Mattlocked wrote:

I just wonder: If you are upset yourself (John), is it even possible for you to check someone else's (Sherlock's) pulse properly? Hm.....

I doubt it, You have to feel gently for a pulse.  He was hanging on for dear life. 
 

Is it my imagination, or is Moriarty wearing the same cap as the cabbie in TSiP?

Sherlock doesn't shoot the wall until he hears John walking up the stairs.
Bored, yes, but waits to show his frustration until he has an audience.

I think jm had the call made by one of
his men. That gave Sherlock A countdown clock to get to the roof, deal with JM, and either win, or have john in place for the jump.

I heard it as lino. Poor john, sofa or floor.
Good to know out wasn't the floor.

IMHO - John is angry at Sherlock for the cowardly sin of commiting suicide.  He of course doesn't know it was faked, but survivors often are angry at the people who have chosen to suicide.

I read in an interview that Benedict cried when he watched the roof top scene.  He said that they were miked so he and Martin could hear each other, but visually they were just blobs to each other.  Watching the final cut, being able to see Martin reacting, looking like he'd been kicked by a horse when he first sees Sherlock on the roof - he cried.

I always wondered why Sherlock would assume the stars were supposed to be an accurate rendition of the night sky.  They looked fairly random to me.  The "Van Buren Supernova" couldn't be deduced by the painting of a random night sky with stars.

My question about Molly Hooper is - why doesn't she have a title?  She says herself that she does post mortems, which would make her a doctor. She has free range of the morgue and labs - possibly a pathologist?  I know in England, doctors who advance to surgeons are no longer referred to as Dr. but as Mr.  (why?)
In TBB, the paperwork has already gone through - implying that she's signed off on it. 


It seemed during the Christmas scene, she had spoken to everyone, and knew what their plans were -
Lestrad was meeting up with his wife in Doncaster, Sherlock had complained - er mentioned -  that John was going away.  And yet, no one asks her.  She shows up at the morgue for Sherlock to identify The woman woman by "not her face", in an adorkable Christmas sweater, having no plans for herself for Christmas.
 

::sniff::
 

They could so easily ask a scientist to help them to come up with semi-believable fudges for the short comings, and again it would take two ticks. Eg Baskerville could have a secret superfast HPLC machine using which Sherlock could discover there really is nothing but sugar and water in the solution of Henry's sugar very quickly and a million times more plausibly than 'looking down a microscope' and flashing the word hydrogen and chemical formula for water at us.

The crystaline form of sugar is reasonably distinctive under a microscope.  Had the sugar been adulterated with a drug, it would alter the crystals.  It certainly wouldn't tell him *what it was adulterated with, but it would prove him right.

(Salt is of course far more easily identified as it breaks down and recrystalizes as a cube).

I do agree that 99% of the science is pure rubbish, especially in TRF.