Davina-  Yes, good call.   

Can't stop thinking about what Mark said, when they were discussing Moriarty suicide theories.  He suggested that he really did commit suicide and suggested that he was a suicide bomber.  Interesting, because Osama bin Laden never strapped on a bomb vest, he controlled and manipulated others into doing it.

And the cabbie said "...but you're only a man, and they are so much more."

Was Moriarty just a pawn of a much larger network?  Or was the man on the roof not really Moriarty at all?

That's all I have so far, but thought I would throw it out.

I think you mean when he realizes that he forgot to bring his gun...and then Sherlock hands it to him.

"Anyone who took that kind of risk for me, I would hardly worry about them stealing my PIN."

Yes, I have to agree.   

Johnny Cash sings this with such pain!  Perfect pairing of song and video.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bhM4Kd5Ov38

I went back to this poem to explain John's blog counter to a friend who watched aSiB this weekend.  This line jumped out at me this time:

"Only those things the heart believes are true."

I've said before that John's head knows that Sherlock is dead, but his heart believes differently. 

I'm not trying to say that the explanation will be simplistic or sentimentalized, just saying that I love the way that Moffett/Gatiss make the effort to bring all Sherlockiana into their show. 


221B

Here dwell together still two men of note
Who never lived and so can never die:
How very near they seem, yet how remote
That age before the world went all awry.
But still the game's afoot for those with ears
Attuned to catch the distant view-halloo:
England is England yet, for all our fears—
Only those things the heart believes are true.

A yellow fog swirls past the window-pane
As night descends upon this fabled street:
A lonely hansom splashes through the rain,
The ghostly gas lamps fail at twenty feet.
Here, though the world explode, these two survive,
And it is always eighteen ninety-five.

By Vincent Starrett

Sammy wrote "Is it weird that I would love to be famous just so that he might also be interested in my person and not just the other way round? Haha."

An absolutely adorable bit from the BBC 6 Music radio program that Martin and Amanda hosted was when Amanda was teasing Martin about how fanboy Martin was about wishing that he could meet his musician idols like Paul McCartney and Stevie Wonder.  He was afraid he would come across as creepy.   

The link is in the Martin Freeman section of this forum.

Welcome to the forum and enjoy.   

I watched it on DVD.  Wish I lived in the UK.  :-)

I watched RDJ's Sherlock Holmes last night.  Perhaps I would have liked it, pre-Sherlock, but I rather doubt it.  I'm not a fan of special effects taking over a storyline.  There was about 30 minutes worth of plot in that movie.  Similarly, although I am a huge Three Musketeers fan, I wasn't interested in watching the latest one when I saw the special effects.  When they have the kind of detail provided by ACD or Dumas, why in the world do they need to be entirely special effect dependent?  At least give us enough storyline to keep my attention.  RDJ and Jude Law were both very good in the movie, but I was left wanting much more of them.

One thing I did enjoy was seeing little moments that Moftiss took right out of this movie, I'm assuming just for the fun of it.  Short snippets of dialogue or "rhododendron ponticum".