Moffat's "we've missed it" statement...

[Arcadia]

[Van Buren Supernova]

...or discussing the SHOES!

Touche'!

[clavery111]

hee hee.  I like your emojis.  

 

(the system will not let me "like" anymore posts - ???)  I am too likable apparently.

[Van Buren Supernova]

I think there is certain quote per day, not so sure.

But yes... let's go with your interpretation, sounds better. :P

[Pseudonym]

About the punch - saw this on a meme and made me owchie:

Irene: Someone must love you, if I had to punch that face I'd avoid your nose and teeth too

Sherlock comes back, John hits him in the nose  :'(

[jadpdr]

If anything from the two major Baby threads is in that

show, we have been infiltrated!

[sfmpco]

Okay, this might be really off the wall, but in RDJ's "Sherlock Holmes, Game of Shadows" - Sherlock requests Morarity to sign a book called "The Dynamics of an Asteroid and Lecture Notes" - and of course he is a mathematics professor, and Mummy Holmes was also a maths person having written "The Dynamics of Combustion" - and here's the off the wall part - could she in her brilliance be the one behind the fake Moriarty?

[Inge l-w]

Well, in the Downey interpretation, the title came right from The Final Problem, as you must know by now, dear sfmpco. As for Mummy Holmes being the eminence grise behind her elder son and Lady Smallwood, we shall find out in S4, or not, as the creators' volatility exceeds that of most active gaseous elements!

Whoever did it had access to the central operating system of all broadcasting channels, from Earth or satellite.

[Carol the Dabbler]

As Inge says, "Dynamics of an Asteroid" is from Conan Doyle, so I assume that we are intended to interpret Mummy's book title as some sort of connection to Moriarty. But as to whether that's a genuine clue or just a red herring, I have no idea.

 

By the way, I've always wondered why a mathematician would be writing about the dynamics of an asteroid. Sounds more like something an astrophysicist would write.

[Pseudonym]

Did astrophysicists exist in Victorian times? Or did such things fall under the purview of mathematicians? 

[clavery111]

My money is that S4 and possibly S5  will involve a whole lot more of Mycroft.....his importance, his screen time, his being in the plots.   I base this only on the fact that Gatiss writes/acts/produces the show  --- and seems to relish being in a mega-hit.  Who's gonna argue with him?

[Arcadia]

Maybe. But I don't really think so. They've repeatedly said the story is about the friendship between Sherlock and John, more time with other characters just dilutes that. At least, I hope they know that....

[Pseudonym]

Nah, I don't think so. It's a mega hit because it's about John and Sherlock, and if Gatiss suddenly became an egomaniac and wrote himself into more scenes unnecessarily I think Moffat and the producers would be ready and willing to pull him back. But really he seems to relish being a writer as much as being Mycroft. 

[Carol the Dabbler]

@Pseudo, a few posts back: Maybe not astrophysics as such, but surely physics? Then again, you may be right. It wasn't so long ago that logic and math were one and the same (consider Rene Descartes, 400 years ago), and Wikipedia describes Isaac Newton (300 years ago) as a "physicist and mathematician." Still, "Final Problem" was set only a little over one hundred years ago, so I'm uncertain.

[clavery111]

hmmm.... did they not say at the SDCC that they had to return for a 26 page bit of dialog/action involving MF, BC and Gatiss?  I guess that 's what put me on the scent of Gatiss choosing to increase Mycroft's profile in S4....  I could see 26 page scene w/ MF and BC and/or AA but Mycroft? - not so much.

[Pseudonym]

Ah, true, though it might be a case of some very fast dialogue, I'm thinking of that fireside scene in Baskerville, I bet that was long on the page but the way he reels it off it doesn't take up much time at all. Maybe Mycroft is in it more because he's dealing with Sherlock's punishment still and possibly (I'm hoping anyway) dealing with Mary who I despise since she shot Sherlock. 

[sfmpco]

Oh, I totally believe Mycroft is in on it.  And I could be totally wrong.  3.5 months to go before we find out.

[Pseudonym]

In on the Moriarty video?

[sfmpco]

In on the Moriarty video?

 

Yes.

[Arcadia]

I used to think that must be the answer, but now I'm not so sure. But I could be wrong too! :d

[Carol the Dabbler]

Just about anybody in the show could have been responsible for that video -- Mycroft, Mummy, Mrs. Hudson, Mary, Janine, Irene. They all have mysterious pasts and unrevealed skills. I would more or less rule out only Sherlock, John, and anybody from Scotland Yard.

[Arcadia]

I'm not even sure I'd rule out John.

[Carol the Dabbler]

Not completely, no. But it does seem unlikely that he'd be involved. I seriously doubt that he has the expertise to do it all himself, meaning that either he got technical support, or that someone asked him to help. Wonder what line of work Harry is in?

[Arcadia]

Well, he is married to someone who appears to be an expert hacker.

 

But I really think it's going to turn out to be ... something other than that. Or not.

[Inge l-w]

:D :D :D ! Astrophysicists existed since Summerian times, Gallileo and Newton just perfected the art, Ava Byron was an eminent one in the early nineteenth century, and don't get me started on the Italian family who discovered so much about asteroids, the principal initiator being their young sister, the Cassinis! Astronomy and astrology were very tightly bound once upon a time, just look up Johannes Keppler and Edmund Halley! Yes, the comet one!

P.S. According to apocryphal material in one of the early drafts, Harriet is a barrister/solicitor, hence all the fan fiction about her making more money than invalided Dr Watson in SIP.