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| His Last Vow » Favorite Quotes from His Last Vow » January 31, 2014 5:59 pm |
- krissylou
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silverblaze wrote:bohemian_rhapsody wrote:“Oh Sherlock.. what have you done?" - by far my fav quote of this episode. Almost bursted into tears during that scene.
Strongly suspecting that this was the mysterious 'one line that was never written down'.
Maybe. But I was struck throughout the episodes by parallels with A Study in Pink, and Mrs. Hudson says "Oh Sherlock, what have you done?" when the boys come home and Lestrade et al are already there on the "drugs bust."
| Character Analysis » Mrs. Hudson -- includes Season 3 spoilers » January 30, 2014 10:21 pm |
- krissylou
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So we are learning some interesting things about Mrs. Hudson's background and I have a theory.
We learned in ASiP that Mrs. Hudson owes Sherlock a favor because when her husband was sentenced to death in Florida Sherlock was able to help out -- ensuring the execution.
In Series 3 we learned that he ran a drug cartel but Mrs. Hudson "just did the typing."
I do believe that the technical legal term for "just doing the typing" is "conspiracy."
I.e., Mrs. Hudson was in a whole lot of hot water herself. And there are plenty of people (often women) in prison who were involved in Very Very Bad Things in a very tangential way but can be on the hook for much more because they were involved in "conspiracy" -- but then because their personal involvement was so small they don't know enough to turn evidence against someone else, and that is generally how you strike a plea bargain so they can end up with what seem to be extremely disproportionate sentences when you look at what they actually did.
My theory is this is the situation that Mrs. Hudson found herself in. She will be grateful to Sherlock forever, not only because he assured Frank Hudson's execution but also he kept her out of many many years in a Florida prison herself. He found the critical evidence that she was able to trade for a plea bargain that let her off with probation.
| Character Analysis » John's job at the clinic » January 22, 2014 11:08 pm |
- krissylou
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So while Sherlock is "dead" for two years John has settled down working as a general practitioner, prescribing antibiotics for thrush and the like.
But we've seen his resume when he was applying for the short-term job at Sarah's clinic and his background is in trauma surgery, including really cutting-edge stuff like bloodless surgery. So why isn't he doing that?
I'm okay with just accepting that this takes place in a world where a trauma surgeon is automatically able to also work as a GP. I can suspend my disbelief that far. Or that he's dual qualified because you need to be able to do all sorts of things in Afghanistan. So okay when he's flat out of money and needs something and there's a short-term fill-in job at Sarah's clinic that's fine.
But this is different. This is a long-term arrangement. Why is he prescribing routine antibiotics rather than being in an OR or ER somewhere? That would seem a better fit for our little adrenaline junkie. And, well they didn't have to show us his resume but they did.
Maybe the tremor in his left hand has permanently barred him from the OR? Whether it's psychosomatic or nerve damage from the shoulder wound or a bit of both, his surgeon days are over. That would be another crushing blow, if he spent a good portion of his life training to be a trauma surgeon and pretty early on he's permanently disqualified.
Or maybe being a GP is for John Watson a symptom of depression? If he had any zest for life he would be in the local ER but as it is, well, why bother?
| Character Analysis » Sherlock- Asperger's syndrome and sociopathy » January 21, 2014 5:03 pm |
- krissylou
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I am trying to think about when Sherlock describes himself as a "high functioning sociopath."
There's the one time in A Study in Pink when he's basically telling Anderson to go jump in a lake (he'd probably use harsher language but this is a family board).
And then two in season three -- one sort of light hearted, one really really not.
Others? I'm not talking about the times other people describe him as a psychopath but when does he use such labels himself?
Of course he isn't a sociopath. We've all discussed this a lot.
But for whatever reasons, sometimes this is the way he wants other people to see him.
At first I thought that he was so used to people being jerks (think of the horrid Sebastian from The Blind Banker as an example of what his "friends" were before John showed up) that he had basically decided he'd be a jerk first.
I do think that has been in play but I think the "high functioning sociopath" thing is more specific. It's a threat. He never describes himself that way with John, or Mrs. Hudson, or Molly, or even Lestrade or Mycroft. He uses it to lash out at Anderson when he's under attack with the "drugs bust" and then two times in series 3 when he's saying "don't mess with me."
| His Last Vow » Drugs: Do you believe Sherlock? » January 17, 2014 9:51 pm |
- krissylou
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TeaTime wrote:
Sherlock is sort of shockingly thin. Does anyone know if Benedict has to actively lose weight for the part? He never looks so thin in his other work.)
I've heard him say that he does, trying to look sort of otherworldly.
| His Last Vow » The other brother - my head just exploded » January 17, 2014 9:12 pm |
- krissylou
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silverblaze wrote:besleybean wrote:
Because he died before Sherlock was born or when he was tiny?
(There is a huge age difference between the actors though. That's a bit confusing.)
There is a ten-year age difference between Mark Gatiss and Benedict Cumberbatch.
In ACD there is a seven-year age difference between Mycroft and Sherlock.
My suspension of disbelief can handle a 46-year-old playing 43.
| A Study In Pink » The Pilot » January 17, 2014 6:47 pm |
- krissylou
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One thing that really struck me between the pilot and the aired A Study In Pink is Sherlock and John's conversation after Sherlock realizes that John killed the cabbie.
(I won't get the wording exactly right, but it's the idea.)
Pilot:
SH: You have just killed a man.
JW: Yes. In Afghanistan I saw lots of men die. Good men. Friends of mine. Sometimes I thought I'd never sleep again. I'll sleep fine tonight.
SH: Quite right.
Okay, so John is not going to be losing sleep over this. This is justifiable homicide, he was doing what he had to do. But there's still a gravity to the situation.
ASiP
SH: You have just killed a man.
JW: Yes. But he wasn't a very nice man. And a bloody awful cabbie.
SH: He was a bad cabbie. You should have seen the route he took to get us here.
<giggles>
Ummm geez. That's cold. That's really really cold. And it's a deliberate change they made from the original pilot.
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