Thank goodness, it was getting a tad comical!

I think "The Lying Detective" is a very clever title because it can have various meanings:

- Sherlock telling or having told untruths
- Sherlock lying in hospital/in a coma etc.
- Someone else telling untruths or lying somewhere
- or all of them

Because with TSoT they covered the allusion Sherlock/John/Mary, John/Mary/baby, and gave a foreshadowing to the AGRA story as well. 
 

People pointed out that the case of "Six Thatchers" was already mentioned on John´s blog and it took place before ASIB.

Now I´m puzzled - are the authors retconning John´s blog now?

SusiGo wrote:

No idea, but it is a love triangle with two gay men and a woman. And a murder. 

Interesting.

Hmm, fans really did discover some rewriting of the blog:

http://hudders-and-hiddles.tumblr.com/post/150930938744/not-setlock-related-so-im-asking-you-here-when

What does that mean concerning the claim of the authors that they planned the whole show beforehand?
If they meant to use "Six Thatchers" as the case one day, they probably wouldn´t put in on the blog at the same time... I´m a bit worried.
 

Videos were deactivated too?
That´s more and more puzzling... although there were many contradictions between the blog and the show, that´s true.

nakahara wrote:

Videos were deactivated too?
That´s more and more puzzling... although there were many contradictions between the blog and the show, that´s true.

As far as I know, all the videos have been deactivated. But this was about two years ago, not too long after S3 aired. No idea as to the reasons behind this. I think you will find them somewhere if you google them because it is really a shame. The Moriarty video even had Hamlet allusions. 
 

Well, I read the story, and loved this part near the end:

“Well,” said Lestrade, “I’ve seen you handle a good many cases, Mr. Holmes, but I don’t know that I ever knew a more workmanlike one than that. We’re not jealous of you at Scotland Yard. No, sir, we are very proud of you, and if you come down to-morrow there’s not a man, from the oldest inspector to the youngest constable, who wouldn’t be glad to shake you by the hand.”
“Thank you!” said Holmes. “Thank you!” and as he turned away it seemed to me that he was more nearly moved by the softer human emotions than I had ever seen him.

Anyway, one thing that was interesting was that Holmes uses the press to his advantage in this story, to deflect attention from his investigation.  The press comes up in TRF (when Holmes uses it), and in HLV (when Magnussen controls and uses the it, and I suppose at the end when Moriarty "returns"), but this rather modern aspect was left out of The Six Thatchers.   At the beginning of the ACD story they are debating whether the crimes could have been caused by somebody who just really, really hated Napoleon, and I thought it was amusing that Thatcher is the modern day equivalent of an admired but hated figure!

I suppose the other big difference was that the busts were used to hide treasure rather than evidence. 

Last edited by Liberty (September 26, 2016 1:00 pm)

nakahara wrote:

This Is The Phantom Lady wrote:

Or maybe they just haven't decided on the title yet? 

I´m sure the title of the third episode would be The Valley of Queer.
 

 
I like this one a lot

Another theory of the third episode title:

What is you theory, Liberty, why are they hiding the title of the third episode then?