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Absolutely, definitely agree with No. 19! It must take up half his make-up time and is definitely not Byronic on such a face! Fewer curls in S4, if it ever happens. You did notice how Mr Gatiss is a member of the Sherlock Holmes society, but Mr Moffat was just a guest! Well, he has had his revenge over the years, culminating in HLV!

However, when Sherlock went downstairs to Mrs Hudson's flat, he discovered that the night's excitement had been too much for the old lady, who was sound asleep after taking one of her 'herbal soothers' , so he climbed back up to ask DS Donovan to retrieve the baby's harness. She gaped at him : "Surely, you are NOT going to appear in the Yard with the baby strapped to you? There weren't just me and Anderson you used to piss off regularly, Holmes! " "I don't see as I have much option, Sally. John is out for the count, Mrs Hudson is resting, Mycroft is still recovering from the tear gas he inhaled, so is Anthea, my parents are in a safe house in Edinburgh and I wouldn't trust John's sister to guard her, especially in these altered circumstances!" In the end, she relented, dug out the baby harness and helped him strap it on securely before picking up Sheralyn and placing her in it. "Well, thank God for small favors," he huffed, it is July and this contraption will not even crease my jacket, I'm not sure if I could have managed with a coat on." After locking the flat, he helped Sally into a taxi and they were whisked to DI Dimmock's office in pretty short order, where Sally took the baby off him so that he could give his statement and sign it, standard procedure, excruciatingly boring but unavoidable. Up to this point, things were going well, and when the purely bureaucratic side of things had been dispensed with, Lestrade made his appearance, an added bonus. The two recapitulated the whole previous evening, while the baby lay quietly in Sherlock's lap, as Sally had needed to attend to some mundane piece of police work. And then his phone pinged. After some maneuvering ( tailored trouser pockets did not make for good receptacles when one had a baby on their lap, he made a mental note to himself) he managed to get it out and looked at the message: of all the times in the world, Seb had once again chosen the most inopportune moment to bother him! "What is the matter now?" asked Lestrade, his brow furrowing. "Lady Sanderson has need of my services, apparently, and Seb is playing lapdog to the banker, as usual!" "Sherlock, if it is a police matter, don't keep us in the dark!" cried a frustrated DI . "For the moment, I shall need to leave the baby in your collective good hands. Lestrade, thank you for your kind offer", smiled Sherlock, straightened up from his usual semi-recumbent position in the DI's chair, buttoned up his jacket and went out the door. "By the time we locate her mother, Sheralyn will have turned the Yard into her regular kindergarten" sighed the much-put-upon Detective Inspector.

That's exactly why he has the garden! It's not as if he's adding much to the pollution level of London! When my uncle had to have a pneumothorax operation due to a misdiagnosed raging tuberculosis, my aunt vowed never to smoke in the house again! Come rain or shine, she would sit in one of the verandah wrought iron chairs and smoke her Marlboro Lights, then use a dental wash to rinse out the smell and get back in again: my uncle's life was not further endangered, she was not put in ankle and wrist restraints because of her habit! P.S . Shouldn' t that read 'nowhere near'? Just asking, since English is not my first language ^_^

This is hilariously funny! Can I play, too! I am not a member of Ao3 but I hereby give permission to use any of my contributions you feel worthy of inclusion! Both DS Donovan and Sherlock made their way up to Dr Watson's old bedroom, where Sally carefully situated the still sleeping man's sideways: "You know, Holmes, it doesn't do to have gone to all this trouble and then have the good doctor choke on his own vomit!" she remarked, straightening up, and the sight that greeted her was even more alarming: Sherlock had gone deathly pale again! How could she know that these were the exact words Irene, his unique Irene, had said to Dr Watson after she had drugged him in her bedroom! "You know, Holmes, you cannot deal with everything as if it were a mental exercise! You suffer from a long, nasty load of shit, so why not consult a specialist?" He managed to pull himself together long enough to answer: "Sally, sometimes you're a life saver! No, I cannot consult a psychotherapist, I have driven enough of them into early retirement ever since Mummy took me to the first one during my first year at secondary school! Now, why don't we dragoon Mrs Hudson into keeping an eye on Sheralyn and drive to the Yard to deal with the mind-numbingly boring paperwork?" Rather than enquire into his peculiar mood swings, Sally heeded the age-old advice about the better part of valour, squared her shoulders and agreed: "Right, we shall go to the Yard as soon as we have washed and dried everything piled up in your kitchen sink." He groaned loudly, but she swatted his arm : "It's no good trying to elude me, Holmes, we shall do this together, and that's final! Right, do you prefer to wash or dry?" "Wash, I think, if I get into deducing mode while drying we end up with broken crockery, and John has never liked that," he sighed dramatically. "But then it's straight on to the Yard, promise?" It was Sally's turn to sigh: whose fault, except Mycroft's could it be that a grown man could regress to a four-year old petulant child without any warning?

My Dad smoked from his 19th year to his 81st birthday, always gold ringed Dunhills rather than plain tipped Gauloises, my Grandfather died at 96 trying to put out a fire started by the burning embers of his pipe and sustaining life-threatening second-degree burns, so I really can't see what all the fuss is about! The non-smoking band is getting a bit Bolshie, in my opinion!

Personally, I would call this perfect timing! New mother and baby safely at home, Dad having an enclosed garden to smoke in and indulge in his avian hobby, rehearsals just starting, as long as he does not get too hands-on with the night feeds , everything will go swimmingly!

Wonderful news all round for BC! A handle after his name, higher than Moffat's, which makes it doubly satisfying for this viewer, and a brand-new baby boy! May it have a long and happy life, and possibly be called Benoit ( wishful thinking), as well as auburn hair and blue eyes!

Wonderful! And to think that a past Bishop of Luçon is responsible for creating the first ever official Gazette to circulate government -censored news instead of the rag-tag gossip pamphlets of his day! Of course, Napoleon then took matters even further with Le Moniteur, not hesitating to let false news be published in a plain early propaganda attempt!

The whole weight of English history and British culture lies behind BC's assertions that Sherlock is not gay, while Mr Moffat behaves not just like an overgrown child bent on breaking his toys but also as a consummate tease, because he leaves little hints and then withdraws behind a barrier of impenetrability, hence the Special in Victorian mode: strictly business, no playing around, especially at a time when any same-sex relationships were punishable by law. In terms of same-sex relationships, I should think we are going to be left with the invisible Harriet and her friends in the series. One part of the fandom maybe screaming gay/lesbian, but the show has to remain mainstream to sell, and even if Mr Moffat wanted to play the gay card, how would he go about forcing his lead characters to perform it, when both have explicitly stated such is not the case?

On the whole, the lotus tattoo had a feeling of irreality about it, as did the whole spray paint subplot, and as for what got filmed first, there is the commentary of TGG where Mr Gatiss explains how it was filmed first because he tends to write faster than Mr Moffat ( who is definitely a playful eight-year old, not a maturing teenager of twelve, as was suggested above!

Completed my re -watch and found it amusing but inconsequential! In this respect, both HoB and SoT are of much better quality as middle episodes! Plot holes notwithstanding, it is a good thing that they opened with SiP, because with this episode, many of the original viewers might have changed channels, and we wouldn't be here debating this phenomenon or anxiously waiting for more (does that make us what the British call 'gluttons for punishment'? The opening double fight is one of the highlights, as is the knowledge that they returned to the same building four years later to visit Magnussen's office.

Shall definitely re-watch, as I quite like the beginning, with Dr Watson unable to handle the shopping while Sherlock battles an African killer, and then pretends nothing has been amiss by leafing through his book and surreptitiously hiding the spoon, the only mark left of the incident, and also shows his cat-like reflexes when he catches the pen Dr Watson throws him without even focusing, and later on fights a multiple killer to a draw in Soo Lin's flat, which makes me think that in TEH he very much lets Dr Watson get away with assaulting him both at the restaurant and later. The Chinese element is a bit exaggerated, but this is the same scriptwriter who forced Sherlock to jump in front of Dr Watson in TRF, so exaggeration is his stock in trade, apparently.

Last week, I had to work too long to be able to watch the pilot episode, so I watched them back to back yesterday, where all the little differences magnified themselves, decor, lighting, clothing, Sherlock's sheer exuberance in the first and more somber mien in the second, the "three patch problem" being the modern version of the "three pipe problem" in ACD, the different settings for the meetings of both Mike Stamford and Dr Watson and of Sherlock and Dr Watson, the different angles of the morgue scene, his much more deliberate decision to follow the cabbie in SiP as compared to his pretend-drunk act in the pilot episode. On the whole, a most satisfying re-watch, which has been tremenduously enhanced by all the lovely insights above.

Pale chartreuse with envy! Very flattering to our restorative liqueur!

Oh, Carol, women doctors, never mind pathologists, were few and far between in those times! Even your own Dorothy Reed, who worked at Johns Hopkins, was a pathologist and identified Hodgkin's disease as separate from tuberculosis, was too young for Sherlock Holmes, born in 1874, and even she had to give up a promising career to bring up her children, returning to work only after they had gone to school. The Victorian era was no picnic for women scientists!

Bringing in Colonel Sebastian Moran would fulfil the creators' tendency to adhere to the original ACD material, and he would, indeed be a new face in a game which is never over, according to the eponymous hero, but they would need to invent a whole different backstory for him, as they have had to do for Major Sholto in SoT. We shall see, in the meantime, I'm quite looking forward to re watching SiP and discussing it in the re-watch thread!

Silly me thought it was about Casanova! BC has had a fairly busy acting life and the prerequisite fame attached to it hitherto! Long may it continue!

It was just lovely! All famous stars doing a good deed and playing contrapuntal tidbits!

I still like the vintage teddy bear! An art teacher who would have liked to become a pirate, who likes Deslock, we have a lot in common, except Arcadia is much more of a gentle person than I could ever be, as is evident by the posts.

So, we are all starting with the pilot this coming Monday and then going on to the relevant thread for an exchange of opinions? Perfect, although I wish I could skip the end of TRF for family reasons, but we are all a group, so if I get horrific mental images, the rest will be understanding! The game is definitely on!

You mean it could come from an actual city, landmark, national park in the U.S.? Still, the teddy is adorable, while the alternative ... Caya has a valid point with the et ego in Arcadia allusion!

Are they keeping Mary and Baby Watson? They make him more human and then deprive him of his only true friend and companion in favour of blissful domesticity and a practicing doctor returning home to wife and family! Perhaps he was being literal there in the airport scene: the game is never over , there will be some new players. If that is, indeed, the case, they will have turned the most famous crime-solving pair into loner/sitcom. Thanks, but no, thanks!

Hi! With my schedule, I could handle an episode per week, sometimes twelve-hour shifts play havoc with your social and personal life. When should we start?

If "Mary" was one of dear Jim's freelance snipers both in the pool scene and in TRF, then she would be understandably upset if, using her superior CIA - honed skills she had made an unobtrusive exit that had elude Mycroft's vigilance, and thus slipped through the net which bagged the other snipers! Mycroft may be all-powerful, but things have eluded his scrutiny of his baby brother in the past!

Personally speaking, except for the Great Game, I actively protect my mental well-being by avoiding TRF (an ancestress of mine committed suicide off the roof of a hospital in 1940), so the whole last sequence lies too close to home, and HLV I Always stop at the point where he miscalculates Mary's resolve to shoot him, one of his many mistakes in this very flawed episode. Whatever they do to repair the damage they did to their supposed favourite character in fiction will never be enough to make amends for leaving him no other choice but to shoot Magnussen at point blanc range, unless, like the Big Blue, he really didn't, in which case CAM may be alive, an even more horrifying thought on levels of their personal and national security!