Great, now I'll hear that every time I watch that episode Looks nice!

I have asked myself why the tea pot scene in TBB in the beginning is relatively long and a bit out of context when I suddenly got the impression that it maybe has a subtext or metaphorical meaning. That's why I put it here. (Move it away, if you want to). 

"The great artisans say, the more a tea pot is used, the more beautiful it becomes. The pots are seasoned by repeatedly pouring tea over the surface.
Sometimes you have to look hard at someting to see it's value. Some things are not supposed to sit behind glass; they are made ot be touched, to be handled.
400 years old, and they are letting you make yourself a brew. This one shines a little brighter."

I hear the writers talking about their own approach to ACD Sherlock Holmes. As if the canon Sherlock is the tea pot and our TV series is a kind of brew.
"Sherlock Holmes" is often done as if it can't be touched, handled. It is just reproduced with fog, victorian equipment, hansom cabs... As if the victorian Sherlock was to sit behind glass.
And of course we have to look hard at it.  That's what we do here, don't we?
And IMO they have certainly done something that shines a little brighter.
 

Well done, both of you. And I like the ACD comparison very much, intentional or not. Makes a lot of sense. 

Hm, I always hear "Um sometimes I hate my job so much"

Ok, not seriously, but it somehow suggests a parallel between John/Sherlock and Kate/Irene...

The impression John gets of Sherlock prior to his jump:



...has been thoroughly prepared by Sherlock. John must feel himself confirmed when he remembers good old Blind Banker times:

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Here's my contribution:



Baskerville. Sherlock. John. A romantic fireplace and... a heart between them...

Do I really need to explain myself????

Now I can also see it - lovely! 

Yes, I've known this for months...
I'm just wondering if this heart belonged to the existing set-up of the real Cross Keys Pub the film team was approvingly accepting to add some subtleness - or if they brought it along by themselves and hanged it up there...