The Final Problem

Anonymous asked:

Ooh! Since Moffat-people are making the edits for Reichenbach, you might be able to whittle/refine some theories down.

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Indeed! (Again, unless they find some way to troll-edit.)

And on that note, I think we should have a betting pool for what they’ll cut out of Reichenbach for the U.S. edit. (There will be nothing to win or lose but pride, but I’m calling it a betting pool anyway.)

If you want in, respond to this post with what you think Hartswood will cut from The Reichenbach Fall to make it fit the allotted PBS timeslot. Extra points for being the first to suggest a part that actually gets cut, or for being the one to describe the edit with the most exact detail.

So everyone is working with the same information, here’s a list of what got cut from Scandal for the PBS airing (check the notes for added detail).

So, Sherlockians, what’s gonna get cut?

Anonymous asked: How likely do you think the fear gas (from Baskerville) theory is for the fall?

I don’t really think it’s at all likely.

Anonymous asked:

This has nothing to do with the final problem but… in The Great Game how did the pink phone not die that whole time? I’ve had a couple iphones. The batteries DO NOT last that long. Does someone at the flat have a charger for it?

While it may have looked suspiciously like an iPhone…

…since we can trust Jim to get the details right when recreating the phone from A Study in Pink, it was clearly a latest-model Mephone.

And those things get amazing battery life. I hear they’re powered by some kind of Baskerville glow-bunny extract.

nympheline asked: Re: Sherlock spending time at home licking poisons: yes, I think he does. At least, the canon implies he's the sort. In *A Study in Scarlet*, Stamford says, "I could imagine his giving a friend a little pinch of the latest vegetable alkaloid, not out of malevolence, you understand, but simply out of a spirit of inquiry in order to have an accurate idea of the effects. To do him justice, I think that he would take it himself with the same readiness."

^ And stuff like that is my only excuse if someone thinks I’m horrible for finding Sherlock’s attempted drugging of John in Hounds adorable. I come to this from the books.

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Anonymous asked:

Why would Jim pick Lestrade as the third target?

Because despite all the sweet but over-dramatic statements about only having one friend, Sherlock has several friends. Obviously John is Sherlock’s BFF, but he sees that Lestrade is one of Sherlock’s friends as well.

John: You know he’s actually pleased you’re here? Secretly pleased.

I’d even consider the Lestrade-Holmes friendship to exist in the original stories. Again, it’s nothing like the Watson-Holmes friendship, but when you have a scene like this in The Adventure of the Six Napoleons…

We sat in silence for a moment.

“Well,” said Lestrade, “I’ve seen you handle a good many cases, Mr. Holmes, but I don’t know that I ever knew a more workmanlike one than that. We’re not jealous of you at Scotland Yard. No, sir, we are very proud of you, and if you come down to-morrow there’s not a man, from the oldest inspector to the youngest constable, who wouldn’t be glad to shake you by the hand.”

“Thank you!” said Holmes. “Thank you!” and as he turned away it seemed to me that he was more nearly moved by the softer human emotions than I had ever seen him.

Anonymous asked:

In Hounds, what was going on with the lights at Henry Knight’s house?

Henry’s outside lights were activated by a motion sensor.

The dog the innkeepers had allowed to roam free was running through Henry’s yard and setting off the lights.

Since they weren’t going to show us the hound at that point, we mostly just saw shadows and blurry shapes. When Henry got up close to the glass and the dog jumped at him, though, you could see its head for a couple of frames.

I know some people put the whole experience down to Henry’s fragile mental state. But between the lights being set off, the glass shaking when the dog hit it, and the shadowy dog shape passing by (which was basically the same as we saw with John way before he was ever drugged), I think it was quite real. It’s just that Henry was so damaged at that point it probably all seemed a lot worse to him.