A good friend has given me a self-made Sherlock memory for my birthday!
It's not just pictures, but each pair consists of a picture (screen capture) and the fitting quote. It's pretty much impossible to play if you don't know the series very well. I loved it!! It's even real fun to play on my own, and we also had a great time messing round with the pictures and the quotes... Best thing: it's only for series 3 now, but I can expand it as much as I like to.
Only problem: there aren't many people I can play it with :D
Has anybody else a Sherlock memory game, self-made or not?
 

La Jolie wrote:

Nice to see him do some quick and accurate (albeit misdirected) brainwork, for a change...

That's very true, and it doesn't get recognized so much - I only realised this yesterday after having watched the episode like 50 times.

 

besleybean wrote:

Taught in the army.

Oh wow, that was quick, thanks
Is it also used in the army? (I confess I really have no idea about army related stuff)
 

maryagrawatson wrote:

As I've said over and over again, we don't have enough data on Mary yet to know if she's an antagonistic ('bad guy') or a protagonist ('good guy'). That her actions make perfect sense to me do not mean that I condone her. It does take a certain kind of personality to become a government operative, assassin or not, and a certain deviation from society's code of ethics (eg. the justification of assassination or torture for the 'greater good' of the free world).  Series 4 will tell us if she wants to continue to live by that code of ethics or not.

I think I agree on that.

I'm not so sure about John though. I don't think he is a violent person, I simply think that some emotions are too strong to take out on a merely oral level. If his life would stop putting him through all that kind of emotional challenge (I mean, how many people have to deal with their best friend faking death at them and then have their wife shoot that best friend just to find out that the wife is a bit less sweet and a bit more dangerous than expected?). I don't think he is crossing lines.
I would despise a therapist who would tell me: well, these people put you through emotional hell, but hey, you are a morally good person, so don't turn to violence, just keep talking to them. They might be right, but I would still think: oh brilliant, where can I go to become such a domestic, suppressed being? We are physical beings, it's a language of its own, and a quite expressive one. Of course I would think it better John would take it out on stuff and not on Sherlock (and he does in the 221b scene with Mary! did anyone comment positive on that?) but I find it... normal. And no, that's not me saying violence is a good thing.
 

Zatoichi wrote:

  a known medical phenomenon called "Lazarus syndrome".

maybe they just liked the name ;o)

Zatoichi wrote:

So thank you for providing that 0.0000001% chance, Mary, you´re a true lifesaver..

haha I like that!
 

I try to wrap my mind around the "what scenario would have happened" if Sherlock wouldn't have taken that one step forward. I thought I'd given up on understanding Mary, but here I am again.
SusiGo, you said Mary would have shot Sherlock anyway, because he would have been a witness? I try to imagine that: Mary offers "stay where you are otherwise I will shoot you" and Sherlock would have stayed where he was... what sense would it make for Mary to shoot him then anyway? Why did she offer him a choice then? She could have said "hey Sherlock, wrong place wrong time, gonna shoot you no matter what". But she is clearly trying to interact with Sherlock, but why? For which scenario is she hoping, if it's not for Sherlock helping her?
I feel that Mary is kind of a person who knows what she wants. If she wants to have no witnesses, she will make that happen. If she wants more time, she will make sure she gets more time. So if she says to Sherlock "stay well back" - I find it comprehensible that she will do sth to him if he moves, but if he would have stayed where he was...
Is she just that sure that Sherlock will ignore her warning?
 

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Not going to read 307 pages of this thread now, so just hoping it's a new one...

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hope that's not too long...