Sherlock's reputation at the beginning of S3

[Carol the Dabbler]

Welcome to the club, T.o.b.y!  There are just too many things going on at once for us to be able to treat the plot like a mathematical proof -- so there's bound to be a good bit of trial and error involved.  But fortunately, whatever one of us misses is likely to be caught by another, and vice-versa.  Heck, we may even come up with a better explanation than Moftiss did!

 

Hey, BlueTiger -- I love your new avatar!  Glad to see that you're a friendly tiger!

 

[BlueTiger]

Ha ha, thanks! I should mention that there's almost no significance to BlueTiger as a screen name. I bought a refurbished router for my home wifi, and the previous user had called their network BlueTiger for some reason. I kind of dug it, so I kept it and started using it as a screen name. But I thought the avatar should reflect the goofiness of the whole thing.

 

On the IMDB boards I go by NamelessInNewJersey, which has a similarly random origin.

[T.o.b.y]

Ha ha, thanks! I should mention that there's almost no significance to BlueTiger as a screen name.

 

Oh! You know what I thought? That you had maybe seen this film:

 

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2251519/

 

When Moriarty said "you always want everything to be clever - that's your weakness", I did feel as if he could have been speaking to me... Although of course an ordinary mortal like myself would never have been deemed worthy of his notice (thank god).

 

Well, it seems that the question of Sherlock's reputation will be settled pretty quickly at the beginning of the next episode. I suppose they have enough on their hands with all the other loose ends they need to tie up plus new characters and cases.

[Carol the Dabbler]

Maybe that movie was what gave the router's original owner the idea for the name?

 

 

Well, it seems that the question of Sherlock's reputation will be settled pretty quickly at the beginning of the next episode. I suppose they have enough on their hands with all the other loose ends they need to tie up plus new characters and cases.

 

I hope they don't just ignore that part, though.  They need to address Sherlock's reputation, and Lestrade's.  If they can deal with it quickly, fine, but it does need to be dealt with.

 

[T.o.b.y]

Oh, I am sure it will. And I'm still hoping Sherlock does the classic Mr Holmes act and hands Lestrade the credit for an immense success. Oh dear, I've gotten on to the wish list again...

[Bakerstreet Irregular]

I'm looking forward to seeing how Lestrade fared after Sherlock pulled his disappearing act as well, hopefully the clip that shows Lestrade and Anderson striding along and Anderson admits that he now believes in Sherlock is an actual part of "The Empty Hearse" and not one of those red herring moments.

[Shadow Dweller]

I doubt many people were trying to prove Riley wrong - and those who were just would have been called conspiracy theorists (ie: who shot JFK?). And the for every person giving a good opinion of Sherlock, there were probably several giving a bad opinion of him (really, does someone believe the best friend of an accused serial killer?). And what might happen if people pry too much? Then they could possibly find out that Sherlock is alive, and he doesn't want that until his friends are completely out of danger and he takes care of Moriarty's web. The people who helped Sherlock survive have an apparently very good reason not to tell (money, blackmail, working for someone with influence, etc).

 

A Case of The Confirmation Bias, something that Magnussen successfully exploited many times as news baron (by HLV, Sherlock already learn from harsh experience about such thing).

 

Publicity, a celebrity could be loved or hated but never ignored by the press  :lol:

 

I agree that it is necessary to fake Sherlock's ruin and death even from most of the closest friends (we know how bad John is in acting). As a decision it is not personal but Sherlock forgot the second rule which is, 'how it would be thought' by the recipients (hope his nose healed nicely!) 

[joanneta1]

Holmes's aversion to publicity seems to have deepened after his return from the dead. Here is another example from "The Norwood Builder" (the second case after "The Empty House"):

 

"His cold and proud nature was always averse, however, to anything in the shape of public applause, and he bound me in the most stringent terms to say no further word of himself, his methods, or his successes—a prohibition which, as I have explained, has only now been removed."

Wonderful discussion going on here!

[Carol the Dabbler]

They need to address Sherlock's reputation, and Lestrade's.  If they can deal with it quickly, fine, but it does need to be dealt with.

Have they dealt with repairing Lestrade's reputation -- at all?  True, he turned out to have been right about Sherlock -- but that doesn't change the fact that he had on numerous occasions shared confidential police information with a private citizen who then "meddled" in the case.

 

Did the Chief Superintendent decide to let the matter drop?  If so, why?  I can see why he might bow to public opinion / political pressure once Sherlock's name was cleared -- but what about the intervening two years?

 

Oh dear -- was it the same old deus ex machina -- Mycroft?