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TheBatPencil from Glasgow, Scotland Since: May, 2011 Relationship Status: I'm just a hunk-a, hunk-a burnin' love
#226: Jan 16th 2012 at 10:39:24 AM

You know how when the journalist lady said "there never was a Moriarty", did anyone else think, even for a second as I did, that they were going to go down the "Moriarty is not a man, but many men" route?

edited 16th Jan '12 10:43:15 AM by TheBatPencil

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gingerninja666 SCH-NEIGH-ZEL from Aboard The Damocles Since: Aug, 2009
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#227: Jan 16th 2012 at 10:43:44 AM

[up] For a split second I almost thought that they had caught Moriarty with his pants down as it were, and that he honestly wasn't expecting Sherlock to go to that apartment yet [lol]

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#228: Jan 16th 2012 at 10:56:29 AM

[up] I did too. Maybe that was what happened and he just IndyPloyed his way out of it?

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#229: Jan 16th 2012 at 11:53:18 AM

I live in the U.S., where's the best place to watch the Reichenbach Fall online?

edited 16th Jan '12 11:53:26 AM by Sijie

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#230: Jan 16th 2012 at 11:56:19 AM

When Moriarty first came out of that door and looked all frazzled, I thought they were going to reveal that the Journalist Lady was Moriarty. My immediate thoughts are always like that though, like in the last finale when John stepped out in the Swimming Baths I thought he was Moriarty. It didn't help that the video decided to start buffering for a few minutes there.

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#231: Jan 16th 2012 at 12:28:59 PM

[up][up] You speak of the forbidden art of internet streaming, that cannot be mentioned on this site.

It's legally available on the BBC website, though, with the iPlayer. However, nothing short of an UK IP address will allow you to see it. And it's not like you can just google up and download a free VPN software to have one, or something like that.

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#232: Jan 16th 2012 at 12:33:56 PM

[up][up] The bit about John though, I think that was on purpose.

Mattonymy Mr. Dr. from The Evils of Free Will Since: Jul, 2010
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#233: Jan 16th 2012 at 10:32:56 PM

So I just finished watching the latest episode and I have to ask why is everyone on the internet screaming Downer Ending? Sherlock unsuprisingly lives. So what's the problem? Is it just because he won't get to see Watson until the next season? Anyway, I loved the episode even though I was never shocked by the "twist ending" finding it exorbitantly annoying.

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#234: Jan 16th 2012 at 10:37:21 PM

Anyone think it's a clue that the person Moriarty had kidnap the kids was a Sherlock lookalike? I'm probably reaching too much.

I just saw the first two episodes on Sunday, so I'm going to unpack a bit, if I can gather my thoughts on them up after Reichenbach Fall knocked them out of me.

One thing about this three-episode season thing: With a big open and a big finish, the second episode slacks off a bit. It's not nearly as apparent in this season as it was last (I was pretty disappointed with The Blind Banker.)

Glad to see the "Sherlock HUD" was put to better use this season, though I thought some of them went too far. The guy sending off the text "A Jumbo Jet, Mr. Holmes..." by blowing a raspberry was the absolute worst. I'm on the fence about the lights in the station turning off so Sherlock can think. Sherlock and Irene walking around the scene of the non-crime was absolute brilliance. Paul Mc Guigan should direct all three episodes next season.

Grr, I had something about Irene Adler, but I forgot it.

edited 16th Jan '12 10:43:20 PM by TParadox

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#235: Jan 16th 2012 at 10:49:01 PM

The guy sending off the text "A Jumbo Jet, Mr. Holmes..." by blowing a raspberry was the absolute worst. I'm on the fence about the lights in the station turning off so Sherlock can think.

That was Moriaty being meta.

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TParadox Since: Jan, 2001 Relationship Status: The captain of her heart
#236: Jan 16th 2012 at 10:56:58 PM

The meta was dumb.

That was Moriarty? With the sunglasses he looked more like Hugo Weaving.

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#237: Jan 16th 2012 at 11:00:12 PM

The Hounds of Baskerville was actually my favorite episode of the second series.

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TheBatPencil from Glasgow, Scotland Since: May, 2011 Relationship Status: I'm just a hunk-a, hunk-a burnin' love
#238: Jan 18th 2012 at 2:54:48 PM

I know that's a video of a man shooting himself in the head, but the most disturbing thing about it is the face he makes before doing it. It's not... human. Even his corpse has this weird "HAHA" kind of grin on it.

That's some good villain right there.

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#239: Jan 18th 2012 at 6:32:56 PM

Finally saw it. Pretty punch-drunk. One question emerges: what the hell was the purpose of the phone call, other than making me want to beat everything in the vicinity with a silver level, assuming I could see everything in the vicinity? I guess that unlike just about every other adapter who's used a final shot like that, they're going to do some serious work explaining themselves later on, and I hope to god that this is part of it.

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TParadox Since: Jan, 2001 Relationship Status: The captain of her heart
#240: Jan 18th 2012 at 7:44:37 PM

Gonna assume you mean the lengthy phone call scene at the end.

Sherlock probably has a plan to prove himself, but he needs time in the shadows to set it in motion, much like what Moffat did with the Doctor in this season of Who. Either he intends for John's statement of his confession to put the rumors to rest, or for it to galvanize John's belief that Sherlock was everything he seemed to be, or both.

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#242: Jan 19th 2012 at 2:51:57 AM

[up]The only thing I can think of that I haven't seen discussed was Sherlock crying, which I thought was very OOC at the time. Though how that relates to the rest of it I'm not sure.

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#243: Jan 19th 2012 at 6:15:34 AM

[up]wild mass guessMaybe he has a hidden twin, or a lookalike?wild mass guess Veeery unlikely they'd go with that, though, and I wouldn't like a cop-out coming from nowhere like that - just don't see that happening. There's one thing we haven't considered, though... There is no big clue we missed and Moffat is trolling. Again.

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TheBatPencil from Glasgow, Scotland Since: May, 2011 Relationship Status: I'm just a hunk-a, hunk-a burnin' love
#244: Jan 19th 2012 at 7:00:08 AM

He's just screwing with us. He wants us to spend forever trawling over every tiny detail in the episode, because he's just a great big troll.

BRB, going to trawl through the whole episode again.

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#245: Jan 20th 2012 at 4:20:09 AM

wild mass guess A Scandal In Belgravia: "I've never begged for mercy in my life..." And yet he asks Moriarty for a minute of privacy?...wild mass guess Not sure where this might lead, but...

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#246: Jan 20th 2012 at 9:05:17 AM

My theory is that he killed someone else to fake his own death.

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#247: Jan 20th 2012 at 2:41:57 PM

[up]They wouldn't make him sink that low - also, it would defeat the whole point of his journey towards more humanity and soil his sacrifice.

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#248: Jan 20th 2012 at 3:06:12 PM

[up] He was doing it to save the man he loves. I have no doubt that he would sink as low as it took.

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#249: Jan 20th 2012 at 5:14:46 PM

This Sherlock has run about the entire gamut of morality (the default mode being "not morally questionable, just a douche"), but regardless of all that, I can't see it working without a real person, frankly.

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#250: Jan 21st 2012 at 5:18:56 AM

[up]Yeaah, but a convernient corpse - not some random guy killed for the occasion.

edit:... Just had a truly awesome idea. Imagine Matt Smith as Moriarty.

edited 21st Jan '12 11:21:16 AM by karasu91

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