I just saw that last photo today on Tumblr. Goodness, is it hot. I'll admit that I don't find Sherlock that attractive, but Benedict himself is quite sexy.

221B Baker Street wrote:

ancientsgate wrote:

We Americans don't have an in-pouring of movies and TV from other countries-- we get a tiny bit from Britain, but that's all. There are some foreign films released here, with subtitles or voice overs, but not many. So we don't get to "see" people from other countries, except as I say a bit from Britain, the way you guys get to see us in entertainment vehicles. I wish we could.

I'm a little bit surprised at that, as we have a huge amount of imported films all over the world. Most of the films I watch are produced in Britain and America, sometimes France, as I don't like Russian films that much. Perhaps USA has some kind of 'not-let-foreign-films-in' policy?

I disagree with that. My Netflix queue is probably 80% foreign films and I own hard copies of several. The thing is that most of them don't play at the local movie theater chains, and so people think they aren't here. It is my opinion that they just aren't looking. I have two small, independent theaters in my town that play foreign films quite a bit. So they're definitely here, and in abundance, but most Americans don't think beyond the next installment of the Spider-Man franchise so they miss them.

Davina wrote:

I love the Ginger name of the latest member. Go Gingers!

YAY!

Sentimental Pulse wrote:

Banbha wrote:

Sentimental Pulse wrote:

Hallucinations would not explain why Sherlock specifically made her scream

I was thinking not hallucinations or delusions, but more a kind of...unclear head. You know? Like when you first wake up and aren't sure where you're at? Like I said, I know little about mercury poisoning and I've never really thought of this until now.

Yes but my point is, whatever caused this had to be Sherlock-centric. Moriarty had to ensure that the girl would scream only at the sight of Sherlock and not anyone else.

Ohhh I see. Yes, I agree with that.

saturnR wrote:

Maybe they could keep the character alive through flashbacks. I think he would definitely appear in the first episode of series 3 just coz he's so important to Sherlock's explanation of why he faked his death, etc... After that, not sure what they could do with him. He would have a lot of associates, if his associates feature in future episodes, they might be able to allude to him. Unfortunately, don't see him onscreen past the first episode as any further reference would be mostly verbal - it's a shame, Andrew Scott is so good as Moriarty.

I think he's (sadly) dead. But I do think--I hope--there will be flashbacks. Who knows though?

Davina wrote:

I've looked up the symptoms of mercury poison and delusions and hallucinations are not symptoms. The cognitive disturbance is generally one of impaired cognitive function rather than suggestibility. I suggest it was chosen as it was not going to cause immediate death but would require hospitalisation and treatment, it would guarantee that the children would be hospitalised. More sinister even would be the probable long term effects. As a poison of choice does it not reveal something of Moriarty's mind-set (not just that he is insane). The sweet wrappers need not have been poisoned with anything. The children could have merely been kidnapped without introducing the poison.

Moriarty himself would undoubtedly not have been involved directly with these events, someone else would have done the dirty work (in all likelihood several people). These people are still at large. The poisoning of the children gives a further motivation to Sherlock in tracking these associates of Moriarty down, especially as Sherlock himself would be implicated in the kidnap and poisoning thanks to Kitty Riley's exposé and the revelations of Rich Brook. This ties in with the canon.

Newbies (and oldbies)  to the board may enjoy thinking these things through.

Interesting! I've never really thought about these things too deeply until I came to this forum. Yes, I do enjoy thinking them through. My thoughts are likely ones everyone's already thought of or stated (or they're just plain silly), but I like the fact that there are people around to bounce these thoughts off of. As I've said before, no one in my day-to-day life watches Sherlock.

Hmmm. Maybe I didn't read through every post, but I thought the thread was for our opinion, no?

Haha, I wish. She could be cranky sometimes.

Welcome to the forum, Matt! I'm quite new to this so I'm afraid that I am not familiar with your blog as others seem to be. But I will definitely catch up. Again, welcome.

Idk. If not then I apologize.