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In episode one of this new series, compromising photographs and a case of blackmail threaten the very heart of the British establishment but, for Sherlock and John, the game is on in more ways than one as they find themselves battling international terrorism, rogue CIA agents and a secret conspiracy involving the British government. But this case will cast a darker shadow over their lives than they could ever imagine, as the great detective begins a long duel of wits with an antagonist as cold and ruthless and brilliant as himself: to Sherlock Holmes, Irene Adler will always be THE woman.

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Sherlock and John lock horns with their old enemy in one final problem that tests loyalty and courage to their very limits. Sherlock must fight for his reputation, his sanity and his life. But is he all he claims to be?

Sorry I've not been on the forum much, I've been over-run with revision and exams... 😢

But, I'm back again with another topic, this time with Moriarty!

Personally, my favourite is in The Reichenbach Fall, in the court. Moriarty seems so sinister and to me it really sums his character up well.

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I just noticed something kind of odd in the "talking heads" shots -- they have reversed all the footage of Martin Freeman, so that he looks like a mirror image of himself. Several things didn't look quite right, but the clincher was that his shirt (the same one he was wearing in the scenes they showed from the early part of "Scandal") was buttoned backwards!

My husband and I tried to figure out why they might have done this, and the only reason we could think of is that both he and Benedict Cumberbatch were actually filmed facing the same direction, but whoever put the documentary together wanted them sort of facing each other (even though they were never in the same shot).

This is what comes of watching a DVD documentary once too often!

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A Hound from Hell. A terrified young man. Sherlock's most famous case. But is a monster really stalking Dartmoor? Something terrible has happened to Henry Knight. Sherlock and John investigate the truth about the monstrous creature which apparently killed their client's father. But what seems like fantasy in Baker Street is a very different prospect in the ultra-secret army base that looms over Dartmoor...

Adore it of course, but have a critics mind and something is driving me bananas.

Having just watched A Scandal in Belgravia; I'm wondering how Adler managed to text Sherlock just before her 'beheading'.

Mycroft had her phone, she was set free, ended up in hot water... we know mycroft had the phone the whole time as he handed it over to John in the café, and John said it had been wiped clean.

If she had a new phone or a new number then her goodbye message would not have had her personalised ringtone on it when Sherlock received the message.

I can't be the only person who has noticed this surely...

Apologies if this has been discussed to death, I'm new and still looking around, but I was rewatching this scene, and the only way it makes any sense to me is if there are things they both knew that we were not party to, and which will be revealed in the next season.

The only thing that makes sense to me, if it was all just as it was and nothing more, is that Moriarty was so unhinged that Sherlock could take advantage of that, and use his volatility and the fact that he was so 'changeable' to agitate him into making a fatal mistake. But again, it just seems... not enough. This was a man who had his fingers in many impressive criminal pies, we saw throughout season 1 and 2 the kind of people he was dealing with - 'criminal web with a thousand threads and he knows exactly how each of them dances'. It does make me think that the two Moriarty's theory is possible - one logical mastermind, and one 'not wound too tight' showman - to be sacrificed when needed?

"The scene does not take place in Sherlock's Mind Palace, nor could it," Steven confirmed, "He's been told a lie about where Irene Adler is, so he wouldn't have fantasied saving her from a terrorist cell, he had no reason to have to. No, he really does go and save her. He really does that, because if you remember earlier on in the story, Irene says, 'I make my way in the world, and my trick is I get people to be exactly where I want them, when I want them there. That's my super power. That's what I do.' Sherlock a few scenes later says, 'I'm the one guy you can't put a collar on' and at the very end… yep, he turns up dressed as an Arabian Knight and hacks up some terrorists, and Irene's sitting there going, 'Oh yes! Talk to me momma!'"

 

But if that wasn't enough, Steven goes on to explain that he wrote a further scene of what happens after they escape during the time he was writing Sherlock: His Last Vow, the final episode in series 3.

 

"I actually wrote a scene about what happened afterwards, because I got so curious about it. I had Sherlock turning around after he had hacked up all the terrorists, still very cross, and sort of saying, 'I hope you don't think that this means I am in any way interested in you?' And Irene's already got a gun on him - as she picks up a gun from the floor - and says, 'No, but I am going to need male costume to get out of here.'

 

"And so Sherlock is left naked and Irene runs off dressed as him. That's what I think would happen next."

 

So why was this extraordinary scene not included in the original 90 minute episode?

 

"I only wrote it not that long ago, I just got so curious," Steven admitted, "It's not so much about what they did that night, it's what they said to each other. You can imagine him so pissed off, because he lost again."

 

Let's be clear here then, once and for all… Sherlock was indeed beaten by Irene?

 

"Some people say he won; he lost, because he admitted he cared. Having hacked up terrorists with bodies all over the floor, him covered in blood, and he's trying to retain his dignity, saying, 'I was passing and it was a night I thought I'd hack up some terrorists… Oh, you're here, I didn't know. I don't even like you… oh, don't pull a gun on me…' [irene] 'Strip!', [sherlock] 'Oh, it's not fair. I saved your life!'

 

"And something like that happens between Irene and Sherlock every 6 months and THAT is their idea of a night of passion."

Keeping in mind, I love him, and desperately want him back, so I am definitely biased.