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He tells the medics....which he called...some what....eight minutes before hand?....that he was bleeding internally and that they would probably have to restart his heart on the way to the hospital. It seems it was some months that he was in hospital the second time. At least Mary said it's been months of silence between her and John and it seems Sherlock is just getting home from the hospital. Yeah, but he would have had to be even more seriously injured for them to keep him in hospital for too long, because believe me, hospitals try to move you out as fast as they can, at least in the USA. Maybe socialized medicine works differently.

I heard BC say they film the three episodes consecutively and it takes about 3-1/2 weeks per episodes with a few days off between, so basically the actors need to find a 3-month available time block where they are available at the same time, and 3 months is hard to come by for busy actors. However, they are all committed to continuing to do it. I'm anticipating not seeing more for another 18 months minimum. Ugh.

There are two very well-received "meta essays" on this. They basically say the same but come to different conclusions. 1. Wellingtongoose 2. cookieswillcrumble From what I've read up since HLV (and believe me, medical texts can be rather boring. I would not recommend doing that...), both seem to explain the main points rather well. The main issue I have with wellingtongoose is that he is speculating a lot. cookieswillcrumble provides more objectivity while discussing the specifics of the injury. Essentially, though, both provide sound arguments from a medical perspective. Again, not an expert, but I read up on the circulatory system and some other texts to get a better understanding of their arguments. What is amazing at all is that one television show, SHERLOCK, can inspire so much research into the tiniest details of the show. Brilliant.

I keep rewatching HLV - downloaded it through Itunes so that i could have better control over moving around in the episode rather than watching it on Netflix which is great if you don't need to stop it and "rewind". Anyhow... that whole confrontation scene with Mary at the Lie of Leinster Gardens. Really masterful. She lets Sherlock know that she would do ANYTHING to keep John from knowing the truth, which she is implying to Sherlock, that she WILL kill him without hesitation, and Sherlock, who has been completely in control, isn't going to allow her game to continue, isn't going to allow himself to be threatened, but instead exposes the very heart of what she's trying to protect - John. And he's in control enough to demand in a calm, authoritative voice, "Baker Street. Now." We know that when they return to Baker Street that it has only been a week since he'd been shot, but how long had it been since he had escaped from hospital? 1 day? 2 days? He had enough time during his disappearance to put John's chair back as well as procure a bottle of Mary's perfume. Plus he had enough time to set up the projection onto Leinster Gardens, and he had enough time to get John into his plan to get Mary to expose who she really was. I keep watching him pick up the coin that she put a bullet through, thinking that stooping to pick it up would have been massively painful. Did anyone every analyse where he was shot and what the bullet have hit? Massive internal bleeding. Lacerated liver, diaphram, inferior vena cava... He would have been pretty much dead on arrival at the hospital, which is why he still only had the bullet hole... no need to cut him open to try open heart massage. No need for a chest tube to drain the blood. So when the ambulance arrived at Baker Street during the big confrontation, he likely was bleeding internally. Between then and the Christmas scenes, he was probably in hospital for a few weeks getting properly healed. Anyhow, in that entire confrontation scene at Baker Street, there is this wonderful, sweeping music behind it, and I downloaded it from the Sherlock Series 3 CD via ITunes and the music is called, "Addicted to a Certain Lifestyle." Can't stop listening to it.

We do know that Sherlock can cry fake tears pretty much on demand, not the least of which is his fake crying at the end of TEH, then laughing because it was a joke on John. Yeah, I think I would have strangled him at that point. But there are other instances. I don't believe he was faking tears in his meltdown in Baskerville, and his tears aren't fake when he's in so much pain in the padded cell with Moriarty in HLV. I'm not entirely convinced his tears are fake up on the rooftop in Reichenbach. But once the deed is done of jumping, he is in a completely different mode. The game has changed.

Long live snarky comments! But he knows how to turn the snark off, and that's nice too.

"People were talking. None of them me. I must have filtered." "I noticed." "I have to filter out a lot of witless babble. I have Mrs. Hudson on semi-permanent mute."

No, I don't really see the autism thing either. I think that's a BC misdiagnosis.

No, I think that despite how Sherlock used her and she him, she still got a glimpse of a little Sherlock charm although he rebuffed her constant advances. Even so, he took the time to work with her on dancing, demonstrated his own love of dance. The one thing about sociopaths, psychopaths and all the "paths" that is a prominent and consistent character trait is that they are charming. All the time. It's all manipulation, though. Sherlock is not charming. He's anti-social and disconnected with how his actions/words/behaviors affect others. We're seeing him connect more now, and maybe he realizes too late that he's been inappropriate, but he does realize it now, even if he doesn't fully understand it. John correctly labels him aspergers in Baskerville. I have always thought aspergers from the very first episode of Series 1, and we get to see it constantly but even with the introduction of his parents, how he has no spacial boundaries with people, and he just steps onto the sofa between them to work on his information wall, and this behavior doesn't set them off. He's been in his own world his whole life. And when his dad gets him to promise to call his mother because she worries, he finally gives in, but as soon as she tries to touch his face with a little gesture of affection, he is quick to shut the door on her. They only do Christmas as a family in HLV because he's just out of hospital and his mother wanted them all together, but he's not really interacting with them. He's only biding his time to sell out his brother (seriously, how did he ever think he'd get away with that???). There's no real sense of familial warmth with the Holmes boys towards the parents. It's just tolerance of them, probably tolerance that they are intellectually inferior and that the boys had passed them up well into their early youth. Although we are told the mother was at the very least a mathematical genius. She quit her work in mathematics to raise the family, but perhaps she HAD to quit to deal with Sherlock's' issues. Cumberbatch has said he feels Sherlock is slightly autistic, but autism isn't pronounced in adults. Perhaps it was more severe when he was a child, which would have required a lot of therapy and daily hands on intervention to work him out of it. Mycroft apparently didn't suffer any "conditions" except being a genius, but if he'd had to watch Sherlock struggle through things before Sherlock's own genius manifested itself, it would have always made Sherlock seem terribly slow to him. I would also add that he is a savant, a trait that shows up in the autism spectrum but is usually associated with a low I.Q., and he clearly is a genius. All speculation. We'll no doubt get more pieces of the puzzle in Series 4.

I do think that Janine saw a different part of Sherlock's personality than anyone else has. Although emotionally engaged with her, he did some flirting with her at the wedding and did look to dance with her at the end although she was found to be dancing with someone else. She says she knows what kind of man he is (which I believe she means to be a good man) even above all the lying, and you can see he has a little regret about how he handled the whole situation. His character is in such different place than ASIP. I love the character growth. It's almost painful to watch how disconnected he was in ASIP.

Hmm.... maybe a little time problem between when Isaac's mother goes to John and Mary's house to when Sherlock goes to take a bath - it's only 8:00 A.M. Seems like a lot of stuff happened in between and it would be much later in the morning than that.

Yeah she's great, really gets to lay into him and no one stops her. Although if she had continued to slap him, someone might have intervened. But 3 slaps - he had it coming. Nice that he uses that, however, in the mind palace after he's been shot to keep him focused.

A few interesting points in this one: - Sherlock is still high when CAM visits the flat (he would not have completely come down from the high yet) - Notice that CAM's henchmen move the fireplace grate out of the way before he urinates in the fireplace, as if CAM has pulled this stunt before and they are anticipating him doing it again. He's like a dog marking his territory. - Interesting that Sherlock talks openly about CAM when Janine is within earshot. - Love the way he strong-arms Mycroft. Mycroft may have the superior intellect but Sherlock definitely has the brute and can bring Mycroft under control with his mere strength. - Finally figured that when Molly says "clean" it should really be like "Clean? Are you kidding me?" I misinterpreted the "clean" for a while as being real, that he had somehow managed to provide a fake clean sample.

As for important themes and such, there's the tv tropes recap pages for each episode. Okay, I've read through some of those and they were a bit too snarky for me. I'll just make my own notes. Generally they didn't have the things I was interested in anyhow.

Watched HLV twice tonight and did a little freeze framing in some spots. So if you haven't really had a chance to read those profiles that CAM goes through, here are the 3 important ones: SHERLOCK HOLMES CONSULTING DETECTIVE PORN PREFERENCE: NORMAL FINANCES: UNKNOWN BROTHER: MYCROFT HOLMES (SEE FILE) OFFICIALLY DECEASED: 2011-2013 PRESSURE POINT REDBEARD (SEE FILE) - why does Redbeard have a whole file??? HOUNDS OF THE BASKERVILLE OPIIUM JOHN WATSON IRENE ADLER (SEE FILE) JIM MORIARTY (SEE FILE) MORPHINE (ADD TO FILE) - this was added later (it looks there there is a lot more than this but they just repeat) ------------- JOHN HAMISH WATSON AFGHANISTAN VETERAN (SEE FILE) G.P. (SEE FILE) PORN PREFERNCE: NORMAL FINANCES: 10% DEBT (SEE FILE) STATUS: UNIMPORTANT PRESSURE POINT: HARRY WATSON (SISTER) ALCOHOLIC MARY MORSTAN (WIFE) ------------- MARTHA LOUISE HUDSON (NEE SISSON) LANDLADY WIDOW (SEE FILE) SEMI-REFORMED ALCOHOLIC FORMER "EXOTIC DANCER" (SEE FILE) FINANCES: 21% DEBT (SEE FILE) STATUS: UNIMPORTANT PRESSURE POINT: MARIJUANA

If you find one, or make one, let me know, I need as much help as I can get! Well, I think there's enough regular posters here to divide up the 9 episodes and each do one. Or I could do more than one. Would take me a while to do all 9.

Is there a place somewhere where all the episodes have been broken down in bullet points for important themes, points, snarky dialogue? Or should I just make my own?

Exactly.

Oh, I didn't miss that. There is a 1-hr interview on Youtube where Louise Brealy inteviews Cumberbatch, and the quality is terrible as is the sound, and the ball does come up in conversation, but I couldn't understand it. Someone in the audience asked him if there was hope for Molly and he said there was always hope for Molly. What is Sherlockitis like in such a concentrated form? Intoxicating. Think I'll go have some more.

True...why would he have that rubber ball, but I don't know. Somewhere out there it has been guessed and discussed. I'm sort of glad I missed all that furor of speculation and came into this discovery of Sherlock 4 years after it all started because I get to discover it for myself. And I see what all the craziness is about... I've had a bad case of Sherlock-itis for the last month!

Eloquently put.

Oh, I am sure the news about Mrs Hudson was set up by Sherlock (or Mycroft) to get John out of the way long enough for Sherlock to meet up with Moriarty. I mean, how else would he have gotten away with doing that? "John, stay here and make yourself a cup of tea, I have a date with a homicidal maniac who hates my guts on Bart's rooftop"? Um... not a good plan. But John's presence at the time of The Fall seems necessary. Because if the whole street was closed off, there were no (credible) witnesses for the whole thing, were there? They needed somebody to give a convincing report of Sherlock's death. No, no, I am quite sure that his being there was essential, that the phone call was premeditated long in advance and that the cyclist was not improvised, either. God knows what they had planned to do with Moriarty. Kill him themselves, maybe? This brings me round to the sniper who was aiming at John and whom Mycroft's people allegedly "invited to reconsider". Of course nobody could be the least bit sure that Moriarty would stick to his side of the deal, i.e. refrain from shooting Sherlock's friends if he jumped. He could have had them killed anyway, out of mere spite - John especially. So maybe Mycroft made sure that the one potential victim really needed for their plan to work (John) at least would stay alive no matter what and the other two can thank their lucky stars the snipers didn't pull the trigger... Moffat said repeatedly after the episode initially aired that there was a clue everyone missed. Since it has likely been discussed in minutia since then, I'm wondering what he was referring to.

I think Sherlock is genuinely mortified that Moriarty has just blown his brains out, and I don't think that was a part of any plan. I think there was some truth in what Sherlock told Anderson. The air bag, the fake body. Notice that Sherlock does not jump off the same ledge (a wider ledge) that he first steps up onto when Moriarty is still alive. He steps up onto a narrower ledge. Different part of the building. John is the only one of all those players that isn't in on the scheme. What if John hadn't come back to that area? In fact, perhaps John's return and Sherlock seeing him and knowing how he has to deceive him, is what's important. When you look back at how indifferent Sherlock was about hearing Mrs. Hudson had been shot and might be dying, that ruse may have in fact been to get John out of the way for the entire thing. That John comes back puts a little monkey wrench in the efficiency of Sherlock's fake suicide.

A phone number which Sherlock may have discounted at this point because he thought "gay" Jim Brooks was making an advance on him.

Oh my, yes, that scene with Sherlock and Molly on the stairs is one of my favorites in the whole series. I was pretty disappointed with The Empty Hearse when I first saw it and quietly grumbling into my blankets until that point, and then I saw that scene and went wow, hey, they've still got it! That was great! Molly does bring out the best in Sherlock, doesn't she? She has a very quiet power, based on the sheer goodness of her own character beneath that awkward exterior, and while this is a very old-fashioned concept of female might, I like it and I am more impressed with Molly than with many a gun-wielding "action woman". I don't think she was too shy to finally accept Sherlock's invitation or too loyal towards Tom or anything. I think the reason she pulled out was that she realized no matter what Sherlock might say to her about being herself, she was being used as a substitute for John and Molly is too wise and not quite desperate enough to settle for that. When Sherlock asks her if she would like to solve crimes, she is wearing gloves. He doesn't see the ring. He apparently doesn't notice it all the times she is taking notes on those squirrely cases that flip by, and she covers it up with her other hand in the first part of the scene when they visit they guy who wipes the security footage of the trains. Well, if you look at the last clip of Molly in TSoT, she is not wearing the engagement ring anymore. Looked to me like she was trying to take it off during the deduction. I think that's where her engagement ended. Of course, in HLV she really lays into him about doing drugs and no one, not even he, stops her. After he gets shot and goes to his mind palace for help, Molly is the one to tell him to fall on his back to survive. It's the kind of thing she would know, and he listens to her and falls on his back. So in a sense she saves him again. BTW, I love how Sherlock grins when he says he didn't solve a murder, just helped the guy put up some shelves. Not really the kind of activity you'd ever think of him doing, and he seems tickled at the idea.