Episode 2.3, "The Reichenbach Fall"

[Bakerstreet Irregular]

Could we have one with the emoticon lying on the couch? Kinda Sherlockian...?

[Undead Medic]

Could we have one with the emoticon lying on the couch? Kinda Sherlockian...?

 

How's this:

 

 

 

[Bakerstreet Irregular]

Coolness! You are above par excellence! Thank you!

[tonnaree]

As long as one of those disguises involves a leather motorcycle jacket, I"m cool with that.

[Carol the Dabbler]

Well, maybe no leather jacket, but

would you settle for just the motorcycle?  If so, you'll love the next episode!

 

 

[Carol the Dabbler]

We're re-watching this episode, and I just now noticed all the bicycles in front of the Diogenes Club.  More precisely, I just noticed that the bicycles that were there in real life three weeks ago

 

 

are also there in the episode, which puzzles me.  Do those elderly gentlemen ride their bicycles to the club?  Do they rent out the upstairs?

[Caya]

Maybe they have trusty bike couriers on standby for urgent documents and messages they'd rather not phone for fear of being wiretapped (a bike courier can be intercepted, but not withot notice).

[Carol the Dabbler]

They must have lots of urgent messages!

 

And maybe this explains the fellow on the bicycle, later on -- Mycroft sent him?  (Just joking, sort of.  Hmm....)

 

[Bakerstreet Irregular]

An interesting question. Yes it is, joking aside.

[Carol the Dabbler]

A while back, I noticed (and posted) that on the cover of Sherlock: The Casebook, John uncharacteristically has his top shirt button fastened.  We watched the end of "Reichenback" tonight, and I was apparently in a button-noticing mood again.  John's top button is open throughout the episode, I believe, until the very last scene at the cemetery -- where it's fastened.  (I'm thinking that it may also be fastened in some Series 3 photos, but I'm not certain, so please don't quote me on that.  However, do feel free to disprove or verify!)

 

I'm not entirely sure what that button means, but my gut feeling is that it's psychological extra protection.  Either that, or John has decided to be less informal, more rigid?

 

Just one of many questions I'm hoping to see answered in Series 3!

 

[tonnaree]

Well, maybe no leather jacket, but

would you settle for just the motorcycle?  If so, you'll love the next episode!

 

 

Hmmmmm,  something ...

hot and throbbing between Sherlock's legs.............

 

 

I"m sorry.  I'll just go over here and calm myself.

[Bakerstreet Irregular]

Need a cold shower love? I'll just make sure that Khan has vacated it first.

[Caya]

I don't think tonnaree would mind the company much .

[Bakerstreet Irregular]

If she wants Sherlock, I'll gladly look after Khan as she cannot have both.

 

[Bakerstreet Irregular]

All those bicycles out side of the "Diogenes Club"? They could belong to the "members". I was just doing some research for a Sherlock story I am writing and I came across a tidbit from "The Greek Interpreter".

 

Sherlock is telling John Watson about his brother Mycroft and about his lodgings on Pall Mall across the street from the Club. How he gets up every morning and goes around the corner to White Hall. "That is his cycle".

[Caya]

Now, now, in the endless multiverse of fiction, there are plenty of parallel personae of our favourite detective for everybody. Can I interest you in a Little Favour while tonnaree enjoys her shower?

 

[Carol the Dabbler]

All those bicycles out side of the "Diogenes Club"? They could belong to the "members". I was just doing some research for a Sherlock story I am writing and I came across a tidbit from "The Greek Interpreter".

 

Sherlock is telling John Watson about his brother Mycroft and about his lodgings on Pall Mall across the street from the Club. How he gets up every morning and goes around the corner to White Hall. "That is his cycle".

 

Good heavens!  I've read the story, but didn't remember that detail.  OK then, the bicycles are there in real life, and Moftiss apparently decided to leave them alone as "a little accidental reference" (to quote Mark Gatiss regarding another bit of set dressing).  Even though I can't quite imagine any incarnation of Mycroft on a bicycle, I can live with that explanation.

 

Added:  Or does Sherlock mean that he's describing Mycroft's daily routine?  Was that a gotcha?  Now I'll have to check the story for myself!

[Bakerstreet Irregular]

Added:  Or does Sherlock mean that he's describing Mycroft's daily routine?  Was that a gotcha?  Now I'll have to check the story for myself!

Ooohhhh! I didn't see it in that light! Will have to check it out as well.

[Carol the Dabbler]

OK, Fox, I've looked over the first few pages of "The Greek Interpreter" several times this evening, and haven't yet found the word "cycle" anywhere.  You got me, didn't you?

 

 

(Good one!)

 

[Bakerstreet Irregular]

No, actually it is in "The Adventure of the Bruce-Partington Plans"  and you are correct. It is "cycle" as in daily routine....not "cycle" as in bicycle. So I will just go over there in the corner and pout.

[Carol the Dabbler]

OK, I'll have to read "Bruce-Partington," then.

 

But I'm still bemused by the mental image of Mycroft riding a bicycle!

 

[Bakerstreet Irregular]

Sometimes I feel so dense. But a very heavy set famous actor used to ride one. The joke that went around was "what's the biggest hangover in the world?  Jackie Gleason on a bicycle."

[f1madman]

I don't get why Sherlock needed to lie to John at the end, John would never believe those words. Can someone else understand this?

[Carol the Dabbler]

I think Sherlock mainly needed for John to believe that he was really dead, so that John would not post on his blog that he thought Sherlock might have faked his death, which would tip off the assassins, who might then go ahead and kill John, Mrs. Hudson, and Greg Lestrade -- and Sherlock too, if they could find him.

 

He couldn't tell John the real reason why he was jumping off the roof, so he made up one that would also keep Moriarty's people happy.  At least, that's the best I can come up with.

 

And hello, f1madman -- welcome to Sherlock Forum!      We hope you enjoy it here!

 

[Bakerstreet Irregular]

He couldn't tell John the real reason why he was jumping off the roof, so he made up one that would also keep Moriarty's people happy.  At least, that's the best I can come up with.

I think you pretty much cover it. The Moriarty's people needed to believe Sherlock was dead and the only way that would work is that John believed it. John might not ever believe that Sherlock was a fake and a fraud, he knew Sherlock to well for that, but to keep everyone safe until Moriarty's web could be dismantled he had to be "dead" to everyone. Except Molly of course.