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I actually got 80% in all of them off the top of my head except for the one on the Hobbit - probably because I haven't read the book in 15 years or more and have only seen the film once, even though I have the dvd.

There are 3 special features on the dvd, but no commentaries. Personally, that doesn't bother me as I can't follow the commentaries very well anyway as they are rarely subtitled. Ariane DeVere on LJ has done transcripts of the dvd extras, and all of her transcripts are linked from here if you want to have a look.

Argh! Portmanteau names! I am a resident hater of them, for all they're a bit of 'harmless' fun though I'll agree it's a strange phenomena. I even started a poll/discussion about it here if you want to see what other people thing.

We are Sherlocked...

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We get PBS as one of our satellite channels, wonder if it will show Sherlock?

I came across this on one of my friend's journals on LJ (drinkingcocoa) and thought I would post it here for you to discuss as it is quite an interesting pov. This is the original post if you want to go to LJ and participate there. 1. Mycroft’s people could get the snipers to leave. So why did Sherlock still need John to believe he died? Somebody else was watching. Someone whose job for Moriarty, as in ACD canon, was to make sure Sherlock was dead and finish Sherlock off if he wasn’t. 2. That scene where Mary announces one mind-numbingly boring case after another to John. That’s not just about John Watson being bored. That’s about Mary. She became a part-time nurse as a cover for her more interesting job of getting to know John’s deepest emotions to make sure he was truly grieving and not getting messages from a secretly-alive Sherlock. 3. In TEH, when John says “one word” from Sherlock to say he was alive would have helped, Sherlock says he wanted to but couldn’t in case John was indiscreet and blew Sherlock’s cover. This scene takes place with Mary present. It didn’t have to. It could have taken place in the train car. 4. Mary dates John and falls in love with him. Sherlock is apparently really dead. Moriarty seems dead and his network is dying off. What’s to stop Mary from being happy in love? Nothing. Although it would kill John to learn that they got together because she was assigned to confirm Sherlock’s death and initially feigned interest in John for information, like Sherlock did with Janine. 5. This parallels Sherlock in the elevator telling John that Janine would break off the relationship if Sherlock said it was a ruse. 6. Mary sincerely loves John. When Sherlock returns and she says, “Do you have any idea what you’ve done to him?” she is being genuine. John’s grief has been her business, after all. She should know. 7. Mary has no emotional trouble shooting at Sherlock, since that was originally her job, to kill Sherlock if he didn’t die in Reichenbach. That could be another meaning of the mind-palace vision of Mary in her wedding dress, shooting at Sherlock. Not just the Johnlock reading but Sherlock’s image of who Mary has been to him since the beginning. 8. When CAM looks through Mary’s files and chuckles, it’s because he knows how John would feel if he learned why Mary met John in the first place. This is the information Sherlock kills CAM to protect. This is why the scene in CAM’s house is so tense: Sherlock realizes CAM is about to destroy John with this knowledge unless Sherlock stops it somehow. This is why we have the subplot with Lady Smallwood, who could not prevent CAM’s destructiveness, ending in the headline about Lord Smallwood’s suicide — it’s a hint about the effect CAM might have on John. This is why Sherlock tells John to let CAM keep flicking him; he knows what CAM might tell John if John resists. And this is what Sherlock meant when he told John to tell Mary that she is safe now: that he knows. It parallels Sherlock telling Major Sholto, “We would never do that to John Watson.” 9. When Mary panics at Moriarty’s screen appearance, it’s because a living Moriarty would come after her, probably via John, for failing to kill Sherlock. She’s going to need Sherlock as close as possible to help protect everything, if this happens. 10. This is why Series 3 raised the question of John wanting to know not how, but why — and never answered it. Sherlock couldn’t tell John there was someone watching to make sure John believed Sherlock was dead. And now he and Mary will have to protect John from Moriarty, or whoever’s behind Moriarty’s “return,” while negotiating how to tell or not tell him that to compound the lies each has already told John, they’ve been colluding not to tell him that Mary Moran is in John’s life because Moriarty put her there. Cue Series 4 credits.

I've never watched The Mentalist, Breaking Bad, Mad Men or The Wire. I do know about them, but they've never interested me. I have enough trouble keeping up with the shows I do watch. In the UK we don't have 20+ episodes per season, we generally have 5, 6, 8, 10, 12 or 13 and that goes for anything made over here for our audience and each episode is 45-60 minutes. Bearing that in mind 3 episodes of 90 minutes is pretty damn near equivalent to a full (short) series in the UK. I started watching Elementary as I was interested in seeing how CBS would deal with a female Watson and a modern Sherlock (and because I rather like Lucy Liu) not because it is a genre of show I usually follow. I was hooked by the characters and have continued to watch. The only other shows of similar type that I watch (and then not that frequently with some) are NCIS, Castle and Sherlock. Oh, and The Fall (which I watched for Gillian Anderson and will catch up on S2 when it's made and all - that was only 5 episodes long).

There are more than a couple of Red Dwarf fans on here...

I adored Parade's End, but have never been able to sit through an entire episode of Downton (and gave up trying years ago)...

Not sure I'll be able to upload all the visual evidence in one post... (well, I couldn't, so here's the rest) Then his hand clenches. It doesn't open again until he decides to shake Sherlock's hand Just before he goes with the handshake he looks up at Sherlock, and then away... as if he can't bear to look at him any more. Add to this all the throat clearing and stumbling over words and I think it's a very emotional scene and not cold in the slightest.

Some thoughts on a couple of things I have seen mentioned around various places (not just here). a.) John should have shown some sign of wanting to protect Sherlock at CAM's house, when Mycroft and the others arrived with their guns and stuff - possibly to the extent of blocking their shots, especially after Sherlock makes his move. Ummm - Sherlock told him to stay back. John is shattered by the turn of events, you only have to look at his face, but he's doing what Sherlock asked him to do (again). b.) the handshake at the end was a cold and unemotional goodbye I don't think so. It's subtle, but John has what I would describe as a WTF! reaction to Sherlock's proffered hand, before going with it - possibly because he realises that anything more will probably have them both breaking down which isn't something you want to do when you're sending someone off to war, which in effect is what they're doing with Sherlock. Not sure I'll be able to upload all the visual evidence in one post... Sherlock offers his hand. John's is relaxed and open at his side but he is giving Sherlock a look

The only thing that would have kept Sherlock going was CPR, until they'd managed to stop the bleeding. He would have gone into cardiac arrest because of haemorrhage/hypovolaemic shock and that does not always produce a shockable cardiac arrest rhythm, which means a defibrillator (manual or AED) could have been next to useless. When someone's heart stops due to a non-shockable rhythm, they are dead and will stay dead unless you can treat the cause. There are generally 8 causes of non-shockable cardiac arrest so you have to maintain CPR to have a chance of resuscitating someone in that situation as you can't treat the cause until you know what it is! Generally the only exception to this is if someone has a cardiac arrest due to having a problem with their heart electrics, usually requiring a pacemaker to keep their heart up to speed. I've had a couple of people coming round under my hands after 1-2 cycles of CPR in this sort of situation - they have then gone on to have emergency temporary pacemakers fitted immediately to keep them going until the proper one can be fitted. The Sherlock thing involved a lot of hand waving for me. They did a good job in showing him having the signs of shock before the paramedics arrived at Baker Street but the hospital scenes were a bit implausible so I basically ignored them from the medical pov. Having said that, I still haven't made up my mind whether the ECG monitor was supposed to show an agonal rhythm (aka dying heart pattern) or an irregular and tachycardic p-wave asystole... it wasn't a 'proper' asystole (flatlining), that's for certain and it sure as hell wasn't a VF or VT (which would have been shockable). Umm. Yeah. I need to pay no attention to these things in drama/fiction, but I don't always manage it well... As for the whole thing of people bringing themselves back by sheer force of will, that can happen and I have actually seen it happen, though not in the sort of situation that Sherlock was in. It's kind of freaky to say the least.

I forgot about that, Carol. Good point.

I want more Lestrade, there wasn't enough in S3 for me.

Part of that is probably the doctor thing. When you're a doctor, you only get so long to speak to each patient and you don't have time to let them talk all around the houses when you need to find out what the specific problem is with them so John will be used to having to get to the point of something, cutting a potentially long ramble down to the essential and relevant factors. He's probably more polite about it usually, though.

Well, yeah, I think I can agree with that I think we all should be able to agree with that.

I tend to think of Sherlock as demi-sexual (or at least someone who really can't be bothered with all the mess and fuss of 'romantic' relationships) so the description of him being 'married to his work' in his case is a true one. I don't see him as exclusively gay - or not, for that matter. Part of the thing with John is the continued vehemence of protestations of being 'not gay' - is he putting a little too much into his denials? It makes one wonder a tad; being bi is certainly not being gay and John might just not like labels. In the army, I assume being gay or bi won't have been that acceptable, but in the NHS no-one tends to give a monkeys as long as you work hard and are good at your job. At the end of the day John and Sherlock obviously care massively for each other whether it has an undercurrent of sexual attraction or not - they're fascinated and exasperated in about equal measure and I don't think either could think of their life without the other in it in some shape or form, not any more. I've read fic where Sherlock and John are described as platonic life partners who happened to be married to others - Sherlock to his work, John to Mary.

Why shouldn't an Asian woman be named Watson? Not everyone has names that reflect their ethnicity. I went to school with quite a few Asian people (specifically those of Chinese origin) who had very mundane and boring English names, but then Liverpool has the oldest Chinese community outside of Asia so it probably wasn't that surprising.

Personally, I've always thought of John as uncomfortably bi and not wanting to think about it. There is a fair amount of stigma attached to being bi, you get misunderstandings from both ends of the spectrum (gay and straight) and it seems to be almost acceptable to bi-bash now that gay-bashing is seen as non-PC. As I'm speaking from personal experience, I know it happens and I have bi friends who really wish they weren't because of the amount of verbal abuse and discrimination they get when people find out.

My favourite is this one...

I just gave that my first 10/10 for an episode of Sherlock. Only complaint - not enough Lestrade!

My favourite of the entire series came up in His Last Vow...

I'm off to bed, no Sherlock for me tonight - I'm working night shifts.

and this is Benny from Aussie band Axis of Awesome at the Edinburgh Fringe doing a version of Knights of Cydonia as a request...