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*** Actually, Blackwood's title is a JustBugsMe in itself, as he's an ''illegitimate'' son and shouldn't have had any actual claim to a title.
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*** Actually, Blackwood's title is a JustBugsMe in itself, as he's an ''illegitimate'' son and shouldn't have had any actual claim to a title.
*** You could earn peerage by your own merits even in the 19th century - or in Blackwood's case, probably by having a few friendly people in the House of Lords telling Queen Vicky what a nice chap he is, and how he should have a title despite of the misfortune of his illegitimate birth.
*** You could earn peerage by your own merits even in the 19th century - or in Blackwood's case, probably by having a few friendly people in the House of Lords telling Queen Vicky what a nice chap he is, and how he should have a title despite of the misfortune of his illegitimate birth.
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** This troper thought for long what was the point of the said fight scene, and now suspects that it was played entirely in Sherlock's mind, where he thinks how he would act if an assailant came at him suddenly in his study. Just because. Unfortunately he hadn't yet gone through a scenario where a giant is suddenly attacking him in a planetarium when it came up in real life.
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** If you recall, the only reason the midget stood out to Holmes and Watson was because Irene was looking for him, otherwise he would have just been an anonymous victim.
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*** Actually, Blackwood's title is a JustBugsMe in itself, as he's an ''illegitimate'' son and shouldn't have had any actual claim to a title.
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* A very minor example here. When Holmes, Irene and Watson are all in the small building near the end, Holmes has his shirt on. Then, in a scene taking place a short while later, still in that same building, he has taken the shirt off and is running around in a t-shirt with his suspenders showing. WHERE DID HIS SHIRT GO? WHY DID IT LEAVE? IT MAKES NO SENSE AT ALL.... I mean, if it was because it was hot out you'd expect a removal of a jacket from someone else or something, and Holmes doesn't seem the type to just randomly decide to get shirtless--[[FullyClothedNudity I mean, less shirted...]]
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** Plus, he's ''Lord'' Blackwood. Britain is at this point still a society dominated by hereditary aristocrats and the like; it probably wouldn't be too hard to make sure that he got buried instead of cut up by impressing his aristocratic origins, despite his crimes.
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*** It's explicitly stated that Watson, at least, had to have a lot of shrapnel dug out of him. The hearing loss is presumably represented by the muffling of the sound of the explosion. As for why it's not permanent or why Watson, Holmes and Irene aren't suffering from permanent brain damage, I think we're probably going to have to chalk that up to AcceptableBreaksFromReality and WillingSuspensionOfDisbelief.
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** That,unfortunately,doesn't explain the multiple shrapnel wounds that Watson (and for that matter,ALL of them) would have being that close to multiple powerful explosions. And let's not forget the hearing loss and traumatic brain injuries that would result from being less than five feet from several explosions. And why wasn't anybody burned?
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** Alternatively, when we last see him before the explosion obscures him he seems to be leaping for some cover between what appear to be some kind of stones or barrels or such; perhaps they shielded him from the worst of the explosion?
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** It's raining pretty heavily all around when Standish enters the building, and there's only a comparatively small amount coming from that hose above the door. Presumably the rain washed it all away.
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** They're right at the edge of the riverfront when the bomb goes off; it's possible that the explosion by chance hurled him into the water, and he managed to remain conscious long enough to get himself out of it.
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*So, Watson...kinda got an explosion to the face. Why is he still alive? I like Watson, but he was pretty much at ground zero (so to speak). It should have done more than cause him to need a sling on his arm. I mean we all saw his British ass tossed about like a rag doll, flames everywhere, and if not for the noise probably would have heard him scream like a bitch too (very ungentlemanly I'll say that much) and yet he lived. How is that possible?
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*In the beginning of The Blind Banker, Sherlock proves he's good at hand-to-hand fighting, even when his opponent has a sword. So why, in The Great Game, does he suddenly decide that the only way to deal with the Golem is to put 'em up? I would have thought it would have been more sensible to tackle the guy, or at least show off some more of those nifty sword-dodging skills.
*In the beginning of The Blind Banker, Sherlock proves he's good at hand-to-hand fighting, even when his opponent has a sword. So why, in The Great Game, does he suddenly decide that the only way to deal with the Golem is to put 'em up? I would have thought it would have been more sensible to tackle the guy, or at least show off some more of those nifty sword-dodging skills.
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** The place just happened to get a washing the next day. Alternately, the stuff isn't volatile while dry.
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** I've heard there's a deleted scene or something where Blackwood nicks Watson's cane, but I don't know the details. As for where he was when Moriarty grabbed the device, well, Blackwood, Holmes, and Adler are both able bodied people who can run and climb stairs quickly. Watson, seeing as he gets around with a cane, isn't.\\\
Let's presume he got up and tried to stop Blackwood from pursuing Holmes. Blackwood knocks him over, but doesn't have time to finish him so he just grabs the sword cane and runs after Holmes and Adler. While Holmes, Adler, and Blackwood are ''running'' through the sewers and up to that scaffolding, Watson has to get up and ''hobble'' after them without the help of his cane. Moriarty would've had plenty of opportunity to to grab the device while Adler, Holmes, and Blackwood were occupied on the scaffolding and Watson was busy trying to climb the stairs.
Let's presume he got up and tried to stop Blackwood from pursuing Holmes. Blackwood knocks him over, but doesn't have time to finish him so he just grabs the sword cane and runs after Holmes and Adler. While Holmes, Adler, and Blackwood are ''running'' through the sewers and up to that scaffolding, Watson has to get up and ''hobble'' after them without the help of his cane. Moriarty would've had plenty of opportunity to to grab the device while Adler, Holmes, and Blackwood were occupied on the scaffolding and Watson was busy trying to climb the stairs.
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* So, Blackwood killed Standish by soaking him in a flammable liquid, disguised as rain...by spraying it all over the courtyard of the Order's headquarters. They better hope nobody lights up for a smoke around there before it's washed off by ''actual'' rain.
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*** He openly admits to changing names and locations in at least one of the later stories.
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** Blackwood still had contacts in the government who were in on the plot, like Coward- presumably, one of them pulled strings to make sure he was buried.
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** Aside from airing the clients' dirty laundry, which is excusable if he changes names, Watson's also given away spoilers for several of Holmes' methods of deceiving criminals. You'd think every crook in London would know better than to answer an agony-column message, without verifying it's ''not'' one of his BatmanGambit set-ups, by now.
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*** One or two clients mentions having read Watson's accounts, so at least some of them were published during Holmes' career.
** Aside from airing the clients' dirty laundry, which is excusable if he changes names, Watson's also given away spoilers for several of Holmes' methods of deceiving criminals. You'd think every crook in London would know better than to answeran a cryptic agony-column message, without verifying it's ''not'' one of his BatmanGambit set-ups, by now.
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** Aside from airing the clients' dirty laundry, which is excusable if he changes names, Watson's also given away spoilers for several of Holmes' methods of deceiving criminals. You'd think every crook in London would know better than to answer
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** Aside from airing the clients' dirty laundry, which is excusable if he changes names, Watson's also given away spoilers for several of Holmes' methods of deceiving criminals. You'd think every crook in London would know better than to answer an agony-column message, without verifying it's ''not'' one of his BatmanGambits, by now.
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** Aside from airing the clients' dirty laundry, which is excusable if he changes names, Watson's also given away spoilers for several of Holmes' methods of deceiving criminals. You'd think every crook in London would know better than to answer an agony-column message, without verifying it's ''not'' one of his BatmanGambits, BatmanGambit set-ups, by now.
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** Aside from airing the clients' dirty laundry, which is excusable if he changes names, Watson's also given away spoilers for several of Holmes' methods of deceiving criminals. You'd think every crook in London would know better than to answer an agony-column message, without verifying it's ''not'' one of his BatmanGambits, by now.
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* In John Gardner's alternate continuity novels about Moriarty, He gives a possible explaination both Moriarty's changing appearance and his first name being the same as his brother's: There were three moriarty brothers, all named james by their insane father. He gave them the middle names Edgar, Edmund, and Edward. The oldest became a professor, the middle one was a train conductor, and the youngest became a criminal. The youngest learned the art of makeup and acting, Killed both of his brothers, and impersonated his eldest brother, Leading to Moriarty being thought of as an older professor when he was actually a young gangster. Of course, YourMileageMayVary on whether you accept this one or not.
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* In John Gardner's alternate continuity novels about Moriarty, He gives a possible explaination both Moriarty's changing appearance and his first name being the same as his brother's: There were three moriarty Moriarty brothers, all named james by their insane father. He gave them the middle names Edgar, Edmund, and Edward. The oldest became a professor, the middle one was a train conductor, and the youngest became a criminal. The youngest learned the art of makeup and acting, Killed both of his brothers, and impersonated his eldest brother, Leading to Moriarty being thought of as an older professor when he was actually a young gangster. Of course, YourMileageMayVary on whether you accept this one or not.
** Like everyone assumes "Conan Doyle" is, you mean?
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*** Conan Doyle was writing for a British readership. By British-historian standards, ''every'' event in American history is "recent".
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** Never mind how Watson could've missed the signs. Why ''didn't'' his apparent corpse get dissected rather than buried? Being handed over to the medical schools after hanging was standard practice for executions at the time, and his body would've been especially prized because he'd been so healthy.
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** Never mind how Watson could've missed the signs. Why ''didn't'' his apparent corpse get dissected rather than buried? Being handed Handing convicts over to the medical schools after hanging was standard practice for executions at the time, and his body would've been especially prized because he'd been so healthy.healthier than your average street thug.
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** Never mind how Watson could've missed the signs. Why ''didn't'' his apparent corpse get dissected rather than buried? Being handed over to the medical schools after hanging was standard practice for executions at the time, and his body would've been especially prized because he'd been so healthy.
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*** He also needed to consider how the other members of Blackwood's secret society would view his "magic". If they weren't caught up in their own mythology, they too could have become suspicious that it was all fake. Holmes couldn't be sure what sort of BatmanGambit Blackwood was pulling on his own brethren unless he explored their mystical mode of thought.
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*** He also needed to consider how the other members of Blackwood's secret society would view his "magic". If they weren't caught up in their own mythology, they too could have become suspicious deduced that it was all fake. trickery and derailed the guy's agenda. Holmes couldn't be sure what sort of BatmanGambit Blackwood was pulling on his own brethren unless he explored their mystical mode of thought.thought, confirming they ''would'' be that gulible.
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*** He also needed to consider how the other members of Blackwood's secret society would view his "magic". If they weren't caught up in their own mythology, they too could have become suspicious that it was all fake. Holmes couldn't be sure what sort of BatmanGambit Blackwood was pulling on his own brethren unless he explored their mystical mode of thought.
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** The same way they manage to duck into a doorway on 5th and Walnut and pop out in Reading Terminal Market in NationalTreasure.
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*** The Home Secretary wouldn't meet every single police inspector face-to-face, and for all we know there's an extensive hierarchy to the order which would prevent Lestrade and the Home Secretary encountering each other in person. Like the Freemasons in real life, the society here is probably quite extensive.
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** Blackwood was wearing an outfit that had a high collar which covered his neck. Since he couldn't find a pulse, and never really took Blackwood's declaration that he would come back from the dead seriously, Watson didn't bother to roll Blackwood's collar down all the way to do a further investigation. He didn't think it was possible for someone to survive being hanged, so in his mind there was no reason to look for further evidence of someone's death once he had confirmed that there was no pulse.
