL IT WAS ALL VERY BADLY WRITTEN.
- Thompson: Thanks for that, Steven. Thanks so very much.
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zforzelma asked: I think your pink suitcase theory is the most plausible theory I've heard yet. I haven't read *all* the theories like Moffat allegedly has, but of the ones I've read, yours makes the most sense.
Thank you. Now I guess it’s just a matter of waiting to see if it’s anything close to true…
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Sherlock BBC: UPDATE: Sherlock Fandom I've made a discovery (The Golden Egg)»
This is funny and all, but it’s not Mofftiss. It’s a fan.
The domain was registered to an individual outside the UK after the episode aired:
The show’s official in-universe website domains are registered to the BBC.
So have fun with this if you like, but be aware that it is jambulances. Jambulances all the way down.
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“I’ve been online and looked at all the theories,” Moffat told us, “and there’s one clue that everyone’s missed. It’s something that Sherlock did that was very out of character, but which nobody has picked up on.”
Hang on, Sherlockians, I think I might just have this one.
After Jim shoots himself, there’s a moment or two when Sherlock appears to be freaking out. His breath gets really loud in the sound mix at that point. The first time watching the episode, it comes across as Sherlock having a panic attack.
Except… panic isn’t very in-character for Sherlock, is it?
Check out this how-to article on holding your breath for a really long time:
1. Hyperventilate.
The buildup of CO2 in your lungs can get just as painful as the lack of oxygen. Purge as much as you can before you begin. Repeatedly exhale and inhale. Hard.
If you’re going to play dead, even for a few minutes, the obvious things to take care of hiding are your pulse and the fact that you’re still breathing. Sherlock could’ve used the rubber ball trick to hide his pulse, and made himself hyperventilate as the first step of preparing to hold his breath for long enough to convince John he was gone.
#ARE YOU READING THIS, MOFFAT?
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Sherlock BBC: johnhwatson-: Steven Moffat: nobody’s spotted crucial Sherlock clue...»
Steven Moffat: nobody’s spotted crucial Sherlock clue
Moffat admitted he had been following the fevered speculation about how Sherlock, played by Benedict Cumberbatch, could appear alive and well in the last scene of the episode, despite having apparently fallen to his…
When does he find the time to read it all?! I haven’t even found the time to read half of it.
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All of the fair clues were in there - NO-ONE HAS SPOTTED THE BIGGIE.
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Moffat, about the End of Reichenbach at the Radio Times party. 17/01
WHAT THE FUCK YOU EVIL TROLL. WHAT DOES IT MEAN.
(via marielikestodraw) Now I’m gonna have to rewatch that scene like a hundred times until I figure it out….. (via no-otters-on-the-flight-deck)
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The Reichenbach Fall
I got waking sleep paralysis during the night.
I am blaming the Moff.
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Correct me if I’m wrong, but I believe the Sherlock fandom is now at an 11.
I won’t lie—I’m a little scared of what happens at level 12.
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I am conducting an ongoing experiment in manipulating your Reichenbach feels by dosing you with puppies.
Read Phase 1 to learn why Sherlock has a tiny dog on his shoulder.
»PHASE 1 RESULTS
actress4evr reported:
your experiment worked, i saw the puppy and all of the Reichenbach worries went right out of my head XD
creemcheezepizza reported:
I don’t know…this made me feel pretty bad too.
Results inconclusive. More data needed.
»INITIATE PHASE 2
Increase puppy dosage and have subjects estimate current level of Reichenbach feels on Moffat-Gatiss Pain Rating Scale.
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[Dog photos by Akaporn Bhothisuwan. Pain scale borrowed from Wong & Baker. For science.]
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I haven’t watched any Dr. Who yet, so I don’t have an opinion on Moffat’s alleged history of anti-feminist characters. I started liking Sherlock Holmes because of the books. I get how something can be rather sexist or have otherwise offensive bits and one can still appreciate a lot of it without pretending the offensive stuff was all a misunderstanding. That’s absolutely how the original stories are for me.
So I don’t feel a lot of need to explain away any flaws in Sherlock just for the sake of justifying my overall enjoyment of it.
When it comes to Irene Adler in A Scandal in Belgravia, though, and who “won”…
Wasn’t it Irene?
Wasn’t the whole point of having the hard drive full of secrets so that she could use it to get out of some otherwise impossible predicament in the future? Didn’t she just trade that for an even better emergency escape system?
And no, I don’t mean a man to rescue her damsel-in-distress self. I mean Sherlock Holmes the magical mystery solving machine who (in the world of the series) is actually much more versatile and reliable than her old system. She just upgraded her backup hard drive. Now it is his brain.
I dunno, I suppose I need to rewatch the whole thing again. And maybe I’ll end up completely changing my mind once I have a chance to think about Irene’s plan as a whole. Because a lot of what will make the difference to me is intent. It’s not very impressive if Irene won by accident.
Considering she was using Sherlock as a tool for her own purposes from the beginning though, does it matter if she did develop any form of attraction to him along the way? Isn’t there some level on which achieving the goal you started out to achieve is simply counted as a win?
