To me, a feasible action of a kind would be that makes a viewer think (who has seen TRF only once and who is finally confronted with the then solution): " Yes, obvious."

To be honest John hardly holds his wrist at all before his hand is pulled away so he doesn't have time to take a pulse properly anyway.

kazza474 wrote:

NW16XE wrote:

Lupin wrote:

There's the hidden ball trick theory that Sherlock put the rubber ball under his armpit when he was on the ground. This would stop the pulse in his arm to fool John when John checks for a pulse.

Makes more sense than stuffed his pockets with them to cushion the fall.

His pockets were already full of packets of those crisps. That's why he needed Molly, to raid the vending machine for him.

Wouldn't they have made a lot of noise when he landed on them? CRUNCH!

I did wonder at one point if he had just jumped, but then I figured it would be leaving way too much to chance, not something Sherlock is likely to want to do. Even if he did survive a fall like that, he would be mangled and broken up like mad.

I always have to think of this quote in a radiotimes interview with Moffat from May.

“We’ve had our meeting, we’ve decided what we’re doing and how we’re going to approach it, and I think we’ve got a climax to the next series that will have people just as frustrated as they ever were.â€

Moffat also said that Sherlock’s faux-demise at the end of series two would likely go down as one of the most cunning in history when its method is revealed to fans. “We know what we’re doing. If Sherlock Holmes is going to fake his own death, it better be the best faked death of all time. I think it’s pretty good,† he said.

NW16XE wrote:

Davina wrote:

To be honest John hardly holds his wrist at all before his hand is pulled away so he doesn't have time to take a pulse properly anyway.

Good point. To be honest, the first time I saw it taking a pulse did not occur to me; I thought he was simply reaching for his friend, to help or comfort.

OH! Yes. The pulse. Someone mentioned that he could have put the ball in his armpit area to occlude his radial pulse. This is true, but an absent radial pulse isn't too difficult to fake. If you occlude the brachial artery (like if you have a blood pressure cuff on and inflated), then no more radial pulse. I'm not sure if this theory is plausible since no one will let me test it on them but I think that one of the many people near the body simply had to press down on the inside of his upper arm; John wouldn't have been in a place to see it at all.

Last edited by Banbha (September 13, 2012 6:18 pm)

Nurse.

Who says we are playing? *devious Sherlock grin*

kazza474 wrote:

OK you two; let's not play Doctors & nurses here.

I'll blush!

I actually am a nurse. They pay me to play that game.

Last edited by Banbha (September 14, 2012 8:14 pm)