You know your "Sherlock" obsession is bad when...

[Bakerstreet Irregular]

Oh, I don't know. He had never been to Liberty, Indiana and that was in his mind palace, almost everyone knows about or has heard of padded cells and straight jackets without actually experiencing them.

[sherlockandjohn]

When you write Sherlock, Watson, London, Lestrade and Mrs. Hudson on the product belts at your place of work.

 

Or when you use Sherlock, Watson, and London as part of your passwords both at home and at work.

[sherlockandjohn]

For me it started with The Hobbit movies. I kind of fell in love with Freeman's acting and wanted to see something else with him in it so that's how I found out about Sherlock. Though I think I saw Love Actualy long before The Hobbit but I didn't remember Freeman in it.

 

 

Huh, what d'you know?! It was exactly the same way for me :-) I had also seen Love Actually a couple of years earlier, but did not remember Freeman (and the entire film didn't make much of an impression on me). However, when I watched and re-watched the first Hobbit film, I was taken in by his performance, especially with regard to the physical presentation of his character. Meaning that he used his face and his body in a way that gave Bilbo his character, his uniqueness. Also in the way he spoke... It was just great, and it made Freeman stand out. So I listened to interviews with him on youtube, and Sherlock kept coming up in conversation. And the rest, as they say, is history.

[sherlockandjohn]

The first thing I remember seeing MF in was Love Actually, but I remember he seemed awfully familiar to me then so there must have been something else. Then there was Hitchhiker's Guide -- I thought he was terrific even tho I didn't like the movie. So when I heard he was in this show called Sherlock ... ta da! And now I feel a bit like I'm cheating on him because I've become so mesmerized by this Cumberbatch creature..........

 

I know. It almost isn't fair, is it? But it's the same for me. Started watching Sherlock because of Freeman, and then discovered what a great actor Cumberbatch is.

Doesn't "help" that he's so good-looking, either.

[Bendydoodle Cantaloupe]

Oh, I don't know. He had never been to Liberty, Indiana and that was in his mind palace, almost everyone knows about or has heard of padded cells and straight jackets without actually experiencing them.

 

Sherlock most likely hasn't been to Indiana, yes, but Liberty doesn't show up as an actual place in the mind palace -- the name is there, but no details of the place itself. The asylum is in clear, sharp detail when we see it, suggesting that Sherlock not just knows about padded cells and straitjackets, but is very familiar with them.

[Bakerstreet Irregular]

But the room isn't secure. Seems there is a hole or two in the wall near the door....so it still doesn't have to be an actual place.

[Bendydoodle Cantaloupe]

Maybe he tweaked it a bit to fit in with the rest of his mind palace? 

[Carol the Dabbler]

Assuming that John correctly remembers Sherlock's explanation of the Mind Palace technique:

 

You plot a map with a location – it doesn’t have to be a real place – and then you deposit memories there....

 

... then right, it doesn't even have to be a real place -- let alone anyplace where you've actually been.

 

[Bakerstreet Irregular]

And it is a palace...and any good pirate knows that a palace has to have a dungeon.  Dundundun-ddduuunnnn.

[Bendydoodle Cantaloupe]

Oh, okay. I can never remember all the tiny bits of things, even after rewatching the same episode five or six times!

[Arcadia]

Me neither. Let's form a club!

[Bendydoodle Cantaloupe]

The Unobservant Sherlockians Club!

[SherlockedCAMPer]

Me neither. Let's form a club!

 

Aren't we kind of a club already? After all we are Sherlockians & on this forum.  Of course we could always form our own Empty Hearse.

[Carol the Dabbler]

Haven't we already? 

 

Oh, okay. I can never remember all the tiny bits of things, even after rewatching the same episode five or six times!

 

See, there's your problem.  You've only watched the episodes five or six times! 

 

But there's a handy reference site available, if you know which episode something's in.  Just check Ariane DeVere's transcripts.  She's watched/heard every episode (including the pilot and "Many Happy Returns") numerous times and carefully typed out (and rechecked) all the dialog and described the action -- a true labor of love.

 

[Arcadia]

The Unobservant Sherlockians Club!

I'll be the mascot!

[jesskayding]

Get an attitude with someone who likes Elementary better & says the BBC version is boring. You then forever brand them as an idiot & make sure to log it away in your mind palace.

[T.o.b.y]

... when you spend an entire hour wondering what the name of John and Mary's daughter will be.

[SherlockedCAMPer]

when you should be working on paintings and editing photos of paintings (or working on reading the complete Sherlock since you re-checked it out from the library for the 2nd time) but are on here.

 

If you ever wanted to know the approximate length of an English Bible, look at The Complete Sherlock Holmes as the length is close and try reading that in 3 weeks while having a life (it's not practical).

[jesskayding]

... when you spend an entire hour wondering what the name of John and Mary's daughter will be.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Uh, yeah... So far you win! That's some serious obsession right there. Gwendolyn maybe.. yeah Gwen, that would make a good baby name. Bring the old back in with the new, yes?

[Carol the Dabbler]

I'm still voting for Gloria Scott Watson.

 

[T.o.b.y]

I'm still voting for Gloria Scott Watson.

 

Yeah, I like that idea too, because first of all, it would mean they did name her after Sherlock in spite of what John said, and secondly, there could then be an episode called "the voyage of Gloria Scott", in which she is kidnapped and travels around half the world, or something like that.

 

But my current favorite is "Rachel". I did not come up with that myself. I read it in a fan fic, and I thought wow, that is the perfect name! And ever since, I've thought of her as Rachel. I'll probably need some adjusting when I find out in series 4 that they've chosen something completely different.

 

Oh my god, I am insane. I care about characters on this show who haven't even been born yet.

[SherlockedCAMPer]

 

 

 

Oh my god, I am insane. I care about characters on this show who haven't even been born yet.

 

 

 

It's not much worse than a couple of ladies asking their prayer group to pray for 2 people having problems only to find out those 2 people are characters (not the actors playing the characters) in an American soap opera.

[Carol the Dabbler]

Well, I'm not surprised that you like Gloria Scott Watson, T.o.b.y -- that was your idea. 

 

But I like Rachel too.  You're a good name picker -- even if Rachel wasn't your original thought, you recognized an appropriate name when you saw it.  Why is it appropriate, Carol?  Well for one thing, the name figured prominently in Sherlock and John's first case together -- so it'd be a way of naming the kid after Sherlock in a way, without literally doing so.  (Must admit though that I'm not real keen on borrowing a name from a stillborn baby -- but like mother, like daughter, I guess.)

 

Of course we care about the kid -- she's John's daughter, after all.  (And Mary's, of course -- but at this point I like her mostly because John loves her.)

 

[Carol the Dabbler]

Oh my god, I am insane. I care about characters on this show who haven't even been born yet.

 

It's not much worse than a couple of ladies asking their prayer group to pray for 2 people having problems only to find out those 2 people are characters (not the actors playing the characters) in an American soap opera.

 

Not much worse?! 

 

[jesskayding]

That's pretty bad praying for fictional characters. What's the world comming to?- Angelica Houston in 'Ever After'

 

I really like the name Rachel. But I wouldn't get to attached, there's a good chance Mary could miscarry or "Rachel" could be a still born... OH!!!!

 

What if they really do that. What a wicked tie in to SIP, to bring things full circle!!! That could be devastating! Not devastating enough for me, I'd be a little saddened... Oh wow Toby!!, have you got your hands on a Season 4 script & haven't told anybody?!?

 

LOVE This idea!... Oh so wickedly brilliant.