I've never been a member of a board where 88% of the members where female and 12% were male.  Suddenly I'm ashamed of the fact that I chose an avatar of a babe in a sexy Sherlock outfit.

My own science fiction message board -- All Sci-Fi -- seems to be 90% male.  We have female members, but they don't contribute as often as the guys do.  I wish that was not the case.

If any of you folks could help me out, I'd appreciate it.  And here's my Facebook page, just to make things a bit easier.

https://www.facebook.com/bruce.cook.7528

Well, my goodnes. I decided to post my location on this thread . . . and what do I find?  The last member to post is from North Carolina.  Just like me.  And what do Sherlock and Mycroft say about coincidences? "The universe is rarely so lazy."

Obvious deduction: Weirdness is the long, lost sibling I never knew I had, separated from me at birth and raised by government agents posing as a normal couple, assigned to keep us apart so the psychic powers we each have won't activate -- as they only do when we're in close proximity, allowing us to control the minds of everyone within one hundred miles.

On the other hand, maybe it's just a coincidence. 

(I warned you folks that I write science fiction.  It doesn't take much to send my brain right off into orbit. )
 

Ladies and gentlemen, please have faith in the creative efforts of Moffat and Gatiss.  They know everything we do, and a whole lot more.  If they never get around to verifying our own brilliant theories about the hoax, it's only because they have absolute confidence in our intellectual abilities to figure this out on our own.
 
The fact that the theories we've seen in the show are clearly ridiculous proves that none of them are right.  Therefore, intelligent theories by real smart fans like us are bound to be bang on target!  We licked this problem!
 
A scene which completely verifies our theory could easily be presented in my whimsical scene above. Therefore . . . it's largely unnecessary.  I'm satisfied we're right.  I mean, damn – we only get three Sherlock episodes every two years –  so why waste time showing us stuff we've figured out on our own?
 
What I want in the upcoming episode 3 is something that will keep me occupied, interested, and wracking my brain for the next two years!
 
Not something that makes me feel gratified that I was right about episode 3 in series 2

Wow, this is a case of Deja Vu, folks. I had a member on my own sciene fiction message board (All Sci-Fi) who was offended by some things a few members said to him in PMs, and he asked to have his membership deleted.

I posted a couteous reply expressing my sincere regrets for any offense caused by me or the other members, and then I honored his request by removing him from our members list.

I've regretted doing that it ever since.

What I should have done was simply neglect to mention his request to be removed from the members list and left him on the roll. If he was really leaving and not coming back to the board, he'd never know I hadn't deleted his membership! And more importantly, if he ever changed his mind, he could come easily.

I burned his bridges and made it impossible for him to return without rejoining the board as a new member and feeling even more self-conscious about the whole situation than he would have otherwise.

Why am I saying all this?

Because I noticed that the dissatisfied and outspoken Mr. Be is still on the users list.  I urge you to leave him right there, along with all his posts -- which you couldn't possible delete because it would make a mess of all the threads he started or contributed to.  I'm sure he thought of that and knew you couldn't actually grant that request anyway.

So, I think you've done everything possile to encourage Mr. Be to reconsider his displeasure with this fine board and the amazing TV series to which it's devoted.  Frankly I couldn't make heads or tails of his reasons for objecting to the Sherlock series.   It seemed to have something to do with . . . his feeling that . . .

Oh, hell, I give up.

Hopefully this dedicated fan of Sherlock Holmes will reconsider his need to severe ties with the board and come back soon.

As I said in an earlier posts, a good debate is like fencing practice.  You don't have to win to get a good workout.  (Hmmmm.  I think I'll make that my new signature! [img]http://cdn.boar

I'm really unique.  I'm  completely satistfied with nine episodes in four years.

Okay, heck -- I'm lying. I wish there were enough episodes for me to keep watching a few each day until I die of old age in a few years. Hell, I'm 65, and the wait can't be that damn long.  But at the rate of three every two years I'll have to live until I'm too old to qualify for Obamacare!

I know I'm not the only one who has spotted many glaring errors (deliberate, of course) in Sherlock's description of how he faked his suicide. To me it's obvious that he was pulling Anderson's leg, and Anderson began to realize this before Sherlock even left the room.  Here's why the description is bogus.
 
In The Reichenbach Fall, the sniper is carefully prevented from seeing anything that would reveal the hoax, because his view of the sidewalk "landing area" is obscured by the low brick ambulance station between him and the sidewalk where Sherlock lands.  But in Sherlock's description to Anderson, the large air bag was inflated on the opposite end of the building from where John stood -- and this would be in plain sight of the sniper!  It was also taken back to that area to hide it from John after Sherlock jumped.
 
So, the whole air bag element is bogus.
 
I've been convinced for months that Sherlock was caught by a Browder Life safety net – the kind firemen have used for decades.  They work even for jumpers eight stories up, and Sherlock jumped from six stories up. The laundry truck brought it and carried it away.  It wasn't even hidden!  Neither we nor John ever get to see anything but the rear of the truck and the curbside edge of it.
 
The safety net could be taken out of the truck and then used to catch Sherlock in less than thirty seconds.  The team that held it walked toward the front of the truck to hide from John during the brief moment when John first sees Sherlock on the sideway.  After John is knocked down by the cyclist, the team puts the safety net back into the truck and it drives away before John even gets there.
 
Simple, quick, and entirely hidden from the sniper across the street.
 
Speaking of the sniper, Sherlock states that Mycroft's men "invited" the sniper not to shoot John.  But we saw the sniper casually pack up and leave after witnessing what he thought was Sherlock's suicide -- per Moriarty's instructions.  And yet, i

Emerging triumphantly from the challenge of being best man and solving a murder plot at the same time, why did Sherlock leave the wedding so abruptly?
 
I had to watch the episode three times before I suddenly got the simple and obvious clue as to the one huge disappointment Sherlock suffered, and how this triggered his sudden discomfort caused by standing in the middle of a room filled with happy, socially successful people.
 
But I don't want to answer my own question, so I'll leave this dilemma to you folks.