"Didn't go to any trouble, did you?"
Sherlock to Lestrade, TSoT?

new to this game, any rules I should know?
hope it is ok to try solving? or is there a certain amount of letters to be asked for first?
 

Liberty wrote:

  For a start, Sherlock stops Mycroft going into the bedroom, so doesn't want him to find Janine (the clue that it's Magnusson he's after), but then tells Mycroft outright that he's going after Magnusson (where Janine could possibly hear). 

I haven't thought about that. Could Janine have heard? It would seem incredibly careless on Sherlocks part. Or he just trusts Janine not to be clever enough to understand. But Janine obviously knows Mycroft rather well (having witnessed a lot of fighting between the two, as it seems), so would she really miss everything they discuss? Also she seems to be a curious type. And not downright stupid. Yet she believes the proposition. I'm not sure about Janine...
but I cannot find evidence how she could be anything more than she seems to be.
 

La Jolie wrote:

  Can we even go so far as to assume that Mycroft knew all the way that the Appledore archives were inexistant and wanted Sherlock to kill Magnussen? 

But why then show us the scene when Mycroft sits in the helicopter, quite distressed? He seems fairly panicked that Sherlock gets shot on the spot on Appledore terrace, and he also wonders what Sherlock has done now. And there is no one else really to witness that. It would be an odd scene if Mycroft was the one who sent Sherlock for Magnusson. Also the warnings that Mycroft gave Sherlock before felt quite honest to me (Mycrofts motivation for these warnings isn't that clear to me, though).

For the tarmac scene - to me it's two friends reaching out over an abyss. They cannot hug, too much is still in the inbetween, unsaid, unresolved. But Sherlock knows he has to cross now or never, and offers his hand. I think he is very emotional there, and very well aware about what's happening. I agree that John doesn't quite know what's happening, only that it's bad. The hesitation on his part results from confusion, in my opinion. Too much to process and not enough time. He seems to be kind of in shock and a few steps behind, trying to catch up.
The handshake, for me, is a first strong new bond, a true new foundation in the friendship between them, on which the future relationship can build.
The handshake is for me in the same category as Sherlock's "I heard you", in terms of emotion and truth. Reassurance, but even more, acknowledgement.
 

Thank you all for your suggestions. As it's my birthday soon, I will put the episodes you mentioned on my wishlist, and then I watch whatever episodes/series I'll actually end up with An element of surprise... and of course, maybe it's not my cup of tea, but I've seen short sequences on the internet already, and I liked them so far.
 

I think the moment Magnusson says "Redbeard", Sherlock is aware he might go for a personal way to get to Sherlock. It must have occured to him (or not? is he that unaware?) that John would be in the line of fire. Moriarty figured it out too. I'm just not sure if Sherlock is that blind (could be), or if he simply chooses not to share with John the news that he (John) will be used as pressure point - John really dislikes it to be used as a tool in Sherlock's games, even if he is fine with going on cases and getting otherwise involved.

Of course.
I wonder how they do it... catch the essence of a film and create music out of it.
I'm always overwhelmed by good film music, because I'm incredibly aware that a film is only as good as the music it comes along with.
 

I believe Sherlock is an actual addict - he even tells John this twice at least.

So I also think Sherlock is just bluffing to hide his own weakness from John, yes.

Magnusson will know anyway that Sherlock has a history with drugs... but he chooses wisely not to use this against Sherlock, but something else/better. Sherlock could have been absolutely clean, and I suppose Magnusson would have played exactly the same game. I don't think Magnusson ever underestimated Sherlock, and I am not sure Sherlock is intending to lead him to that assumption.

I wonder nevertheless... Molly thinks Sherlock is on drugs, but he's never in withdrawal, is he. But I don't know much about these things.
 

I had to look up who Niels Bohr is...

I just had a spider in my room, and had to remove it, because I don't share bedrooms with spiders, ever. But it took all my courage to catch it (I cannot kill them little beasts). I'm angry with myself for being such a girl, but these little 8-leg-monsters are just creepy.
 

My first two associations for purple:
a) individualism and b) sexual frustration (I think I picked that up from some article about colour meaning...)
now what to make of that...

serious now, isn't there something like colour symbolism? I'm not into such things, but it sure could be interesting...

today WAS a bad day

so...
I first listen to heavy metal and sing/scream along, while throwing things against the wardrobe
then I go outside and run barefoot through the garden (if it rains even better)
afterwards I sit down and smoke (sometimes, bad habit)
when I'm finally exhausted, I curl up in bed and watch Sherlock (prefer TRF then, and do some crying)

Sometimes I talk to friends or play my guitar, but that's dependent on mood and
when I'm really depressed it doesn't help.

the best way to cheer up I found in London... I would simply walk down to the Thames foreshore at midnight, sit down on the stairs somewhere, and take in the lights on the river... no way to be unhappy then, for me. pure beauty, which made me forget everything.
the sea works as well, going down to the beach, walking barefoot in the dark through the breaking waves...