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Self-flagellation is strictly for the Middle Ages, joanneta! As long as they were all in on the joke, they are big boys and girls. You say they are Sherlock fans, let it go, they will probably forget it much faster than you will do. @inge, I'm in the process of decorating my Easter eggs, myself. Hope they turn out well.

Absolutely agree, but the reverse also holds true. To what lengths will the emotionally handicapped person who has had it drilled into him since childhood that "caring is not an advantage", go to protect an essentially deeply traumatized and slightly mentally imbalanced so-called 'best friend'?

Hi! If I took everything that pair of creators has served up so far as written in stone, I would have lost it by now! They like to play with their fandom while indulging in their own fan fantasies,never mind the collateral damage to the characters or their fans! In response to the original question, my answer would be a very emphatic "NO"! Dr Watson in S3 has gone beyond best friend status, bewildered and angry, tangled up between his "I am not gay" assertion and his discovery of his feelings for both Sherlock and his former assassin of a wife. However, his treatment of Sherlock does n o t show him as the great detective's best friend, neither in their fictitious world nor in real life. Sherlock is shown as plotting Moriarty's demise with Mycroft in TEH, but that plot twist is entirely implausible and patched together. One only needs to see his reactions on the roof of the hospital, practically tearing his hair out in desperation, to realize that the whole plot to take down Moriarty was very much an afterthought!

Carol, you are absolutely right, thank you for your kindly advice, but you can put sugar in tea, so it gives you at least some added energy. The problem was the inaccessibility of solids in any form, as well as energy drinks, but visits to the toilet not, so it was the lesser of two evils. If it happens again, I will definitely go prepared, something with electrolytes at least! However, lightheadedness focuses the mind on the task at hand admirably.

Oh? Then you should follow Caya's recommendation and go for the Star Trek novels she wrote! One of the Denebians captures a Romulan baddie in all its tentacles in My Enemy, My Ally and warns him that he will be devoured: "live it when prey struggles!" It's a highlight in the novel!

Not much cop his non-eating lark! I had to go on two shifts back-to-back, so I worked 48 hours straight on green tea and water! Dehydration definitely NOT an option! Conclusion was, after a certain point your brain and your stomach disconnect, so you do not even think or daydream about anything solid, BUT it gives you a peculiar high and such clear- headedness that you perform as though you were rested and fed properly all the time! I have never done drugs, not even smoked a spiff in my life, but now I can empathise with his eating disorder. It is an alternative to getting a high, I suppose. Still, won't personally try it again if at all possible. Needs must, but as Dr Watson points out in SoT, there are limits!

Admittedly, this is fun to conjecture and speculate, but I should think the two most famous and successful fanboys in the Sherlock Holmes universe would have shown slightly more respect for the main character, at least! Sometimes it seems safer to stay firmly entrenched in the Victorian and Eswardian eras and avoid modernization if it means ridiculing one of your favourite characters in crime fiction. I have come to realize that people want him paired with either John or Molly, depending on subtext ( by the way, in clear text, I would feel no compunction punching both the creators in the face for what they have done to my favourite detective of all ages), but in a straight relationship wouldn't Donovan make more sense? She can understand him and his moods, she is a professional and knows about his quirks and vulnerability, and she can definitely take care of herself.

If anyone tried to hurt Molly, Lestrade would have to enlist the help of several other police forces all over Britain just to collect their remains, which would be scattered over a wide area! But she is calm, cool-headed when Sherlock is not around, and she would use her cat's GPS or something similarly clever to lead the police to the abductor's lair. The problem would be who got there first: Sherlock in overdrive or the local force!

...when it's raining, it's pouring, and you settle down wrapped up warm to watch The Priory School, and the name of the abducted boy, Lord Saltire, immediately brings to mind the flags of Scotland and Jamaica, alongside the story of the abducted children in The Fall.

This is too cute for words! He has four and a half years of constant put-downs, manipulation and not-so-gentle needling to make up for that if she was NOT besotted with him as she is, this would have been the perfect moment for her to grow some spine, slap him, retort with a cutting remark and MAYBE, just maybe, finally get his complete attention! He may be a high-functioning whatever, because sociopath is a term he applies to himself, it is not recognized in psychological disorders language, but once again she stays true to form and becomes his doormat! Irene's observation in Scandal about someone loving him and sparing his nose and mouth are definitely applicable in this case! Poor mousy Molly, your heart goes out to her, but she stands the chances of the proverbial snowball in hell in getting his full attention the way she seems to want. Subtext again?

Personally speaking, I think the whole bonfire sequence is a 'damsel in distress' setup. If the text had not been sent to Mary, threatening John's life, Sherlock would not have gone into panic overdrive, instead, he would have telephoned the police and then gone to the scene himself. He has demonstrated that he knows the exact arrival time of a London ambulance, he must know that the police car closest to the scene will be dispatched to deal with the disturbance. Instead, that brilliant, logical mind of his gets pushed to the background BECAUSE this is John. What annoys me, is that the creators are playing with our minds and our feelings, for them the Game is On, each one of us can play it or leave it alone, but it is a Bit Not Good for them to be hypocritical about the whole, say one thing and show us another, which is always open to multiple interpretations. Even in Study in Pink, Mr Gatiss as Mycroft asks John when they may expect a happy announcement, since John has just moved in and is already solving cases with Sherlock. Subtext be #⃣

The idea of Moriarty is just plain scary! And what was the big idea behind all those perfectly cut suits and a dramatic coat hiding those really tight shirts? By the time of the Special Edition commentary, we can see both leading actors buttoned up to the neck, however. By mutual agreement or instinctive reaction to what has been going on around them all this time?

In this particular discussion, which involves strictly personal views, I have come to the personal conclusion that the creators ARE deliberately playing a double game with their characters. They may deny the undercurrents of same-sex attraction, but at the same time they fan the flames by giving the viewers ambiguous scenes open to dual interpretations. That look he threw John at the end of Sign of Three, is pure wistful longing, about whom or what is the point under discussion. All things considered, my views tend to coincide with Inge's and Toby's, and I would never like to see Molly get hurt by Sherlock trying out a sexually oriented experiment, because to him it would be just that. And it would not be in character with the original, who the creators allegedly consider their teenage hero, who was unfailingly courteous and even chivalrous to women clients, starting with Mary Morstan and going on in The Copper Beeches, A Case of Identity, The Solitary Cyclist, The Speckled Band, the Sussex Vampire, Abbey Grange and The Double Stain. In the last two, especially, he protects them from the law, as well.

Dear sfmpco and Inge, if we take everything to the marine environment, then Charles Augustus Magnussen is known to be a shark, Moriarty could be a really unusual orca, or killer whale, because they have got a bad reputation unworthy of their skills, and Sherlock is this beautifully streamlined bottle nosed dolphin that does not shirk going up against them, foiling their attacks on lesser species. It is just beautiful as an idea! Of course, that would make Mycroft a cross between a turtle and a Moray eel, doing nothing for ages and then using his power to latch on to his prey and tear them apart.

Dear Inge, when I saw the swan motif, it floored me, biology and zoology being my areas of expertise! I could not make anything of it until I read your explanation of the concept. Makes perfect sense, in a way, the same way he reacts jealously to Mary's comment about neither of them being the first in Dr Watson's heart, and the way he looks over to John the moment Janine asks if he has a vacancy in solving murders. Double entendres in both cases, it seems! Dear sfmpco, he has trained himself not to respond to physical intimacy, but that does not preclude his brilliant mind from going on adventures of its own, and he is not one to be reticent, so he blurts out what he feels in the speech.

It seems I reached my maximum likes for the day, which is not mentioned in the rules, just following this thread! But I would definitely NOT want to watch anything from the Billy Wilder film reworked into a Special, of all things.Period costume is perfectly OK, nonsense from the 60s with such a colorless rendition of Sherlock is not. Something new, innovative and original within the ACD framework, please!

In my case, I find it particularly funny when having to clarify the meaning of words like "facile" and "meretricious", and the first thought that comes to mind is hearing Sherlock speak them. Lovely mug concept, whoever thought of it should be commented!

Dear Carol, Sorry about the typing errors. Hope you like the film, Caine is his usual self, so it teeters between comedy and the ridiculous, until the moment something happens that forces him to become Sherlock.

Sorry to butt in like this, but does it not depend above all on the source material? If it is s good book, it should make a good script and at least an interesting film, but without Dr Watson, it will definitely have a different feel.

Hello! The film is called Without a clue, with Muchael Csine playing the hired actor to act as a front, a good spoof, but eminently forgettable.

What an interesting idea! I joined today, on a friend's recommendation, and this forum offers so much to discuss my favourite character! Dr House as Sherlock and Dr Wilson as Watson make perfect sense, but Dr Cuddy reminds me more of Mycroft, always trying to limit the damage and feeling responsible for the oddball genius. Elementary has changed things too much, it is a bit like watching that film where Dr Watson was really solving all the cases and Holmes was a hired actor playing a part.